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[GreatWyrmGold]

GWG, If you would kindly post the basic synopsis of the GURPS rules, the parts that matter, I will gladly read it and look at what could and couldn't work.

Spoiler: Basic Rules (click to show/hide)

You have four Attributes: Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Health. These mostly increase skills, increase secondary characteristics, and let you qualify for things; they have remarkably little direct impact on the game. DX and IQ are more useful than the others, and hence cost twice as many points. (More on that later.)
There are a bunch of Secondary Characteristics, from Hit Points and Fatigue Points to Basic Move and Basic Lift. For the most part, these have little effect beyond their own narrow spheres of influence; they're pretty simple to derive from the Attributes, especially if you're letting me handle the number-crunching like I've volunteered to do.
Skills are fairly simple once you have the numbers: Roll 3d6 and if you roll less than the skill's number, you succeed. For more randomness and fewer dice (easier with random.org), a single d20 is close enough. Skills are calculated from Attributes; you can also default to them. Although there are dozens of skills, you can safely ignore most of them. Most people will be using less than half a dozen.
Advantages and Disadvantages are pretty simple. Pay the (point) cost, you get the advantage; take the disadvantage, and you get more points. The point cost or payout can be modified with modifiers, but if we don't need to go that detailed we don't have to.

Spoiler: Points and Character Creation (click to show/hide)

Character creation in GURPS is entirely points-based. You get (say) 200 points, and can spend them on Advantages, Skills, Attributes, Secondary Characteristics, or whatever. Attributes, Secondary Characteristics, and Advantages have a flat point cost*; Skills have a point cost depending on how high above the base value you want to raise them. Harder skills have a lower base value, but that's about it; basically, "Hard" skills have levels two lower than "Easy" skills**.

*Well, Advantages sometimes come in levels, and as noted previously you can apply modifiers to tweak how it works.
**There's also Average, which is between the two, and Very Hard, which is a step above Hard.

(Note: If we want to use the system proposed by Akroma, the above would be pretty easy to add in as a way to determine precisely what powers/perks/etc are "balanced". Which is what I've been proposing ever since I noticed that people liked Akroma's system.)

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

Mechanical magic (ie, what the game system considers "magic") is composed of spells. An Advantage called Magery lets you learn and cast spells; levels above the basic let you cast all spells better. Spells are skills. There are several given options that let you tweak how you learn and cast spells.
There's also Advantages, which can be refluffed as being divine gifts, magic, psi, whatever. Making one vulnerable to antimagic or somesuch (ie, making it magic-powered) gives a slight discount.

Spoiler: Damage (click to show/hide)

Combat, and more specifically for the present conversation, damage seems pretty complex. However, it's mostly a set of options. You can attack, or perform an all-out attack, or feint, or...but if you just want to attack, that's easy enough. Assuming the player and GM don't add in complicating modifiers. (But they're there if you want them.)
One specific note is damage, which comes in a variety of types. Burning, cutting, impaling, piercing, large piercing...it all seems complex, but for all but the esoteric ones like fatigue, burning, and corrosive, it's pretty much just a matter of multiplying damage after it goes through armor. Cutting damage, for instance, deals half again as much actual HP damage as rolled after subtracting armor. This will complicate converting damage from GURPS advantages and such to FE damage, but once we set up a few little rules, it'll be simple.

TL;DR: GURPS is useful for powers and perks. While people think it's complicated, it's just simple with lots of choices.

Any specific queries or things you want clarified further?

Fires a beam of particles that move at 0.5c

That is going to have some nasty side effects. Maybe not as bad, due to you firing a single atom as opposed to a baseball, but you get the general idea.

Ah, yes, good ol' WhatIf.
Yeah...fun. I think a closer approximation might be the Oh My God particle mentioned in a later article, but still. Potential...issues.

[PrivateNomad]

It fires a beam of energy particles, not actual matter. And plus the energy is moving at 0.5c, but that's still pretty fast. Fast enough to not be able to be dodged.

