History YMMV / GURPS

* QuicksandBox: The excess of options for character creation regularly cause this to new players when they aren't supervised by someone more experienced, with points being spread either very thin over ''dozens'' of skills (often overlapping). Templates mitigate the problem, but if you stick too strictly to them, you'll miss out on the main benefit of the system.

%%* QuicksandBox: The excess of options for character creation can cause this effect. Templates mitigate the problem, but if you stick too strictly to them, you'll miss out on the main benefit of the system.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: GURPS was the first RPG to be released in Brazil by publisher Devir in 1991, and such GURPS had relatively popularity in the 90s until the early 2000s. However, it's popularity started waning while other systems took in popularity, eventually even running out of print, this days is mostly a CultClassic with the older generation of RPG players.

** Easy to Kill is more likely to act as a subversion to this trope; it sounds nasty, but it's really just a simple penalty to a rarely-seen HT roll, and this trait is a major part of an infamous game breaker. [[note]]Raising Health costs 10 points, reducing the speed bonus from this is -5, reducing the energy bonus is -3, reducing the roll to survive death at negative HP is -2; taking all these at once, HT rolls to resist poisons or disease and all skills based on HT go up a level at a net cost of 0 points.[[/note]]
* Some people think that the system is too math heavy, others disagree.'

** Easy to Kill is more likely to act as a subversion to this trope; it sounds nasty, but it's really just a simple penalty to a rarely-seen HT roll, and this trait is a major part of an infamous game breaker. [[note]]Raising Health costs 10 points, reducing the speed bonus from this is -5, reducing the energy bonus is -3, reducing the roll to survive death at negative HP is -2; taking all these at once, HT rolls to resist poisons or disease and all skills based on HT go up a level at a net cost of 0 points.[[/note]]

* GameBreaker: For the most part, ''GURPS'' seems content to leave the game breakers in, but charge ''so many points'' that your character may end up a BunnyEarsLawyer.

* GameBreaker: For the most part, ''GURPS'' seems content to leave the game breakers in, but charge out the nose for them.

* BrokenBase: There are quite a lot of "fans" of ''GURPS'' who buy every book the series produces... except the actual rulebooks for the game itself. The attitude among these people is that while ''GURPS'' has some of the best source, setting, and background material around, the actual rule system (in the word of one reviewer) "stinks from the head like yesterday's cod". They mine the source material for useable stuff, then apply it all to a different rule system (usually ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' or ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'').

** Specifically Cursed means the GM gets to do anything he wants to your character for any reason at any time.

* BrokenBase: There are quite a lot of "fans" of ''GURPS'' who buy every book the series produces... except the actual rulebooks for the game itself. The attitude among these people is that while ''GURPS'' has some of the best source, setting, and background material around, the actual rule system (in the word of one reviewer) "stinks from the head like yesterday's cod". They mine the source material for useable stuff, then apply it all to a different rule system (usually ''DungeonsAndDragons'', ''{{Traveller}}'' or ''{{Champions}}'').

* BrokenBase: There are quite a lot of "fans" of ''GURPS'' who buy every book the series produces... except the actual rulebooks for the game itself. The attitude among these people is that while ''GURPS'' has some of the best source, setting, and background material around, the actual rule system (in the word of one reviewer) "stinks from the head like yesterday's cod". They mine the source material for useable stuff, then apply it all to a different rule system (usually ''DungeonsAndDragons'', ''{{Traveler}}'' or ''{{Champions}}'').

* BrokenBase: There are quite a lot of "fans" of ''GURPS'' who buy every book the series produces... except the actual rulebooks for the game itself. The attitude among these people is that while ''GURPS'' has some of the best source, setting, and background material around, the actual rule system (in the word of one reviewer) "stinks from the head like yesterday's cod". They mine the source material for useable stuff, then apply it all to a different rule system (usually ''DungeonsAndDragons'', ''{{Traveler}}'' or ''{{Champions}}''.

** Easy to Kill is more likely to act as a subversion to this trope; it sounds nasty, but it's really just a simple penalty to a rarely-seen HT roll, and this trait is a major part of an infamous game breaker. [[hottip:*:Raising Health costs 10 points, reducing the speed bonus from this is -5, reducing the energy bonus is -3, reducing the roll to survive death at negative HP is -2; taking all these at once, HT rolls to resist poisons or disease and all skills based on HT go up a level at a net cost of 0 points.]]

* GameBreaker: For the most part, '''''GURPS''''' seems content to leave the game breakers in, but charge out the nose for them.

** Destiny is a bit more complex. GM abuse stems from the notion that you don't control how your Destiny (positive or negative) is fulfilled, the GM does. ExactWords can bite you bad if you try to become invincible by taking a seemingly impossible Destiny that involves your death.

*** However, Unkillable could be worked around by, say, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim jettisoning the character into a nearby star.]]

** Outside of advantages there's Ultra-Tech's inclusion of the Grav Heavy Needler which makes 90% of other man portable weapons obsolete. Forever.

* CrackIsCheaper: The books are reasonably priced by the standards of TabletopGames, ranging from $5 for an issue of ''Pyramid'' to $40 for a hard-cover sourcebook... and you can play well enough with just the corebooks if you want to... but the sourcebooks are really very useful, and fun to read, and ''there are'' '''''hundreds''''' ''of them...''

** Destiny is a bit more complex. GM abuse stems from the notion that you don't control how your Destiny (positive or negative) is fulfilled, the GM does. ExactWords can bite you bad if you try to become invincible by taking a Destiny that involves your death.

* ThatOneDisadvantage: [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on the GM]], this might be any of Easy to Kill, Cursed, Destiny, or Enemy.

* ThatOneDisadvantage: [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on the GM]], this might be any of Easy to Kill, Cursed, Destiny, or Enemy.
* SerialNumbersFiledOff: [[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/warehouse23/ Warehouse 23]] is basically a {{Warehouse13}} sourcebook.

* ThatOneDisadvantage: [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on the GM]], this might be any of Easy to Kill, Cursed, Destiny, or Enemy.

** 3rd edition had the beautiful Eidetic Memory. For 30 points, it ''halved'' the cost of all other mental skills.