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And what should this mean?

Vulnerability doesnt give a penalty to anything (like those -8 and -5), it just increases damage from a specific source.

And you cannot correlate FP with mana, giving magically talented races +10 FP.

FP = spellcasting capacity is a property of the core GURPS magic system, which should be ignored in the Elder Scrolls world. Instead, use Energy Reserve for mana. Because if you give elves +10 FP just because of their spellcasting capacity, they will also be able to endure extreme physical hardships which drain FP, like heat, hunger, long marches and so forth.

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Thats the pt cost, I approached it from trying to maintain an point value. -5 pts in a disadvantage of vulnerability frost with a result of 1.25 x damage.

I agree I need some kind of Mana Pool when I'm done, I just have not come up with one yet so I built them using Fatigue for now. This is very much Alpha stages and not a final product. So again keep the critics coming and I'll have some reworks up by Monday :)

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Don't worry, more criticisms (sp?) incoming :)

Why not represent mana as an Energy Reserve? If this is unfamiliar to you, it's a great thing from Powers.

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About the magic system...
I've been thinking using Tamriel as a campaing setting as well, and I stumbled in the magic system too, but I think I may have a solution: create a new secondary attribute called Magicka, wich you would use to cast spells instead of using fatigue. The Magicka value is equal to IQ + Magery (you can buy more points like fatique and Bretons and Altmers have a bonus of 5 and 10 Magicka, respectively).The mana level of Tamriel would be High Mana (anyone has Magicka and can cast spells, if they know). As for the soulgems you can be based in the Magicka of each creature.
The Powers could be normal spells (or adjusted spells) that you can use only once per day (if you play or dungeonmaster D&D you should be used with the idea of uses per day).

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Oh yes! One more thing (I thought about that five minutes ago), the character's (or creature's) Magicka regeneration (unless it has the Atronach birthsign) is equal to its Magery level per hour, i.e. someone with Magery 3 will recover 3 points of Magicka each hour that passes, with minimal 1 point of Magicka for Magery 0 and one point each two hours for those whitout Magery.
I don't know if that is too fast, but it was the best that I could think...

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Nah, don't overly complicate things, just give Regeneration (Magicka (ER) only) and allow levels of this advantage based on Magery level ;)

Cheerio!

Re: Elder Scrolls Conversion to GURPS 4e (Help Please!)
 

Re: Elder Scrolls Conversion to GURPS 4e (Help Please!)
 

Sounds like Path/Book Magic or Ritual Magic. Between GURPS Magic & GURPS Thaumatology & GURPS Powers there is probably a RAW way to model almost anything.

Re: Elder Scrolls Conversion to GURPS 4e (Help Please!)
 

I had a similar idea
and I threw together some formulae for attribute conversion
my starting point was the morrowind system
now i have two sets of formulae
i think the primary attributes i get from the second set are better(ST=13, DX=8, IQ=8, HT=15 feels more "orkish" imho than 11,9,9,12) though the Will values from the second set are a bit exaggerated, so i think for the will we should stick with the first formula

Ok
here are now the
formulae

Table with attributes calculated with both sets of fomulae

Table where the primary attributes are calculated with the first set and the will with the second

feedback please!

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anybody there?