08-28-2020, 09:45 AM | #1 |
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GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide
It's difficult to imagine the parent of a mighty-thewed barbarian or cackling necromancer asking, "What do you want to do with your life?" Yet every successful delver had to choose a path at some point, because a career spent meandering through trap- and monster-filled dungeons without focus comes with only one guarantee: It'll be short! And the choice isn't an easy one – each academy, guild, and order claims to offer The One True Way, and of course cultures, faiths, and races try to impose their traditions. How's a young adventurer to decide?Throughout my career As few fantasy worlds have career counselors, the answer to that question is left to the player, who faces a difficult choice between almost 50 professions scattered across 36 GURPS Dungeon Fantasy volumes (so far . . .) and 122 issues of Pyramid. The GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide aims to simplify the selection process. It lists all the professions so far, describing each in sufficient detail to help you decide what supplements to buy, and indexing its main and alternate templates, lenses, special abilities, and much more. It also provides lists of general lenses, henchman templates, and henchman lenses. Because puzzles belong in the dungeon, not in character creation! — Store Link: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/SJG37-0361
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08-28-2020, 12:10 PM | #2 |
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Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide
This come just in time for me, I should meet potential new players soon. (Covid permitting ...)
Thanks for this ! It also show I am missing a pyramid issue with relevant content for my DF incanter ! |
08-28-2020, 12:17 PM | #3 |
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Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide
So will this be updated for free or is the 2020 edition part something to think about?
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08-28-2020, 12:26 PM | #4 |
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Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide
I briefly hesitated, because it's repeating a lot of stuff I already have, but...
I mean, it's $5. Sold. Thanks for compiling this! It will be useful. I should note, it doesn't appear to contain the actual templates. It's page/issue references and advice. You still need the book with the actual template/rules you want to use. Last edited by Ejidoth; 08-28-2020 at 12:30 PM. |
08-28-2020, 01:01 PM | #5 |
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Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide
Yeah $5 for a good index of relevant books and Pyramid issues seemed a decent deal to me.
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Its description makes very clear that it's an index: "GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide indexes all the stuff in detail. It lists every profession [...] For each, it offers a brief description and then extensive page references [...]." The price pays for all the hours of research I had to do and double-check. And believe me, that was serious work.
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08-28-2020, 01:19 PM | #7 | |
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The sheer amount of time I've spent going 'wait, which pyramid has the power-ups for this class?' or 'where was all the mystic knight stuff again?' or 'where was that beastmaster? I remember the article name doesn't say anything about beastmasters but that doesn't really help...' It's really useful to have this. Again, thanks. It's already been useful since I'm doing a DF game with an Imitator and that class really needs all this information indexed. |
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08-28-2020, 01:29 PM | #8 |
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Oh, I realize that! I just want to make clear to those following the thread that this is indeed just an index.
Keep us posted!
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08-28-2020, 02:25 PM | #9 |
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Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide
Thank you, this sort of $5.00 pdf is well worth the money. If it is periodically updated, that is a bonus.
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08-28-2020, 05:47 PM | #10 |
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Re: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Career Guide
Very useful indeed: the kind of thing I vaguely wanted and had created about 20% of on my own, but this version is far better and worth the five bucks. Thanks, Kromm.
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