Ianto Jones as a GURPS character
Feb. 13th, 2009 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I have done a lot of silly fiddly pointless and repetitive maths.
I have figured out the maximum number of hours under GURPS rules that can be spent studying per year, how many points towards skills that could get you, how many hours you can study combined with a job, how many weeks of study-and-job one could combine with the university course I am on, and the maximum number of skills points per year someone combining a college course, holiday work, and independent study could therefore get. Plus the number of hours of independent study that could fit in the weekends, all of which should go on weekend things, like hiking and carousing and sex appeal and area knowledge of places with pubs in.
This gives me a ratio of points to spend on English, History, research, job skills, personal interest study, and weekend things.
I then calculated his two years at Torchwood 1 by the maximum hours of job and personal study and got how many points he could spend on the kind of things only Torchwood could teach, like hidden knowledge and interesting tech.
It works out as
6 in English and research
6 in History and research
4.5 college job related
4.5 personal interest study
5 Torchwood job skills
5 Torchwood outside of work personal studying
15 Weekend points, over the 5 years.
This doesn't take into account the first 18 years of his life, any potential gap year, any time spent neither in college nor at Torchwood, or the six months at Torchwood 3 before Gwen turned up which I am calculating seperately because we know his job changed.
Also because the Torchwood Archives I think says six months somewhere but that seems a very long time to keep your girlfriend in the basement.
There is absolutely no point making such calculations. This is why I did them. In a different mood I'd be doing celtic knots again.
Now I can take those points and plug them into the GURPS skills list.
If I was doing similar calculations for Tosh I'd skip the job part of the year and just figure 10 skill points per year on academic subjects at university, as per GURPS book assumption of maximum teaching hours rather than calculations based on my college year. For Owen I'd like to do that, given his intellectual focus and results, but I don't feel he's got other income to rely on, and I reckon Tosh does. Either way, Owen's 5 years of weekends clearly went into carousing and sex appeal. Mostly carousing.
I have figured out the maximum number of hours under GURPS rules that can be spent studying per year, how many points towards skills that could get you, how many hours you can study combined with a job, how many weeks of study-and-job one could combine with the university course I am on, and the maximum number of skills points per year someone combining a college course, holiday work, and independent study could therefore get. Plus the number of hours of independent study that could fit in the weekends, all of which should go on weekend things, like hiking and carousing and sex appeal and area knowledge of places with pubs in.
This gives me a ratio of points to spend on English, History, research, job skills, personal interest study, and weekend things.
I then calculated his two years at Torchwood 1 by the maximum hours of job and personal study and got how many points he could spend on the kind of things only Torchwood could teach, like hidden knowledge and interesting tech.
It works out as
6 in English and research
6 in History and research
4.5 college job related
4.5 personal interest study
5 Torchwood job skills
5 Torchwood outside of work personal studying
15 Weekend points, over the 5 years.
This doesn't take into account the first 18 years of his life, any potential gap year, any time spent neither in college nor at Torchwood, or the six months at Torchwood 3 before Gwen turned up which I am calculating seperately because we know his job changed.
Also because the Torchwood Archives I think says six months somewhere but that seems a very long time to keep your girlfriend in the basement.
There is absolutely no point making such calculations. This is why I did them. In a different mood I'd be doing celtic knots again.
Now I can take those points and plug them into the GURPS skills list.
If I was doing similar calculations for Tosh I'd skip the job part of the year and just figure 10 skill points per year on academic subjects at university, as per GURPS book assumption of maximum teaching hours rather than calculations based on my college year. For Owen I'd like to do that, given his intellectual focus and results, but I don't feel he's got other income to rely on, and I reckon Tosh does. Either way, Owen's 5 years of weekends clearly went into carousing and sex appeal. Mostly carousing.