Discussion of the GURPS RPG system
Preamble: Dungeon Fantasy Steve Jackson Games is conservatively being bold. They are trying a purpose-built RPG, powered by the GURPS engine, that takes the self-contained model to its logical conclusion. They are supporting a high production value release that they funded in a successful Kickstarter. This release follows what I consider a pretty successful pattern…
While the song continues “absolutely nuthin’,” and proceeds to say it again, this isn’t so for GURPS. After I posted today’s GURPSDay script pull, someone asked in a seemingly non-trollish way why play GURPS instead of the other seemingly eight billion games out there. It’s a good question. My RPG History Like most, I got…
This is a repeat of an SJG Forums post made by Assistant Line Editor Jason “PK” Levine. *** *** *** *** A wise company looks to the future while carefully minding the past, and it’s in the latter spirit that we’ve offered back catalogs of our classic magazines. Roleplayer, which started as a newsletter and…