Metagame 'tricks' in GURPS?

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by Darekun

Potentially interesting idea — jargon copied from Shadowrun 2ed, mechanics copied from Consumable Signature Gear:

Karma Pool(5/level)
You have a pool of [Level] karma points. Each session, these refresh to full. You can spend a karma point from this pool in place of a character point to activate a transient rule like Influencing Success Rolls.

This way, a character who regularly uses such rules sacrifices a larger amount of power once, instead of a smaller amount of power on an ongoing basis. Other characters can still spend a smaller amount of power once to dip into the rule.

Be careful with it. It will work IF you severely restrict what the CP can be used for: not to fuel advantages with the cost CP limitation (multiplies cost by 1/5, just like Alternate abilities). Also, be careful as not all the options are equally powerful (and beware of bullet time at 3 CPs. 1 ue of bullet time per session at 15 CPs is a steal).

Just a degenerate example:

Crushing Attack 60 (6dx10, cost 1 CP per use) [60]+Karma Pool 1 [5] means that you have a one use per session artillery-level attack per just 65 points