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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
Things that bristle with arms are a special case.
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Maybe that's one problem with GURPS, that you have to pay for each extra arm, with no reduced cost for having an extreme number of arms.
IIRC in Hero System, Extra Legs is a binary advantage. It doesn't matter how
many legs you have. You pay simply for the privilege of having more than two.
Clearly that can't quite work for Extra Arms in GURPS, but it might still make sense to introduce a diminishing cost effect, so that the first extra arm (3rd arm) has its normal cost, the next arm again (4th) costs less, and further arms after that cost nearly nothing.
After all, the real utility isn't in having a lot of arms but in having a lot of Extra Attacks.
But I still don't get smurf's problem, and I think this discussion would work much better if he'd post his alien species templates.