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Originally Posted by mr beer
Stephen King wrote a short story in which a journalist, with no special skills or training, escapes from a South American torture room. He feigns a seizure, jams a lit cigarette into the armed guard's eye, snatches his gun, kicks a chair into one adversary's charge in order to trip them, then shoots three people to death and then kills the remaining torturer in an ironic manner before escaping back to the US.
I mean it was a good story and all but still.
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Yeah, that seems to me the norm for supposedly 'ordinary' people in extraordinary situations in most popular fiction. My concern is that players who expect their 'ordinary' characters to be able to do things like that might be unpleasantly shocked when they discover that 25 point GURPS characters are the nameless victims in today's fiction, not the inexplicably capable protagonists.