10-15-2016, 11:25 AM | #31 | |
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Also a 25 point medieval campaign set on Harn where the characters are peasants working the lands of a manor on the border of the wilderness in a country on the brink of a possible civil war. They are pawns in all of this and again the goal is to survive. 50 point space campaign with the characters part of a colony ship lost in space searching for a new planet to live on.
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10-16-2016, 11:08 AM | #33 |
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I, too, am a lover of low-powered games. (If I had actually played a game in the past decade, that is.) Here's a very dated me on one of those stat yourself threads, and I maintain that I would make a perfectly viable GURPS: Zombies or Call of Cthulhu character or some such, at 65 points. But I happen to have a couple of skill sets that GURPS treats with high granularity, and no significant physical disadvantages as well as a couple of staggering social advantages, so I think that 50 points is a reasonable "normal people" level. It results in characters on the competent end of "normal", instead of playing meth addicts or whatnot.
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10-16-2016, 05:50 PM | #36 | |
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Personally, I believe that the adventuring use of a lot of GURPS skills, in particular combat skills, boils down to having certain mental qualities, more than expertise with the arcana of the tools involved. As such, there is a strong correlation between success with one of them and success with others. As such, if an 'ordinary' person has courage, discipline and willpower, in GURPS terms, that translates into effective skill 12+ and even 14+ with a lot of skills given minimal familiarity. So the proper way to represent an ordinary person who rises to an extraprdinary situation is with a lot of points. GURPS points measure ability to succeed in adventuring situations, not inborn gifts or exotic training. So if someone is consistently successful, he's a high-point character, even if the concept is 'normal person who succeds through grit, luck, moral qualities or author-on-board'.
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From a film perspective, where are the adventuring tasks in Remains of the Day or Lost in Translation? I suppose films like Requiem for a Dream have things that would be rolls in GURPS but I question whether the characters are competent to make them. Last edited by sir_pudding; 10-17-2016 at 03:01 AM. |
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10-16-2016, 07:41 PM | #38 |
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In most of the bookstores that I visit, current literary fiction, and often whatever classic fiction they have, is on the same general fiction shelves as what you are calling "mainstream." For example, that's where I found Isabel Allende's Zorro and Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, and also Jane Austen and Rudyard Kipling. There isn't really a marketing distinction. The distinction is that some of that fiction gets written about by literary critics, and some largely gets passed over in silence.
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Icelander's claim requires either that this fiction doesn't exist (or at least doesn't form a significant enough body of work for consideration) or that the characters in these works routinely succeed at tasks that would generally require rolls in GURPS such that they have skill-12. Last edited by sir_pudding; 10-16-2016 at 08:23 PM. |
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Lowest power game I've ever run was: street kids in the big city. After some shoplifting, and an attempt at drug dealing, they attempted to snatch a purse on the subway. The little old lady had her cash in her bra and a brick in her purse. One PC KO'ed with a cracked skull and the rest ran for it.
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