{"id":2821,"date":"2016-04-20T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T22:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2016-04-20T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T22:18:00","slug":"modern-fireteam-quick-start-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/modern-fireteam-quick-start-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Fireteam Quick-Start Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weekly GURPSDay<\/a><\/em> bonanza is upon us. When you’re done reading here, I hope you’ll sally forth and devour as many of the 40+ other GURPS blogs posting today as your eyeballs can handle. Enjoy the bounty!<\/p>\n

Today\u00a0I’m moving from last week’s city streets<\/a> and onto the battlefield with a four-person fireteam of modern soldiers created with the Quick-Start rules<\/a>: the Team Leader, the Sniper, the Grenadier, and the Automatic Rifleman (a fireteam wouldn’t necessarily have a sniper, but game-wise they can be a lot of fun). They are again built as “Heroic” level characters (very<\/em> roughly around 200 points), and should be useful as PCs and\/or enemies. Note that the differences between them are less sweeping than with other Quick-Start characters… their main variations are in gear and training.<\/p>\n

I did “cheat” a little bit… in addition to the usual six skills from Heroic Quick-Start creation (one wildcard at ATT-1, two skills at ATT+2, and three skills at ATT+1), I also gave them each a kind of ‘mini-template’ to represent their military training (“Infantry Soldier!” wildcard skill at IQ-2, First Aid at IQ, and and Guns (Pistol), Karate, Knife, and Throwing all at DX-1). They also don’t have the Luck advantage, which I give almost all PCs, so they’re a bit less cinematic. If you want them to be more “Schwarzenegger action hero,” they should have at least one level of Luck.<\/p>\n