Design Guidelines

Here's several general rules I followed -- some subconsciously -- when creating the GURPS characters in the gallery:

• To make customization easier, I added only as much background and description as I thought necessary to convey the character concept.
• No character has the advantage Common Sense or Intuition -- they can too easily be a player's crutch.
• Every character that is (or has been) an adventurer has survival skills at some level.
• For warriors with experience in their backgrounds, I like giving the Tactics skill for the +1 initiative bonus.
• Skill bonuses due to race, advantages, and so on are assumed in the point cost listed for each skill.

Manuals

Here's the GURPS manuals I used as references:

• Basic Set, Third Edition
• Compendium I
• Compendium II
• Fantasy Folk, Second Edition
• Magic
• Grimoire
• Martial Arts, First Edition

All original material copyright © 1998 Michael McGarel. Feel free to use in your personal games, but this material cannot be distributed for commercial reasons in any form without the express written consent of the author.

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