Why EVERYONE should be using: GURPS

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @ibgh0549
    @ibgh0549 Месяц назад +6

    I’m so glad you posted this video. There is so few GURPS content, us, the “younger” gurpsers are starving

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад +1

      I got your back! More to come! SJG just sent me the solo Conan adventures because I wanted to cover solo play, which it think is one area I think it shines.

  • @jamesmaclennan4525
    @jamesmaclennan4525 2 месяца назад +11

    I have about 100 GURPS Books from 1st-3rd Eds as my gaming reference. Also GURPS Traveller is best Traveller

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад

      @@jamesmaclennan4525 your rabbit hole is deep indeed

    • @jamesmaclennan4525
      @jamesmaclennan4525 2 месяца назад +1

      @@CastleArchon Well it's being dug for the last 50 years.

    • @bopaintsminis
      @bopaintsminis 2 месяца назад +3

      @@jamesmaclennan4525 GURPS Traveller is indeed the best Traveller.

    • @indus7841
      @indus7841 Месяц назад

      Whats your favorite setting? Whats your favorite setting you havent run?

    • @jamesmaclennan4525
      @jamesmaclennan4525 Месяц назад +1

      @@indus7841 My Favourite was Time travel which let me use all the Historical books. I had a scenario in which Einstein had invented a time Machine and everything kicked off on the Night orson Welles broadcast War of the Worlds..it was a deal of fun. The one I would have loved to have run was Traveller.

  • @PMandrekar
    @PMandrekar 12 дней назад +1

    Awesome. Happy that you are presenting this. I am a longtime GURPS GM and player (since 1995) and a frequent playtester (as a scientist- I am a geneticist) of GURPS Books, like Low-Tech, Space, Bio-Tech, etc.. Great job with the video!!

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  12 дней назад

      Thanks! Yeah they do a great job of presenting tech to RPG. I'm more space opera that hard sci-fi (in RPGs anyway), but for hard sci-fi I cannot think of anything else that comes close to covering tech to such a degree.

  • @indus7841
    @indus7841 Месяц назад +2

    I played ice age yesterday! Was just a one shot but i did.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад

      @@indus7841 congrats! What was the idea of the adventure?

  • @michaelweigand9346
    @michaelweigand9346 Месяц назад +1

    When I run DnD, I’m constantly telling the PCs “oh I got that idea from GURPS”. It’s a hard game to teach, but so much inspiration!

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад

      I hope to make video about bridging that gap of teaching.

  • @energyscholar
    @energyscholar Месяц назад +2

    I love running GURPS games. I've run GURPS games for years. My favorite genres are Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Modern Day. I'm a pro DM. What genre should I run next?

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад +1

      Horror would be one to try. The books on that were pretty good. Wild West too.

  • @SeekersHollow
    @SeekersHollow 2 месяца назад +2

    My basic set arrived yesterday. Love these books as a game, as a reference, just for reading or staring at on the shelf, haha.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад +1

      I've played the staring game myself with some games, dreaming abut a great game in the future.

  • @Agni1965
    @Agni1965 2 месяца назад +1

    Been running GURPS since 2004. Just being able to create any campaign setting in any genre in any time period makes it my go to game system. That plus the digital support of GCA has made it far smoother than alternatives. Yes, it requires a bit of work on the GMs part to set-up but is totally worth it.

  • @Electric-Boogalo
    @Electric-Boogalo Месяц назад +1

    Funny , I was just looking at my old Traveller books today.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад

      I never knew that Traveller was so popular when I was a kid. Star Frontiers was my bag. Certainly different as it was more space opera feeling.

  • @Will_GM_for_Food
    @Will_GM_for_Food 2 месяца назад +3

    I agree. SJG does great work. I had a bunch of GURPS back in the 90s, then got rid of them. They sucked me back in with GURPS Girl Genius, and I've been working on rebuilding my collection ever since, including the Traveller and Ogre books.
    P.S. I love your Car Wars / Ogre shelf in the background.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад +1

      You should see my earlier videos where I have the BIG Ogre box looming in the back. LOL!
      Yeah, I have bought all the versions of GURPS and they have came in and out of the collection. I think this time though, it's here to stay even if it is just the one book.

  • @emrek99205
    @emrek99205 13 дней назад +1

    GRRM has touted GURPS as an influence of his books. While I don't know if he has officially written out the sheets you can almost see them behind each of his ASOIAF characters.
    Which makes me wonder if George's writing method doesn't involve him playing a solo TTRPG with all of them to see how they would react to each scene based on their individual skills, advantages, and disadvantages.

  • @mrgunn2726
    @mrgunn2726 2 месяца назад +4

    Generic Universal Role Playing System aka GURPS, hells yeah! Love it, own it, don't play it much these days, too much crunch for my old bones. Yes, SJ got me with his Illuminati mind control powers, I own a shizzle ton of GURPS books: Basic Characters, Basic Campaigns, high-tech, low-tech, fantasy, magic, thaumaturgy, ultra-tech, infinite worlds, Atlantis, atomic horror, transhumanism, alternate-earths 1 & 2, conspiracy X, religion and more...

