Experiences with running "level 1 to level 20" campaigns, using DFRPG

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by RogerBW

Another thing that running this game is bringing home to me is that GURPS doesn't have a lot of one-off powers. In Other Game a combatant might only be able to their big attack sometimes, either explicitly N per encounter . . .

Per-encounter abilities, especially for characters without explicit magical abilities, snap my disbelief-suspenders. They make the game structure excessively visible to the characters. Pretty well all the Other Game I've played has been in editions too old to have such things, and they were one of the things that caused me to give away D&D4e after I'd only read part of one book.