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[spongebob laugh]Nerereererererer[/spongebob]

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How playable it is with GUPS LITE only? I don't have too much 4E stuff...
How ready to play it actually is? I've heard it's sort of a genre book - but can I just grab it and throw the characters inside the dungeon rolling rooms and monsters randomly from ready made tables etc etc?

Could it be played almost like a boardgame - withouth the GM raally not deciding anything.

I'm not that interested about the DF:A - making GURPS characters is fun and I've newer really had troubles with it - but I feel GMing GURPS is a bit too hard.

I could see these used as "filler adventures" in semi serious campaings. IE when the GM doesn't have that epic plotline ready and the players don't have anything much in mind either there's always the - hey let's go explore that dungeon - option..

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Have you been reading my game notes? Oh, wait, my ships aren't sausage-shaped. They're shaped like X-wings and ARC-170s because I'm lazy and have toys of those so I can just point to them instead of describing the ships.

Seriously though, if a GURPS Pulp Space was available, I'd buy it for sure. As it is, I found a lot in Dungeons that I'll be using to simplify things in my space opera game, specifically the Getting Ready to Go section.

As for turning GURPS into D&D, you know, I find it fascinating people keep saying things like that since none of the D&D players I know actually like dungeon crawls. They consider them a lesser form of gaming.

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No to the three questions. Dungeon Fantasy is fully GURPS -not a "lite product"- and it links directly to the Basic Set and Magic, in essential advantages, disadvantages, skills, magic spells, and rules.

However, I think one could handle it someway with GURPS third edition.

Then DF: Dungeons is your book.

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That makes me feel understanded, because in my days of AD&D, I was really bent in playing it like if it were GURPS. A pain... And I did can't whitstand the way of other gaming groups around playing AD&D in the way it means to be played ;-)

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Well, there are actually some new rules. If there weren't I wouldn't find it nearly as useful. These aren't huge, worldshaking changes; they're more on the level of the house rules I would make up if I were running a dungeon fantasy anyway. For example, "if you're in town, you can make an Urban Survival roll to rummage in the sewers for coin. Success nets you $1 per point of success. Critical failure means you get a disease." So the new rules are useful, especially because it gives everyone doing DF an "official" common baseline. Similarly, clearly delineating that Bards can buy Mind Control (with limitations) even though it's supernatural is a new, setting-specific rule that is useful under the conditions of Metcalf's Law: it gets more useful as more gamers start using DF.

I wasn't particularly impressed when I first skimmed DF: Characters (although I've since gone back and liked it more) because it seemed to be mostly templates and rules for creating clerical powers, etc., with no rules added from the Basic set. DF: Dungeons impressed me a lot more with new rules, equipment rules and options, magical items, etc. Crunchy bits, as it were.

-Max

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Yes!! So would I.


I am currently running a Forgotten Realms GURPS campaign using DA 1 and 2. Great resource for my campaign.

PS: Any word on DA3? :P For this next weekend :)

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DF 3 is now written, edited, checked and handed along for art and layout. Unfortunately, I don't think this coming weekend is an attainable goal. Perhaps by next weekend?

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That sounds good... let's shoot for that *ig*

Next item?

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Interestingly enough, I slotted DF3 into my budget for Feb 25th. Not a bad estimate apparently!

I'm guessing it's going to be the same price as the other two?