Supporting Cast: Friends and Foes

Last updated: November 16th, 2005

We are continuing to take submissions for individual Supporting Cast characters. However, we'd also like to see small groups of characters that can be used together as allies or opposition to the player characters. We expect most of the groups we publish to be foes for the player characters to defeat, whether by wit or by weapon. Allies are also welcome, especially if their assistance does not come easy.

Each group of friends or foes should feature at least one detailed character with a complete GURPS writeup. (Additional d20 statistics are welcome, but not required.) It should also feature a template for a generic version of the friend or foe, prepared as described in the the GURPS Basic Set pp. 445 - 449. Additional write-ups of up to three more characters in the group are welcome, and may or may not include game statistics.

The article should present goals and tactics for the group and its leader. We are also looking for adventure hooks, ways the PCs can benefit from helping or defeating the group, ways the PCs can suffer for failing to deal successfully with the group, and variations on the group that can be applied to different settings.

We are currently looking for the following groups of friends and foes:

• bandits
• cops
• a mad scientist and his (or her) creations
• musketeers
• a necromancer and his (or her) minions
• ninjas
• orc raiders
• pirate crew
• sailing ship crew
• shopkeepers
• spaceship crew
• soldiers
• spies
• supervillain teams
• traders

Other groups will be considered, but these groups are preferred.