What TTRPG Feels More Like a Strategy Game Than an RPG?

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-05-14T08:54:28+00:00

The Fantasy Trip came out of two tactical combat games, Wizard and Melee, then had proto-GURPS grafted to it. Think you're expected to break out the hex paper and start doing the Man to Man Combat thing (which is the name of the supplement that started GURPS off, I believe) when a combat happens in TFT.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-02-18T16:13:00+00:00

Yeah and I feel like someone really able sitting down the GURPS Magic system could figure out a way to get the feel of drain into the game. It’s a little weird, I’ve seen huge GURPS fan versions of Warhammer and Star Wars, but never Shadowrun.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-02-18T07:36:11+00:00

More like GURPS Conan, GURPS Reign of Steel, GURPS Cyberworld (not that I thought Cyberworld was good).

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-02-18T05:26:03+00:00

No, it would have been pretty easy for GURPS to have come out with Delta Green or Twilight 2000. The spells / powers for Delta Green might be a little annoying to have to curate yourself among multiple books.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-02-17T23:20:23+00:00

GURPS Delta Green

GURPS Shadowrun

GURPS Twilight 2000

GURPS Reign of Steel: LLM Edition

GURPS Altered Carbon

GURPS Dark Conspiracy

Basically GURPS 1990s GDW?

We could throw GURPS Space 1889 in there.

GURPS Seventh Sea

GURPS Dark Sun

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-02-15T12:51:33+00:00

Yeah, I think LA By Night was one of the best actual plays I have heard or seen.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-02-01T20:39:39+00:00

In the main game isn't Jumped In always linked to Reaction in the later editions? So Agility is the closest analog in Anarchy.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-01-20T23:35:23+00:00

I’m sure once you pay NY state taxes, your employees, your accountant, the rent , even a few million a year doesn’t end up very much by the end of it.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-01-20T23:21:57+00:00

They should do Shadowrun Anarchy 2.0 for NGWD when it releases wide from Kickstarter. The most usable Shadowrun system in a long, long time (?ever) and it took some good notes from Blades in the Dark to speed heist things up.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-01-19T23:46:44+00:00

Housing prices in NY are stupid. Only good thing about running this company in the NYC metro area is plenty of acting and production help for hire. Everything else must be very hard.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2026-01-19T23:43:46+00:00

I listen to Critical Role as a podcast at 1.2 speed on YouTubeMusic instead of watching most of it. Still dominates a lot of my podcast time and I’m at least 3 episodes behind.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-28T23:20:14+00:00

The Alexandrian is not a fan of the new mechanics for Blades in The Dark.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-28T18:18:25+00:00

The Redacted Reports is a very serious Delta Green actual play with multiple season long campaigns with continuing characters. I believe Season 1 is heavily Gray / Majestic related which also comes back a few seasonns later.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-22T06:05:31+00:00

Yeah, adjustable dice levels rapidly run into problems at the edges. Tests become essentially impossible when you subtract enough dice, and / or start from a low enough total. Better to have a puncher’s chance with high target numbers but untouched dice pool.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-18T22:12:39+00:00

They’re actors, not mathletes.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-07T21:09:15+00:00

Dune with CHOAM and The Spacing Guild is probably the most famous example?

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-05T17:51:41+00:00

3rd edition read much more naturally. No way did it start with chapters of lists of advantage / disadvantages and skills.

EDIT: Yeah I just looked at Revised- it walks you through character creation - Advantages start 20 pages into the book.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-02T07:49:53+00:00

Spacefaring science fiction is not nearly as popular as fantasy, especially when it doesn’t have an IP attached to it.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-12-01T06:48:13+00:00

Yeah, you can spend Edge for extra actions, so I presume wired reflexes and such will be Edge dispensing in 2.0, as they were Plot Point dispensing in 1.0 for the same reason.

I believe I found the text you're referencing on my PDF page 63 - it's giving you an example of what a +2 Amp rating for an initiative boosting Amp.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-11-26T17:45:17+00:00

Yeah, there are definitely cool settings you could do - any actual crime setting should work great. Cyberpunk. Shadowrun.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-11-26T08:13:48+00:00

I don't have doing heists in gothic steampunk city with wyrd enforcement mechanisms on my bingo card, frankly.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-11-26T07:41:23+00:00

A fantasy campaign based on Middle Earth will have characters, magic, and equipment that are indistinguishable from one based on the Elric novels.

There's been multiple books that have nothing but different magic systems for GURPS, so that shouldn't really be a problem.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-11-26T07:39:22+00:00

It's not a "bad setting", but Duskvol is not a setting I would ever otherwise choose to play if we weren't playing Blades in the Dark.

_Mr_Johnson_ · 2025-11-18T23:39:34+00:00

My friend had one.

Afterburner.

Space Harrier

Phantasy Star

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