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Basic Set: Campaigns

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C ONTENTS

I NTRODUCTION . . . . . . 342

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Moving Through

Other Characters . . . . . . . . . . 368

Crouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

A TTACKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

M ELEE A TTACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Melee Attack Options . . . . . . . . . 369

Unarmed Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Actions After Being Grappled . . . . 371

R ANGED A TTACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Thrown Weapon Attacks . . . . . . 373

Missile Weapon Attacks . . . . . . . 373

D EFENDING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Active Defense Rolls . . . . . . . . . . 374

Dodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

Parrying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Parrying Heavy Weapons . . . . . . . 376

Active Defense Options . . . . . . . . 377

Readying Weapons and

Other Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

When Is a Weapon Ready? . . . . . 383

Typical Long Actions . . . . . . . . . . 383

10. S UCCESS R OLLS . . . 343

When to Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Default Rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Task Difficulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Equipment Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . 345

Long Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Degree of Success or Failure . . . 347

Optional Rule:

Influencing Success Rolls . . . . 347

Repeated Attempts . . . . . . . . . . . 348

C ONTESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Quick Contests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Regular Contests . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

The Rule of 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

P HYSICAL A CTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Climbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Digging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Different Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Hiking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Holding Your Breath . . . . . . . . . . 351

Jumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Optional Jumping Rules . . . . . . . 352

Lifting and Moving Things . . . . . 353

Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Swimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Flying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Throwing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Catching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Extra Effort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

S ENSE R OLLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Taste/Smell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

I NFLUENCE R OLLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Influencing the PCs . . . . . . . . . . . 359

W ILL R OLLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Fright Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

F RIGHT C HECK T ABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

12. T ACTICAL

C OMBAT . . . . . . . . 384

Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

T HE C OMBAT M AP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Hexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Facing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

M ANEUVERS IN T ACTICAL

C OMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Wait Maneuver Strategy . . . . . . . . 385

M OVEMENT IN T ACTICAL C OMBAT . . . . . 386

The “Step” in Tactical

Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Movement Point Costs . . . . . . . . . 387

A TTACKING IN T ACTICAL C OMBAT . . . . . . 388

Melee Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Long Weapon Tactics . . . . . . . . . . 388

Ranged Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Pop-Up Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

D EFENDING IN T ACTICAL C OMBAT . . . . . 390

“Runaround” Attacks . . . . . . . . . . 391

C LOSE C OMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Entering a Foe’s Hex . . . . . . . . . . 391

Leaving a Foe’s Hex . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Weapons for Close Combat . . . . 391

Readying in Close Combat . . . . . 391

Defense in Close Combat . . . . . . 392

Multiple Close Combat . . . . . . . . 392

Striking Into a Close Combat . . . . 392

M ULTI -H EX F IGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

13. S PECIAL C OMBAT

S ITUATIONS . . . . . . 393

S URPRISE A TTACKS

AND I NITIATIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

V ISIBILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

S PECIAL M OVEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

High-Speed Movement . . . . . . . . 394

Optional Rule: Changing

Posture in Armor . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Mounted Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Flying Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

H IT L OCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Tight-Beam Burning Attacks . . . . 399

Targeting Chinks in Armor . . . . . . 400

Striking at Weapons . . . . . . . . . . 400

Subduing a Foe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

S PECIAL M ELEE C OMBAT R ULES . . . . . 402

Attack from Above . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Combat at Different Levels . . . . . 402

Size Modifier and Reach . . . . . . . 402

Special Unarmed Combat

Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Special Melee Weapon Rules . . . . 404

Improvised Weapons . . . . . . . . . . 404

Dirty Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

S PECIAL R ANGED C OMBAT R ULES . . . . . 407

11. C OMBAT . . . . . . . . 362

C OMBAT T URN S EQUENCE . . . . . . . . . . 362

M ANEUVERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Multiple Maneuvers and

Full-Turn Maneuvers . . . . . . . . 363

Do Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Change Posture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Aim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Evaluate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Feint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

All-Out Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Move and Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

All-Out Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Concentrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Wait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

M OVEMENT AND C OMBAT . . . . . . . . . . 367

D AMAGE AND I NJURY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Damage Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Damage Resistance

and Penetration . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Knockback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Fast Damage Resolution

for Multiple Hits . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Wounding Modifiers

and Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Injury to Unliving, Homogenous,

and Diffuse Targets . . . . . . . . . 380

Effects of Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Special Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Attacks Without Damage . . . . . . . 381

C RITICAL H ITS AND M ISSES . . . . . . . . . 381

Critical Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Critical Misses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Example of Combat . . . . . . . . . . . 382

