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07-19-2005, 08:09 AM | #1 |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Skills
Hello dear all,
I need help. I want to start to DM Gurps. Gurps has a lot of skills really more than my older systems I mastered. My Question is exist their a list like: Action Skill search secret doors = Architecture . . . Pls help Dahomi |
07-19-2005, 09:04 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Danville, VA USA
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Re: Skills
What I do is allow reasonable player requests.
For example: The player wants to use Architecture to look for a secret door, his reasoning being that with his knowledge of how buildings are normally put together and how one might conceal a door, he should be able to find a secret door. So I say; Okay, float it to Perception and tell me by how much do you make the roll." If they make the roll by an amount that I think would be enough to find this particular door, they find it. Under different circumstances, say the door is in a cavern wall, I might not allow the roll against Architecture. My first instinct on the skill to use to find something concealed like that would be Search. |
07-19-2005, 09:20 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Edmond, OK
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Re: Skills
I don't think that architecture is the appropriate skill for looking for secret doors. Architecture is the art of creating useful buildings and spaces, especially in an artistic way. (My wife is an architect, so I feel that I have sufficient authority for talking about it in a gaming context.) It would have more to do with Per. The Search skill would be appropriate, I think.
One minor quip with the original poster: in GURPS (as in most systems) it's GM, not DM. It's no big deal, really, just a little pet peeve. When saying DM around the likes of GURPS players, you are automatically giving away your D&D experience, and not in a good way. Game on. :) |
07-19-2005, 11:57 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: Skills
This is off topic but after Nonoboy's comment I just have to say how strange I find it is that so many GURPS players tend to get ornery at the even the vaguest reference to D&D.
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07-19-2005, 12:00 PM | #5 | |
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07-19-2005, 12:48 PM | #6 | |
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I have found, while good people, gamers tend to be conservative and clannish when it comes to their game of choice. "Blank the Blanking sucks! BLANKS roolz!! and is the one true way!" Hmmm... -5 pts Intolerance (Players of OTHER game systems) |
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07-19-2005, 01:37 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Edmond, OK
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Re: Skills
I didn't mean to take the conversation off-course, but the classic terminology is:
D(ungeon) M(aster) for DnD G(ame) M(aster) for most other games, including GURPS S(tory) T(eller) for White Wolf I think that "Referee" and "Narrator" have been used in other less well-known systems. As for people being adamant about one system, I am very much a D20-hater. I'll admit to my discriminating tastes. I'll fess up to my spiteful intolerance toward what I believe to be a system that poorly simulates life, is less simple than people tend to give it credit for, and is otherwise unsuitable to my play style. I am confident that I am not alone in this attitude amongst GURPS fans. There are few other systems that suffer from my ire. (I myself am a recovering Rifts player. I now realize the utter crappiness of the Palladium rules-set and do repent on humble knees.) But then, I am also generally a picky person. I will not drink lowsy beer. Budweiser, Miller, Coors, and the like will not touch my lips. Microbrews and European beers only, thank you. They are simply better. Is it opinion? Yes, but then, I can back it up, though I've gotten off-topic enough as it is. |
07-19-2005, 03:11 PM | #8 | |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: near Houston
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07-19-2005, 09:10 AM | #9 | |
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Location: Italy
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Moreover you can also use these skills with attributes other then those specified within the skill description. In other words you can use for example Architecutre making a success roll based on Perception instead of IQ.
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09-13-2012, 10:12 PM | #10 | |
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Also, usually for any particular problem, there's likely to be one or two skills that are spot-on appropriate, and half a dozen other skills that make some sense to use in that context, usually at a -1 to -3 penalty. And beyond that there are defaults, both from attributes and from other skills. You can also try to take a look at the GURPS Skill Categories, available for free from e23 (if I remember correctly). |
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