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Originally Posted by Bruno
I'd have to guess "probably not" by parallel with Alternative Ability/Alternative Attack. You can't put two metatraits or racial templates templates in an Alternate Ability; you need Shapeshifting to do that. That seems to suggest that metamodifiers should also not be kosher in an Alternative Enhancement array.
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For the record, the
real problem with meta-traits is that they often have disadvantages, and that's a real problem. You cannot put a disadvantage into an Alternative Ability or make it Switchable, period.
So by comparison, it's definitely broken to allow a meta-enhancement
that contains limitations to be part of an Alternative Enhancement (for the same reason it's expressly forbidden from being part of a Variable Enhancement) -- but a meta-enhancement that was nothing but enhancements would be fine.
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Originally Posted by the_seeker
The Merlin pull-quote on p10; did that come from a novelization or work-in-progress script of Boorman's Excalibur?<laugh>
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It's from the original script. Because subtitles and "But I heard him say this" can confuse the issue, we try to always use quotes from the script, not from listening to the movie.
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Originally Posted by Kuroshima
Minor nitpick: I would have LOVED to have all general enhancements from all published books in there (Aura, for example, is missing). As it is now, I still need to check many books when building abilities.
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Many books? PU4 has
every single general enhancement in GURPS except the ones in the Basic Set. You only need the Basic Set and PU4 to have them all. (Aura is from the Basic Set, for example.)
We thought about including the Basic Set ones as well, but felt that since (unlike with Perks and Talents) there were
so many, people might deride it as filler.
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Second nitpick: Damn, I also need Limitations.
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A few people have said this, so I wouldn't be surprised (assuming sales of PU4 remain strong) to see such a thing pop up in the future. To nitpick your nitpick, though, that's not a "nitpick." It's just something you want. :)
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Third nitpick: And I also want the specific enhancements and limitations!
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Did the math on that and it* would've literally inflated the page count by almost 1000x. I hear people asking for this, too, but I don't think they realize that they'd be paying $25-30 for such a book. And I'm pretty sure people would balk once they saw the price tag, and we'd end up losing money on it.
* Assuming you mean full entries for them, not just adding them to the table in the back.