Converting NPCs from AD&D to GURPS

[Witchking]

Originally Posted by Valadrim

Here is my first NPC. I decided to mostly build him from concept, but I took a few of NineDaysDead's ideas for tweaking scores to my liking.

Interesting...as the previous poster mentioned he will have...difficulty with mages.

I would not worry so much about instakill spells (HT resists) as mindmucking spells (IQ/Will Resisted).

The 150 pt/50 dis mage that I built for the most recent run I was in (low fantasy) would not have a ton of difficulty working around this gentleman...and he only had 3 Mental spells but Foolishness and Daze can get a lot of yardage handled properly. Invisibility and some of the others would also be...useful.

A true "Psi Cop" with Mental Control spells up to Enslave would be a potential grave difficulty for the prince.

If I were building him I would do it a little different (for that type of "hard charger" I do not think I would buy down Will for one instance.); if handed it to play as a pregen the first things I would do (in a High Fantasy setting) would be A- buy some enchanted items based around Magic Resistance spell etc. B- hiring at least one (better a number of unaquainted) mages to work in my employ long term to have coverage in those areas.

As to the PCs deciding to kill the prince..my first thought is how?

If it is a social event...they will not be armed and armoured...at best they will be in their best doublet and hose...with a rapier or similiar "social" weapon.

They will not be alone with the prince...most of the court will be there in similar social gear. Many "may" be useless social butterflies, many may be otherwise.

Some will be loyal and will fight to defend, some may not be loyal, but will see advantage in being publically seen as being so and thus may fight also.

Then there would be the princes guards...this isnt a social occasion to them...this is another day on the job...sure they just stand around vaguely like statues almost blending into the furniture...until something like this happens. And they will be fully caprisioned in the best tactical gear that money can buy!!

Killing the Prince would be nigh impossible (IMHO), surviving the attempt doubly so...

These are a couple of my early thoughts...

Good Luck and enjoy!!!