Wir haben am Samstag die aktuelle Staffel unserer #GURPS #InfiniteWorlds Kampagne beendet.

Die Charaktere konnten den mysteriösen Mord auf einer touristischen Dino-Zeitlinie aufklären, haben damit aber in ein verschwörerisches Wespennest gestoßen. Die Verdächtigen konnten allerdings durch ein Zeitportal auf Britannica-1 fliehen.

Damit dürfte das Thema für die nächste Staffel feststehen, aber jetzt geht es auf dem Sendeplatz erstmal mit #Shadowrun 5 weiter. 🙂

#pnpde

The Occasional Blog of Phil Masters: “Today Gets Magical”

http://philmasters.blogspot.com/2026/06/today-gets-magical.html

#RPG #GURPS #Magic #Games

I blame @mhd for making me go look for the old old GURPs FANTASY rules I had in the early 90s?

Oh boy, that cover. How did that 80s haircut Richard Marx impersonator get in such a predicament!

I spent time reading through the skills and it is slim pickings and not much help.

And now I had to think of Richard Marx, which is not something I wanted to do tonight.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #gurps

@SJohnRoss that can't be right, I started playing #GURPS when I was sixteen years old and now I'm only...oh nooo...

I read online that #GURPS turns 40 this year! The lil' scamp!

Other RPGs that turn 40 this year include my favorite of all time (Ghostbusters), Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, HârnMaster, and Greg Costikyan's The Price of Freedom, a game so '80s that it still makes "Where's the beef?" jokes.

1986 was also the year I properly became a gamer, found a game shop to call home, and did in fact sleep there a few times, in a space between two peg-boards loaded with used paperbacks. 😊

#TTRPG #RPGFogey

@capybaraz I can't speak to your level of insanity :) but I'm currently running Dungeon of the Mad Mage using #GURPS #DFRPG.

Starfall (GURPS Post Apocalypse)
Survive in a post-apocalyptic world inspired by Fallout, Gamma World, Thundarr the Barbarian, + more as normal or mutated humans, animals, or plants! alternate Thursdays at 8PM - 11PM Eastern. 250 pt characters, 125 pts in disads. Played on Discord, theater of the mind.
#ttrpg #gurps

https://startplaying.games/adventure/cmjhy166k000il804mf80smv2

@FrauKnurrkater Wir wollen nächsten Samstag unsere #GURPS #InfiniteWorlds Kampagne weiter führen, aber angesichts der zu erwartenden Temperaturen werden wir die Session wohl online abhalten.
#pnpde

Want to make a future GURPS book better? Steve Jackson Games is seeking playtesters for GURPS Armor Design. https://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=206725 #TTRPG #GURPS

#Hârn Clan sheet/roster for a #GURPS game which describes what the characters' family can provide as a free patron. An estranged character as a No Claim to Hospitality quirk.
Perk sun signs. Gotta look at HM3 or HMG for ideas of appropriate bonuses. Could extend them into astrological talents (and for a certain sun sign that could be close to Magery).

A Different View of Character Points #TTRPG #GURPS #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/06/A_Different_View_of_Character_Points.html

My Dream Edition of GURPS #TTRPG #GURPS #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/My_Dream_Edition_of_GURPS.html

@HeyeBodo Ich schnupper gerne mal auf Conventions in unbekannte Systeme und Settings hinein, um - nach dem Serindipitätsprinzip - vielleicht was zu finden, was ich nicht gesucht habe. 🙂

Insgesamt bin ich mit #GURPS sehr zufrieden, was meine Ansprüche als Spieler und Spielleitung an ein System angeht. Und die Anzahl an wirklich coolen Settings jenseits der klassischen Fantasy ist ja eine Stärke von GURPS.

A GURPS Template Expander #TTRPG #GURPS #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2026/05/A_GURPS_Template_Expander.html

Late 80s: Older brother of a friend from school introduced us to #Midgard2E my brain: 🤯 Then started to play DSA as a 13-years-old, soon #Adnd2e came along, saving our souls. My English grades improved thanks to 2nd Ed bloat. Played a lot of #Gurps in the 90s. Fell out of the hobby for 8-10 years - always missing it. Re-entered the hobby through Gurps, Pathfinder, 5e. Discovered the #osr & Storygames ten years ago. My brain: 🤯 - never looking back. Found my home, ttrpg-wise

Just found this copy of GURPS For Dummies in the Games section of a local used book store, sandwiched between books about blackjack & poker.

