Halfling professions

[restlessgriffin]

Originally Posted by Dalin

It all depends on the table, as always. All I can say is that Wolf Girl has been popular with both adult players and kids. I've seen her chosen as often as any other character in my pile of 250-point pregens.

But, I do facilitate games for newcomers to the GURPS ecosystem and, often, newcomers to TTRPGs. Very few of these folks know how to optimize a character or have any sense of what their DPS should be. I've seen Wolf Girl do alright in melee, but she does need to invest some additional points wisely after the first few adventures.

As for whether her backstory is good enough, I guess it is a matter of taste. I just read it over, and it doesn't seem too wacky to me. Honestly, I also tend to dislike goofy characters, but I've seen this one played pretty straight. Sillier than Princess Mononoke, but still has that vibe. The great thing, IMO, about a backstory like this is the *character* doesn't need to know more than this. She was a kid. She doesn't remember the details. If the party wants to make a quest out of finding out how the wolves actually managed to raise her, there's plenty of time for the GM and player to work out the details.

Sure works for a one-shot convention game. Not so much for a hard level campaign. Putting the character in "I Smell a Rat" without fudging die rolls and showing the character favoritism is pretty much criminal. GURPS adventures often are pretty hard. The character would probably be survivable in the campaign I'm look to run, but after a few games I don't see the character growth being good compared to most other crafted characters.

My main thing is for a campaign it's goofy and kills the vibe I want for my games. If playing for laughs is your goal, I wonder why pick a difficult somewhat killer rules system like GURPS DFRPG. I'd go with something more narrative like FATE. The halfling ST14 and HP21 seems very off. Is the construction RAW? Ok, ran this through with GURPS Character Sheet (GCS) and I came up with ST15/HP 22. Wow. Never thought halfing Barbarian was a thing.