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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
[...] it has been unchanged for 30 years because it works.
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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Yes, 3rd edition was published in 1988, thirty years ago.
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History is the main reason for the pricing. If it were a really peripheral trait nobody bothered with, it might have been repriced at some point . . . but it wasn't. It's interesting to note that it cost 15 points in
Man to Man (© 1985) and
didn't include +1 to active defenses, but picked up that bonus in
GURPS Third Edition (© 1988) without a price change.
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Originally Posted by RyanW
Or, to look at it from the other side, why do combat heroes get such a discount on the bundle of capabilities that make up their essential advantage when other characters don't?
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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
Well Magery 0 is only 5 points.
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It's actually a very common phenomenon: wizards get access to wizardly magic with Magery 0 [5], clerics gain priestly magic with Power Investiture 1 [10], strange mystics can have any skill they can convince the GM to let them have with Reawakened [10] and/or bonuses to everything they do with Visualization [10], and so on. I won't opine on whether that's good design. I will say that with templates that keep people from having more than one of these traits, it can feel balanced in actual play.
02-14-2018, 02:32 PM
Re: Combat Reflexes without defense bonus
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