Character Advancement

[Ezra]

Originally Posted by fridayparson

The issue was/is that, with the exception of skills, once one creates a character there is no real advancement to look forward to.

You might point out to your friends that those "advancements" they look forward to accumulate quickly enough to make the game almost unplayable beyond 8th or 9th level. A GURPS campaign will not suffer the power creep or rulebook calculus that builds in level-based systems.