What is your favorite genre and how well does GURPS handle it?

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw

But scatch-building can get annoying after a while, especially if you only have vague ideas of what you want your character to be. I'm someone who does a lot better by seeing a handful of choices and then eliminating "wrong" answers till I find one I'm satisfied with. I think it would be nice to have some way of doing that to build superheroes in GURPS.

Sure it can, I hear that. But if people wont buy such a book and in large numbers it wont happen. Evidence so far says they only a tiny percentage of GURPS players would do so.

[sjmdw45]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Sure it can, I hear that. But if people wont buy such a book and in large numbers it wont happen. Evidence so far says they only a tiny percentage of GURPS players would do so.

Does it have to be a book? A forum thread could work just as easily.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Originally Posted by Refplace

Evidence so far says they only a tiny percentage of GURPS players would do so.

That's fair.

Originally Posted by sjmdw45

Does it have to be a book? A forum thread could work just as easily.

I've found fan content often works just as good as official content.

[sjmdw45]

Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw

I wonder if GURPS could give superheroes the DFRPG treatment. If I've understood it right, DFRPG lets you pick from "modules" of traits. A hypothetical SHRPG would do the same, but have advice to point out that it's hard to balance certain superhero concepts on the same point total and that players and GMs should agree on any "imbalance" they're willing to have in the name of group concept.

You could just build that advice into the templates. For example, the Brick profession could have ST +20 [10/level] even if the Speedster and Psychic templates both have ST +1 [10/level]. Meanwhile, Speedster has Altered Time Rate [30/level] which the Brick can only buy at 100/level (e.g. Superman), and Mind Control [100] and its enhancements are exclusive to the Psychic (Professor Xavier).

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw

I've found fan content often works just as good as official content.

I started this but it didn't seem to get much traction so I stopped.
https://refplace.blogspot.com/search...GURPS%20Supers

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Originally Posted by Refplace

I started this but it didn't seem to get much traction so I stopped.
https://refplace.blogspot.com/search...GURPS%20Supers

That's a good start, but I think getting a bit more specific would help. Like, talking about what it means to "lift" something in GURPS, and providing example benchmarks. Also how much damage/AP is needed to break thought substance X. It can be hard to parse this on one's own because GURPS will give multiple answers for each due to it wanting to simulate things.

EDIT: To clarify:
GURPS gets very specific about many things, to the point at which someone may not, for instance, realize Basic Lift is for 1 hand in 1 second, and that if their character used two hands and/or didn't need to lift fast they could lift much more.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw

GURPS gets very specific about many things, to the point at which someone may not, for instance, realize Basic Lift is for 1 hand in 1 second, and that if their character used two hands and/or didn't need to lift fast they could lift much more.

A specification that, I expect, came about because people asked questions about "precisely what do you mean when you say, 'lift'?"