GURPS Action!

[griffin]

SJGs has GURPS Action! on the e23 Wishlist. This is definitely my personal favorite GURPS PDF product. Personally, I'd love to eventually see a hardcover GURPS Action! book. I'm beginning to think this may be one of the hardest books to write.

Can GURPS really do cinematic action well and still remain GURPS?


The items I want to see featured in GURPS Action! are:

• Reduced die rolls
• Much faster game play
• Good use of wild card skills
• Larger than life cinematic action - check the reality at the door!

There is a Pyramid article that has what I think are many good ideas for implemeting "cinematic points". Anyone with a Pyramid account can check out the following article Cinematic Points! by Chad Underkoffler. I think some of the features in this article adapted to GURPS 4e standards would be definite additions I'd like to see.

Some suggestions I'd make are the following

• Work out an Acrobatic Dodge that uses one die roll and is based on Enhanced Dodge purchased with a prereq. of a certain level of Acrobatics being required.
• Pre-calculate damage using the average for a weapon and use that except for criticals and when a major battle takes place (Boss battle, climatic fight, etc. - not for mooks/grunts/cannon fodder).
• Emphasize larger than life action
• More detail on the cinematic nature of Wild Card (Bang) skills along with some additional examples.
• Lots of examples on cinematic game play in a variety of genres (or tie them together using the Infinite Worlds setting and ISWAT featuring the Iconic characters in the basic book.

So what things would people most like to see in this PDF?

[Edit - added the following due to recent publication of GURPS DF e23 books]
BTW, anything in Dungeon Fantasy (DF) that should be incorporated into GURPS Action? Should DF be required reading for any GURPS Action author?