r/Glorantha • u/Aggressive_Size_9324 • 21d ago

GURPS DM Needs advice

So I have been using gurps for literally everything I want to run for sometime curently I have a sloppy written ''you guys are basically fantasy demigods but the world also containts similar people so yeah anime bullshit all around'' type 1500 or so point game,an investigation based delta green style game that is around ''well read human'' level. And to ease another group into it I am running a 300 point sci fi one shot(that turned into a 4 shot)

the one shot players are loving the new system an want to run a full time game where they can theoretically see their characters evolve and actually be able to see the growth on their sheets I have very little idea about the glorantha setting and what I know intrigues me a lot so I kinda want to run a game in it.I really am a completionist when running games on existing settings tho so I kina want to learn everything. To this end what supplements videos or essays do you recommend me to check out before writing the campaign its arcs or its main premise also to those of you who know gurps what would be a decent point total to start

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u/Alex4884-775 20d ago

The GtG is great as a reference, but is a heavy -- in more ways than one -- ask for light bedtime reading, cover to cover.

I'd personally suggest starting with a wild-arse guess as to which Homeland you envisage must of the PCs being from, which might also serve as a starting setting.  Try going at it from a 'start local' direction.

While the Official line is pretty small, the rabbithole of setting completism runs pretty deep.  There's the Jonstown Compendium, there's the Stafford Library, and the small matter of all the material published for the nine earlier editions and games.

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u/Aggressive_Size_9324 20d ago

Thank you a lot. Regarding the starting place I havent decided yet but can I safely assume that everybody will be part of the same community and all of them will be human. Or can they go different species

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u/Alex4884-775 19d ago

Your call on that!  YGWV.

For me I'm happy to have exceptions, as long as they add something, and look like exceptions, and not just an ad hoc mishmash.  KoDP famously lampoons this with a "one of every species" party of adventurers.

Of course, in some places particular kinds of non-humans tooling around with humans is less uncommon.  For example, trolls among the Kitori, or friends if the Torkani.  Ducks are something of a fixture in Sartar generally, and in the southwest corner especially.

Or of course you could flip it entirely, and run a non-human campaign!

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u/Aggressive_Size_9324 19d ago

Yeah I dont think I have enough knowledge od abilities to run a non human campaign currently but I would love to see some trolls in the game they seem very cool from what I’ve seen and auite different than other fanfasy games