Nov 26, 2024
The sourcebook GURPS Goblins provides a fascinating variety of misfortunes that might befall player characters as a result of invoking random lookup tables. Some of these misfortunes have specific conditions, such as occurring only in particular seasons, or only to characters with particular traits; if such a misfortune is drawn while its conditions are not met, nothing happens, to the target's good fortune.
I've just noticed that one such conditional misfortune is that only male characters are at risk of being randomly struck by lightning. The "males only" tag is reiterated in several places, so it's probably not a typo, but at no point does the text see fit to explain why this is the case, or even to remark upon it in any way.
