Mailanka's Musings -- GURPS Content Post

weby · 01-06-2016, 09:18 PM

A note on Star Wars and converting things vs creating own.

I did actually convert the Old Republic Era to Gurps and run a 74 session game in it. The players liked it a lot. The mostly stated reason for liking it was that it was familiar to them and that there was a lot of background material and such available so they had an easy time of assuming the roles and feeling part of the universe.

If you try to create even a small part of that for a game you will never get to actually run it as you die of old age... In my own scifi setting that I have been building for four years, I have drawn inspirations from many places and have 170 000+ words total material in(that includes both the universe material and the actual rules) and yet it is just a small fraction of the things needed to get to same level, so I will not even try.

01-06-2016, 09:18 PM	#19
weby Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Mailanka's Musings -- GURPS Content Post A note on Star Wars and converting things vs creating own. I did actually convert the Old Republic Era to Gurps and run a 74 session game in it. The players liked it a lot. The mostly stated reason for liking it was that it was familiar to them and that there was a lot of background material and such available so they had an easy time of assuming the roles and feeling part of the universe. If you try to create even a small part of that for a game you will never get to actually run it as you die of old age... In my own scifi setting that I have been building for four years, I have drawn inspirations from many places and have 170 000+ words total material in(that includes both the universe material and the actual rules) and yet it is just a small fraction of the things needed to get to same level, so I will not even try. __________________ -- GURPS spaceship unofficial errata and thoughts: https://gsuc.roto.nu/