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Ianto Jones as a GURPS character
Feb. 13th, 2009 07:39 pmToday 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
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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 ( Read more... )
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
( Read more... )
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 ( Read more... )
