Day 5 and I'm completely phoning this in. Thirty-one days is a LOT of characters.
So let's not talk about a brand new character. Let's talk about a character I've been "creating" for 30+ years,
Let's talk about me.
No, not the fat middle aged dude, but me as a GURPS character, circa 1990.
I think everybody who owns GURPS eventually stats themselves out, and I had a bright idea of running a Red Dawn style game in my hometown, with my friends playing themselves.
The only thing more ridiculous than picturing your head on the body of your D&D character (We all did it at some point), is statting out 100 point characters for 15-year old boys. And let's not talk about the sniper rifle I (as a 100 point NPC "contact") somehow acquired for them. The end result for those early scenarios was quite... messy.
A few sessions into Red Dawn, I devolved into sci-fi and horror tropes, and pretty soon any remnant of the campaign devolved into a yearly televised gladiator battle from the city's parking garage, but I still had a character of myself.
I was also at the age where I kept a dream journal, for all the zany, fantastical, and even mundane stuff I imagined while asleep. At some point in my early twenties, I decided to stop the journal in form, but I used those as experiences to give my GURPS version character points.
Fast forward 25 years, now if I have an interesting dream I can remember, I break it down to usually half or full character points towards an appropriate (if it's even applicable). Once a year I enter the tally the character sheet and update the skills, advantages, and disadvantages.
More a decade ago, I looked at my stats, remembered a lot of my action dream sequences, and realized my GURPS alter ego was Tom Arnold's character from True Lies, Albert "Gib" Gibson.
ST: 10 DX: 11 IQ: 13 HT: 12
Advantages: Charisma +2 (I'm a heckuva guy), Common Sense, Luck, Voice, Light Hangover (50)
Disadvantages: Bloodlust, Nearsighted (corrected), Gluttony, Stubbornness, Sense of Duty (Friends). Enemy: The Mormons (earned "in-game" no points), Dependents: Family (earned "in-game" no points)
Skills: Skills in bold received points in this past year's update, but not increase in stat number. Bold with a (+) indicates an increase in skill. New skills to the list for this year are in bold with (New). Not exactly rocket science, but it always trips me up.
Accounting 11
Acting 13
Administration 20
Animal Handling 11
Anthropology 11
Archaeology 10
Area Knowledge: Baltimore 11
Area Knowledge: Iceland 13
Area Knowledge: Lehigh Valley 14
Area Knowledge: New York City 13
Area Knowledge: South Africa 13
Area Knowledge: Michigan Upper Peninsula 11
Bard 20 (let me...entertain you!)
Bicycling 11
Boating 9
Boxing 10
Brawling 13
Camouflage 14
Carousing 12
Climbing 10
Club 11
Computer Ops 14 +
Conspiracy Theory 11
Cryptography 10
Dancing 10
Demolitions 12
Diplomacy 13
Drive Tractor Trailer 11
Drive: motorcycle 9
Driving: Auto 14
Driving: Diesel Locomotive 11
Engineering 12
Economics 12
Electronics 11 (NEW)
Electronics Operation 11 (NEW)
English 14
Fast Talk 13
First Aid 13
Forensics 12
Forgery 10
French 12
Geology 10
Guns: Pistol 15 +
Guns: Rifle 14
Guns: SMG 13
Hiking 11
History 17
Hobby gaming 14
Hobby: Models 12
Intel Analysis 11
Interrogation 11
Judo 9
Law 12
Leadership 12
Literature 10 (New)
Mathematics 10
Mechanic 11
Merchant 11
Meteorology 11
Naturalist 10
Navigate 10
Occultism 14
Performance 13
Physician 10
Pilot: Jetpack 9 (NEW)
politics 14
Psychology 10
Punning 11
Running 13
Savoir Faire 17
Saxophone 12
Scrounging 13
Sex Appeal 15
Sport: Basketball 10
Sport: Football 9
Sport: Golf 11
Sport: Ice Skating 8
Sport: Volleyball 9
Stealth 12
Strategy 11
Streetwise 11
Survival: Mountains 12
Survival: NBC 13
Swimming 10
Tactics 13
Taxidermy 11 (New)
Theology 11
Wrestling 11 +
309.5 points
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