{"id":2274,"date":"2015-11-12T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2016-03-03T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:33:49","slug":"intermediate-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/intermediate-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Intermediate Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy GURPS-Day, GURPSellians! I hope you enjoyed last week’s peek at my GM screen<\/a>, but today we return to the “New to GURPS<\/a>” series with “Intermediate Recovery,” a.k.a., “How do I fix these holes in me?”<\/p>\n

Moving from GURPS Lite to the Basic Set maintains all the same core rules, just with more optional detail if desired.<\/p>\n

This is one of the things that I love most about GURPS, by the way — there are entire rules subsystems available, as detailed as you want them to be (and optional<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, it cannot be stressed enough), for nearly any niche you want your character to fill.<\/p>\n

A group’s campaign can go on happily for months, years, using only the parts of GURPS that support their characters. If none of those players find in-depth rules for social maneuvering or verbal battles of wits fun or interesting, the occasional Fast-Talk or Diplomacy roll is more than enough.<\/p>\n

But, if someone then wants to make a new PC like a bard, or a “face,” or a con man, you just dust off those relevant sections of the Basic Set you’ve never bothered with before and keep on your merry way. And if that’s still<\/em> not detailed enough, you grab Social Engineering<\/a> and explore even more options.<\/p>\n

The same with combat characters, of course (things like styles, grips, beats, etc. from Martial Arts<\/a>), but also scientists, psis, magic users, gadgeteers, on and on. Each character introduced to the group brings with them the underlying rules that support the kinds of things they do. They get their own niche not just narratively, but with full support of the mechanics as well.<\/p>\n

Okay, back to recuperation and healing up. Adventurers tend to get knocked around a fair bit (as well as shot, stabbed, burned, chewed…), so at some point, you need to know the rules for recovering from injury.<\/p>\n

The basic look at this<\/a>\u00a0was confined mainly to “make a First-Aid roll and hope for the best.” The Basic Set throws in quite a lot of options for players who really want healing to be their “thing,” all covered on pp. 423-425. Beyond the First-Aid skill, healers (shamans, EMTs, combat medics, medical droids) can put points in:<\/p>\n