So, how great is Kromm anyway?

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

I don't know what it should be called, but if we tweet about it, we should be sure to use hash tags.

You sure you're TBC and not THC?

[Rocket Man]

I love these joint discussions.

[Anders]

Kromm, if you could dispel a commonly encountered misconception about GURPS, what would that be?

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by Anders

Kromm, if you could dispel a commonly encountered misconception about GURPS, what would that be?

That it's flavorless and does all genres equally poorly. I really hate reading or hearing that, yet I come across it all the time. It's a serious case of missing the point that for a generic game, the genre specialization comes in the supplements, not the core, because otherwise the core would be as long as the entire line and cost thousands of dollars. But people read the Basic Set, conclude that there are no rules for superheroes, or for using meta-game resources to alter the plot, or for mutable point totals, or for magic that doesn't involve rote spells . . . and then shoot their mouths off. It's a bit like saying rum makes a lousy rum-and-Coke because it doesn't include the Coke.

[Buzzardo]

Flavorless? Nonsense.

I find D&D, with its utter lack of any way to spell out a character's personality, to be far more bland. Oh, I'm playing a Fighter with XYZ skills and feats. Great, but who is this guy? GURPS lets me build real (or really weird) people. D&D gives me a cardboard cutout. Mind you, I cut over to GURPS in 1986 and had been playing the Arduin Grimoire since 1978, so my knowledge of D&D is limited to the white-box edition and first-edition AD&D.

As for settings, I've been inventing my own settings since 1977, when I first started with white-box D&D. If the setting is flavorless, that's on me, not on the system.

[Langy]

Originally Posted by Buzzardo

Flavorless? Nonsense.

I find D&D, with its utter lack of any way to spell out a character's personality, to be far more bland. Oh, I'm playing a Fighter with XYZ skills and feats. Great, but who is this guy? GURPS lets me build real (or really weird) people. D&D gives me a cardboard cutout. Mind you, I cut over to GURPS in 1986 and had been playing the Arduin Grimoire since 1978, so my knowledge of D&D is limited to the white-box edition and first-edition AD&D.

As for settings, I've been inventing my own settings since 1977, when I first started with white-box D&D. If the setting is flavorless, that's on me, not on the system.

While I agree with you for the most part, I'd like to note that they've mostly fixed this with D&D Next.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Kromm

You sure you're TBC and not THC?

Towards higher consciousness? To be continued...

heh

[Anders]

Maybe it's the long awaited PIGS IN SPACE companion to GURPS Space.

[cbower]

Originally Posted by Anders

Maybe it's the long awaited PIGS IN SPACE companion to GURPS Space.

I wish I could post that picture of Fry saying "Shut up and take my money!"

[Anders]

Well, the Fantasy side has the whole DF line. Horror has the Madness Dossier and Monster Hunters. Sci-fi-on-Earth has THS. The only argument against it that I can think of is that a game based on pigs would be boaring. But I'm sure Kromm can make a silk purse from a sow's ear.