Original Thoughts: Video Game-Like reagent gathering.

Monster Hunter at his computer

I like Monster Hunter a bit (Monster Hunter, the video game franchise, haven't played the Monster Hunters supplements for GURPS). One thing I like alongside the long struggle to reach the top, is the fairly simple crafting system and being able to find components in the wild to useful things fairly easily. At the end of that Mario article, I had a lightbulb go off about a fairly simple system for aping the system of finding stuff, putting it together, and using it in a somewhat objective, but slightly subjective system.