[Angle]

Damnit, I was halfway through my own post on gurps. Whatever, I put 20 minutes into it, I'm finishing it and poisting it anyway. 

Welp, here it is:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ah, GURPS! my favourite system. As an overview:

GURPS Stands for Generic Universal Roleplaying System, and that's an accurate description. GURPS can be used for just about any game, but it takes some work to set up. The basics of GURPS are simple: you have a bunch of character points, probably somewhere from 100 (Extraordinary human, baseline advnturer) to 1000 (Godlike, High tier superhero). You can spend these on attributes, skills, and advantages, and you can get more by taking disadvantages up to a limit, usually around 50 points or so. Skills are based off of attributes, and cost progressively more CP per level, up to a cap, while attributes and advantages usually have a static cost per level, if they come in levels. There are rules for technological skills, martial arts, and MANY different magic systems. These things mostly work well together, though there are various traps to watch out for. GURPS is based around realistic games, either set in the present, or in a mundane historical setting. It can do more exotic settings quite well, but it brings it's realistic approach with it. You can do ultra silly super cinematic games with it, but it takes a lot of work. I personally rather like this realistic approach, but if that's not what you want you may wish to use a different system unless you are familiar with GURPS.

Next, things GURPS has to offer:

• Detailed and varied character creation. You are not restricted to using classes, you can make any kind of character you can imagine (And have the points for).
• Detailed Combat: target and cripple individual limbs, civision between armor and dodging/blocking/parrying, detailed combat options.
• Realistic chracters: A powerful wizard does not automatically have the potential to shrug off a baseball bat to the head unless he casts a spell or spends character points on the ability.
• Many different magic systems: Default magic as skills, The power of Sorcery, Divine Favor, Psi, Chi, Ritual Path Magic, etc, etc.
• More options than you can shake a stick at: Want to do X? There are probably rules for it already.
• Less randomness: The likelyhood that you will randomly fail at something for no reason is significantly decreased.

Now, a quick guide on using GURPS. GURPS has dozens of optional rules for use in different situations, depending on the genre and how cinematic/realistic/gritty your game is. You'll need to decide before hand which of these you wish to use, and plan accordingly. You will also need to make sure you apportion enough points for people to make their characters, but not so many they get out of hand. You'll need to watch what disadvantages people take, and make sure they work within your setting and that people actually suffer disadvantages from them, and don't just ignore them. Finally, remember that GURPS relies very heavily on the active use of rule zero: The GM Makes the Rules. Thus, it's up to him to catch when someone is pulling a fast one and say "No, you can't put every single point in strength."

[PrivateNomad]

PrivateNomad's Characters and Lore
Characters
~Dr. Alucard Faucheuse
~Bartimæus
~HILDA-01
~Lizzie Accalia [DECEASED]
~Winry
Lore

Spoiler: The Other Place (click to show/hide)

The Other Place is a mysterious dimension that lays hidden in the void, concealed by its energies. Strange entities are from the void, such as Bartimæus. It is implied that the sultanes' influence only reach the Other Place a little, but the void domains have strongholds inside of it.

• Very mysterious, almost has never been tapped into by magicians.
• Said to contain a great power, yet the power has not been tapped into. Yet.
• The entities contained within can come together and form spheres of essence, sharing all the experiences and things they have seen when they return to the Other Place. Basically the way they converse to each other--if one attempted to listen to them, they would only hear an incomprehensible string of mysterious words.

Known Entities of the Other Place:
~Bartimæus
~Queezle
   An entity who Bartimæus had a love for, but died nearly 3000 years ago when another powerful entity destroyed her essence. To this day, her whereabouts are unknown.
~Selkihm
   A powerful entity of Targunitoth, the void domain of undeath. It is implied that he destroyed Bartimæus once a long time ago in a duel. He does not like the Void Gate, and has spoken with both Bartimæus and Ashley before.

