First GURPS Night as GM (and role-playing fullstop) - Trip Report

[Stripe]

Originally Posted by DrDraxium

The setting was a post-nuclear apocalyptic abandoned town ala Fallout 3 (yep, that's a Pip-Boy avatar) set just outside of my home city of Adelaide.

GURPS does this setting well. One of my two favorites.

I didn't really put a limit on race/character types; we had dwarves, sentient skeletons and ewoks running about the place. However characters were limited to 100/50 disadvantage limit.

That's cool. This is another strength of GURPS.

One of my players put forward the question "well why can't I just take the lowest level in all of these DX skills thus having every single DX skill available?" I couldn't answer him because it seemed like you could just take a whole bunch of skills for 0 CP and have them at least equal your DX level (DX10 = Acrobatics 10, Brawling 10 etc.) Then we all worked out that (going by the skill purchase chart in GURPS Lite) that there was a minimum point expenditure for all skills.

Wait. I don't have my books with me, but I think I sense a problem here.

Your default skill level, the skill level you have if you have no points invested in it, will be listed with the skill in the skill's entry.

For instance, copied from GURPS Lite:

Animal Handling (IQ/A)
Default: IQ-5.

If you have IQ 10, your default skill level is 5.

You cannot and put 0 points in Animal Handling and get it at level 8 (again, from IQ 10). The least amount of points you can spend is 1. Those dashes are there as place holders. Notice they are dashes, not zeros. If you spend 1 CP on Animal Handling with IQ 10, you will have it at level 9 and if you don't put any points in it you have it at 5.

Now you'll know for next session! :)

One thing that I've noticed that no matter which resource websites or game mastering blogs that I traipse across, none of them seem to contain blow-by-blow session detail.

I learned what role playing was by reading the example in the front of the 2nd Ed. AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide.

Rolls are included; start at Chapter I and work your way up: http://www.rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=33006&date=1265512957

[DrDraxium]

Originally Posted by Stripe

Wait. I don't have my books with me, but I think I sense a problem here.

Your default skill level, the skill level you have if you have no points invested in it, will be listed with the skill in the skill's entry.

For instance, copied from GURPS Lite:

Animal Handling (IQ/A)
Default: IQ-5.

If you have IQ 10, your default skill level is 5.

You cannot and put 0 points in Animal Handling and get it at level 8 (again, from IQ 10). The least amount of points you can spend is 1. Those dashes are there as place holders. Notice they are dashes, not zeros. If you spend 1 CP on Animal Handling with IQ 10, you will have it at level 9 and if you don't put any points in it you have it at 5.

Yeah if you see a few posts up I think I've pretty much nailed it now.

Originally Posted by Stripe

I learned what role playing was by reading the example in the front of the 2nd Ed. AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide.

Rolls are included; start at Chapter I and work your way up: http://www.rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=33006&date=1265512957

Excellent, thanks dude, lots of reading to be done now!