TV series with ideas for GURPS

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Originally Posted by Anders

Anyone remember "V"? How about playing the A-team?

My friends and I actually played a no-dice V RPG for years--so inspired we were by the show. It worked great! I'd certainly run it again in GURPS. Various posters have brought up different issues with the show...some of which aren't that big of a deal to me...for example, Visitors actually aren't cross-fertile with humans. The only way the Robin was able to become pregnant was because Diana (the chief science officer) did high-tech medical experimentation to make it happen. That pregnancy was the only one that occurred--and it wasn't a natural occurrence.

As for Visitor motives, there were a lot of different elements brought up in lore. As a GM you go with the combination that works well for you and your group. But V is also not a hard science sci-fi show. If your players are into hard sci-fi...and not into the conventions of space opera...then V might not be the universe to play in.

I think cop, lawyer, medical shows would be no brainers to translate into GURPS, I'm not worries about the "iconic character" program...because the players just make iconic PCs and off we go. Those procedurals certainly provide ideas for GURPS.

Other shows I think provide ideas for GURPS? 1980s night time soaps, a la Dynasty & Dallas! One day I will run something like that when I can find the right player group.