GURPS Alternate Earths

**Blue Ghost** · #1 June 9th, 2016, 01:53 PM

Has anyone ever used the Alternate Earths, or for that matter any other non Traveller, GURPS book for their gaming sessions?

mike wightman · #2 June 9th, 2016, 05:39 PM

Yes, there is a setting in Alternate Earths where you ride trains through wormholes to distant planets...

which I used.

**aramis** · #3 June 9th, 2016, 06:06 PM

I used to like GURPS. But then later authors (by later, in this context, post 1990) ignored the foundational aspect - in GURPS, SJ's design notes include that skills are 250 hours a point, and that setting books should warp the core system, not warp the settings to fit the system.

Further, I quit GURPS entirely when SJG caved to the munchkins and started making NPC's stupidly high attribute levels.

flg · #4 June 9th, 2016, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by aramis

I used to like GURPS. But then later authors (by later, in this context, post 1990) ignored the foundational aspect - in GURPS, SJ's design notes include that skills are 250 hours a point, and that setting books should warp the core system, not warp the settings to fit the system.

Further, I quit GURPS entirely when SJG caved to the munchkins and started making NPC's stupidly high attribute levels.

...what does this have to do with the OP?

**aramis** · #5 June 9th, 2016, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by flg

...what does this have to do with the OP?

"or any other non Traveller, GURPS book for their gaming sessions?"

mike wightman · #6 June 9th, 2016, 06:52 PM

I don't like GURPS point based character generation, but their task resolution /combat system isn't bad.

Other GURPS books I have used are Terradyne and the entire Transhuman Space series.

Great resources.