12-30-2011, 08:04 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Jul 2009
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Who else is still using Gurps 3ed rev
I am wondering if anyone else is still using 3ed rev I am. I understand I maybe the last of the mohicans (and I know I dated myself by using that phrase). But I like that version and feel most comfortable running it. I would play and have played Gurps 4e but haven't since that time. So let me know if any of you still do use Gurps 3ed rev please.
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12-30-2011, 10:21 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Yucca Valley, CA
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Re: Who else is still using Gurps 3ed rev
I think it's just you, dwj.
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12-30-2011, 11:07 PM | #3 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Longmont, CO
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Re: Who else is still using Gurps 3ed rev
Give it time, it's the holidays. I know there's still some regular 3e players who post to these boards -- they're a minority, but certainly not extinct.
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12-31-2011, 01:07 AM | #4 | |
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: France
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I don't. I find the third far much better. But I sometimes talk with them via Internet. Having said that, GURPS is quite rare in France... What a pity. |
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12-31-2011, 02:03 AM | #5 | |
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Location: Europe
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12-31-2011, 04:35 AM | #6 |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Luxembourg
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Re: Who else is still using Gurps 3ed rev
Myself, I switched to 4e happily and I am not looking back.
But a friend sometime also GM in Gurps, and he still use 3e. When he do, we have as much fun than when it was current. 3e rules worked well for many years of great games, they still do. Celjabba |
12-31-2011, 04:42 AM | #7 |
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Mannheim, Baden
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Re: Who else is still using Gurps 3ed rev
As there are far fewer differences between GURPS editions than say D&D editions there probably won't be that many die-hard 3rd edition fans. It's more evolution than "we have to revamp the system otherwise people won't buy". So, I guess the main reason for sticking with 3rd edition is money. You can run perfectly fine campaigns with only 3rd edition rules.
People who thought 3rd edition a bit cluttered at the end and had some money to spare moved to 4th edition. People who got interested in new supplements over time also migrated, because retrofitting the rules was more of a hassle than buying the core books. People who didn't like pdf supplements probably took longer, because a lot of the newer lines are mostly e23 only at the beginning. Still, there are a couple of 3rd edition players active on the forums. I think the last thread produced more than half a dozen. Personally, I bought 4th edition books as they came out and switched over completely when Powers came out. The new edition was just more unified. The only 3rd edition rule I use regularly is a modified version of 1/2 points in skills. Not that this has invalidated most of my two metres of 3rd edition books. Except for the crunch-heavy stuff they are still very useful. |
12-31-2011, 05:04 AM | #8 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Who else is still using Gurps 3ed rev
I'm not, but some friends took it up in 2010. They wanted to play Traveller with a reasonably sophisticated game system, and GURPS Traveller is 3e. Their GM reckoned he might as well save the effort of learning both 3e and 4e well enough to do the conversion.
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12-31-2011, 06:39 AM | #9 | |
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: France
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GURPS 4th is most like a lego system. More rules are optional, have some variants, etc. And the advantages/disadvantages system, with its enhancements and limitations, emphasizes even more this lego aspect. Thus, since they prefer a game where you just have to choice you abilities in a list rather than to build them yourself with some calculations which are not always very easy to do (as we can see in some threads of this forum), they prefer playing the third edition than the fourth one. The other big argument was the fact that they spent a lot of time learning the third edition, designing campaigns and game worlds involving several published books. So, they didn't want to do all the work again from the beginning without the same published book to help them. Of course, now, a lot of stuff has been released for the fourth edition. But, when we had this discussion, there were very few. |
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Location: Mannheim, Baden
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