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад +1

      Luckily I have already gone down that rabbit hole. However, I should know better than to think I am immune from going back down. Gotta stay vigilant!

    • @mrgunn2726
      @mrgunn2726 2 месяца назад +1

      @@CastleArchon So hard.... All hail the hypno-toad! 🐸👀 🤣🤣🤣

    • @bopaintsminis
      @bopaintsminis 2 месяца назад

      @@mrgunn2726 Thaumatology and a hardcover 4E Supers are on my watch list. Can't hardly find those two for sale anywhere.
      Outside of PDFs or reprints that is.

  • @scotmcpherson
    @scotmcpherson 17 дней назад +1

    I haven’t even watch the whole video, but 💯. If you need to figure out how to solve a problem, GURPS likely has an answer for how you can handle it.

  • @keithfta789
    @keithfta789 Месяц назад +1

    Love me some gurps:)

  • @bopaintsminis
    @bopaintsminis 2 месяца назад +3

    To me GURPS is not a matter of taking the supplements and using them with other games. Rather it's the core system that I really like. While the 4E books could use an edit and fix some layout and formatting issues, at its heart the rules are really good. Role 3d6 against a modified or opposed skill roll. There is a simicity to it. Unfortunately that simplicity is not easy to see in some of those rules.
    And yes, the GM has to pick and choose which of the rules to use. I started with GURPS Lite (still free!) and added what I wanted until I built a robust and dynic sci-fi campaign (its motto: "The physics are theoretical but the fun is real."). I took bits from Space, Spaceships, Traveller, Nordlondr Ovinabokin, Robots, Mecha, and some others.
    GURPS is what you are willing to make it, and ignore the haters.

  • @ausferret
    @ausferret Месяц назад +1

    GURPS is the first game i saw that has default skills. A character who has not trained in a skill may be able to do it, a little less well than a similar skill, or at a value based on an attribute. For example, learning survival in one type of environment allows a character a lower chance to survive in other environments.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад

      @@ausferret yeah I thought that was a pretty cool feature myself.

  • @hrothgarrannulfr1972
    @hrothgarrannulfr1972 2 месяца назад +1

    THANK YOU!!!
    I've been thinking a little about GURPS because I love TFT and Dark City Games Legends.
    I'm really interested in more videos from you about how to apply GURPS to TFT or DCG stuff.
    Also, really looking forward to the GURPS 3E stuff, because I've had my eye on the GURPS Conan books for a while, now. Really want to use those with TFT or DCG rules. But, who knows? Maybe I'll learn GURPS 3E to play them?
    I greatly appreciate this video and this topic.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад +2

      Looking forward to making them!

  • @emrek99205
    @emrek99205 13 дней назад +1

    Oddly enough one of GURPS' biggest downfalls is its over encompassing genre, or specifically it's lack of one. While yes you can play any genre, world, or system with it, most players won't.
    Why work to make a Firefly 'verse in GURPS when you could just play the Firefly RPG? Many people buy into the name and will play whatever official game the IP produces over that which has the ability to best encapsulate the story and the mechanics of the world.
    Which brings up the other problem, the name. By itself GURPS doesn't ring bells to know what it means. At best it sounds like a disease or some type of phlegm or mucus. You hear Traveler, D&D, Rolemaster, Pathfinder, Star Fleet Battles, Macho Babes with Guns, TMNT, etc and you can get a good guess on what the game will be like. Hearing "GURPS" you get next to nothing.
    Far too late, nearly 40 years later, but it would be nice to have a name change to something that rolls better off the tongue and doesn't need an immediate breakdown of what each letter in the anagram means.
    Best Roleplaying Encyclopedia of Accurate Simulation in Tactical Scenarios. Calling it BREASTS would draw a lot more interest in the game. "I picked up a new BREASTS book and am so excited to start playing." (Definition needs work but you get the point.)

  • @Leverquin
    @Leverquin Месяц назад +1

    I love gurps. My group dnd. I would even play a pathfinder just to not olay dnd

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад

      I know the feeling. I am going to do a video about trying to convert players over.

  • @grendel8342
    @grendel8342 2 дня назад +1

    If you dont find ice age to be a cool concept you are a borning person. (Speaking about hypothetical person here not the person in vid) i have been looking for the perfect system and rule books for the dinosaur/prehistoric campaigns. Cavemen and dinosaurs is always fun, if you cant have fun with the ice age book, gurps dinosaurs, and some bullshittery then i feel sorry for anyone objecting.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 дня назад +1

      Ice Age is available in PDF format at the very least.

