Giant PC's Weapons

Turhan's Bey Company · 05-28-2009, 08:45 PM

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy has some quick and dirty scaling rules, but I don't remember which volume.

Phaelen Bleux · 05-28-2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy has some quick and dirty scaling rules, but I don't remember which volume.

Will it work for 3e? And although I love GURPS and support SJ Games often, I was hoping not to have to buy the answer.

Phantasm · 05-28-2009, 08:53 PM

There's also an equipment scaling sidebox in either High-Tech or Ultra-Tech (I believe it's in HT, but IDHMBWM). I think this box has weight scaling modifiers for SM -3 through SM +5. I don't remember which page the box is in.

Icelander · 05-28-2009, 08:58 PM

GURPS Low-Tech will have a set of scaling rules. Until then, Dungeon Fantasy is a fine cinematic treatment of the question. ;)

Mgellis · 05-28-2009, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Icelander

GURPS Low-Tech will have a set of scaling rules. Until then, Dungeon Fantasy is a fine cinematic treatment of the question. ;)

Will they cover very small characters as well as very large ones?

demonsbane · 06-01-2009, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Icelander

GURPS Low-Tech will have a set of scaling rules. (...)

Finally? Are you sure of that? It would be great.

My poor Norse Giant (2nd edition GURPS Vikings, page 87) still is a bit grumpish about his non-statted three yards long sword.

Bruno · 06-01-2009, 11:03 AM

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Finally? Are you sure of that? It would be great.

It'll actually be in Low Tech Companion 2. I know this, because I'm looking at a draft copy right now. I also participated in the discussion thread on the subject in the playtest (ongoing).

The subject is near and dear to my heart, as I have a SM +1 minotaur and I will soon be playing a SM -6 pixie. Rawr.

Fear my tiny fists!

demonsbane · 06-01-2009, 11:14 AM

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Fear my tiny fists!

I thought it could be in the hardcopy book (companions will be PDFs).

Thank you, Mrugnak :^)

Not another shrubbery · 06-01-2009, 11:29 AM

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I thought it could be in the hardcopy book (companions will be PDFs).

There was some fuss raised, back in the early days of discussing Low-Tech for 4E, about mixing fantastic elements in with historical crunch. Properly, such things would be separated so the purists can have more space devoted to their interests, while fans of Things That Never Were can look for scaling and whatnot in a product geared toward those things.

PK · 05-28-2009, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy has some quick and dirty scaling rules, but I don't remember which volume.

1. Only for small PCs, not big ones.

2. The rules in question are very explicitly for DF games, or for other games that are similarly ridiculous. Now, most fantasy games with giants and pixies will throw all physics right out the window, sure, but it's not necessarily the case. (That is, you can have giants and yet decide that their gear is still realistically larger and heavier.)

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Phantasm Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: On the road again...	Re: Giant PC's Weapons There's also an equipment scaling sidebox in either High-Tech or Ultra-Tech (I believe it's in HT, but IDHMBWM). I think this box has weight scaling modifiers for SM -3 through SM +5. I don't remember which page the box is in. __________________ "Life ... is an Oreo cookie." - J'onn J'onzz, 1991 "But mom, I don't wanna go back in the dungeon!" The GURPS Marvel Universe Reboot Project A-G, H-R, and S-Z, and its not-a-wiki-really web adaptation. Ranoc, a Muskets-and-Magery Renaissance Fantasy Setting

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Icelander Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Iceland*	Re: Giant PC's Weapons GURPS Low-Tech will have a set of scaling rules. Until then, Dungeon Fantasy is a fine cinematic treatment of the question. ;) __________________ Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela!