Fhaolan
2010-02-26, 11:13 PM
Hi all,
I've got a group starting up a fantasy GURPS game in the next couple of days. Now, a couple of them have played GURPS before, but it was years ago. One of the others has extensive experience in other game systems, but not GURPS. The other two, they're brand new to the system.
They've already made up characters, so the *hard* part is behind them. :smallamused: But I'm a bit leery of dumping them in the deep end of what is effectively a new system to them. So I was going to start them off with the Basic Combat system, and then slowly introduce the more advanced rules. I'm looking for suggestions as to what rules to introduce first, what order to build them up to using the whole system, and any tidbits of advice you care to give for introducing people to GURPS. I've introduced lots of people to RPGs in general over the years, but GURPS only seems to show up when all the players have already learned the system from somewhere else. :smallsmile:
We're using 3rd edition, mainly because the two people who've played GURPS before have that edition and were very uncomfortable with updating to 4th for a variety of reasons. I have all the 4th edition books in PDF form from e23, but they didn't want to go that route until they could get the books themselves. Ah well.
I've got a group starting up a fantasy GURPS game in the next couple of days. Now, a couple of them have played GURPS before, but it was years ago. One of the others has extensive experience in other game systems, but not GURPS. The other two, they're brand new to the system.
They've already made up characters, so the *hard* part is behind them. :smallamused: But I'm a bit leery of dumping them in the deep end of what is effectively a new system to them. So I was going to start them off with the Basic Combat system, and then slowly introduce the more advanced rules. I'm looking for suggestions as to what rules to introduce first, what order to build them up to using the whole system, and any tidbits of advice you care to give for introducing people to GURPS. I've introduced lots of people to RPGs in general over the years, but GURPS only seems to show up when all the players have already learned the system from somewhere else. :smallsmile:
We're using 3rd edition, mainly because the two people who've played GURPS before have that edition and were very uncomfortable with updating to 4th for a variety of reasons. I have all the 4th edition books in PDF form from e23, but they didn't want to go that route until they could get the books themselves. Ah well.