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Old 01-24-2020, 04:15 PM   #1
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Has anyone converted the templates/lenses in Action 1 to a sci-fi setting? I love the concept in Action and Specialties but they are locked in on 80s action movie skillsets.

I have a large (7) party of never-played-Gurps players. They need the template/lens system to make char creation simple for them. I could make all of their characters, but I want them to learn from char creation (this is part of the fun of an RPG that I dont want to gloss over). Therefore, I'm looking for Action style templates ported to TL 10. Any help out there?
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Old 01-24-2020, 06:23 PM   #2
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Well, obviously for space opera you'll want to change Guns (Pistol and Rifle) to their Beam Weapons counterparts. You'll also want to edit the Wheel Man template with Piloting for various types.

I can see Action 4: Specialists getting a lot of use with this.
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Old 01-25-2020, 02:25 AM   #3
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Have you got/checked of "More Skill Sets for Specialists" by Christopher R. Rice in Pyramid 112 Action II?

As well as more mundane skill sets it includes a handful of Paranormal and Ultra-Tech skill sets - the latter might be useful to you?
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Old 01-25-2020, 03:55 AM   #4
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Just for the record (and probably not much help to the original poster), Pyramid #3/15 has an article on combining Action and Transhuman Space.
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Old 01-25-2020, 08:14 AM   #5
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I've used the action templates in a TL10 Cyberpunk setting. I did not covert them to new templates, we just adjusted the characters.

A few more details about your target setting TL would be nice. There is no single "TL10", and action isn't about TL8, its about TL8 action films.

starting on page 8, Ultra-tech lists a number of tech paths that the future (and fiction about the future) can take. For some paths, the action templates are perfect as is.

The big things to watch out for are ubiquitous tools that appear everywhere, like star treks tricorders, weapon changes like guns becoming beam weapons, transportation changes (driving vs piloting and all of their specialties), and extreme and pervasive technology changes (you'll know them when you see them).

Often, you'll have a character type that shows up in a science fiction genre that doesn't show up in action. For example, Jedi in starwars and Science officers in star trek.

Otherwise, even the wire rat doesn't actually need much changing for a lot of science fiction.
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Old 01-25-2020, 05:44 PM   #6
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I've used the action templates in a TL10 Cyberpunk setting. I did not covert them to new templates, we just adjusted the characters.

A few more details about your target setting TL would be nice. There is no single "TL10", and action isn't about TL8, its about TL8 action films.

starting on page 8, Ultra-tech lists a number of tech paths that the future (and fiction about the future) can take. For some paths, the action templates are perfect as is.

The big things to watch out for are ubiquitous tools that appear everywhere, like star treks tricorders, weapon changes like guns becoming beam weapons, transportation changes (driving vs piloting and all of their specialties), and extreme and pervasive technology changes (you'll know them when you see them).

Often, you'll have a character type that shows up in a science fiction genre that doesn't show up in action. For example, Jedi in starwars and Science officers in star trek.

Otherwise, even the wire rat doesn't actually need much changing for a lot of science fiction.
My setting is Star Trek, but the players are mercs operating in unclaimed space (between the UFP, Ferengi, Dominion, Breen and Tzenkethi, for anyone interested). They won't have access to all of the Federation tech, which is definitely not an across the board TL. Lots of SafeTech built into Star Trek. Anyway, I labeled it TL10 to give readers a feel for the differences between Action's TL assumptions and my own setting's TL.

I know I can modify the templates manually, I'm just busy and lazy. Hail Mary to see if the work has already been done, I guess. Thanks for the feedback though. I do appreciate it.

And I'll check out the Pyramid articles.
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And I'll check out the Pyramid articles.
My designer's notes for that has a few more skill sets on my blog.
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I'm surprised that the real expert on this hasn't chimed in yet. Mailanka's Psy Wars not only adapts Action to scifi, but explains why and how he does it. I'd check that out, since he also posted all of his results free for anyone to use.
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