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Originally Posted by The Tweaker
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Mmm. I've heard that the new ' Spaceships' supplement for GURPS is pretty good, and a lot more abstract than their previous Vehicles or Space books, with rules both for building starships and starship combat. There is a preview here.
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And this takes me to yet another question: Does the book use Imperial or Metric units? I think the default for most BRP books I know is Metric, if my memory serves me, but I'd like to know. As a former GURPS fan I am used to make more or less approximate conversions in my head, but I'd like to be spared the effort in my BRP games! |
yes. The new Gurps Spaceships is quite good and I really like it. I bought it 2 weeks ago and i played a little bit around and constructed some traveller ships. You can construct nearly every type of space ship with them by attaching different "modules" to the hull. Gurps fans say its rather light in complexity but for me as rule minimalist its of considerable complexity. I am not so fond of the space combat chapter which seem unnecessary complex. But OTOH it has nice ideas how to give every player on a typical PC trader ship a specific role during combat. Maybe I should read it once more. It uses miles per second as speed and weapon range unit, but also cm for gun caliber.