We Have a Team on Standby GURPS Action 1: Heroes and GURPS Action 3: Furious Fists offer templates for classic action roles, but they focus on niche competence, relegating context – subgenre, who the heroes work for, and the traits those things imply – to minor add-on lenses. GURPS Action 4: Specialists presents an approach that allows more customization, but it isn't a quick-start system, as the user must make numerous choices and do considerable accounting. Either way, the GM has to vet the resulting characters to ensure that they fill vital campaign roles without drifting off into questionable ones. GURPS Action 10: Go Teams inverts this, starting with a baseline template for a group (Covert Operations Cell, Emergency Response Team, Gang, Heist Crew, Interagency Task Force, Police Squad, Posse, Security Detail, Special-Ops Detachment, or SWAT Team) suited to a classic action subgenre, and then offering lenses that give its members vital niches. The GM picks a "team template" and chooses a few options, and then the players divvy up key roles among characters guaranteed to be suitable. The descriptions and customization notes act as detailed campaign seeds, while boxes explaining how everything was derived from Specialists teach you how to create more. Deploy the Right People without delay!
