02-28-2021, 05:30 AM | #1 |
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Realm Management
With GURPS Realm Management expected to be released in March (GURPS News email) I was wondering what would I expect to be in it. Thanks
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02-28-2021, 11:54 AM | #2 | |
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Re: GURPS Realm Management
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One thing I've been saying over and over and over to try and manage expectations is this: It is a roleplaying tool much like Mass Combat or Boardrooms and Curia. When I was coming up with the system I made a hard design choice that it would not be a economic simulator nor would it be a "bean-counting" system. It's meant to give players whose characters are "in charge" (for whatever that means) a method to see how well they are doing ruling. It does describe a realm in a "character sheet" format. It has stats for things like how educated the general populous is or what the infrastructure is like or how wealthy it is. But those are just a few things. There is lots more information describing a realm since it interacts with the conflict-resolution system for realms (which is called "The Wheel") as well as other events. That's really all that can be said at the moment without more targeted questions.
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02-28-2021, 12:14 PM | #3 | |
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02-28-2021, 12:29 PM | #4 | |
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P.S. I always use my full name, never my familiar one. Or you can call me C.R.. So Christopher or C.R., please. :-)
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02-28-2021, 12:48 PM | #5 |
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Cool--looking forward to the release. Thanks, Christopher!
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02-28-2021, 01:29 PM | #6 |
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Me too. It was the hardest thing I've done to date and it took almost 2 years from inception to release so I hope people enjoy it and use it in their games. :-)
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02-28-2021, 02:09 PM | #7 |
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Re: GURPS Realm Management
Thanks Christopher, so I guess I won’t need to create massive Excel spreadsheets to play the game.
Will it cover various tech levels so I can use it for modern or sci fi games as well as medieval. Thanks |
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If the book does well I have ideas for follow-ups that will get into more edge cases that I removed from the main book for being, well, edge cases.
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02-28-2021, 03:01 PM | #9 |
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Re: GURPS Realm Management
One thing I've been wondering when I've been thinking of possible uses: How much does it scale up and down? Could it be used for a TL0 hunter-gather band of a few dozen people? How about a galactic empire with a population of trillions?
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02-28-2021, 03:14 PM | #10 |
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Yes. It scales. The lowest is a single village and its surrounding lands while the highest is a galaxy and its planets. You could probably go up more for something like an intergalactic empire, but scaling downward is tougher.
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