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Old 01-03-2018, 03:52 PM   #1
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Default GURPS DFRPG or Basic Set as Player Reference?

For a GURPS DF (not DFRPG) campaign, does the hive mind think that Basic Set: Characters and Campaigns or the DFRPG boxed set would be preferable as a resource I can pass around to my players for them to look up combat rules, advantages, spell descriptions, etc? My own books are all PDFs, which is convenient for me when preparing sessions, but less convenient for my players when they want to look through the rules.
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Old 01-03-2018, 03:57 PM   #2
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Default Re: GURPS DFRPG or Basic Set as Player Reference?

If you have hard copies of the DFRPG that should be most compatible.
However I think printing these out or letting them have a copy of these free PDFs
http://www.warehouse23.com/products?...D=558398545-sb
In partiucalr Cmbat Cards and the skills and Techniques cheet sheets.
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Old 01-03-2018, 04:04 PM   #3
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Default Re: GURPS DFRPG or Basic Set as Player Reference?

It would be a lot easier to look stuff up in DF:Exploits than Campaigns, just because it's smaller, so if you aren't planning to add rules that aren't in DF, I'd use that. On the other hand, anything more than a couple pages of combat options may be more lookup than you really want.
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Old 01-04-2018, 04:42 PM   #4
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Default Re: GURPS DFRPG or Basic Set as Player Reference?

Refplace: thanks for those resources - I already have most of them printed out and available to my players. I am looking more for an aid to character creation and to ease my players into a more independent understanding of the rules.

I think I will get the DFRPG set for now and only get hard copies of Basic if my players decided to branch out into other genres.
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Old 01-04-2018, 04:49 PM   #5
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Note that there are some significant differences between GURPS Dungeon Fantasy and Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game, so if you are using the GURPS rules for slams, or GURPS Dungeon Fantasy's version of bards, or the spells in GURPS Magic or whatever, the players will be using referenced that don't match.
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Old 01-04-2018, 08:10 PM   #6
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Default Re: GURPS DFRPG or Basic Set as Player Reference?

With maybe one or two exceptions, all the spells we are using are from the Basic Set. We do have a Bard, though we have fudged the DF template somewhat. How do DFRPG Bards differ from DF Bards?
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