{"id":5185,"date":"2019-08-07T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2019-08-08T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:09:50","slug":"pcs-old-and-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/pcs-old-and-new\/","title":{"rendered":"PCs Old and New – The Biker Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy GURPSday<\/a>, all! Today I dive, shockingly, into the elegant simplicity of our favorite RPG.<\/p>\n

A couple of weekends ago, I found myself having to whip up a quick one-shot for some friends with very little time to prepare. It seemed the easiest thing to do would be to pick a convention game I had already GMed and just use that, but there was a little snag — the three of them wanted to play the “Hell on Wheels<\/a>” adventure, but the PCs I made for that game weren’t intended for complete GURPS newbies. So, I grabbed three of the original characters, adapted them to a much, much simpler character sheet, and off we went!<\/p>\n

Now that the game is done, it occurred to me that others might find it useful to compare two versions of the same PCs, one I use for newcomers, the other for the more experienced.<\/p>\n

PCs Old and New<\/a><\/strong> | Downloads:\u00a0<\/strong>778 | Size:\u00a0<\/strong>413.1 KB<\/p>\n

Broadly, the ‘new’ PCs are just streamlined versions of the original ones — much easier to read and find info, but at the cost of losing some finer detail. Specifically…<\/p>\n