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By the way, gerade gesehen: "Bundle of Holding" bietet gerade diverse #GURPS Regel- und Quellenbuchpakete für einen schmalen Euro an.
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/G4Essentials2026
#pnpde
cc: @video_play
@video_play Aktuell läuft noch unsere #GURPS #InfiniteWorlds Runde, sowie die #MaskenDesNyralathotep Kampagne in unserer #CallOfCthulhu Dauerrunde.
Im Herbst pausiert die Infinite Worlds Runde und es startet mit den gleichen Leuten eine #Shadowrun5e Kampagne. 😊
Some musings on what I like in #ttrpg :
I do like it when player characters get more powerful and competent over time. But the power curve of #DnD and its derivatives is too steep for me - I like it when a campaign has room to breathe.
Thus, some of my favorite RPGs have a middle ground of slow but steady improvement - where the players can pick some minor improvements after each session or two which become impressive over time. #GURPS and #WFRP are some good examples of this style of play - the characters can become very powerful over the course of a long campaign without actually developing into the equivalent of superheroes.
What is your preference when it comes to the power curve in RPGs?
I got the revised version of #GURPS 4E (well, the PDF version).
I just wish there was a snowball's chance in hell for convincing my local #ttrpg group to use this.
https://warehouse23.com/collections/new/products/gurps-basic-set-fourth-edition-revised-pdf
@SJohnRoss Same here. Feeling the #GURPS itch.After all it was old Auntie GURPS who brought me back into the hobby after a long hiatus around 2008. The game ist too fiddly for my middle-aged brain. These days I thrive on 90% #OSR + 10% Storygames, but I appreciate the power of GURPS, what the game can do if you take it seriously and, well, if have enough time to engage with it.
Bundle of Holding are currently not offering one, not offering two, not even offering three... but offering FOUR bundles of GURPS tabletop roleplaying bundles courtesy of Steve Jackson Games... and that's just the start of the GURPS 4E Week promotion!
#rpgs #gurps #steveJacksonGames #bundleOfHolding
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/fantasy/bundle-of-holding-offers-more-gurps-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at?utm_source=mastodon
@Himmelsfeuer Manche mögen es als Verlust sehen, aber ich habe das mögliche Sterben bei der Charaktererstellung unter #GURPS #Traveller nicht vermisst. 😊
We've beaten up the raiders. But can we survive the celebratory feast? #WhartsonHall continues with The Pirates of Drinax #GURPS #Traveller https://discussion.tekeli.li/t/gurps-traveller-the-pirates-of-drinax-second-edition/6780 #TTRPG #ActualPlay
Starting a new #GURPS game this evening.
Stumbled upon a map of Venus that depicted it with Earth-like water oceans and now I’m going to use it as a sword and sorcery setting. Am excite.
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. 🙂
The Occasional Blog of Phil Masters: “Today Gets Magical”
http://philmasters.blogspot.com/2026/06/today-gets-magical.html
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.
@SJohnRoss that can't be right, I started playing #GURPS when I was sixteen years old and now I'm only...oh nooo...
@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).
| 💙➡️🇺🇦Forgot to post this yesterday.
Ring of Fire, GURPS adventure with access (early?) to the single volume GURPS 4th Edition Basic set, Revised, which combines Characters and Campaigns into one book (physical and PDF). Crowdfunding through Backerkit until June 29th.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/steve-jackson-games/gurps-ring-of-fire
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
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.
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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
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 🤓