{"id":5088,"date":"2019-04-24T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:04:59","slug":"fantasy-party-of-pre-gens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/fantasy-party-of-pre-gens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Party of Pre-Gens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingballistic.com\/category\/features-on-gb\/gurpsday\/\">GURPSDay<\/a> to all and sundry! I hope you have been enjoying some wonderful GURPS gamin&#8217; out there!<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, a friend at work asked if I could run a first-time ever RPG for him and his family, an opportunity I gleefully pounced on. That should happen in the next few weeks. It will be just a couple of hours long (his daughters are 9 and 11), but it should be a good time.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;adventure&#8221; exists only in my head still, but the pre-gens are available if anyone&#8217;s curious. This is literally about the simplest I could go with GURPS and have it still be GURPS!<\/p>\n<p>The party consists of an unarmed fighter, an Elven ranger, a swashbuckler, a Dwarven warrior, and a wizard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=5092\" title=\"Fantasy Party Pre-Gens\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-5092 ext-pdf\">Fantasy Party Pre-Gens<\/a><\/strong> | <strong>Downloads:\u00a0<\/strong>917 | <strong>Size:\u00a0<\/strong>244.1 KB<\/p>\n<p>I used the rules tweaks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/two-new-character-sheets\/\">mentioned previously<\/a> (reposted here) along with a few more tweaks I&#8217;ll note.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Active Defenses<\/strong>\u00a0have all been folded into a single\u00a0<strong>Defend<\/strong>\u00a0score (with a -1\/turn cumulative penalty), as noted on the sheet. This is simply the highest of the character\u2019s Dodge, Parry, and Block.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Attributes<\/strong>\u00a0work as always, but since a new player has no context for what a numerical score \u201cmeans,\u201d they have been paired with adjectives (a la Fudge and Fate). Note that this doesn\u2019t actually change how attribute scores\u00a0<em>work<\/em>, only how that information is presented to the player. Also, the same levels can function for skills, if you want to just go nuts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">9 or less\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Poor\u00a0 (mostly because \u201cMediocre\u201d takes up too much room)<br \/>\n10-11\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Fair<br \/>\n12-13\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Good<br \/>\n14-15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Great<br \/>\n16-17\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Super<br \/>\n18+\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Epic<\/p>\n<p>In terms of character creation guidelines, I used the same basic framework across all PCs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>11<\/strong> points in attributes (above 10, i.e., a score of 13 is 3 points, 15 is 5 points, etc.), except the Unarmed Fighter who got 12 (generic advantage, &#8220;Conditioned: +1 attribute point&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Generous <strong>Defend<\/strong> scores (two 10s, two 11s, and a 12).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Armor<\/strong>: DR 1 for Loose Clothing (Unarmed Fighter), DR 2 for Layered Robes (Wizard), DR 4 for Light Armor (Ranger, leather), DR 6 for Medium Armor (Swashbuckler, mail), DR 8 for Heavy Armor (Warrior, plate). We&#8217;re not really using Hit Locations, so note that these PCs are using a slight variation of the sheet with only a single, unified DR score.<\/li>\n<li>Tight grouping of <strong>Hit Points<\/strong>: 10 for the Wizard, 11 for the Ranger and Unarmed Fighter, 13 for the Swashbuckler, and 15 for the Warrior.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has three <strong>Attacks<\/strong> &#8211; one main attack that does 3d damage with a skill of 14-17, one secondary with a skill of 12-14, and one backup with a skill of 10-12.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of <strong>Skills<\/strong>, everyone has one Wildcard skill at a 12 based on their identity, two or three main non-combat skills at 12 or 14, one or two socials skills at 12 or 13 (Diplomacy, Fast-Talk, or Intimidation), and 10 points spread out among five &#8220;these are almost certain to come up at some point&#8221; skills: Climbing, First Aid, Search, Stealth, and Tracking.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has two <strong>Healing Potions<\/strong> that restore 2d each (the Wizard has four). Check boxes provided for tracking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The goal here was a simple, fun implementation of GURPS and easy-to-read character sheet that even complete non-gamers can follow along with. I just want to get in, have a great team, and get out. If they dig it and get bitten by the RPG bug, <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> when we start unpacking character creation and designing brand-new custom PCs. But for the first taste, it&#8217;s all about giving them a fun ride and seeing if it&#8217;s something they enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to have the adventure in a printable form and downloadable in the near future, and of course I will post after the game to let you all know how it went.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post and others like it, might you consider the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TheMookNet?ty=h\">Game Geekery Patreon<\/a><em>?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--Precis - A party of five pre-gen characters for a GURPS Fantasy romp, on a spiffy super-simple character sheet. --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Happy GURPSDay to all and sundry! I hope you have been enjoying some wonderful GURPS gamin&#8217; out there! Some time ago, a friend at work asked if I could run a first-time ever RPG for him and his family, an <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/fantasy-party-of-pre-gens\/\" title=\"Fantasy Party of Pre-Gens\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,12,6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gming","category-gurps","category-new-to-gurps","category-rpgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}