My issue with GURPS is that it makes a LOT of basic assumptions about how things work in the game world that are actually anything but one-size-fits-all. For example, take the magic system. A specific list of schools of magic and specific spells in each? If you're presenting for one specific world, sure. If you want to do something in a world with different laws of magic? Hell no. It'd be like trying to build Belgarion in d20. You just can't do it.
The vehicle rules are not only incredibly math-heavy (you need a spreadsheet and multiple cube roots), but make basic assumptions on things like engine weight and fuel efficiency, mass of components, types of components available. Again, if you're building for a specific world, that's fine, but for a game marketed as Generic Universal Role-Playing System? F**K no.
GURPS is neither Generic nor Universal, it is an amalgamation of a hundred specific worlds with a separate rulebook for each. GURPS Fantasy is not a generic fantasy supplement, it is a worldbook for RP'ing in the "GURPS Fantasy" 'verse and caters to that world's methodology only.
It's not for me. Suggesting a game using GURPS is in fact an active turnoff for me. If John Biles invited me to a GURPS Sailor Moon game, I'd have to think twice about it.
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The vehicle rules are not only incredibly math-heavy (you need a spreadsheet and multiple cube roots), but make basic assumptions on things like engine weight and fuel efficiency, mass of components, types of components available. Again, if you're building for a specific world, that's fine, but for a game marketed as Generic Universal Role-Playing System? F**K no.
GURPS is neither Generic nor Universal, it is an amalgamation of a hundred specific worlds with a separate rulebook for each. GURPS Fantasy is not a generic fantasy supplement, it is a worldbook for RP'ing in the "GURPS Fantasy" 'verse and caters to that world's methodology only.
It's not for me. Suggesting a game using GURPS is in fact an active turnoff for me. If John Biles invited me to a GURPS Sailor Moon game, I'd have to think twice about it.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.