GURPS 3e to 4e Conversion

[Andrew Hackard]

Originally Posted by Kromm

And I agreed with Andrew not for his reasons, although they were sound, but because I saw rounding modified advantage costs to integer quantities but keeping fractional costs for skills as inconsistent.

Thank you for taking my purely selfish motivation and making it sound like a valid game-design choice. ;-)

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

Thank you for taking my purely selfish motivation and making it sound like a valid game-design choice. ;-)

Floor wax . . . dessert topping . . . I think the difference between "selfish" and "valid" in 2009 is how much you pay your therapist and your publicist.

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

Putting on my "used to edit GURPS" hat for a second . . . I advocated getting rid of half-points in Fourth Edition because they were a pain to track for many players (and many authors, too), especially once defaulting was taken into account. Far easier just to ditch the fractions.

Agreed. That was why I argued for getting rid of them as well.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Kromm

And I agreed with Andrew not for his reasons, although they were sound, but because I saw rounding modified advantage costs to integer quantities but keeping fractional costs for skills as inconsistent.

I didn't mind seeing half-points get tossed, but we used to keep the fractions on modified traits (in 3E) because it seemed more consistent.