Review: Caravan to Ein Arris

Oh my, is that some cover art?

Caravan to Ein Arris is the free adventure that a lot of people are recommended towards if they want to get a feel for what GURPS can be and how it can play out. I find it decent, if not a little railroady, but meh, it's nice to have training wheels on during your first, or among your first adventures. The adventure has a lot of different types of challenges covered and touches a lot of GURPS fundamentals, but it might not have enough guidance for players or GMs in my opinion. Let's take a deeper dive.

Enemy: Caravan to Ein Arris' "Fighter I"

Introduction

Caravan to Ein Arris is a free campaign for people just learning GURPS. It was originally created for GURPS 3rd Edition, and then ported to 4th edition. A criticism I have heard recently was that the enemy encounters seem too powerful for an introductory campaign. So, as an exercise in the application of the Combat Effectiveness Rating (CER) from Pyramid # 3/77 Combat, I wanted to see how hard it might be to make a more fair version of the encounter.