Download or read book Gurps Supporting Cast written by Nigel D. Findley and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gurps Wizards written by Sean Punch and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- 28 different templates for quick creation of wizard characters. -- Cover by award-winning fantasy artist Rowena! GURPS Wizards is the complete guide to magical character design. It has essays on 28 wizard archetypes, accompanied by templates that let you quickly design complete and efficient characters.
Download or read book GURPS Lite written by Sean Punch and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Be a Gurps GM written by Warren "Mook" Wilson and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Student's Guide to Ultimate Power GURPS! A game with infinite possibilities. Even those familiar with this award-winning system may not feel they've mastered the fundamentals . . . and those just starting with this game may feel lost amid the possibilities. You want help. You could use a guide. You need How to Be a GURPS GM. For the player, this supplement offers insight into how to create the perfect character to fit your vision, plus three examples of character creation and two new fantasy templates. The chapter dedicated to customizing combat and using various options can be particularly helpful for new and veteran players in making aggressive altercations even more exciting. For the Game Master, the supplement discusses everything needed to run a campaign: how to prepare the game setting, assist the players with the creation of their heroes, create challenging and engaging encounters, and design and run the first adventure. The included overview of the Fourth Edition line, plus recommended resource lists for eight popular genres, can help the GM decide which supplements will be most helpful to craft a new campaign. This supplement also provides canonical insight from Sean "Dr. Kromm" Punch, who draws on decades of experience answering questions and providing clarifications as the GURPS Line Editor. Throughout, it follows a group of example players new to GURPS, from when their GM first opens the Basic Set through the starting session of their inaugural adventure. How to Be a GURPS GM is an invaluable aid for getting started with GURPS, bridging the previously perilous step between reading the Basic Set and participating in your first game. Half of power is knowing how to use it. With How to Be a GURPS GM, you'll be on your way to unleashing the full potential of GURPS like never before!
Download or read book GURPS MAGIC written by Steve Jackson and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in softcover, this GURPS Fourth Edition book combines the spells from the Third Edition GURPS Magic and GURPS Grimoire, plus dozens of all-new spells, for the ultimate tome of magic! Within these pages, crackling with mystic energies, you'll find: The core magic system for GURPS, expanding on the material presented in the Basic Set . . . rules for learning magic, casting spells, enchanting magic items, and more! Complete alchemy rules . . . creating magical elixirs, using them, and even researching new ones . . . with an extensive list of known elixirs and their powers. Alternatives to the core magic system, including complete rules for improvised magic and rune magic. There are also guidelines for the GM who wants to change how magic works in particular worlds in a multi-world campaign. Plus special material from the GURPS Magic Items series and Wizards. This is a powerful book, indeed. Use it wisely.
Download or read book Gurps Rogues written by Lynette Cowper and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Takes a Thief . . . When brute force won't get the job done, you need someone with . . . skills. A specialist. Preferably someone who doesn't let a lot of nagging concerns about law or morality get in the way. Whether you're looking for just the right character to round out an adventuring party, or a dangerous NPC to challenge your players, GURPS Rogues has what you need - 29 different templates, letting you quickly create the scoundrel that's right for the job. Templates include . . . Thieves who are only in it for the money, such as the armed robber, cat burglar, pirate, pickpocket, housebreaker, and forger. Rogues who have other goals than mere material gain, like the spy, hacker, evil mastermind, mad scientist, and saboteur. Charmers who work more with people's minds than with lockpicks and prybars . . . the con man, bard, fixer, gambler, prostitute, and street doctor. Mysterious figures who work on the shadowy edges of society -- the tracker, poacher, assassin, master thief, smuggler, mobster, and black marketeer. Each template comes with four complete characters, drawn from a wide range of settings. All told, you get 116 ready-to-use sample characters, as well as historical background and information on the technology and tactics that shaped their professions. This version of GURPS Rogues also comes bundled with the 24-page GURPS Update, providing information on how to upgrade these GURPS Third Edition templates and characters to Fourth Edition!
Download or read book GURPS Who s Who 1 written by Phil Masters and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Complete descriptions and character stats for 52 of the most intriguing people in history! -- Well-researched and clearly written...a crossover for history buffs. -- A fine demonstration of the educational value of roleplaying.
Download or read book Girl Genius Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg clank written by Phil Foglio and published by Studio Foglio. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Zesty Tastee, flamboyant gay playboy and heir to the Tastee Corporationfortune. That's what the world knows of him, but Zesty is also Magpie, thecorporate saboteur who fights against his father's corrupt business practices.Zesty's evil tycoon dad is out to destroy an entire rainforest, and he's joinedup with a mysterious sect of ninjas to help keep 'Magpie' from interfering.Prince Ander is the sect agent on the case and Zesty has love at first sight forthis dreamy ninja master. Zesty can't understand why anyone as noble as Princewould ever work with his father. His mission is to find out the secret of therain forest, and win Prince's heart in the process!
