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Gef · 09-02-2007, 04:01 PM

Basic is all you need - but Powers shows you how to turn what you need into what you want.

I would recommend play your werewolf campaign first. The WWII game will be more complex and more deadly; players who want their characters to survive will need to be more fluent with the combat system.

[Average soldier has 11 HP, damage from a rifle (6d pi+) is in the neighborhood of 30 to an unarmored man. That's about 50% likely to kill him outright, and he'll bleed out anyway w/o trauma treatment, and a second bullet is sure to finish him off. 2 out of 3 infantrymen in WWII never came home, and GURPS models that just fine. I say it's more complex because, even though you don't have magic powers, you have long range combat, large scale combat, large vehicle combat, and the complexity of the setting itself.]

Think about what werewolves and undead can do, and what their weaknesses are, and build their racial templates. That will be an excellent exercise to start learning the system.

GEF

09-02-2007, 04:01 PM	#6
Gef Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Yucca Valley, CA	Re: please help a noob Basic is all you need - but Powers shows you how to turn what you need into what you want. I would recommend play your werewolf campaign first. The WWII game will be more complex and more deadly; players who want their characters to survive will need to be more fluent with the combat system. [Average soldier has 11 HP, damage from a rifle (6d pi+) is in the neighborhood of 30 to an unarmored man. That's about 50% likely to kill him outright, and he'll bleed out anyway w/o trauma treatment, and a second bullet is sure to finish him off. 2 out of 3 infantrymen in WWII never came home, and GURPS models that just fine. I say it's more complex because, even though you don't have magic powers, you have long range combat, large scale combat, large vehicle combat, and the complexity of the setting itself.] Think about what werewolves and undead can do, and what their weaknesses are, and build their racial templates. That will be an excellent exercise to start learning the system. GEF Last edited by Gef; 09-02-2007 at 04:04 PM.