Reaching Out to Potential and New GURPS Gamers

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Originally Posted by Tinman

One of the best things about GURPS is that it lets you play the character you want & not be stuck playing one that best fits the stats you rolled.

You don't even have to invoke random char-gen: I'm stuck to GURPS because I can deliberately make one-trick-ponies with it. Sometimes a character concept does not call for breadth.

[Kale]

Originally Posted by Dr. Beckenstein

I used the templates in Infinite Worlds for conventions. The response of the players was less enthusiastic then I hoped, they claimed that the characters were not very interesting.

So I build a variety of unique characters that shows what is possible in Grups, including a Xena-like amazon, a mage-detective from Merlin and a combat-maid gynoid.

My advice - do the extra work, it will pay out.

I think of it this way; you are not your job. The template defines your job, but everything else defines the character and makes them interesting.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Kale

I think of it this way; you are not your job. The template defines your job, but everything else defines the character and makes them interesting.

Yes. This is why when I do provide templates, I leave some margin of unspent points so the characters can be individualized.

When I ran my Worminghall campaign, all five PCs were built on the "new student in the Faculty of Magic" template, but they were respectively the son of a knight, two Welsh cousins who were sons of prosperous gentlemen, the bastard son of a servant woman, and an orphan raised in the wilds by dragons.