Turns and defending

[Not]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

You have a turn in GURPS. It's meaningful to say "It's your turn". GURPS doesn't have "a round", and it's not meaningful to say "What round is it?"

You notice the word round doesn't appear in my post.

The explanation given above (which I think is correct) is that the rules use the word "turn" in such a way as to mean that at any given moment in time it is turn n for one player and turn n+1 for another, but that the turns overlap. That's not the way that most games have it! Chess, Pachisi, Backgammon, Snakes and Ladders--in each of these a turn is a discrete thing that ends where the next begins.