Discussion on GURPS 4E Revised or Database

JP42 · 01-03-2014, 09:46 AM

One of the counterarguments that always comes up is "I don't want to have to rely on technology" and I think it's a bit of a straw man. Just because you can go to the website and put together a custom campaign book with just the rules you want to use doesn't mean you'd have to. The original "all in one" version would still be available, and many of us who use the custom guides would still print them out and bind them ourselves.

More than anything, I would like to see a consolidation of every "official" rule, optional or not, together where they interact. Martial Arts interleaved appropriately into the Combat chapter; Powers in Advantages; Magic and Thaumatology (et al) into the Magic chapter; *-Tech into the Equipment and Campaigns chapters. This would likely lead to separate books for each chapter instead, but I'd be okay with that - and I wouldn't even demand a new distribution paradigm for it.

01-03-2014, 09:46 AM	#11
JP42 Join Date: Dec 2012	Re: Discussion on GURPS 4E Revised or Database One of the counterarguments that always comes up is "I don't want to have to rely on technology" and I think it's a bit of a straw man. Just because you can go to the website and put together a custom campaign book with just the rules you want to use doesn't mean you'd have to. The original "all in one" version would still be available, and many of us who use the custom guides would still print them out and bind them ourselves. More than anything, I would like to see a consolidation of every "official" rule, optional or not, together where they interact. Martial Arts interleaved appropriately into the Combat chapter; Powers in Advantages; Magic and Thaumatology (et al) into the Magic chapter; *-Tech into the Equipment and Campaigns chapters. This would likely lead to separate books for each chapter instead, but I'd be okay with that - and I wouldn't even demand a new distribution paradigm for it.