We arrive back where we started: GURPS Fourth Edition. The other day I sat down to create a wizard character and decided, even after my trip through the earlier editions, to build it with the current rules. On the whole, it was a good experience and has me encouraged to play more.
The GURPS Fourth Edition Basic Set is clean and well-presented, very well referenced, pretty easy to use, and basically just what you need to get playing with GURPS. Despite all the chatter about complexity, the reality is that it’s a very simple game at core.
Of course, GURPS Fourth Edition intimidated the crap out of me for years and I am very late to the party. Why is it so scary? I used to think it’s the game itself – the myriad of choices and options is an easy thing to point at and scream, “Complexity!”
What makes…
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