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Wow even Kromm replied to my thread.
So I've decided that I'm going to build 150 templates based on Dungeons Fantasy 1. I don't own Dungeon Fantasy: Henchmen. Would that save me time creating 150 points templates?

Now I'm thinking about purchasing the famous T1-4: Temple of Elemental Evil... What do you guys think?

PS
I love gurps, in the last month I've run a Cthulhu adventure, a cyberpunk adventure and now I'm looking into a dungeon crawl. Next must be sci-fi :)

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Almost certainly. The main henchman templates are 125, so you tend could potentially just raise the optional advantage limit and you're good to go.

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Again, someone has already done the job for you.

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Anders that's amazing, thanks.

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Well, it's your game, but... Why just don't use DF 1?

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Having run quite a bit at low (125-160+ so far) point levels, characters are weak. I'd call 125 points to be 1st level, which dovetails nicely with the templates in DF15. Lots of foes will swamp them faster, but their magic comes back faster, though the limitations in the healing spells will slow them like in D&D.

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That's pretty much why. If they're new to GURPS, the tactical combat might overwhelm them at first. He should stick to the Combat Lite chapter at the end of Characters for the first session or two, then add back in options.

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Wildcard skills are another way to simplify. Knight!, Thief! and Barbarian! (made into a generic Survivor! skill) are pretty cost effective and make good class markers. In general if you want to keep it simple it's mostly a matter of stripping away Advantages and some of the templates.

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While low point value characters are weak, so are 1st level D&D characters (except maybe in 4E). At 3rd level (150 points in my scheme) they stop being utterly fragile, and at 5th level (200 points) they start being fairly tough and competent.