The Silent Screams of the Yhrani

    I wrote a one-shot for an IRL playgroup recently, so I decided to post it here! If you are going to play through this one-shot as a player, are in one of my games, or planning to play in one of my one-shots, do NOT read through this! If you are a GM, almost everything here is good to use in a campaign, except some of the setting things might need to be switched out.
    This was originally written with my custom rule set in mind, so some things might play differently. The world itself is a low-magic and low-fantasy place, but you can theoretically inject it anywhere.

Project Terraria: Humble Beginnings

     Today marks a somewhat interesting series beginning. I am going to try to recreate items in GURPS from Terraria, using Christopher R. Rice's Meta-Tech. I have chosen the campaign starting value as $1,000, so I would suggest multiplying the costs when using these items in your campaigns if you think they are too cheap. Unless otherwise noted, all of the origins here use the basic Superscience Origin! 
    At the end I will acknowledge many people for helping me, so stick around!

 

Hermes Boots     

    Description: The wearer can run super fast.

    Costs $2,580, SM-4.     
    Base Item: Boots.
    Statistics:  Enhanced Move (Ground) 1 [20]

    Notes: I went with the easiest one to kick this off. Despite the name, they have no actual association with Hermes besides the speed factor.

 

Band of Regeneration     

    Description: Slowly regenerates life (1 HP per second).

    Costs $30,007, SM-8. 
    Base Item: Bracelet, copper. 
    Statistics: Regeneration (Very Fast) [100]

    Notes: This one was also easy, though it should probably be one HP per ten seconds, but I went this as this was what voidTownB originally suggested. 

 

Band of Starpower     

    Description: Increases maximum mana by 4.

    Costs $3,607, SM-8.
    Base Item: Bracelet, copper. 
    Statistics: Energy Reserve (Magical) 4 [12]

    Notes: This was one I also worked out with voidTownB while I was out and about thinking about this project. One of those simple ones, but one that is probably common among most Terrarians.

 

Cobalt Shield    

    Description: Grants immunity to knockback.

    Costs $6,060, SM-1. 
    Base Item: Medium Shield.
    Statistics: Strength 50 (Knockback Only, -80%) [100]

    Notes: Okay, yeah, there was probably a pre-existing way to do this, but I am honestly really lazy, and it works fine anyways. The cost might be a little intense, but who cares.

 

Shackle   

    Description: None.

    Costs $307, SM-8. Ubiquity: Common.
    Base Item: Torc, Copper. 
    Statistics: Damage Resistance 1 [5]

    Notes: Whatever, this one is boring but a staple and classic. Also, yeah, whatever, I am using a Torc. Sue me.

 

Aglet     

    Description: The wearer can run faster.

    Costs $120.25, SM-12. Ubiquity: Common.
    Base Item: Beads, copper, 1/12th Foot.
    Statistics: Increased Basic Move 2 [10], Increased Basic Speed 0.25 [5]

    Notes: Yeah, I made the Aglet hilariously fast for no reason. I wanted to.


    I would like to thank Christopher R. Rice for creating Meta-Tech, voidTownB for helping me out with a lot of the ideas and talking to me about them, as well as Gumby Bush and sirpudding for helping me out now and in the past. You guys and everyone else on the GURPS (unofficial) Discord server help and continue to help me almost every day with stupid rules questions. If this proves it's worth as a project and people are interested in this, I will continue this series. Let me know what you think!