The GURPS Meta-Tech Hype Thread

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by whswhs

For what it's worth, GURPS Supers has a treatment of this problem for the specific case of powered exoskeleta: You buy the ST as "External ST," worth 8 points/level (it doesn't include hit points), and you take a taboo trait, such that the point cost of the powered armor FOR YOU is based on the difference between its ST and your ST, but if someone else wears it, the point cost is based on the difference between its ST and THEIR ST, as part of External ST, making it a kind of meta-trait.

Yup. I started there in fact - didn't work for what I was doing so I excised it. Though that approach remains perfectly valid for those that want to use it. That's the point of this book - you can use it with most of the build systems and it'll work just fine.