Pyramid #3/53: Action

[PK]

Originally Posted by demonsbane

Not having seen it, I'm not completely sure, but this sounds like useful for fantasy as well.

In a sense, it absolutely is -- specifically, if you want to run an Action game in a fantasy setting, I'd strongly recommend reading Phil's article, just for the general advice on bringing Action into the past. But he didn't focus on fantasy much, because "fantasy action" is covered so well by Dungeon Fantasy.

[demonsbane]

Thanks for your answer.

In any case my wondering was just about "horse rider chases" :) If in this Pyramid issue they are covered in some particular way, I imagine they also will work for Fantasy —for instance, the Peter Jackson's LOTR Arwen vs. Ringwraiths riders scene of the linked video.

[PK]

Originally Posted by demonsbane

Thanks for your answer.

In any case my wondering was just about "horse rider chases" :) If in this Pyramid issue they are covered in some particular way, I imagine they also will work for Fantasy —for instance, the Peter Jackson's LOTR Arwen vs. Ringwraiths riders scene of the linked video.

Yes, actually -- in fact, the horse-chase rules obtained by adding Exploits + Extended Action! would be great for any fantasy game, even one that didn't use any of the other features from the Action series!

[Refplace]

As an FYI this Pyramid got me to finally buy the Action books 1 and 2 (skipped 3 as not sure it adds anything not already in MA). I have been considering it for awhile now but the Dogfight article got me to do it now.
Also picked up Spaceships 4 for the article and am working on Space Opera fighters due to the inspiration from this issue.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by PK

In a sense, it absolutely is -- specifically, if you want to run an Action game in a fantasy setting, I'd strongly recommend reading Phil's article, just for the general advice on bringing Action into the past. But he didn't focus on fantasy much, because "fantasy action" is covered so well by Dungeon Fantasy.

GURPS Action 2 has lots of material on planning and scouting and observing that can be useful in a less dungeon-based fantasy campaign.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

GURPS Action 2 has lots of material on planning and scouting and observing that can be useful in a less dungeon-based fantasy campaign.

Let's face it, Action simply has lots of stuff that is useful elsewhere. Complimentary skill rolls, pulling rank*, some notes on certain skills, generic chase rules etc.

* == Some of which is also found in Social Engineering.

[demonsbane]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Let's face it, Action simply has lots of stuff that is useful elsewhere. Complimentary skill rolls, pulling rank*, some notes on certain skills, generic chase rules etc.

* == Some of which is also found in Social Engineering.

I think the same. Both the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy and Action sub-lines have made some vital and very interesting contributions to the GURPS system as a whole. To my mind a theoretical Basic Set revised (or new edition, compendium or whatever) should include them as part of the core.

For what is worth, the rules for complementary skill rolls appeared in the first place in Dungeon Fantasy. I'm mentioning it because I find that for some reason people tends to forget it :)

The complementary skills and teamwork rules in Action 2: Exploits are basically a rephrasing of the ones previously published in Dungeon Fantasy 2: Dungeons inside the box titled «No “I” in “Teamwork” (No Profit Without It)» (p.11).