01-18-2014, 02:53 PM | #191 |
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Re: GURPS Forum Abbreviations
Big bad evil guy actually; same difference. And the meaning is the main recurring antagonist of a campaign, not just a bad guy who is big and evil.
That's because it's from the books rather than being online slang; it means Cost Factor. Basically you add all the Cost Factors up and multiply an item's GURPS $ price by the result so CF+1 means doubling a price, CF+2 means tripling the price, and a total CF of +3 means quadrupling the price whether achieved through three +1s, a +1 and a +2, or a single +3.
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04-22-2015, 03:53 PM | #192 |
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Re: GURPS Forum Abbreviations
Is there an official abbreviation for 4e books? The official page seems to have only a couple of the 4e books.
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04-22-2015, 04:26 PM | #193 |
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Re: GURPS Forum Abbreviations
The official line is other the basic set 4e does NOT use abbreviations for book references to avoid confusion
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04-22-2015, 05:46 PM | #194 |
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Thus something like Transhuman Space: Martial Arts 2100 might have been called Transhuman Space: Martial Arts, but then how do you refer to it in an abbreviated fashion?
Speaking as a fan, I remember the tail end of the Third Edition era, and occasionally running into arcane abbreviations that took me out of the book as my brain tried to decipher what they were cross-referencing with. It may take up a smidge more room, but the current system is much friendlier (IMO). |
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11-03-2017, 01:29 AM | #196 | |
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Re: GURPS Forum Abbreviations
From a recent query about Bio-Tech quirks and meta-traits:
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11-04-2017, 06:06 PM | #197 |
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I believe I've also seen an "[M]" in a book of the same vintage for Mental traits; I forget how they handled Paranormal traits, though, if they had any in books of that vintage.
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12-28-2017, 07:08 AM | #198 |
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Re: GURPS Forum Abbreviations
Maybe you could/should add:
RAI: Rules as intended; as opposed to RAW. The idea of the rule, which may not actually same as the rule effect the game? |
07-07-2019, 03:47 PM | #199 |
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What about PU for Power-Ups?
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11-19-2019, 08:46 AM | #200 |
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I've seen KYOS (Know Your Own Strength) enough times that it might be justified to add it.
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