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Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and there’s a lot planned for it (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

GURPS people always recommend it but never explain why. What's actually good about it compared to something like Pathfinder 2e? It seems to me it would be really hard to find players. With Pathfinder I can at least tell my players it shares a legacy with D&D so they were receptive to switching systems.

Is there anything GURPS does particularly well over other systems? I know hardly anything about it. With PF2e there are a few easy-to-rattle-off features that drew me to it like the three action economy and better tools for game balancing as a GM.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    GURPS has two letters that I think are the best: Generic and Universal. You can run anything in it and switch it up as much as you want. You could run campaigns similar to any of Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Sliders, Brisco County Jr, Walking Dead, Harry Potter, etc., and have the ability to do crossover episodes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I can see how that would be a selling point for a lot of groups, but most D&D-style rpg players I've played with don't really think about RPGs as a way of playing in cinematic universes that aren't relatively generic fantasy. Even my slightly steampunk-ish 1800s-style homebrew setting that I used for D&D and now use for PF2e often throws my players for a loop.

    Edit: also, Starfinder 2e is coming soon and is planned to be built in the same mechanical system as PF2e, meaning that the two systems will be compatible. So that idea of a generic system for different genres of fiction is not going to be as unique.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, then it's not for you and you don't really have to make a counter point.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I just always wondered what the draw was. Is it really just that it doesn't have a set genre? Because that honestly seems like a relatively small list of killer features compared to being able to say that "it's really well balanced" or "combat feels really fun" or something like that. It's not as though it's hard to reflavour the mechanics of a D&D-style rpg to fit different kinds of fiction if you really want to. I've seen people use 5e as the backbone for lots of different kinds of genres. And like I said, Pathfinder will soon have Starfinder integrated so that will make things easier too.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
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