What GURPS needs... now

Phil Masters · 08-14-2017, 04:16 AM

Templates tend to be very setting-specific. Okay, you can do a blandly generic (and quite useful) fighter, or investigator, or suchlike - but a Discworld "Assassin" is a very different beast to a Dungeon Fantasy "Assassin", and neither will look anything like an "Assassin" for Action!, let alone Arabian Nights. And Igors and Golden Children and Speedsters are totally context-specific, to name just three of dozens. And that's before we start talking starting point levels.

The 3e template books were quite fun (if not necessarily very space or cost-efficient), and someone might do a decent 4e supplement of blandly generic near-universal character type templates for them as want to start with those character types, but mostly, templates belong in setting or genre books.

(Reminds me; probably ought to chase the editorial staff about a certain proposal outline...)

08-14-2017, 04:16 AM	#11
Phil Masters Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: U.K.	Re: What GURPS needs... now Templates tend to be very setting-specific. Okay, you can do a blandly generic (and quite useful) fighter, or investigator, or suchlike - but a Discworld "Assassin" is a very different beast to a Dungeon Fantasy "Assassin", and neither will look anything like an "Assassin" for Action!, let alone Arabian Nights. And Igors and Golden Children and Speedsters are totally context-specific, to name just three of dozens. And that's before we start talking starting point levels. The 3e template books were quite fun (if not necessarily very space or cost-efficient), and someone might do a decent 4e supplement of blandly generic near-universal character type templates for them as want to start with those character types, but mostly, templates belong in setting or genre books. (Reminds me; probably ought to chase the editorial staff about a certain proposal outline...) __________________ -- Phil Masters My Home Page. My Self-Publications: On Warehouse 23 and On DriveThruRPG.