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joppeknol · 08-28-2016, 01:45 AM

A silly example:

GURPS-ate1: A unknown strange planet is passing by earth and will probable become a second moon. This means 2012-like events in the beginning. People will need enormous arks, also called houses, to survive. The survivors will enter a completely unknown reality. It turns out that the strange planet is a mana-enhancer and has some very strange plant and animal life which will contaminate earth.

The questions is: Who is selected on the arks in order to maximise the chance of human survival?

Fortunately, a brilliant scientist, Steve Jackson, has developed a initial system of measuring how well adapted a human is to a new environment. It uses the concept of 'character point' (cp). People with more character points are more likely to the coming disaster. A certain Dr Kromm designed the tests that determine someone's cp score. Other scientists like <enter favourite GURPS-author here>, elaborated on the system and described ways on improving your cp-score.

It is one year before the apocalypse and the final tests for selecting the survivors are at hand. People are desperately working on improving their cp-score. The debates are furious. Why is a person less usable, just because he is honest and charitable? Also, people, e.g. <enter favourite GURPS forumite here>, are pushing for different rules, because they feel that the original ones do not properly reflect reality. Some of the arks have adapted some of those alternate rules as rules of their house.

08-28-2016, 01:45 AM	#50
joppeknol Join Date: Dec 2009	Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels! A silly example: GURPS-ate1: A unknown strange planet is passing by earth and will probable become a second moon. This means 2012-like events in the beginning. People will need enormous arks, also called houses, to survive. The survivors will enter a completely unknown reality. It turns out that the strange planet is a mana-enhancer and has some very strange plant and animal life which will contaminate earth. The questions is: Who is selected on the arks in order to maximise the chance of human survival? Fortunately, a brilliant scientist, Steve Jackson, has developed a initial system of measuring how well adapted a human is to a new environment. It uses the concept of 'character point' (cp). People with more character points are more likely to the coming disaster. A certain Dr Kromm designed the tests that determine someone's cp score. Other scientists like <enter favourite GURPS-author here>, elaborated on the system and described ways on improving your cp-score. It is one year before the apocalypse and the final tests for selecting the survivors are at hand. People are desperately working on improving their cp-score. The debates are furious. Why is a person less usable, just because he is honest and charitable? Also, people, e.g. <enter favourite GURPS forumite here>, are pushing for different rules, because they feel that the original ones do not properly reflect reality. Some of the arks have adapted some of those alternate rules as rules of their house.