Discussion on GURPS 4E Revised or Database

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Originally Posted by DouglasCole

My desire for this would be to be able to mouse over a page reference in any rulebook, and it go to an owned copy of the referenced work, and bring up in a box the rule in question.

This is a good start, but what about references from older material to newer? There are no references, even where entirely appropriate, to Martial Arts in the Campaigns book - how could there be, after all - but that's where I'd want them. I'd want grappling to point me to your work. I'd want maneuvers to include references to Defensive Attacks. Perks to point to style perks. That sort of thing.

ETA: I never thought I'd be defending it, but this was the huge benefit of the online services associated with D&D 4E. You paid your monthly membership, you got access to the complete rules, including all updates, up to the minute in the character generator, monster/encounter generator and the like. I would want something like this for the actual game play rules in GURPS - where you constantly have access to the latest and greatest from the entire universe of GURPS rules. But I'm not sure such a thing could survive, not with the third party writer model that SJG relies upon.