11-21-2017, 11:07 PM | #1 |
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Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
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If I'm going to try and run some DF game sessions then I should try to make some DF-style characters with my GCA - right? (Made sense to me) So as an experiment I took Jag Fairchild the 247 Bard from the Delvers pack in the GM package and I tried to recreate him the GCA. Something went wrong - instead of a 247 point character I got a 325 point, unspent points of -78 character. Trying to figure out what I did wrong. Also, shouldn't characters with spells have to grab Magery as an advantage? I didn't see that in his description. Heck, I didn't see his age, height, or weight on that page in the Delvers book - and the GURPS Character Assistant usually always wants those spaces filled. - Ed C.
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11-21-2017, 11:37 PM | #2 | ||||
Wielder of Smart Pants
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Re: Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
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I guess if you want to email me the file, I can look at for you. The other thing is since GCA does trading points for money incorrectly, he should be be a 250 point GCA character (unless you trick GCA into doing it correctly). Quote:
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However, if you want to fill them in, see Cosmetic Details, Adventurers p. 8. |
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11-22-2017, 05:53 AM | #3 |
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11-22-2017, 06:04 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
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I am or was Very comfortable with GCA from 2009 to 2013 when I was running my GURPS adaptation of Star Trek. The GCA was being used almost weekly to update both player characters and NPCs. The mildly ironic thing was that the Prime Directive updates data set to the GCA happened after I was running that campaign. My copy of the GCA also was used pretty much weekly 2004 to 2008 when I was running GURPS Traveler campaign. - Ed C.
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11-22-2017, 08:34 AM | #5 | |||
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Re: Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
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— My general advice is: "Don't think of the DFPRG as GURPS, but as its own game." The more GURPS assumptions (and software) you pull in, the more confusion you'll create for yourself.
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11-22-2017, 08:47 AM | #6 | |
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Re: Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
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I guess GCS does have better support, thanks to Pseudonym, so you could use that instead. I hesitate to recommend it, because I don't use it, and SJGames doesn't get any money from it. |
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11-22-2017, 08:51 AM | #7 |
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Re: Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
Officially, we won't say it supports anything until data files are being distributed for that thing. Unofficially, it doesn't prevent you from creating your own data files . . . but that isn't something we expect the average user to do, and it definitely isn't something we expect DFRPG customers to get into.
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11-22-2017, 09:23 AM | #8 |
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Re: Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
To emphasize this point, both Dungeon Fantasy, and Dungeon Fantasy RPG, use different magic prerequisites from standard GURPS Magic, as well as Magery being replaced by various Power Investitures for Bards, Clerics, etc. makes GCA less than ideal at this time.
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11-22-2017, 09:46 AM | #9 |
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Re: Character help? Experiment gone wrong? (Human Bard)
Making a new gdf for the game would be the most complete solution. Manually entering individual traits, or editing the traits directly into compliance will also work though. If these aren't challenging to you, then you shouldn't have a problem, (except for the fact that you would be doing much more work that you would be just writing or typing the characters out the old fashioned way, although making a new gdf means you only have to do this once).
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11-22-2017, 09:50 AM | #10 | |
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Incidentally, and I don't want to sound like an armchair publisher, but maybe in the future advance copies can be sent to people who will make the datafiles? |
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