GURPS Explained - Lite

[@RicksPoker]

Your point about "the GM has the books, but the Players get this free summary", is very good. I plan to GM GURPS, and will have all of my players down load GURPS Lite. Warm regards, Rick.

[@SuperBoyboys]

GURPS Lite is the best GURPS book The Basic Set is more like an expansion pack

[@ikaemos]

Hear hear! I recently had my (previously traumatized-by-GURPS) group float the idea of returning to it for a particularly prickly campaign idea that doesn't fit squarely anywhere else, and I committed to the mission of making GURPS palatable for them, whatever it took. GURPS Lite is basically that. After so many campaigns that bloated beyond playability because I didn't know how to neatly package and condense the rules for my players, returning to the core rules is a must. It's way too easy to be taken in by GURPS's flexibility and forget how overwhelming it can be for everyone involved.

[@gurpsexplained6387]

For sure. I use around 7 books for pretty much every game, and it's easy to forget that that sounds intimidating to my players when really it means "I use like two rules from three of these, one is just for equipment, and the other three are extended options lists"

[@StarkMaximum]

Wait, if GURPS Lite is free, why can't you use pictures of rules text?

[@SuperBoyboys]

SJG doesn't ever really like people using screenies from GURPS books, and it being free probably doesn't change that.

[@StarkMaximum]

@@SuperBoyboys Weird. i can accept that, but usually because the books are, you know, paid content. But I mean, it's not like anything I say is gonna change their mind, so eh /shrug

[@gurpsexplained6387]

Unfortunately like Nikola said, SJGames has a very strict online policy. I have to be pretty careful to make sure I don't break it or they could take my channel down

[@Maximara]

@@SuperBoyboys First I have heard of that. Another videos used text years ago and are still around. Edit: I checked SJGames online policy and it expressly states "There is a principle of law called "fair use." *It protects the press by expressly allowing writers to use a short amount of copyrighted material or a trademark in the course of review or commentary about the product* . *The copyright or trademark holder may not block this use, as long as the use is otherwise legal* (that is, not libelous, for example)."

[@Maximara]

@@gurpsexplained6387 Uh. "There is a principle of law called "fair use." *It protects the press by expressly allowing writers to use a short amount of copyrighted material or a trademark in the course of review or commentary about the product* . *The copyright or trademark holder may not block this use, as long as the use is otherwise legal* (that is, not libelous, for example)." - SJGames online policy. So I think you don't really understand the policy. It's not really your fault it is very badly worded and makes untrue claims. For example it says game rules are copyrighted which per the US Copyright office is NOT true: " Copyright does not protect the idea for game, its name or title, or *the method or methods for playing it* (...) Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form." ( www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.pdf ) "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." - 17 U.S. Code § 102.Subject matter of copyright. :In general , "Game mechanics and *rules* are not entitled to copyright protection, but expressive elements may be copyrightable, including game labels, design of game boards, playing cards, and graphical works, as well as elements of the characters - if they are sufficiently developed. Copyright does not protect “stock” characters." ( summation of DaVinci Editrice S.r.l. v. Ziko Games, LLC et al, No. 4:2013cv03415 - Document 44 (S.D. Tex. 2014) ) One need not be a lawyer (I'm not, but Zachary Strebeck IS) to see whoever wrote SJG online policy didn't really know what they were doing as the method (ie rules) weren't ever protected by copyright and certainly are not per the 2014 court ruling. ( strebecklaw.com/court-rules-favor-cloned-tabletop-game-no-protection-us-copyright-law/ ) and SJG is under that court's jurisdiction so barring an over turn on appeal they are stuck with it.

[@AceneDean]

Not gonna lie, nothing has turned me off from this system more than hearing the implication that character creation is so complicated you need a computer to do it. I really want to like this system though.