GURPS Power-Ups 6: Quirks

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by zorg

My main point was that it would be cool if a Gurps sale were easily noticeable from the Gurps forum. :)

I didn't know about it until I happened to read mention of it on Peter V Dell'Orto's blog... at which point I promptly went out and shored up holes in my collection (several DF and SS books, Martial Arts, and High Tech). Then this thread showed up, and I though "Hey, might as well grab some Power Ups!" and snagged all of 'em except Imbuements.
So, yeah, budget exhausted.


More on topic, I haven't been able to really sink my teeth into this one yet, but it looks solid after a cursory look. Notably, the crunchier bits under Dislike and Like are useful - I wasn't certain if the Quirk-level Pyrophobia one of the Feuyaner has in my DF solo game was really a legitimate Quirk if it just meant she would typically avoid it, but now that I have a mechanic for it (namely, someone brandishing a torch has a better chance at intimidating her, and she'll have a penalty to dive through a ring of fire), I see it works. Similar with the other Feuyaner rather liking steak (he's easier to influence, and he suffers a penalty on his Gluttony check when steak's involved).

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Kromm

"GURPS Power-Downs 1: Quirks," "GURPS Power-Ups 6: Quirks," and "GURPS Quirks" were all in the running for the title. What eventually settled the matter was the observation that perks, Talents, and enhancements had all been collected as GURPS Power-Ups volumes, establishing that series as the home of traits catalogs. GURPS Power-Ups 5: Impulse Buys was the final nail in the coffin, covering as it does things that burn points rather than increase point totals. We definitely did worry that "GURPS Power-Downs" would put people off, though!

The difference is that if you had opted for the title Power-Downs: Quirks, it would have constituted an implicit promise to also publish volumes dealing with other categories of disadvantages, such a physical disads, mental disads, social disads and neurostructural disads, and perhaps also metaphysical disads.

With the chosen title, no real expectation of that is created.