What’s Going On:
Today: Euro Game Night (Castles of Burgundy & Tzol’kin) 7:00pm
Tomorrow: Beer Tasting @ 6:00pm; Scrabble @ 7:00pm
It’s Mammoth Monday and I want to talk about GURPS.
What’s GURPS? It’s the Generic Universal Role Playing System. Designed by Steve Jackson in 1985-86 it was heavily influenced by SJ’s earlier RPG, The Fantasy Trip. It’s a skill-based game based on 3d6 the uses a point-build character creation system.
It’s best feature is its versatility. It can be made to do any setting, from fantasy to sci-fi and anything in between. The default setting for the current, 4th, edition is a parallel-dimension/time travel campaign that take full advantage of the game’s universality.
GURPS is probably best known for its huge number of supplements. The third edition had over 100 campaign/setting supplements, covering numerous historical eras and showcasing the licensed worlds of Riverworld, Traveller, Horseclans, Conan, The Prisoner, Lensman and so many more. While these worldbooks are designed for GURPS, most of them only have a dozen or so pages of rules; the rest is information that could be used for any game system.
This is one of Tim’s favorites and he’s been playing it since 1987.
We’re very pleased to say that we just go in a huge collection of these supplements, most of them priced about $5. So if you’re looking to fill out your collection or just poke through some of them, swing on by and check them out!
And here are some other events we’ve got going on later in the week:
Wednesday: D&D Encounters @6:00pm; Netrunner League @7:00om
Thursday: Star War X-Wing #@ 7:00pm
Friday: Theros/BotG Booster Draft @ 7:00pm
Saturday: Journey into Nyx Pre-Release @ Noon & 7:00pm
Sunday: Miniature Flea Market from Noon-5:00pm; Journey into Nyx Pre-Release @ 2:00pm
