{"id":3887,"date":"2017-03-23T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2018-07-15T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T16:30:29","slug":"gurps-character-modern-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/gurps-character-modern-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a GURPS Character – Modern, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings, GURPS-ophiles, both far and wide! Thanks for including Game Geekery in your reading this fine\u00a0GURPSDay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before I even get to today’s post, I want to let you know that the Shane Plays<\/a> radio show and podcast posted a video this morning. It’s an actual play and GURPS tutorial of the old “All In a Night’s Work” solo adventure updated for 4E, GMed by MIB Tony Dutra with the occasional two cents thrown in by me. This is a companion video to last year’s “How to Create a GURPS Character” video — I’d like to start posting some videos of my own, so\u00a0check them both out<\/a> and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n

As for today’s Game Geekery post, one of the most common questions from those New to GURPS<\/a> is “How do I make a character?”, so I thought today I would start to create a character from scratch with some annotations and explanation. As with everything, this is just the way I<\/em>\u00a0create a character, but hopefully it will be of some use as an example of character creation in GURPS.<\/p>\n

Note that this is a “full,” standard GURPS character. If you’re looking for my “Quick-Start”\/”Seven-Minute GURPS Character” material, that’s over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would be nice to cover a variety of genres in future posts, but for today let’s start with a modern-day character. The game is going to center on a group of PCs who are members of a criminal crew — criminals like “scoundrels and rogues living on the fringes,” not “hardcore drug dealers and killers.” After some discussion among the other (hypothetical) players, it’s decided that they will make “Muscle” and “Burglar” types, while I will make a “Face” kind of PC.<\/p>\n

The GM is starting the game with 150-point characters, a -25 Disadvantage limit, and no Exotic or Supernatural traits — it’s set in the real world of 2017, so no magic or Area 51 aliens. All page references given are to the “Characters” book.<\/p>\n

Thinking about my character, I’m picturing someone clever and quick on his feet, not adverse to defending himself but it isn’t exactly his specialty. He does have a penchant for boosting sports cars, though, if I find I have enough Character Points (CP) to cover it.<\/p>\n

Normally, I would use the GCA program to create a character, but for illustration purposes I’m just going to fill in a copy of the Form-Fillable PDF Character Sheet<\/a>. First, I simply fill in some of the details at the top of the sheet: Name<\/strong> (Frederick Price), Player<\/strong> (Mook), Size Modifier<\/strong> (0, normal human-sized), Age<\/strong> (26), Native Language<\/strong> (English), and Tech Level<\/strong> (TL8, modern day).<\/p>\n

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Note that I’ve left Height,\u00a0<\/strong>Weight<\/strong>,\u00a0Appearance<\/strong>,\u00a0Status<\/strong>,\u00a0and Reputation<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>blank for now, as they may be affected by traits not yet chosen.<\/p>\n

Using the guide on p. 14, I then choose the following Basic Attributes<\/strong>\u00a0to represent a character I’m envisioning as pretty clever and agile, but otherwise mostly average:<\/p>\n