12901500-GURPS-Sex

1 GURPS Sexby Tim & Christine Morgan copyright © 1993 All Rights Reserved Part One: Introduction Sex is a topic that has been infrequently brought up in roleplaying games, and it is high time that the matter was dealt with in a bold, straightforward... More

1 GURPS Sexby Tim & Christine Morgan copyright © 1993 All Rights Reserved Part One: Introduction Sex is a topic that has been infrequently brought up in roleplaying games, and it is high time that the matter was dealt with in a bold, straightforward manner. In games, violence is glorified and excruciatingly detailed. Each rulebook for an RPG has pages and pages of combat rules, damage rules, and creative ways to really mess somebody up. The example comes to mind of Arduin s critical hit charts, which were graphically descriptive. But few games address the issue of sex. Why? Lingering Victorian sensibilities? A desire to protect the minors from moral corruption, while at the same time encouraging combat? Who knows. In GURPS Basic, we are given the skill Sex Appeal, defined as “the ability to impress the opposite sex”. It is a Mental skill, based off of HT, which leads one to believe that it has something to do with physical action. This becomes slightly more noticeable as one rea Less