    • @grendel8342
      @grendel8342 День назад

      @CastleArchon ye I got the PDF and the dinosaur expansion, can't wait to crack it open. The dinosaur source book even has rules for playable dinosaurs, which not sure how that will work.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  День назад +1

      @@grendel8342 Playable Dinosaurs? I don;t remember seeing that! LOL!

    • @grendel8342
      @grendel8342 День назад

      @@CastleArchon yep in the gurps dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures source book on page 61 of the cretaceous section there is a small paragraph called "dinosaurs as PCs". it talks about the possibilities depending on situations in which the GM thinks its possible.

  • @Leverquin
    @Leverquin Месяц назад +1

    What is the prisoner

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  Месяц назад

      It was a wild psycho-drama about a secret agent that gets captured with different ways to get information out of him. Trippy. pshycho

    • @michaelweigand9346
      @michaelweigand9346 Месяц назад +2

      One of the greatest pieces of narrative art. Very 60’s, but if you’re into Orwell and Huxley it’s perfect

    • @Leverquin
      @Leverquin Месяц назад +1

      @@michaelweigand9346 oh i love huxley

  • @FrostSpike
    @FrostSpike 2 месяца назад +1

    I think GURPS is great but... having supplements for so many things caused some contradictions between them so you need to be careful which ones you pick for your setting and then resolve any areas where there are overlaps. GURPS 4e did try and bring things together and resolve them in the core books but it's still not 100%.
    GURPS Traveller supplements are *THE BEST* Traveller setting source books!

  • @davidlemire2467
    @davidlemire2467 2 месяца назад +1

    I love GURPS. Unfortunately it's not supported any longer.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад +4

      Not sure what you mean. They come out with more stuff for it. They recently came out with Meta-Tech.

    • @DigitalMase
      @DigitalMase 2 месяца назад

      GURPS 4e is totally supported. It's had at least monthly releases since it came out on Warehouse23.

    • @emrek99205
      @emrek99205 13 дней назад

      In 2024 SJG has/will come out with 6 more books for GURPS. One every two months. It is not a dead game at all even if it is an overlooked game and not as popular as it should be.

  • @yellingintothewind
    @yellingintothewind 2 месяца назад +1

    Just because GURPS _has_ an answer, doesn't mean the answer is good... Want to make your caster a little safer from all those ranged threats? Give them Reflect Missile. It's right there in the core book and everything. For the duration, which is long, any missile targeted at your caster hits the attacker in the same way it would have hit your caster. No chance, no ongoing cost, no visual cue that anything is amiss, just sharpshooters braining themselves. Yeah, my first GURPS character was a sharpshooter. I dipped after that.
    That isn't to say you can't use GURPS to make a good game, but you end up picking and choosing what is allowed and what isn't. So much that it's about the same work as starting from scratch. Nor is the core game math very good. It isn't terrible, it just isn't special either.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад +2

      That can be true. With an ambition for being able to tackle ANY setting, there have been more than one problems along the way. Even now, as I cling to my 3rd edition book with glee, I understand the problems some had with passive defense. However, the worth of diving in to figure out these things means tons toward understanding these games better. I get the same enlightenment from delving into microgames from 1970's for understanding wargaming.

    • @yellingintothewind
      @yellingintothewind 2 месяца назад +2

      @@CastleArchon That is certainly true. I learned a fair amount digging into _why_ I found GURPS unsatisfying to play. That understanding helps when digging into a new system to know if I should spend serious time on it or not.

    • @emrek99205
      @emrek99205 13 дней назад

      Be sure and include the increased range for the return trip of the missile. Most high powered firearms won't matter at short range, but I can easily see this causing a shot to miss yourself or being pushed into the half damage category.

    • @yellingintothewind
      @yellingintothewind 13 дней назад

      @@emrek99205 Range cannot make it miss. 'If the attacker's "to hit" roll is successful, he hits himself". This includes absurd cases like throwing a rock off a cliff at a target far below. The best you can manage, if the GM is reasonable, is the returned projectile does no damage if it should be slow, but given the kinetic energy involved in the rock example, _nothing_ in the spell indicates this must be the case. It also does _nothing_ for you if it's an explosive, or some type of magic missile.
      This is the fundamental problem I have with the system. By trying to have a rule for everything, even if you don't bog running the game down trying to actually _find_ the correct rule for everything, you just end up with absurd edge cases. Ultimately, the actual group at the table has to take responsibility for making the game how they want, which is the same no matter what system you use. But if you aren't using a "rules for everything" system like GURPS, you can skip past the "that's not what the book says" level of arguments.

  • @johnsnyder619
    @johnsnyder619 2 месяца назад +1

    3rd edition is fantastic! It's an easy read, easy to find things, great layout. 4th edition is a slog, it's dry, dull, it's a huge turn off.

    • @CastleArchon
      @CastleArchon  2 месяца назад +1

      I think it's a layout issue. The three columns just doesn't work.