GURPS Traveller and Traveller HERO

GURPS Traveller ( GT ) uses the GURPS character creation and task resolution system developed by Steve Jackson Games, and Traveller HERO ( TH ) uses the HERO System developed by HERO Games for character creation and task resolution.

The game was left briefly idle until the publication of GURPS Traveller.

Once again the game system was replaced, this time with the GURPS system from Steve Jackson Games, but the setting was returned to the one laid out in the original Traveller, albeit as an alternate history in which the assassination and subsequent fall of the Third Imperium never happened.

To confuse matters further there was another version of the game being published simultaneously with the GURPS edition, Traveller 20 or T20, which used the same setting but integrated into the popular D20 role-playing system and was set a century earlier than either Classic Traveller or GURPS Traveller.

* GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars

GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars is the second GURPS-driven version of Traveller.

* GURPS Traveller by Steve Jackson Games

* GURPS Infinite Worlds – a 36 page introduction to this setting is provided in Campaigns.

BRP was conceived of as a genre-generic engine around which any sort of RPG could be played, much like GURPS and the d20 system have become today.

Fantasy Games Unlimited published a second edition of the game in 1982, and the game was modified and republished by Steve Jackson Games as an official GURPS supplement in 1992.

GURPS Bunnies & Burrows was published in 1992.

At the time Fudge was conceived, it was stylish to give role-playing games acronyms for names ( for instance, GURPS and TWERPS ) and originally the usenet design project referred to the game as SLUG, for " Simple Laid-back Universal Game ".

The HERO System itself was not released as an independent entity until 1989, as Steve Jackson Games ' GURPS ( Generic Universal Roleplaying System ) became more popular.

Freas was commissioned to paint the Skylab I insignia design and posters promoting the space program ( used by NASA and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution ); pinup girls on bombers while in the United States Army Air Forces ; comic book covers ; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna ; and many others, such as more than 500 saints ' portraits for the Franciscans executed simultaneously with his portraits of Alfred E. Neuman (" What?

The manuscript for GURPS Cyberpunk was confiscated although this was merely coincidence and not the actual purpose of the raid at all.

" The game uses the GURPS ( Third Edition ) system and takes place in an alternate timeline in which no Rebellion occurred and the Virus was never released.

The eventual result was GURPS, which was strongly influenced by The Fantasy Trip.

Autoduel America, the setting for Car Wars, was developed for role-playing games ( RPGs ) using Steve Jackson Games ' GURPS system ( called GURPS Autoduel ).

A licensed guidebook outlining the setting for use in the GURPS role-playing game was released by Steve Jackson Games.

* In the table-top roleplaying game GURPS Technomancer, Joseph Stalin acted in similar role for the Soviet Union ; in this alternative history setting, he didn't die in 1953, but rather was put in a magical sleep under the Moscow Kremlin.

GURPS Ogre ( 2000 ) was a supplement for the role-playing game GURPS.

In spite of these first impressions, the game has generally received positive reviews: Lafayette, for example, goes on to say that it is " really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows ", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a " work of genius ".

In some role-playing games, particularly those derived from Dungeons & Dragons, experience points are used to improve characters in discrete experience levels ; in other games, such as GURPS and the World of Darkness games, experience points are spent on specific abilities or attributes chosen by the player.

* Official GURPS Cyberpunk page on the SJ Games website

Although articles tend to concentrate on Steve Jackson Games products such as GURPS, it has published articles on other games such as d20 System, Talisman, Nobilis, Hero System, and has featured various comic strips and single-panel cartoons ( currently Murphy's Rules ).

* Agatha is visible throughout the GURPS Illuminati University sourcebook, which was illustrated by the Foglios, and she is even identified by name on page 11.

GURPS Uplift is a sourcebook for a science fiction themed role-playing game based on the Uplift Universe.

* GURPS Prime Directive, 2002, Based on Prime Directive, but with the GURPS ruleset.

It was based on the Steve Jackson Games series Car Wars which also includes the GURPS Autoduel worldbook.

In roll-low systems ( such as GURPS ), where a roll of 18 represents a critical failure, or in In Nomine, where a roll of 6 6 6 represents infernal influence on events, it is referred to as a " Freight Train from Hell.

BRP is similar to other generic systems such as GURPS, Hero System or Savage Worlds in that it uses a simple resolution method which can be broadly applied, in this case an attempt to roll under a certain number with percentile dice.

During a rise of " retro " games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.

The game itself also cites GURPS as an influence, along with FUDGE, another free RPG released to the web a year earlier.

They followed this book up with a supplement called GURPS: Vampire Companion.

Both books were produced for use with the Third Edition of the GURPS rules and are no longer in print.

Some systems that use a level-based experience system also incorporate the ability to purchase specific traits with a set amount of experience ; for example, D & D 3rd Edition bases the creation of magical items around a system of experience expenditure ( known as burning xp ) and also uses a system of feat selection which closely matches the advantages of systems such as GURPS or the Hero System.

There also exists a third-party guide to converting Albedo for use with the GURPS RPG system, written by Fred M. Sloniker and called, appropriately enough, GURPS Albedo.

GURPS Discworld suggests that the apparent transformations of both parties were only special effects, as Discworld spellcasters would not so carelessly tinker with their own morphic fields ; regardless, Granny Weatherwax was shown to be a match for the Archchancellor.

The system is considered innovative, but more in common with GURPS and Unisystem, rather than other diceless games such as Amber and Nobilis

GURPS International Super Teams, the 1991 worldbook for the " house campaign " for the GURPS Supers rules, uses " metahuman " as the formal scientific / academic term employed within the setting for a human with super-powers.

Examples of games with prolific solitaire lines were Dungeons & Dragons, GURPS, Das Schwarze Auge, DC Heroes and Call of Cthulhu.

The role-playing game Transhuman Space and the related book " GURPS Bio-Tech " use the term parahuman interchangeably with variant human to refer to a wide array of heavily modified racial templates.

All the basic information needed to run a GURPS campaign is here with genre or world-specific information in other books.

The previous edition of the GURPS rules consisted of a Basic Set as the core rule book, with GURPS Compendium 1 and GURPS Compendium 2 released later to collate alternative and advanced rules in a logical place.