Nostalgic moments

Som Guy · Post by **Som Guy** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 6:11 am

Oh Scrapheap = Junktown. I get it now.

jerman999 · Post by **jerman999** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 6:58 am

Pastorius wrote:I heard that the FO demo was based in the GURPS system (i.e.: was released before they switched over to SPECIAL). If that's the truth: how does it affect the game? Is it very different?

What is the GURPS system?

Som Guy · Post by **Som Guy** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:09 am

I don't know much about GURPS except for the fact that it was the system that was going to be used for Fallout before they made the special system.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:46 am

GURPS= Generic Universal Role Playing System.

It's a legendary set of tabletop RPG rules created by Steve Jackson Games. As you said, Fallout was originally meant to use them (in fact, Fallout was a GURPS game before it was a post-apocalyptic game), but Interplay lost the liscence for some reason (what--Interplay do something stupid and piss of a buisness partner? NEVER!), so Tim Cain, Chris Taylor, Jess Heinig, and Feargus Urquhart made SPECIAL (or so says the FO2 manual credits).

Som Guy · Post by **Som Guy** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 8:09 am

Thank God too. SPECIAL was the best set of rules ever used in a game.