One of the most genuinely odd #TTRPG books ever made.

#GURPS

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Cover of the GURPS for Dummies book,

Randomly-timed reminder for any GURPS fans that I made a supplement full of Earth magic and related stuff, which you can get entirely free here: https://archive.org/details/earth-spells-for-gurps-magic #GURPS

I am pretty proud of this one.

#gurps #GMing

Scored these in a local used bookstore. They were a dollar each and hidden in the used magazine section.

The universe may be telling me to run some kind of time traveling superhero campaign.

#TTRPG #GURPS

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GURPS Supers and GURPS Time Travel books.

A guy on several of my discords is designing an rpg. But they are new to RPGs and only really played D&D.

So of course their system is a Heartbreaker. But unlike most, this is a GURPS heartbreaker. Not that the mechanics are anything in common, just the design goals are the same. A generic modular ruleset to handle any type of game.

But they’ve got combat in segments and if you speak a word in combat it slows your actions down. Way too fiddly.

#TTRPG #HeartbreakerRpg #GURPS #GURPSHeartbreak

#gurps #GMing

There was one refreshing exception however: when a pirate vessel was encountered, and parleyed with, a character was confronted with his secret past and the partial reveal that followed was played out to the groups enterainment and surprise.

Still, the result of our flailing around sounds like a decent scenario for our next, final session. The crew, in coalition with said pirates, wants to take their captured drone ship armada, and a hired mercenary landing battalion to finally secure the campaigns prize: the massively valuable rogue planet Satan's World.

#gurps

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We use a luck dice system in our GURPS game. You roll 3 dice at the start of the session, and you can swap them in at any time you want during the session. (You can keep unused ones for next session or reroll).

GURPS uses d6 for everything, lower is better in all but two cases (reaction rolls, damage).

I rolled 5, 5, 6.

I better get to shoot something or meet someone new this session. XD

#GURPS

@wandererbill

Vielen Dank für das Lob. 🥰 Wir spielen noch mit der alten 3er Version von #GURPS.

Leider habe ich nur stichpunktartige Notizen zu dem bisherigen Verlauf. 😐 Vielleicht finde ich nach dem Ende der Kampagne mal die Muse, einen überarbeiteten Bericht in's Netz zu stellen.

GURPS Canada
The development of this supplement received some funding from the Canadian government in 2000. The loan to SJG was a small part of the "Shawinigate" scandal that plagued the Chrétien Government. It was removed from the shelves of Canadian retailers and remains a collectors item there to this day.

Had a sample adventure called "Night of the Ookpik"
#GURPS #LostGURPSBooks

GURPS Smurfs
Perhaps the most expensive license SJG ever acquired. Supposedly, it nearly bankrupted the company.
#GURPS #LostGURPSBooks

GURPS The Wiz
In 1994, Steve Jackson Games wanted to produce a game book based on L. Frank Baum's classic Wizard of Oz stories. However, all of the books weren't yet out of copyright, so they decided to adapt the 1974 Oz-based musical The Wiz instead, which was available at much more reasonable price.

This didn't stop the Baum estate from suing SJG. After a few years of legal wrangling the whole thing was settled out of court. The GURPS Oz book was never developed.
#GURPS #LostGURPSBooks

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Cover for GURPS book based on the musical the Wiz

GURPS Dungeons & Dragons (the Cartoon)
In the mid-90s, SJG started adapting settings from other game companies, most notably Vampire: the Masquerade and Traveller.

In a particularly bold move, SJG made a deal with TSR to license D&D settings into GURPS books.

They had hoped to adapt some of the flagship settings like Ravenloft or Forgotten Realms, but to start off with TSR only gave them permission to adapt the 1980s animated D&D television series.
#GURPS #LostGURPSBooks #DnD

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Cover of GURPS D&D book. Characters from D&D cartoon fighting a multi-headed dragon.

So today, I spent hours figuring out how to build an AI character in GURPS. This character will be able to upload themselves (literally) onto other computers of high enough complexity. It can have duplicates, which can share memory when they make contact, however it's also reprogrammable which is an inherent danger, and it's got no manipulators, no legs and depends on electricity - daydreaming about transhumanity 🤯

I feel I'm well prepared for tonights chargen session 🤓

#gurps