08-04-2020, 04:28 PM | #1 |
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PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
Recently, a whole bunch of us got a bundle of 12 assorted PDFs, across a lot of different genres. Gurps lets you mix and match, pulling many supplements together. What sort of Game do you get by combining just the 12 PDF's from the challenge?
I've given each of the 66 two-PDF combination a number, based on the order each PDF was unlocked. Help me fill out game ideas in which you use both supplements. If you've got a great alternate idea to an already listed number, give it a letter. 1) GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 2) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 3) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 4) How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 5) How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 6) How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 7) GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 8) GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 9) GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 10) GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 11) GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 12) GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 13) GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 14) GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 15) GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky and GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World 16) GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 17) GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 18) GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 19) GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 20) GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 and GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World 21) GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 and GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky 22) GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 23) GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 24) GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 25) GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 26) GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries and GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World 27) GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries and GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky 28) GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries and GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 29) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 30) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 31) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 32) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 33) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World 34) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky 35) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 36) GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides and GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries 37) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 38) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 39) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 40) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 41) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World 42) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky 43) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 44) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries 45) GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale and GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides 46) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 47) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 48) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 49) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 50) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World 51) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky 52) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 53) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries 54) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides 55) GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons and GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale 56) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides 57) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Hot Spots: The Incense Trail 58) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star 59) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and How to Be a GURPS GM: Ritual Path Magic 60) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World 61) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Reign of Steel: Read the Sky 62) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 63) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries 64) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides 65) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Horror: Beyond the Pale 66) GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons
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08-04-2020, 04:39 PM | #3 |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
Some of these seem borderline impossible to combine (considering that a good number of them are just adventures, and several are strongly tied to specific, contradictory genres). But I could try a few. Does the order matter at all?
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08-04-2020, 05:12 PM | #4 | |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
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The pdfs are surprisingly difficult to combine in some cases, which is why I'm doing them in pairs instead of randomly selected triples, as has been done in the past. On the other hand, limitations can breed creativity...
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08-04-2020, 05:28 PM | #5 |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
Combination 64: Galactic Hotshots
GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Boardroom and Curia: Tomorrow Rides A highly skilled crew is employed to test out experimental new starship designs. One of the galaxy's major ship manufacturers, Tomorrow Rides, pays them to explore new worlds and test out their vehicles capabilities and safety. |
08-04-2020, 05:43 PM | #6 |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
Combination 66a) The Greater Matrioshka Horror
Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 21: Megadungeons Once, an immense, physics-and-sanity defying creation of some elder race for whom tech level 13 was full of amusing trinkets. Wrapped around a single lone star in a near-empty region of space; the matter of dozens of stars, over a thousand attendant planets, tens of thousands of Oort Cloud objects, and countless interstellar miscellany went into constructing this monument to a species whose past existence is now the merest trace of a whisper of a rumour. All except for the physics-and-sanity defying wreckage and shattered ruins of a structure light-hours across. Now it is the haunt of mercenaries, pirates, scholars, small civilizations, madmen, refugees, ancient mechanisms still struggling to fulfill some arcane purpose, rogue defence mechanisms, and worse. And it is to this nigh-endless ruin that your crew of mercenaries, pirates, scholars, madmen, refugees, and/or other have come. With good luck, you'll be able to pay off your starship, and retire young. With bad luck... well, you won't have to worry about all that debt. |
08-05-2020, 02:45 AM | #7 |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
Combination 58: Starship Crew and Deep Night Star
A stalwart starship crew has to face eldritch horrors in order to save a planet from destruction.
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08-05-2020, 07:54 AM | #8 |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
Hollywood beat you to it.
(I was going to type "a few years back", but the Wiki link informs me that film was from 1997. I will now go face the eldritch horror of the inevitability of inexorable time and mortality, or perhaps just avoid the question by trying to think of some interesting combos of PDF Challenge titles.) |
08-05-2020, 08:15 AM | #9 |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
My two are here: 56. GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides. That's actually one of the easy ones. It's basically the adventures of Han Solo and friends aboard the Millennium Falcon, with its jammers, concealed cargo compartments, pop-out weaponry, and souped-up hyperdrive.
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08-05-2020, 10:49 AM | #10 |
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Re: PDF Challenge Mix and Match (66 Combos)
Combination 2a) Offroad on Atoep
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 3: Deep Night and the Star and GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides An extra-solar object has been spotted, this time on the most improbable of trajectories, passing astonishingly close to earth. This path, along with some very usual readings, have convinced many that this object is artificial. Its traveling quite quickly, but plans have been rushed to place a manned lander on this object, named "Atoep". With how quickly the object is speeding through the solar system, the time to carefully build custom equipment is not an option. An off-road vehicle will be hastily sealed and loaded with oxygen tanks, and landed on the object with its crew. Their time is limited by their supplies and the speed of the object. They need to figure out what this thing is, and hopefully make peaceful contact with it. When they land, the mysteries only deepen, with a breathable atmosphere and strangely human whispers. ************************************** Atoep is probably not nearly as malevolent in this version, and the DF monsters should be de-emphasized in favor of the automated systems and hostile terrain. The entire object should be bigger, with longer passages and distances to travel, and passages the vehicle can fit through. By default, Atoep is some sort of space probe, hurtling from planet to planet and system to system sampling the local life forms through its portals. It could be more sinister than that, but simply grabbing a couple thousand humans from across the world and absorbing them into its memory banks is probably threatening enough. This scenario could possibly cross over into megadungeons.
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