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04-17-2014, 07:42 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Basic GURPS Toolkit?
What books and supplements do you find yourself returning to? What do you consider to be the essential GURPS Toolkit needed to run the kind of games you like to run?
For me, Minimal equipment (-2) is the Basic Set: Characters and Basic Set: Campaign. Adding GURPS Powers, and Power-Ups 2&3 (Perks and Talents) makes it Basic equipment (+/-0). And if there's magic, I use Sorcery from Pyramid. And Low-Tech. Anything beyond that is gravy.
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04-17-2014, 08:04 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Re: Basic GURPS Toolkit?
I find myself using Magic and Martial Arts more often than Powers, but that's probably because I tend to play fantasy games with lots of combat. Basic + Magic is really just fine for me (Martial Arts is there because I like having a lot more detail in combat); I don't consider it an equipment penalty.
After those three or four books, I would add Fantasy, then the DF books (which are useful for any fantasy game, not only hack-and-slash, although that's primarily how they're geared). I've heard people here refer to Powers as "the third Basic book," but I haven't found that to be the case at all. Powers is a fantastic book, well worth having, but it's really only needed for certain kinds of games IMO (such as superhero games or games in which you're trying to model a specific ability from another rpg, a novel, a movie, etc.). |
04-17-2014, 08:18 AM | #3 |
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Re: Basic GURPS Toolkit?
Character and Campaigns, obviously. And Powers. Everything else is nice, but not crucial to what I play.
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04-17-2014, 09:01 AM | #4 |
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Re: Basic GURPS Toolkit?
Basic, of course. Action 2 for modern-ish games, Magic, DF 1, 2, 3, 8, and 13 and DFM1 for fantasy games these days. I've referred to it a time or two while writing, but I've never once used Powers for actual play.
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04-17-2014, 09:15 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Re: Basic GURPS Toolkit?
It's really unique to each campaigns but the common books are:
Basic set Martial Art Magic After that is campaign flavor; DF series, Banestorm, Ritual Magic Path, Psi, Power, Super, Low Tech, High Tech, Ultra Tech, some pyramid stuffs, ect... |
04-17-2014, 10:03 AM | #6 |
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Location: Montréal, Québec
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Re: Basic GURPS Toolkit?
I've run two long-term campaigns since GURPS Fourth Edition came into being:
The Company: The "kit" for my current secret-agents campaign is the Basic Set (both volumes), High-Tech (for the gear), and Martial Arts (for the fighting) – with occasional use of Power-Ups 2: Perks, Power-Ups 3: Talents, and Tactical Shooting. I keep Social Engineering on standby, but so much of what goes on is deeply clandestine and completely avoids humans that this fine work has yet to become a core tool. This campaign inspired the Action series, but those supplements are really more "my interpretation of the above stuff, put into writing"; I'm not using them per se.Analyzing that, I guess it would be fair to say that my most basic tools are the Basic Set, Martial Arts, and the Power-Ups series, and that I'm highly prone to using the -Tech books and genre quick-starts.
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