This article presents a customizable system for a GM familiar with GURPS to work with a player and quickly assemble a streamlined, but playable, PC. Sometimes you need to whip up a character or six now, like when a group of friends suddenly crave an impromptu adventure, or your convention game has to fit in a four-hour time slot. This does, though, require a bit of time. The beauty of GURPS characters is that they can be infinitely varied, joyfully tweaked, and minutely crafted to match even the most imaginative concept. The first seed of this system was in this “ Character Creation Questionnaire,” which you may also find useful. I believe doing character creation this way will go much more smoothly for experienced GURPS GMs (and, to a lesser extent, players), but who knows? Maybe newcomers to GURPS will find this way even easier.

As such, it is even more free-form and “fuzzy”!.It doesn’t use pre-set “packages” so much as tries to create a PC from the conversation between GM and player.It isn’t written specifically for Dungeon Fantasy (though Kromm’s approach can certainly be expanded to be more universal without much work).The latest issue of Pyramid magazine, “ Alternate Dungeons,” contains a great article by Kromm with a comparable goal, but this system has some differences:

This work is based on Fate Core System and Fate Accelerated Edition (found at ), products of Evil Hat Productions, LLC, developed, authored, and edited by Leonard Balsera, Brian Engard, Jeremy Keller, Ryan Macklin, Mike Olson, Clark Valentine, Amanda Valentine, Fred Hicks, and Rob Donoghue, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license ( ).( Note: there’s a more current version of the rules described below in this post.)Ĭontinuing with the “making GURPS quicker and more streamlined” theme of the last couple of posts, here is a submission from last year outlining a “quick and dirty” system for whipping up GURPS characters. Pinnacle makes no representation or warranty as to the quality, viability, or suitability for purpose of this product. Savage Worlds and all associated logos and trademarks are copyrights of Pinnacle Entertainment Group. This game references the Savage Worlds game system, available from Pinnacle Entertainment Group at. This material is used here in accordance with the SJGames online policy. All rights are reserved by Steve Jackson Games.

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