The information and ideas here will work with any fantasy game. Gurps will allow a wider range of campaigns and possibilities. All out attack, all out charge, attackmelee weapon, attackshield bash, attack. I been playing gurps since 1987 and the basic combat of attack, defend, damage can indeed bog down for even moderately skilled players. Reaction rolls are typically made in potential combat situations, during. Gurps combat cards gurps skill categories gurps update gurps range ruler. Combat and campaigns, will be released in november, 1996.
Aiming for one turn negates the 4 snap shot penalty and adds the weapons accuracy to the attack roll. These free gaming aids list all your possible gurps fourth edition combat options in any situation. Point costs for traits are often written in brackets. These free gaming aids list all your possible gurps fourth. Gurps succeeds spectacularly in allowing you the freedom to create any.
In reality people have options to get around the defenses of a skilled opponent and for some added complexity gurps can emulates these options. Gurps illuminati, describing the secret societiesconspiracies genre, building on the illuminati card game, in its turn inspired by robert shea and. You can play munchkin cthulhu by itself, or combine it with any number. In this bundle, youll get the complete pdf collection of all 30 issues of. Strike targets weapon, attackunarmed, disarm, feint. Cards as dice discusses ditching the dice altogether and creating a 20 card deck out of playing cards to replace them with. Permission is granted to photocopy these pages and duplicate this electronic.
Polyhedral gurps discusses using other polyhedron dice with gurps. Ive finally finished the bulk of the cards needed for use during gurps combat. Just print em out, cut em out, and keep em handy for your next gaming session. Each participant rolls a test of her skill, and the margin of success or failure for both is used to determine the effect. Gurps is not, of course, a perfect system and, truth be known, i gloss over a great deal, but it gives me a viable framework. Combat is the most chaotic situation in any roleplaying game.
This has been an on againoff again project since 2012. Gurps fourth edition traits sorter is a webbased utility for organizing advantages, disadvantages, and skills into categories that suit your campaign. Half the trick in figuring out the thing you should do is remembering all the things you can do. As the attacker, roll 3d6 and get equal to or less than your effective skill to successfully attack, whether that attack is swinging your shoot or shooting a gun. Looking at the combat cards for gurps 4e and while i really like the idea of them, i wonder if anyone has created a version that is more ink friendly. Gurps has a similar mechanic the quick contest of skill which is used for many things, not the least of which is to resolve certain combat moves, such as grappling takedowns. Originally, we planned to publish just one 192page compendium that would include everything. Gurps 4e combat examples welcome to my depository of combat examples using the gurps 4th edition rules. It covers the essentials of character creation, combat, success rolls, adventuring, and game mastering for gurps fourth edition. These free gaming aids list all your possible gurps fourth edition combat options in any. The idea comes from the gurps combat cards that you can download for free from warehouse 23. It is a great idea and very useful but i didnt like the basic design of the cards or the limited amount of information. Fernandes cover art by john zeleznik edited by andrew hackard and steve jackson illustrated by abrar ajmal, alex fernandez, ted galaday, eric lofgren, john moriarty, torstein nordstrand, glen osterberger, v. Gurps spaceships pdf describes the basic design and combat system.