Elder Scrolls Conversion to GURPS 4e (Help Please!)

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by RedGuard

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Yes, there are people here. Don't bump unnecessarily, it's rude.

Your calculations seems very ... thorough. They possibly produce wider spreads than I'd like, but they seem well thought through.

[RedGuard]

I'm sorry >.<
i thought nobody would read it if it were on the second page

i provided 2 sets of formulae as is said
the first one produces a bit less spreads

you can compare the two methods here

[RedGuard]

So, after a long time of thinking, i came up with(for now) 2(incomplete) racial templates(High Elves and Argonians). Please give me some feedback of how to make them better. I do welcome sugestions for other traits or on how to implement a proper magic system(gurps magic is a good starting point, because i think it should be a spellbased system, but imho its much to complicated).

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[Ragitsu]

Mercantile = Merchant?

[KjetilKverndokken]

I would use Magic for the spells...

Design it around the Elder Scrolls Schools of Magic, and then just jot down the appropriate spells for each school.

To try to do a perfect conversion to Gurps will not be as good as try to convert the fell and the essence and the setting from Elder Scroll.

[Ragitsu]

Alas, Low-Tech will help, but we won't see it for a while.

[RedGuard]

thanks for the input

some idea i had a while ago was to introduce "Magic Talents"(maybe there's something like that i don't know) which would be the magic schools.
basically a magic talent is the same as a mundane talent, a compilation of skills(spells in magic, that is) (more or less) loosely related. if you have a magic talent you don't actually know the spells in it but if you learn one of the spells you learn it faster and the talent level adds up to the actual spell level when using it(see rules for talents in gurps basic set). the spells would be(some of) the spells from gurps magic.
what do you think about it?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

Alas, Low-Tech will help, but we won't see it for a while.

Why do you think so? I can't actually think of any equipment in the games that isn't in the Basic Set and that is also historical. I suspect you are going to be disappointed if you expect Low-Tech to have stats for bonemold, glass, or ebony armor and weapons

EDIT: What I mean is that I personally can't think of any historical items that appear in the Elder Scrolls games that aren't already in the Basic Set. Which items did you have in mind?

EDIT2: Although I suppose that Low-Tech might have explicit prices and weights for things like wooden spoons and bolts of cloth. Is that what you meant?

[Ragitsu]

Prices and weights will be handy, yes.

However, in this case, it's actually the things i'm not immediately aware of outside the Characters books that will likely interest me and, also, the tidbits of minutiae which really make the setting feel more genuinely set in the past.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Ragitsu

However, in this case, it's actually the things i'm not immediately aware of outside the Characters books that will likely interest me and,

Can you give me a specific example of what you mean from the Elder Scrolls games?

also, the tidbits of minutiae which really make the setting feel more genuinely set in the past.

I don't believe that Tamariel is meant to be Earth's past, I think it is invented world fantasy.