Old-School D&D style game

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by robertsconley

As for Dungeon Fantasy, what 250 points gets you is characters with endurance.

Which is to say, more old-school (not necessarily GURPS) hit points. At 250 character points, you can avoid, bounce, absorb, heal, or just function despite more incoming damage. Each character type does so differently – higher active defenses, more wealth for buying armor (and healing potions), more ST for lugging armor (and giving more HP), naked DR, defensive buffs, healing abilities, not being seen in the first place, Luck, or just being a berserker with ridiculous HT and HP – but all that stuff costs points. If you stick to the way points are spent on the canonical DF templates, then with one or two exceptions (bard . . .), the closest old-school-to-GURPS correspondence is between old-school hit points and GURPS character points – not 1:1, obviously, but there's clearly a relationship.