Template Toolkit 2: Races

Template Toolkit 2: Races

GURPS Template Toolkit 2: Races (December 2019) provides not only templates but how to build racial templates.

Racial Templates and Meta-Traits

What Are Racial Templates?

• Alternatives: Simplified Statistics
• Alternatives: No Statistics
  • Patrons, Enemies, Contacts
• Alternatives: Unique Beings

What are Races?

• Humanoids
• Aliens
• Animals
• Chimerae
• Robots and Automata
• Vehicles - presents the ideas of building vehicles as races. The example given in the book is the Dayton-Wright DH-4
• Infomorphs
• Spirits
• The Undead
• Hybrids

Meta-Traits

• Animated Character
• Bioroid
• Machine
• Mentality Meta-Traits
• Morphology Meta-Traits
  • Organisms: Angeloid, Arachnoid, Asteroid, Avian, Cancroid, Centauroid, Helminth, Hexapod, Ichthyoid, Octopod, Ovoid, Quadruped, Scorpionoid, Semi-Upright, Serpentoid, Vespertilian, Winged Hexapod
  • Angeloid, Asteroid, Helminth, Scorpionoid, Serpentoid, and Tritonoid Hit Location Table
• Vehicles And Other Machines
• Nanotechnology
• Spirit Meta-Traits

Basic Parameters

• Size and Weight Table

Scale

• Realistic Scale; Cinematic Scale; Swarms

Habitats

• Atmosphere
• Gravity
  • Gravity Table; Basic Move Table
• Illumination
• Radiation
• Temperature
  • Table Of Solvents

Substance

• Density And Weight
• Density Table
  • Densities Of Materials
• Composition
  • Biochemical
  • Technological
    • Virtual And Illusory Beings
  • Elemental
  • Energy
  • Postmortal

Choosing Traits

Conceptual Design

• Fitting The Race To The Campaign
• Sets Of Races
• Perks And Quirks
• Lenses And Sub-Races

Attributes, Secondary Characteristics, and Talents=

Physical Traits

• Sustenance, The Senses, Communication, Movement, Manipulation, Attack, Defense, Outward Form

Mental Traits

• Consciousness
• Cognition
• Motivation And Behavior
  • Chauvinism, Concentration, Curiosity, Egoism, Empathy, Gregariousness, Imagination, Playfulness, Suspicion
• Skills
• Magic

Social Traits

• The Reference Culture
• Cultures, Languages, and Skills
  • Reaction Modifiers.
  • Culturally Defined Traits
  • Races And Powers

Races In Play

• How Much Do They Cost?
  • Super-Races
• Modification
• Player-Designed Races
• Inventing Races
• Shapeshifting
  • Transformational Abilities
• Permanent Transformation
• Behavior And Mentality
  • Roleplaying, Worldbuilding, Presentation, Grace