Nordlond Bestiary Sparks the Imagination…

On the SJGames Forums, I got the best possible comment on my recent Nordlond Bestiary. I asked for, and received, permission to repost it.

So yesterday, I checked my front door to see if there were any packages. My 11 year-old son just happened to be following me at the time. I found a package and immediately guessed what it was. My son could tell I was excited and asked me what was in the package. I told him that a full sized bestiary had finally come out for GURPS 4th edition. I opened the box, briefly browsed the contents, and then went to go get ready to go out to dinner. About 10 minutes later I came back and my son was leafing through the bestiary. He started playing a little game where he would ask me if I would rather fight x or y. The book had clearly sparked his imagination.

For context, I have quite a few GURPS books on the self in our library. And I have been running a monster hunter campaign off and on for my family for about two years now. So my son has had a fair amount of exposure to GURPS. I have seen him flip through the core books during game sessions to look up rules, but I had never before seen him browse through a GURPS book just for the pure joy of it. There have been a lot of discussions on the boards lately of how to get more people into GURPS. In my mind, the answer is to make more books that can spark an 11 year-old’s imagination like the Nordland Bestiary has. I look forward to more books.

Source: Rommel, on the SJGames Forums.

I’ll admit, the thread from my note that I’ve now got the Bestiary hardcopies in stock on my GB Web Store to the end give me many happy feelings.