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Old 12-21-2020, 12:09 PM   #39
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Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: High Pain Threshold and Supernatural Durability

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl View Post
A realistic campaign would not have Supernatural Durability. Anyway, that level of stealth is more for a NPC villain than a PC hero, as it allows for psycho killers move quickly and silently. Unless the PCs are 250+ CP heroes, they really should not have anything at 24+, even if it technically possible.
As a reminder,* there are two kinds of "realism" in GURPS... and really, when creating fiction.
  1. How the setting operates
  2. What the setting contains

You can have a world where nothing exists that isn't firmly established in the real world (or at least, our current understanding of it), and where no such things are absent, either. However, reality may operate differently. Gritty Realism or Harsh Realism can almost become unrealistic, because what can go wrong does seem to go wrong. The baseline level of realism in a setting does make allowances for the sake of game play and storytelling, after all.

Going the opposite direction, reality behaves in a manner more conducive to game play and story telling. You can get into "cinematic" game territory, "four-color" game territory - yeah, even sans superpowers - until you push all the way into silly. You can have a silly campaign set in the real-world; think "The Naked Gun" series (for a now dated example).

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