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Originally Posted by Icelander
But the point value of a monster is a much less useful gauge of its abilities than, well, actually looking at its abilities.
The question 'How does a 250-point monster match up against 4 150-point characters?' is essentially unanswerable and meaningless. Too much depends on what those points were spent on, situation, terrain, goals and uncounted other factors.
It's much more useful to look at the monsters relevant combat statistics and compare those to the PCs.
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Very true.
If your 250-point Archon of Universal Truth is the greatest tracker in the world, can live without food, speaks every language known telepathically, is a sage beyond compare and happens to be a whizz at calculus....
...He is still going to have the snot beaten out of him by some jumped up 100-point combat fiend PC.
I must admit that a lot of the time I just decide on a "reasonable" weapon skill roll and damage, and then make the rest up on the fly. Is the ogre capable of detecting the sneaky PCs? Yeah, it should have a +3 bonus to smell Perception but only an IQ of 8. PCs want to bribe him with food? Okay, it's reasonable for an ogre to have Gluttony so I'll allow it.
In scenarios I pre-write for online publishing, of course, things are a little more formalised, but the nature of GURPs is that any given party of PCs will have wildly differing skills and specialisations, so I like to mould any encounters to allow the players to take advantage of them.