An iterative calculator for the SJGames GURPS™ 4th Edition rules for character aging (Basic Set: Campaigns, p. 444, with supplementary rules from Basic Set: Characters, pp. 53, 66, 153, and 154).
Now written in Rust instead of Perl!
$ ./gurps-aging-calculator --help
gurps-aging-calculator 2.0.0
Patrick Burroughs (Celti) <celti@celti.name>
Iterative calculator for the GURPS aging rules.
USAGE:
gurps-aging-calculator [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS:
-a, --add <ADD> Total additional optional modifiers to the aging roll.
-d, --death <DEATH> The HT the character is considered dead at (default is 4).
-x, --extended-lifespan <EXTENDED> The character's level of Extended Lifespan (default is 0).
-h, --ht <HT> The character's starting HT (default is 10).
-i, --iterations <ITERATIONS> The number of iterations to calculate (default is 100,000).
-l, --longevity The character has Longevity.
-p, --max-procs <MAX_PROCS> The maximum number of threads to spawn (default is 4).
-D, --self-destruct The character has Self-Destruct.
-s, --short-lifespan <SHORT> The character's level of Short Lifespan (default is 0).
-t, --tl <TL> The character's lifetime medical TL (default is 8).
-v, --verbose <VERBOSE> Log verbose output to specified file ('-' indicates stdout).
-?, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
$ ./gurps-aging-calculator
Median age of death is 77.5 (highest is 151, lowest is 53).
Mean is 78.8345475; StdDev is 10.548953687426954.
Either clone this repository and build it with cargo...
$ git clone https://github.com/Celti/gurps-aging-calculator.git
$ cargo build --release
$ target/release/gurps-aging-calculator
...or see the releases page for Linux and Windows 64-bit static binaries.
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