O THER A CTIONS IN C OMBAT . . . . . . . . 382

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Malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Firing Upward and

Downward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Overpenetration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Special Rules for Rapid Fire . . . 408

Special Ranged Weapons . . . . . . 410

Firearm Accessories . . . . . . . . . . 411

Guided and Homing

Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Semi-Active Homing

Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Area and Spreading Attacks . . . . 413

Attacking an Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Scatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

E XPLOSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Explosions in Other

Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

S PECIAL D AMAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Afflictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Special Penetration Modifiers . . . 416

C INEMATIC C OMBAT R ULES . . . . . . . . . 417

Dual-Weapon Attacks . . . . . . . . . . 417

Medical Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Resuscitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Ultra-Tech Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

F ATIGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Lost Fatigue Points . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Fatigue Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Starvation and Dehydration . . . . 426

Missed Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Recovering from Fatigue . . . . . . 427

Foraging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

H AZARDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Acid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Afflictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Atmospheric Pressure . . . . . . . . . 429

Hazardous Atmospheres . . . . . . . 429

Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Collisions and Falls . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Hit Location from a Fall . . . . . . . 431

Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Making Things Burn . . . . . . . . . . 433

Gravity and Acceleration . . . . . . 434

Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Radiation Hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Seasickness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Suffocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Vacuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

P OISON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Describing Poisons . . . . . . . . . . . 437

Special Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Poison Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Drinking and Intoxication . . . . . 439

Addictive Drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Drug Withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Overdose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

I LLNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Contagion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

A GE AND A GING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

16. A NIMALS AND

M ONSTERS . . . . . . 455

C OMMON A NIMALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Animal and Monster

Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Individualizing Animals . . . . . . . 457

P ETS AND T RAINED A NIMALS . . . . . . . . 458

Riding and Draft Animals . . . . . . 459

War-Trained Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . 459

F ANTASY M ONSTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

Damage for Animals . . . . . . . . . . . 460

A NIMALS IN C OMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Swarm Attack Examples . . . . . . . 461

17. T ECHNOLOGY AND

A RTIFACTS . . . . . . . 462

V EHICLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Vehicle Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Basic Vehicle Movement . . . . . . . 463

G ROUND V EHICLE T ABLE . . . . . . . . . . 464

W ATERCRAFT T ABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

A IRCRAFT T ABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

S PACECRAFT T ABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Basic Vehicle Combat . . . . . . . . . 467

Vehicle Weapon Mounts . . . . . . . . 467

Weapons Fire from a

Moving Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Scaling Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

E LECTRONICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Communicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

N EW I NVENTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Required Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Reinventing the Wheel . . . . . . . . . 473

Testing and Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

Funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

G ADGETEERING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Inventing Gadgets . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Quick Gadgeteering . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Gadget Bugs Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Gadgeteering During

Adventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Gadgets for Non-Gadgeteers . . . . 477

F UTURISTIC AND

A LIEN A RTIFACTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

Enigmatic Device Table . . . . . . . 478

Anachronistic Devices . . . . . . . . . 478

W EIRD T ECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Random Side Effects Table . . . . 479

M AGIC I TEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

Enchantment Spells . . . . . . . . . . 480

Enchanting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Interruptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Using Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Buying Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . 482

D AMAGE TO O BJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Detailed HP Calculation . . . . . . . . 483

Effects of Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Damage to Buildings

and Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Damage to Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Breakdowns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Broken Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

14. I NJURIES , I LLNESS ,

AND F ATIGUE . . . . . 418

I NJURIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

General Injury:

Lost Hit Points . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Example of Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Major Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Knockdown and Stunning . . . . . 420

Crippling Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Optional Rules for Injury . . . . . . . 420

Patient Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Temporary Attribute

Penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Mortal Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

R ECOVERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Recovering from

Unconsciousness . . . . . . . . . . 423

Natural Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

High HP and Healing . . . . . . . . . . 424

First Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

15. C REATING

T EMPLATES . . . . . . 445

C HARACTER T EMPLATES . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

How GURPS Works: Character

Templates Aren’t Rules! . . . . . . 445

Types of Character

Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Character Templates and

Player Perceptions . . . . . . . . . . 446

Selecting Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Setting the Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Writing it Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Listing Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Discounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Adjusting for Player

Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Customization Notes . . . . . . . . . . 449

Additional Options . . . . . . . . . . . 449

R ACIAL T EMPLATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Selecting Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

PC Races vs. NPC Races . . . . . . . 451

Player-Created Races . . . . . . . . . . 451

Setting the Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Sub-Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Filling in the Blanks . . . . . . . . . . 454

Character Costs vs.

Racial Strength . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

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