For Beginners, rather than busy GMs, I feel.
It describes more how to go about creating templates. I’d have rather had more actual quick and easy templates.
I feel a photo of the table of contents will help wasted purchases. So I’m including one with this review.
If anything piques your interest and you want to read more, grab this supplement.
Otherwise, just continue making your own characters and NPCs.
There is no text on the spine, so you can easily hide this book among your others.
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From the Publisher
Character templates eliminate a lot of the fuss and headache of character design for new GURPS players, and provide even veterans with inspiration that can help them get over writer's block. The catch? Templates shift much of this load onto the GM, who might suffer from headaches and writer's block of their own!
GURPS Template Toolkit 1: Characters comes to the rescue with practical, step-by-step advice on how to create good character templates customized to your campaign. After a quick refresher on what templates are and what they're good for, this primer launches into extensive guidelines on designing templates individually and in sets. Topics include niche protection, player choice, point-cost optimization, lenses, and template notation.
But that's not all! Players will also find this supplement useful, even in a campaign that won't use templates. Its detailed advice on template design doubles as a guide to designing efficient characters who can fill solid roles.
Here is a brief content overview of what you will find inside:
- Introduction
- What are Character Templates?: Types of Character Templates/Are Templates Required?/Why Use Templates?
- Designing Character Templates: Individual Template Design/Planning Template Sets
- Tricks of the Trade: Player Choice/Giving Templates Teeth/Writing it Up
- Niches: Matching Traits to Challenges/Matching Challenges to Niches/From Niches to Templates
- Index
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| What is this? | Advice on creating good character templates and useful for players who want to efficiently design solid characters. | A perfect introduction! Contains everything players need to start. Easy character creation, plus info on traits, gear, and combat. | For Game Masters and advanced players, more of everything! Vehicles, monsters, combat, world design, and more! | An in-depth introduction to GURPS Fourth Edition, from choosing the right supplements and options to running your first adventure. | Covers the supers genre, including guidelines for creating super-powered characters and advice for running adventures with them. | Time travel and alternate Earths in GURPS. Any other setting could be an “Infinite Worlds” timeline . . . knowingly or otherwise! |
| What do I get? | A 50-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 336-page, full color, hardbound book | A 240-page, full color, hardbound book | A 74-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 152-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 242-page softcover book with black and white pages |
| Which edition is this? | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition |
Top reviews from other countries
Stephen MacPherson
Meh. Not what I was hoping it would be.
Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2022
Stephen MacPherson
Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2022
It describes more how to go about creating templates. I’d have rather had more actual quick and easy templates.
I feel a photo of the table of contents will help wasted purchases. So I’m including one with this review.
If anything piques your interest and you want to read more, grab this supplement.
Otherwise, just continue making your own characters and NPCs.
There is no text on the spine, so you can easily hide this book among your others.
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