[GreatWyrmGold]

It fires a beam of energy particles, not actual matter. And plus the energy is moving at 0.5c, but that's still pretty fast. Fast enough to not be able to be dodged.

As to the first bit, it matters little at those speeds. Unless you're firing neutrinos, but who would make a neutrino-based weapon?
As to the second, the trick to dodging something moving at half the speed of light is much the same as dodging something moving half the speed of sound: Keep an eye on the firer and don't be where he's aiming.

Damnit, I was halfway through my own post on gurps. Whatever, I put 20 minutes into it, I'm finishing it and poisting it anyway. 

I've been there. Except that I usually finish the post before noticing that I got ninja'd.
Your post certainly gives a more in-depth look at the GURP System than mine did. Though I'd like to note that, if you're offering more than one kind of challenge, "putting every point into Strength" or somesuch isn't too helpful. My brother likes to sink every point he has into skills like Guns and various Melee Weapon skills, plus some related advantages and such, and he typically ends up being worthless at most everything except combat. (That might also be because he tends to antagonize NPCs, but...well...the min/maxing doesn't help.)
Another note: Angle makes GURPS sound complicated, and it is...if you use all the rules. Pretty much no one does. Pick and choose the rules you need. At the core, there's just character creation (in my opinion, the gem of the system) and "roll 3d6 and try to go low".

[PrivateNomad]

Yeah, but you can't dodge the actual projectile unless you went faster than half the speed of light. Which people usually don't.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Same goes for dodging bullets. Or, at close range, pretty much anything except an axe or a fist.

[Angle]

If anyone is interested but uncertain about the complexity, I'm thinking of running a simple Dungeon Fantasy game. If anyone's interested, come check it out.

[Sanure]

Someone tell me how this looks and if anyone wants to help me test her out. If anyone wants to help me test her out, then I also need someone to GM for us.

Spoiler: Frederica (click to show/hide)

Frederica Sawyer
Female
Age: 23
Description:
Frederica is a cleaner, a person who executes people in the most brutal ways possible. Though she doesn't hunt out people to kill, she is brought them by verious Mafia groups or Triads due to her being the "best" in the business. While on the job, she wears a similair outfit to that as a surgeon, usually wearing goggles and a facemask. Otherwise she is wearing gothic attire. Sawyer has a large cut going across her jugular. Her voicebox was destroyed and thus she now depends on a ultravoice to talk. She suffers from Melencholia and will hve a mental breakdown if she loses her Ultravoice. Her prefered tool of the trade is a thick-bladed chainsaw over half-her-height long that allows her to deflect rapid gun-fire with horrifying ease, although this can still push her back. She has worked with Samson and Shade on jobs before, though it is unknown if she considered them her "friends". If a person were to look her in the eyes, they would see the same eyes as Samson's, the eyes of a soldier.


Stats    (100)
 HP------20 [60]
 MP------10 [20]
 SPD-----15
 SKL-----15
 STR-----10
 MAG-----10
 DEF-----10
 RES-----10

Perks:
Battle Hardened- Years of service have left their mark. +1 SKL and DEF when calculating actions.
Gore Show- Kills done with a chainsaw tend to get messy. +1 STR and SPD when attacking an opponent under 20% HP.

Equipment
Thick-bladed chainsaw over half-her-height long. Can be modified as required for a job.
-Tungsten Carbide Teeth: +1 STR
-Lightweight parts: +1SPD
-Titanium Steel Frame: +1 DEF
Ultravoice- Needed for talking.

