Hello, Veeky Forums

Hello, Veeky Forums

I am GMing my first GURPS campaign tomorrow. I've never played the system, and I know absolutely nothing about it other than it's "like" the original Fallout games.

I am currently acquiring the books.

I'd just like to ask you how character creation generally works, and how combat is run.... Is it percentile based or based on the D20 system, or D6's?

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Just stick to D&D. Its way better.

I'm tired of D&D.

What about actually opening the book?
>you just can't be serious

Which sections should I read, Veeky Forums?

I have one day to get a grip on the rules as well as figure out mapmaking in Roll20.

Which ones should I use for a modern setting with magic existing but being extremely rare and demonic in origin?

I'm sorry in advance for stupid questions.

Start with GURPS Lite and keep one of the Basic Set books open to its index in case something unusual comes up.

Here, have this

Fuck off Randy.
Also fuck off, dnd is trash.

and this

Thank you, comrade!

I'm reading GURPS Lite right now, I've got a basic handle on the rules, I only have one more question....

Is 125 points too much for first level characters?

No, problem. Happy to help. Being something of a procastinator, I have been in similar situations.

I have never actually played GURPS either, so can't help you with that one, though.

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This aught to make things WAY easier. As for gurps, you roll 3d6, lower is better.
There are skills for fucking everything and skill can "default" off other skills, so if you have pistols at 16 (as in you have to roll under a 16 assuming no modifiers) then trying to use a shotgun would be pistols -2 I think (so, roll under a 14 assuming no additional modifiers). The skill system is highly granulated but stats are surprisingly broad. Every gurps character ultimately feels like either a Dex character or an Int character, since you can spend like 100 points buying up one or the other then spend 20 points getting 1 point in 20 skills related to that stat. If players are doing this and it really bothers you I think there's some homebrew way to make players roll a familiarity roll or something. Like, the dc is based on how much skill points you put into the skill not just how good you are at it. I've played gurps for years and am now officially sick of it, but it gets a lot of things right. The biggest flaw is that the onus in on the GM to make disadvantages relevant. The game encourages munchkining far too much by directly encouraging players to pick "good disadvantages". The gm has to keep players in check or the game deteriorates. If the people you're playing with are new as well, you'll probably have a great time.

There are no levels in GURPS. If you mean for starting characters, then it depends on how strong you want them to be.

If you want your players to be worried about enemies, then stick in the 75-100 point range.

If you want to have a more 'cinematic' campaign, where the players can breeze through combat and feel awesome, then 125-150 is perfect.

If you want to run a high flying, 3.5 style super hero/animu game, then starting them somewhere in the 200 point range is ideal.

gurps magic is fucking retarded imo but it's part of core. If it's supposed to be rare or whatever it's probably not a problem, but I wouldn't gm a magic centric game in gurps.

Thank you, comrade.

I'm going to start the game off at 125 character points, with 62 possible disadvantage points. I'll have to read up on wealth and buying equipment, but I've got the jist of the core mechanics down.

How do characters increase their abilities?

187 points is pretty reasonable I'd say.
One of the templates in gurps is a Navy Seal who's 250 points, so that should give you a sense of perspective. One more thing I wanted to say about disadvantages: don't let players just pick like 12 5 point disadvantages. They're not all going to come up and they know it.

More points at the end of a session.

If you can, snag How to be a GURPS GM. It's super useful for new GMs and helps you avoid the pitfalls of most games.

Tbh it sounds like you're in way too far over your head for one day of reading. If you're cool with a little smoke and mirrors (and if you're GMing, you motherfucking should be), here's what I'd suggest.

Introduce magic, but don't start any of the players off with it. Have whatever you want to happen with it story wise. Don't worry about the rules right now.

If any of the players interact with the magic, tell them roll 3d6. In your mind, set up a DC of 3, 6, 9, 12, or 15 depending on how difficult what they're doing is. This is the success chance. If they roll it or below, then they succeed.

After you run the first session, then read up on the magic. You should have a feel for how you want it to behave now, and you can fit the various magic systems around that.

It's not that magic is super complex or anything, more that it's one more thing that you need to read up on. If you feel comfortable/like you have enough time to read about it...

Personally I'd say that the basic magic system is fine. A lot of people don't like it, I've never had a problem with it. A lot of other people prefer the Dungeon Fantasy system (which I understand to be basically D&D using GURPS), or GURPS Thaumatology.