My group wants to try out GURPS

>my group wants to try out GURPS
>I am mediocre at best at math and have never taken college level calculus

how do I let them down nicely?

Ultimately, GURPS boils down to "roll 3d6 and try not to exceed your effective skill."

It's more of a toolkit than a system - everything can be considered optional or up for change.

If learning a new RPG seems daunting, maybe start with GURPS Lite and gradually add stuff from the Basic Set (or other sources) that you think fits your campaign.

Also, there's a GURPS general thread. They likely have more advice.

Generously assuming this isn't a thinly veiled troll thread, you don't need any calculus to play GURPS. If you are GM, you don't need to know any math beyond basic percentiles and basic arithmetic. If you are a player, just basic arithmetic.

The "math" is really no more complex than you would find in D&D. The system isn't particularly complex either, there is just 'a lot' of it because it's designed in a toolkit-like reductionist sense, where you pick the bits you want to use for a given campaign and either ignore or gloss over the rest. In this way, it can actually be run very light and fast (even with a very narrative slant), or you can go full crunch with super gritty detailed simulation.

It's not for everyone or everything, no system really is. It's a system where you get out what you put into it. It's very good at about 95% of the settings and genres I've personally used it for, but it's not a "pick up and play" game (though it gets close for a couple specific genres, with Dungeon Fantasy, Monster Hunters and After the End; character templates are plentiful, campaign assumptions baked in from the start, etc.).

Anyway, not saying you should run a game that you don't want to run or don't find the fun in; that's for you and your group to decide. However, the reasons listed in the OP alone aren't really valid reasons to avoid it as a system.

If your point was that you just don't like GURPS and you are asking how to tell the group, the correct answer is to tell them that you don't like GURPS or are not confident in your ability to run it, and that you want to run something else.

>my group wants to try out AD&D 2e
>I am mediocre at best at math and don't have a PhD in Topology

how do I let them down nicely?

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>my group wants to try out Dungeon World
>I'm not a "Suddenly Ogres! XD" tryhard and have an IQ above 80

how do I let them down nicely?

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My group wants to try out Nobilis.
I am mediocre at best at literature and don't have a PhD in 'Pataphysics

>My group wants to try out Pathfinder
>I am mediocre at best at murder and have never taken black belt level ninja training

>my group wants to try out Eclipse Phase
>I am mediocre at best at existential philosophy and have never imagined the possibilities of reputation economics

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>my group wants to try out Only War
>I am mediocre at best at strategic planning and have never taken military academy level courses

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>my group wants to play 7th Sea
>I am mediocre at best at driving with only one eye and I have never been a member of the Yacht Club

how do I let them down off the plank nicely?

>my group wants to say some shit to me like a little bitch
>I am an ex-Navy Seal with extensive training in Gorilla warfare and have over 300 confirmed kills

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>my group wants to try out Shadowrun
>I am mediocre at best at breaking and entering and I have never undergone a cybernetic implantation procedure

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>my group wants to try out >>>/reddit
>I am a white heterosexual male

How do I avoid triggering them?

>not getting the joke

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>my group wants to try out kill puppies for satan
>i am mediocre at snorting angeldust off a dead hooker and have never sacrificed my own children to the dark lord

how do I let them down to hell?

>my group wants to try out MyFaRoG
>I'm not a Republican and have never taken a college level European history class

how do I let them down nicely?

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>my group wants to try out Werewolf: the Forsaken
>I am a degenerate furry with a transformation fetish
how do I keep it down nicely?

>my group wants to try out MyFaRoG
>I am mediocre at best at churchburning and have never killed a black metal artist
How do I let them down nicely?

>My group wants to play Normality
>I've never astral projected or replaced my blood with lighter fluid

>My groups wants to try out Numenera
>I've never sucked Monte Cook's dick before.
How do I blow him nicely?

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>I am mediocre at best at literature and don't have a PhD in 'Pataphysics

>I am mediocre at best at strategic planning and have never taken military academy level courses
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>My group wants to try out a PnP tabletop roleplaying game
>I am mediocre at breathing and have never been able to speak

How do I tell them to fuck off nicely?

>how do I let them down nicely?
You can't. Per GURPS RAW.

GURPS only really needs college-level calculus in United States.
In the rest of the world high school math will suffice.