What GURPS needs... now

[Ulairi]

Originally Posted by robertsconley

I think if a group were to do this the session would be tweaked to make it interesting while being filmed. The better ones one are not so much "Hey watch as play." but "Hey here this RPG and here a taste of how it works in actual play."

The latter takes some work but more doable in that compared to the former, it doesn't rely as much on having people who are good in front of a camera. The point to make something that informs people about GURPS.

Because GURPS is generic without showing why GURPS is special from a systems point of view...it could be anything. I don't know how that would work from a streaming perspective. If it goes long enough and shows the same players playing a fantasy, sci-fi, and horror game all using the same rules that'd work.

Or if it was a round a specific product like DFRPG. Then it works at least in my mind because it shows people a product, how it works, and gives next steps for the listener to go out and follow: hit your FLGS and buy this box. It's why G&S works so well with board games. I watch the game and then have a leg up when I buy the boxed game at Target.

I don't get the blow back about how awful and closed minded this community is when we have disagreements. I think that's an unfair and quite frankly a lazy criticism. Just look at this thread. We've had disagreements but into the last few posts they have been reasonable and constructive. I think there is even a consensus of what we, generally, think will help the game.
But it's not fair when people disagree with you to start saying things like: look how conservative and out of touch this community is because they disagree with me. I don't even know why I try. All I want is to get GURPS in the top 5.

News flash: GURPS doesn't have the retail precense that the other games have so they won't get into the top 5 until then. No matter how much money is put into anything.

Until DFRPG is released GURPS doesn't have an easy single point of entry, outside of Discworld and comedy gaming is really hard to model outside of your own group.