Blog: Requires Concentrate -- New Posts

weevis · 07-15-2019, 10:27 AM

There's a bunch of new material posted since my last update at:

Requires Concentrate
https://reqcon.game.blog/

The thing I'm proudest of: I spent hours and hours going through all of the books I could get my hands on and compiling a list of character templates relevant to a GURPS Traveller campaign. It's great that GURPS character design can do anything, but I find it is very useful to give players who are new to tabletop RPGs a list of possible ideas and work from there.

I came up with SEVENTY relevant templates, where 45 of them are likely to be more relevant and familiar ("astronaut", "spy") and the remaining templates are somewhat zany but I bet will spark your creativity ("deep-cover primitive-world observer"). Lists like the GURPS Repository and GURPS Wiki were helpful but just limiting the available choices to just "templates relevant to a GURPS Traveller campaign" is a big help to me. Hopefully it will help someone else!

The relevant posts I'm talking about (although there are other posts):

I'd certainly welcome notes on any published templates that I missed. This was a PITA but it has already borne fruit -- a new player chose "deposed planetary ruler."

07-15-2019, 10:27 AM	#1
weevis Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: 3.165, -3.048, -0.0818	Re: Blog: Requires Concentrate -- New Posts There's a bunch of new material posted since my last update at: Requires Concentrate https://reqcon.game.blog/ The thing I'm proudest of: I spent hours and hours going through all of the books I could get my hands on and compiling a list of character templates relevant to a GURPS Traveller campaign. It's great that GURPS character design can do anything, but I find it is very useful to give players who are new to tabletop RPGs a list of possible ideas and work from there. I came up with SEVENTY relevant templates, where 45 of them are likely to be more relevant and familiar ("astronaut", "spy") and the remaining templates are somewhat zany but I bet will spark your creativity ("deep-cover primitive-world observer"). Lists like the GURPS Repository and GURPS Wiki were helpful but just limiting the available choices to just "templates relevant to a GURPS Traveller campaign" is a big help to me. Hopefully it will help someone else! The relevant posts I'm talking about (although there are other posts): Time to Make Characters, People! (A List of 45 Templates Relevant to GURPS Traveller) 25 Obscure Sci-Fi Character Ideas (For the Hard-to-Please) I'd certainly welcome notes on any published templates that I missed. This was a PITA but it has already borne fruit -- a new player chose "deposed planetary ruler."