Ability: Gore House- Due to her work as a cleaner, Sawyer has developed a nasty set of chainsaw skills

Negligible-
Gas Up: Sawyer revs the chainsaw's engine, making it squeel to life. [Lowers Opponents RES by -1]
Hunt: Sawyer begins to single out a single target. [+1 STR & SKL against that target]
Twisted Frenzy: Activates [Twisted Frenzy] if Sawyer's Ultravoice gets broken or lost. Attacks everyone for 5 turns then becomes incapacitated for the rest of battle.
Silent Hunter: Sawyer turns off her chainsaw activating [Silent Motor]

Medium-
Laceration: Sawyer swings the chainsaw at an opponent and revs the engine. [TN:3, Deals 1d4 damage, causes bleeding.(Opponent takes 1d4 damage per turn until bleeding stops.)]
Amputation: Sawyer swings her chainsaw down onto an enemy attempting to maim them. [TN:3, Deals 2d4 damage, 15% chance to maim the target(Target loses use of targeted limb until end of battle.)]


Major-
Grenade Trap: Sawyer uses her looks as a lure and places a grenade on an enemy. [TN:6, deals 2d6 AoE explosive damage]
Last chance: Sawyer uses her chainsaw to scare an ally back into battle. [TN:6. Brings incapacitated Ally back into battle and heals them 2d8HP. Usable once per battle.]
Blood Sport- Sawyer slams her chainsaw into a corpse and sprays blood around the battlefield. [TN:6, Range 10ft, Affected people get either +1STR, -1STR, +1DEF, -1DEF, +1MAG, -1MAG, +1RES, or -1RES (Roll 1d8 for each affected target.)]

Enormous-
[Silent Motor]
Blood Shower: Sawyer drops down onto an enemy stabbing them in the head. [TN:9. 25% Chance to kill the target]
[Twisted Frenzy]
Grindhouse: Sawyer stabs the chainsaw into an enemy and begins to saw the opponent in half [TN:9, Deals 3d8 damage, has a 15% chance to kill the target]

[kj1225]

Eh, let me stat up Kyle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Kyle Johnson
Male
Age: 18
Description:  A tall 18 year old with brown eyes and hair that wears glasses. In the back of his pants is a cold steel machete. He wears what looks like a bulky version of the SPARTAN armor.



Stats    (100)
 HP------20 [65]
 MP------5 [10]
 SPD-----10 (+1)
 SKL-----15 (+1)
 STR-----10 (+1)
 MAG----- 16
 DEF----- 10
 RES-----14

Perks:
Physical resistance:  All physical attacks do half damage.
Technical genius:  Allows construction of technical marvels. (I.e. Power armor)

Equipment
Power armor:  Gives bonus stats and +5 HP
Machete:  +2 strength
Mana sucker pistol:  Can suck mana from opponents as well as firing in various modes.

Ability: Kyle can use various skills via a persona. (Note, I support the persona only appearing for skills like it does in the game.)

Negligible-
Sukukaja: Merlin boosts the speed and agility of an ally.
Twin Shot: Merlin strikes his enemies with two blasts of force.

Medium-
Garula: Merlin fires a cyclone at a single opponent.
Magarula: Merlin fires cyclones at several opponents.

Major-
Diarama: Merlin heals an ally using wind, for 1/2 of their HP.
Media: Merlin heals his allies using the power of the wind, for 1/4 of their HP.


Enormous-
Tentarafoo. Kyle can inflict fear in an enemy, causing them to be unable to do anything for three turns. Instant.

[Sanure]

Hmm... Now that I think about it, her two modes should do something for her other than allow her to use two skills. Should they also buff her in some capacity?

[kj1225]

What does the show/manga say?

[wolfchild]

That is a loooooot of buffs.

is that about Stella?, cause most of em are both positive and negative

[Empiricist]

It fires a beam of energy particles, not actual matter. And plus the energy is moving at 0.5c, but that's still pretty fast. Fast enough to not be able to be dodged.

As to the first bit, it matters little at those speeds. Unless you're firing neutrinos, but who would make a neutrino-based weapon?

Well, if you have a rifle that fires a lethal dose of neutrinos that really good aim/intel, you'd be able to snipe people through the planet Probably not the most efficient but it certainly does have a degree of style.

[kj1225]

If someone shot me through the planet I wouldn't even be mad.