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Summary of ways to handle power-vs-weight in GURPS creatures

Submitted by tbone on Fri, 2008-04-11 13:44.
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That's just what it is: a simple summary of ways to handle this matter in character/creature design. Short and sweet.
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Site notes 2008.04.07

Submitted by tbone on Mon, 2008-04-07 16:40.
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Two notes:

1) A recent tech upgrade borked all links to ancient (static HTML) GURPS Diner material. Should be working again now.

2) The site's new graphic theme offers a lot more potential for content placement and other customizations than the previous one. But, yes, it needs some clean-up first. It looks very... busy. Will improve things.

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GURPS Martial Arts

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cover of GURPS Martial Artsauthor: Peter Dell'Orto
asin: 1556347626
binding: Hardcover
list price: $37.95 USD
amazon price: $25.05 USD


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GURPS Fantasy

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cover of GURPS Fantasyauthor: William H. Stoddard
asin: 1556345194
binding: Hardcover
list price: $34.95 USD
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GURPS For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

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This is it—the key that unlocks the riches of GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) and gives you a wealth of information on how to create your character and fine-tune your play. Produced in partnership with Steve Jackson Games, the game's creator, GURPS For Dummies is the ideal companion to GURPS Basic Set, 4th Edition that explains the rules. It gives you insight into the choices you’ll make in everything from creating a fun, dynamic character using the allotted number of points, to playing in an adventure, to becoming a GM. Whether you want to be an Amazon princess or a stalwart warrior, an old-fashioned swashbuckler or a modern investigator, a tough cop or a cat burglar, a sorcerer casting spells or a cosmic ranger, fighting lawlessness in the asteroids, this guide will help you:

  • Determine your character’s basic attributes: IQ, DX (dexterity), ST (strength) and HT (health)
  • Figure out your character’s secondary characteristics
  • Choose advantages (including powers and perks) and disadvantages (including quirks and disadvantages with a self-control roll modifier)
  • Optimize your points by using talents
  • Select your skills based on functional area or the campaign setting
  • Enhance your character with spells, magic items, magic staves, and powerstones
  • Strategically purchase equipment for different characters, tech levels, and campaign types
  • Create and manage a character sheet, write a character background, keep a character log, and more—all with samples
  • Choose good combat techniques and play with your character

If you want to become a GM, this guide gets you going with advice on creating the adventure, managing the character creation process, managing combat, and interpreting the rules. There’s even a handy Cheat Sheet tear-out GM screen in the front of the book.

cover of GURPS For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))author: Adam Griffith
Bjoern-Erik Hartsfvang
Stuart J. Stuple
asin: 0471783293
binding: Paperback
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Gurps Bio-Tech

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It's the technology of the posthuman age: biotech! Upgrade your old body with smart drugs and viral nano . . . or improve on nature with eugenics and gene-fixing. But it's not just about the future. GURPS Bio-Tech includes a full range of historical and modern medical equipment, from early vaccines to surgical robots, along with game stats for the world's most deadly diseases.

GURPS Bio-Tech also includes a complete set of character templates for bio-tech professions, rules for biotech magic, and two original campaign settings.

Say goodbye to your old body. Have you upgraded your genetics this year?

GURPS Fourth Edition supplement.

cover of Gurps Bio-Techauthor: David Morgan-Mar
David Pulver
asin: 1556347529
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GURPS Basic Set: Characters, Fourth Edition

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GURPS Basic Set: Characters combines information from the Third Edition GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Compendium I, plus hundreds of new and updated rules! This 336-page, full-color hardcover contains everything you need to create and play a GURPS Fourth Edition character.

cover of GURPS Basic Set: Characters, Fourth Editionauthor: Steve Jackson
asin: 1556347294
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GURPS Magic

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cover of GURPS Magicauthor: Steve Jackson
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Gurps Powers, Fourth Edition

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Save the World . . . or Destroy It!
GURPS Powers is the ultimate book for the ultimate characters in the new Fourth Edition of GURPS! Here's everything you need to create every kind of amazing, off-the-chart superhero you can imagine . . . as well as amazing wizards, wuxia fighters, shamans who command spirits . . . even gods!

Written by GURPS Line Editor and Fourth Edition co-author Sean Punch, GURPS Powers introduces some new rules, but it is mostly about using the rules that are already in the GURPS Basic Set to cover superpowered characters, megawizards, and earth-shattering psionics. GURPS Powers also include guidelines for "special effects" and several different ways to vary a power on the fly -- two crucial concepts for comic-book superheroics.

cover of Gurps Powers, Fourth Editionauthor: Sean Punch
Phil Masters
asin: 1556347421
binding: Hardcover
list price: $34.95 USD
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GURPS Space Fourth Edition (GURPS: Generic Universal Role Playing System)

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The Future Is Yours!

Now updated for GURPS Fourth Edition, this is the ultimate toolkit for any campaign between the stars.
Explore options for space travel and technology, from the realistic to the miraculous. Design alien races and monsters.
Create campaigns of every style, from science fantasy to space opera to star merchants. Build worlds, from asteroids to Dyson spheres.
With this book, you can create anything from a single alien beast to a whole galaxy of civilizations and star systems... quickly and randomly, or with a detailed step-by-step process that's true to biology and astrophysics as we understand them today.

cover of GURPS Space Fourth Edition (GURPS: Generic Universal Role Playing System)author: Jon Zeigler
asin: 1556342454
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