GURPS Basic Set 4E, Revised...?

Adina · 04-30-2013, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rasputin

In the case of diseases, this was a bad decision

No.

This was a decision you do not like.

What would you propose should have been cut to fit this in? Because that is what would have been done. No set can include everything.

Langy · 04-30-2013, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmurrell

No.

This was a decision you do not like.

What would you propose should have been cut to fit this in? Because that is what would have been done. No set can include everything.

Cutting for length would be an acceptable reason; cutting for non-genericness doesn't seem to fly, though.

In other words: I'd reword his post to something like "I disagree that real world diseases are non-generic, and examples of them in the basic set could have been really useful".

Kromm · 05-01-2013, 02:07 AM

Examples of poisons and diseases were cut and left to specific source materials. Then we had a big white box on p. B439 and no art to fill the spot, so David hastily whipped up stats for some poisons. That didn't magically create an equivalent box for diseases on pp. B442-444. A great many things work this way when laying out an actual book rather than planning an ideal one.

Vaevictis Asmadi · 05-01-2013, 10:27 AM

Is that what's called "layout hell" ?

Also, CII had a bunch of 3E venoms. In 4E, venom attacks are all built using Affliction or Innate Attack, with their modifications, right?

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