[gurps] 4th edition and ebooks?

[Roger Burton West]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:30:39AM -0700, Bay Grabowski wrote:

>4th edition, [...] looks to actually be substantially
>better, or at least much better organized than 3rd. What with Amazon
>offering the books at about $25, how does it hold up in play compared to
>3rd?

I have found it very much cleaner than 3rd, both in organisation and in
play, while not sacrificing the detail and options that I like. I've run
a few campaigns with it; all the ones listed on http://tekeli.li/ except
the Pendragon game has been run under GURPS 4th.

>how heinous is keeping digital copies of the books when I own the real
>ones?

Explicitly illegal, unless you buy them (from e23).

>Last of my rambling questions, while I know that the crunchy books are
>no use in 4th ed (Noooo! But I love my horribly overpowered Grimoire
>spells!), how hard is it to convert things over? More for things like
>NPCs, where I don't care what the point cost is, just translating
>abilities over.

Generally not much of a problem unless the detailed crunch is what makes
the character interesting. Note the free "GURPS Update" document (on e23
among other places).

Roger