The GURPS Meta-Tech Hype Thread

[Donny Brook]

It sounds really good. It will be my first purchase after Vehicles 4e.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Gumby Bush

These are what I am especially looking forward to seeing.

I had tried to use Metatronic Generators to make crystals for your force sword that enhance either the blade or your powers prior to this--now there'll be rules for them.

There absolutely will be. :-)

Originally Posted by RyanW

This sounds like it could be useful for my idea of a La Résistance style campaign, which is basically XCom 2, if the aliens were actually Fae, and the resistance is reverse engineering Fae magic to create gear.

That sounds awesome. So awesome in fact I went LOOKING for it, couldn't find it, got annoyed, came back here to ask for a link, realized I misread it, then had a shame. And yes, it definitely could. One day I'll write a article/book about my most hated of foes: The Tech Tree. Gawd I hate doing a tech tree for a campaign setting.

Originally Posted by Tarks

Registered just to make it clear this is the sort of release that I want more of !

^_^

Originally Posted by Kalzazz

I to am looking forward to this

Thanks, Kal. I'm looking forward to the release.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Christopher R. Rice

That sounds awesome. So awesome in fact I went LOOKING for it, couldn't find it, got annoyed, came back here to ask for a link, realized I misread it, then had a shame. And yes, it definitely could. One day I'll write a article/book about my most hated of foes: The Tech Tree. Gawd I hate doing a tech tree for a campaign setting.

Since I don't really have much more than the idea in any format that would be useful to share, I'll just cross-quote myself from the "Ideas are Easy" thread (which, conveniently, has a link to the campaign synopsis that inspired the idea to begin with).

Originally Posted by RyanW

Noises in the Dark (GURPS XCom but with supernatural foes instead of aliens, detailed here) made me think of doing something similar, but with XCom 2, where the aliens (or, in my case, the Seelie Court*) have successfully become the benevolent advisors/evil puppet masters of humanity.

* Or so they claim.

[ham2anv]

Originally Posted by Christopher R. Rice

One day I'll write a article/book about my most hated of foes: The Tech Tree. Gawd I hate doing a tech tree for a campaign setting.

Fuhgeddaboutit.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by ham2anv

Fuhgeddaboutit.

(Remembers Conversation.) DONE. Better someone else than me.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by RyanW

Since I don't really have much more than the idea in any format that would be useful to share, I'll just cross-quote myself from the "Ideas are Easy" thread (which, conveniently, has a link to the campaign synopsis that inspired the idea to begin with).

Huh. Neat.

[ravenfish]

Originally Posted by Donny Brook

It will be my first purchase after Vehicles 4e.

Is this a polite expression of disinterest, or have I missed a very important announcement?

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Christopher R. Rice

I don't know if I'd call it an extension of GURPS Powers - that implies a heavy load of super crunch. There is crunch. But the rules are not crazy complex. Most of the new stuff relies on pop culture tropes that use machines and such. You absolutely can use it for characters - and I hope folks do! - but that is not what this book is meant for.

I was thinking more along the lines of how Powers (and Powers: Enhanced Senses) included a lot of modifiers for existing Advantages for further tweaking them, not the more complicated bits (although certainly one could make use of those with MTD's if so desired).

Originally Posted by ravenfish

Is this a polite expression of disinterest, or have I missed a very important announcement?

Sounds like lamentations about the lack of VDS, and probably counterproductive at that - I suspect a strong showing from Meta-Tech might make TPTB more inclined to risk further work on VDS, as there's significant overlap between those who would be interested in both... although I further suspect the audience for Meta-Tech will be larger than that for a theoretical VDS, as a) it's likely to cost a good deal less than VDS would need to (the latter would be long and rather dense, meaning it would cost a lot more to produce and thus would need to pass that on to the consumer to be solvent) and b) it has far less of the intimidating crunch that would make VDS a risky investment (as Christopher Rice has indicated, most of the process is no different from building abilities - or picking them from a premade list - and modifying the quality of gear).

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by ravenfish

Is this a polite expression of disinterest, or have I missed a very important announcement?

No, you haven't. He's trolling. Please ignore him. Let's concentrate on this new book being released!

Originally Posted by Varyon

Sounds like lamentations about the lack of VDS, and probably counterproductive at that - I suspect a strong showing from Meta-Tech might make TPTB more inclined to risk further work on VDS, as there's significant overlap between those who would be interested in both... although I further suspect the audience for Meta-Tech will be larger than that for a theoretical VDS, as a) it's likely to cost a good deal less than VDS would need to (the latter would be long and rather dense, meaning it would cost a lot more to produce and thus would need to pass that on to the consumer to be solvent) and b) it has far less of the intimidating crunch that would make VDS a risky investment (as Christopher Rice has indicated, most of the process is no different from building abilities - or picking them from a premade list - and modifying the quality of gear).

Again. Let's chitty chat about Meta-Tech and not derail the thread. I got plenty of more stuff in my pocket to share with folks before the release!

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Varyon

I was thinking more along the lines of how Powers (and Powers: Enhanced Senses) included a lot of modifiers for existing Advantages for further tweaking them, not the more complicated bits (although certainly one could make use of those with MTD's if so desired).

Ahhh. Yes. It does expand those options quite a bit in the name of helping along the creation of items. For example, it has rules for adding Bulk of minimum ST, and much more.