Subj : Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games
To   : Arelor
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Thu May 11 2023 22:39:44

On 09 May 23  17:29:37 Arelor wrote...

AA>   Re: Re: Tabletop war and roleplaying games   By: Commodore Clifford
AA> to Bikerbob on Tue May 09 2023 08:35 am
AA> 
AA>  > I'm more a GURPS fan myself.  Same set of rules, any genre you
AA>  > want, with as much/or as little realism as you like.
AA>  > 
AA> 
AA> I have never played GURPS myself. It looks like a wet dream for Game
AA> Masters that love to overprepare.
AA> 
AA> GUPRS feels like the Gentoo of RPGs in that they don't give you a
AA> system which is ready to go out of the box: they give you a massive
AA> set of tools, and you combine modules from here and there to make
AA> what you need.

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

In some ways, that depends.  There are also the "GURPS Lite" rules which
is really just a few pages of free PDF.  There are sourcebooks that let
you "do it yourself" but also full blown modules for those who don't want
to have to build worlds.  A lot of content is on the Warehouse23/E23 site
(or whatever they call it today, I think it got recently redone).  A lot
of that is inexpensive downloadable content.

The main reason I like it, you can easily switch genres without having to
make the players re-learn a new core rules system.  Today, it's a
contemporary police office campaign, patrolling the streets, keeping the
city safe... until... they stumble upon a secret alien presence in the
city... then the government "recruits" them to a black ops campaign as
they "already know too much"... but then, who are the real bad guys?  Now
the party is working to help the aliens..... in their home galaxy (so now
it's a space campaign).


And you never had to re-roll or learn the new rule set.

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