GURPS Monster Hunters 1 - preliminary data file. Anyone want to finish it?

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Originally Posted by Daeglan

Hmmmm. I thought that was why god invented Copy Paste. You only have to type each section once.

Not true. You have to integrate the Advantages as well. But more to the point, it means the user who loads MH1 and MH4 is faced, not with 20 templates to choose from in the little menu, but 200! Seriously, that's just a huge flood.

And then every time a book adds a new motivation lens, you have to make 20 new versions of it instead of one. And if there's a new template introduced in MH7, you have to make nine new versions of it instead of one. And if both are done, then you have to take that into account, which means the GDFs for each book will have to "double back" and revamp templates from earlier books!

No. If there's one thing I've learned from computer programming, it's that modules are good. Templates should be one thing. Lenses another. The fact that they're presented as one unit in the book doesn't mean that it should automatically be that way in GCA.