4E Books with 'real' Gun Stats

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by Z09SS

Even with High Tech, there's sub-variations that are in the text descriptions and not on the table.

yes.

Glad to have them, but probably in the future everything in the table is a better idea.


I know from playtest experience that tables in their original format are a nightmare, but even with frex MH having the slugs for shotguns there it is just better and easier.

[Z09SS]

I tend to list alt- ammo on the table with the gun.

That puts the stats for things like slugs at my finger tips.

Plus things like a .44 magnum being able to shoot .44 Special and .44 Russian...

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by lachimba

I know from playtest experience that tables in their original format are a nightmare, but even with frex MH having the slugs for shotguns there it is just better and easier.

So, I agree with this, but it should be noted that the tables in the .doc format for playtests are tab-delimited text. So you can cut/paste them into your favorite spreadsheet program for easy reading.

In fact, this works in reverse, for prospective authors.

If you work out your table in Excel, you can build a properly formatted GURPS table as follows:

1. Build the table in excel. Don't bother with bolding headers or anything.
2. Copy the entire thing
3. Paste it into the WYSIWYG template using "Paste Special/Unformatted Text"
4. You now have tab-delimited text in your file.
5. Format your first row, likely as TABLEHD
6. Format your actual table contents as TABLE or TEXT-TABLE (whatever it is)
7. Insert a single TAB before every line of text
8. Go back and put the appropriate HALFLINE insertions where they need to be.

Poof . . . basically done. You of course must check and double-check GURPSFORMATS.DOC to make sure that you've got the details right, but this trick will save a lot of time. It did for me.

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

1. Build the table in excel. Don't bother with bolding headers or anything.
2. Copy the entire thing
3. Paste it into the WYSIWYG template using "Paste Special/Unformatted Text"
4. You now have tab-delimited text in your file.
5. Format your first row, likely as TABLEHD
6. Format your actual table contents as TABLE or TEXT-TABLE (whatever it is)
7. Insert a single TAB before every line of text
8. Go back and put the appropriate HALFLINE insertions where they need to be.

Poof . . . basically done. You of course must check and double-check GURPSFORMATS.DOC to make sure that you've got the details right, but this trick will save a lot of time. It did for me.

something to try out!