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Yeah, that sounds good. A
Yeah, that sounds good. A basic layout of what's where, letting the GM fill in details of whichever spots the PCs visit. (I just checked out the PDF preview. Very slick production!)
Easier to do the one-point NPC overviews for D&D (or similar games) than for GURPS, of course. "Paladin 12" instantly lays out 90% of what the character is and what he can do. For GURPS, I don't know what could be done; "300-point fighter" only takes us 10% of the way to a ready-to-use character. (I'm just making up silly numbers, of course.) Characters will have to be statted pretty fully. (And fully-statted GURPS character or monsters take up so much more text than D&D equivalents, a bit of a GURPS weakness at times.)
But it's all very doable: characters in the main text can have a simple name or number that references separate pages of ready-to-play character write-ups. All that's needed is for someone to do it: make such an adventure + setting for Dungeon Fantasy or Banestorm. (I see there is one published Banestorm supplement, Abydos, though it looks like purely a sourcebook, not an adventure.)
It's interesting that Points of Light actually is based on GURPS. A GURPS-specific version of it would be a great tool to get fantasy GMs up and running, if you and SJG were to collaborate on that!