Download or read book GURPS For Dummies written by Adam Griffith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the adventure begin with this straightforward guide to GURPS! This is it—the key that unlocks the riches of GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) and gives you a wealth of information on how to create your character and fine-tune your play. Produced in partnership with Steve Jackson Games, the game's creator, GURPS For Dummies is the ideal companion to GURPS Basic Set, 4th Edition that explains the rules. It gives you insight into the choices you’ll make in everything from creating a fun, dynamic character using the allotted number of points, to playing in an adventure, to becoming a GM. Whether you want to be an Amazon princess or a stalwart warrior, an old-fashioned swashbuckler or a modern investigator, a tough cop or a cat burglar, a sorcerer casting spells or a cosmic ranger, fighting lawlessness in the asteroids, this guide will help you: Determine your character’s basic attributes: IQ, DX (dexterity), ST (strength) and HT (health) Figure out your character’s secondary characteristics Choose advantages (including powers and perks) and disadvantages (including quirks and disadvantages with a self-control roll modifier) Optimize your points by using talents Select your skills based on functional area or the campaign setting Enhance your character with spells, magic items, magic staves, and powerstones Strategically purchase equipment for different characters, tech levels, and campaign types Create and manage a character sheet, write a character background, keep a character log, and more—all with samples Choose good combat techniques and play with your character If you want to become a GM, this guide gets you going with advice on creating the adventure, managing the character creation process, managing combat, and interpreting the rules. There’s even a handy Cheat Sheet tear-out GM screen in the front of the book. There are tips throughout, plus advice on how to: Create your very own GURPS universe for your campaign, whether it’s dungeon-crawl, high-adventure, combat-focused, puzzle-focused, or masquerade-type Provide a basic write-up of the world for your players, including technology level, supernatural and supernormal abilities and powers, races, setting, character templates, cultural and social information, and limitations Create an electronic combat grid, a battle log, a tactical map, and more—with samples Do mapping, planning, and plotting Create memorable NPC (nonplayer characters), both good guys and bad guys GURPS For Dummies helps you create more detailed, exciting, and interesting characters and take your game to the next level. That’s important whether you’re saving a princess or saving the planet...searching for hidden treasure or for secrets to eliminate disease... fighting crime or combating armies of evil robots...casting spells in medieval castles or destroying terrorist cells in modern day milieus. With GURPS, the only limitation is your imagination.
Download or read book GURPS Discworld written by Terry Pratchett and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A role playing game based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld, 2-6 players "make a good group". Equipment needed: pencils, paper, and 3 six-sided dice.
Download or read book What s Up 2006 365 Days of Skywatching written by Jeff Barbour and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's Up 2006: 365 Days of Skywatching presents the highlights you can see in the night sky for every day in 2006. With a small telescope, binoculars, and sometimes just your eyes, you'll track down features on the Moon, planets, meteor showers, bright and double stars, open and globular clusters, and distant galaxies.Astronomers Tammy Plotner and Jeff Barbour are your guides to the wonders of the night sky.
Download or read book Gurps Cyberpunk written by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- The book that was confiscated by the Secret Service because they thought it contained hacking secrets! (It doesn't) -- Nominated for the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.
Download or read book GURPS THAUMATOLOGY written by Phil Masters and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feel the Power! Fantasy settings are defined by their magic . . . so different worlds need different magic systems. GURPS Thaumatology has GURPS Fourth Edition updates of the best Third Edition magic variants, plus many all-new options. This mighty tome includes: Minor tweaks for the spell-based magic of the Basic Set: restructuring prerequisites and colleges, modifying Magery and mana, new magical energy sources, adapting spells on the fly, and more. Radical revisions of spell-based magic, including detailed versions of the clerical and ritual magic options hinted at in the Basic Set, and the return of that Third Edition classic, "unlimited mana." Traditional alternatives to spells, such as ceremonial, spirit-mediated, and runic magic. World-shaking freeform magic. Magic as inherent powers. An in-depth look at material magic, with new alchemy, herbalism, and enchantment options; rules for free-willed items and magical gadgets; and guidelines for "the stuff of raw magic." Notes on adapting real-world occult concepts - such as the Laws of Magic, astrology, and traditional material components - to any magic system. Guidelines for running magic-oriented games, advice on combining magic systems, and detailed outlines for four distinctly different fantastic campaigns. The softcover reprint contains the same material as the earlier print run (updated for the latest errata, of course!), with black-and-white interiors and a lower price. GURPS Thaumatology requires the GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition. GURPS Magic is recommended but not required. The discussions of different magical styles would enhance any game that features magic.
Download or read book GURPS Basic Set Characters written by David L. Pulver and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GURPS Arabian Nights written by Phil Masters and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- By the top-selling co-author of GURPS Discworld. -- Includes dozens of new magic spells.
Download or read book Gurps Basic Set Third Edition Revised written by Steve Jackson and published by Steve Jackson Games. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure in any world you can think of, with GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System - the most flexible roleplaying system you can use. If you haven't yet upgraded to the Fourth Edition . . . you're a completist . . . or you're looking for a dose of nostalgia, here's the previous edition! It's easy to learn - you can jump right in with the included quick-start rules, pre-designed characters, and an easy-to-play solo adventure. The Basic Set is designed to be "Game Master-friendly," with Table of Contents, Glossary, Appendix, and Index, as well as lots of examples.
Download or read book Rolemaster Fantasy Role Playing written by Coleman Charlton and published by Iron Crown Enterprises. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a Hero is tough. Especially if you're wasting your precious game time fighting silly rules instead of monsters. When it comes to designing characters, no system gives you more control over your character design than Rolemaster. Say goodbye to arbitrary limits and "you can't do that!", because with Rolemaster you can!
