08-07-2012, 05:09 PM | #31 | ||
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?T
That's what B37 says but it's weirder than that in practice. Clearly NPCs can have the same summoning abilities that PCs have, even if they are based on Allies. Several published NPCs have normal (non-summonable) Allies (for example several of the Monsters in GURPS Fantasy); which seems to directly contradict B37. Lastly, you'd be the guy to ask, but how do NPC infomorphs with multiple shells work?
Quote:
Quote:
|
||
08-11-2012, 11:50 AM | #32 | |
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2008
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
Quote:
The GM can give them Allies if s/he wants. |
|
08-11-2012, 11:52 AM | #33 | ||
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2008
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
Quote:
That 'rule' is actually apocryphal. And there is no potential for abuse since it's the GM who makes up Ally sheets. Quote:
Last edited by Figleaf23; 08-11-2012 at 11:58 AM. |
||
08-11-2012, 12:27 PM | #34 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
The extreme cost savings and confusing character sheets that result make it inadvisable for a GM to design an ally with subsidiary allies. If the player asks for an ally with a concept that absolutely calls for a second ally (Like Stan The Dragon-Rider), then I would recommend giving the character that second ally with a discount for "granted by ally"
|
08-11-2012, 01:09 PM | #35 | |
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dreamland
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
Quote:
|
|
08-11-2012, 03:39 PM | #36 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
|
08-11-2012, 03:42 PM | #37 |
Join Date: Feb 2009
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
One of my characters had Pegasus Knight allies who themselves had Pegasus Allies, it worked out okay
|
08-11-2012, 04:14 PM | #38 |
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2008
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
I don't think so. I believe it should be read in the context of justifying the preceding sentences about points, rather than as a stand-alone prohibition against GM choice (which would be uncharacteristic of GURPS, and if intended would likely be made explicit).
|
08-11-2012, 04:26 PM | #39 | |||
Join Date: Dec 2007
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
|||
08-11-2012, 06:25 PM | #40 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
|
Re: Do allies earn CP?
The entire quoted section says, repeatedly, and in several different ways, that two NPCs can be "allied" but not Allies. They can team up, but one doesn't have the advantage that guarentees the other will remain friends and show up to help a certain frequency of the time. That's what Ally is after all.
__________________
All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog |
Tags |
allies, character points |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|