how about 'sold his soul to a religious cult'?" Yeah, I know I'll need to pay it off somehow. "I want to have 'contender for the throne' and be the only player who didn't pay it off with 'complete moron'. I'll have to take the 'complete asshole' disadvantage" "I want to be crazy smart and really socially competent. iīetter take "excessively tall", "social disadvantage: female", and "I want to be even better at swordplay than that other guy! Damn. Relationship with sister' and 'murdered the last king'" Seriously minmaxed on their disadvantages. Thrones you can see them as GURPS Fantasy guys complete with having With those two points in mind, something fascinating reveals itself: pretty much with every character in In GURPS' case, it is heavily affected by its being a point-buy system for people that love radical "character optimization". Second, we know that characters created with different systems sometimes have a different look. And I think I've discovered something everyone else has missed.įirst, presume that IF Martin had started Game of Thrones as a campaign, it would have been with GURPS. Maybe so, but at the same time as an historian I'm trained to study text for historical clues. But its true that it might be too much to hope for that one of the most popular franchises of recent years has direct RPG-roots.
#George martin in game of thrones rpg free#
And we know you can make the War of the Roses into an RPG setting: I've done it, with my "Dark Albion" campaign/ free setting.
We do know for a fact that Martin was influenced by the War of the Roses. One person I discussed the matter with recently decried the notion that GoT might have started as an RPG game as "wishful thinking". Now, I haven't actually seen any direct confirmation from Martin (or a reliable source of some kind) that "A Game of Thrones" started out as a GURPS campaign. We know that some of his other novels began as direct inspiration/play-report from one of his campaigns. Martin is a gamer, and that his favorite game in the world is GURPS. Gentlemen, I present you the evidence: first of all, we know for an absolute fact that George R.R.
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