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List of GURPS books is a listing of the publications from Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games

Steve Jackson Games is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.-History:...

and other licensed publishers for the GURPS

GURPS

The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

Core books

These are the books necessary to play, with the core rules used in all settings (GURPS Basic Set: Characters and Campaigns), plus basic accessories.

GURPS Basic Set: Characters

GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns

GURPS Basic Set Deluxe Edition

Limited, luxury edition ("bound in bonded leather with two-color foil stamping. They have buckram-textured endpapers and sewn head and foot bands") of the two volumes of the Basic Set.

GURPS Lite

A 32-page introduction to the rules of GURPS based on the core rules in the GURPS 4e Basic Set (mainly Characters). It includes basic character creation

Character creation

Character creation is the process of defining a game character or other character. Typically, a character's individual strengths and weaknesses are represented by a set of statistics. Games with a largely fictional setting may include traits such as race and class...

with advantages, disadvantages, skills and equipment, as well as some rules for playing. It is freely available, as a PDF

Portable Document Format

Portable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....

from the Steve Jackson Games website, and a supplement to some GURPS books.

GURPS Ultra-Lite

GURPS GM's Screen

GURPS Update

The official conversion guide from 3rd to 4th edition, released as a free PDF file and together with the GM's Screen

Rules supplements

These books detail general rules not used in all possible campaign, such as rules for magic spells, for superpowers and for martial arts.

GURPS Magic

Magic rules from the Basic set are expanded, detailing a large number of spells, and rules for alternative magic systems, magic item creation, alchemy etc.

GURPS Martial Arts

Includes new perks, skills, techniques, styles, weapons, and extended combat and injury rules, as well as history on the martial arts, pregenerated NPCs, and ideas for martial-arts campaigns.

GURPS Mass Combat (PDF): gives rules for large-scale battles between military units, as well as allowing for the actions of player characters.

GURPS Powers

Extends the basic character creation rules to better handle high powered characters, and allow highly detailed customization of powers in which each power consists of a range of abilities (ie, advantages) and a talent, with a "source" and a "focus", adding color and helping to tie together the abilities, and an additional "power modifier" that acts like an enhancement (rare) or limitation to the power as a whole.

GURPS Thaumatology

Extends further the rules about magic, adding ceremonial, spirit, runic, freeform, material (alchemy, herbalism), and real-world-inspired magic.

Genre toolkits

These books describe how to design and play campaigns in a particular genre

Genre

Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...

, such as fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

, science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

or detective fiction

Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator , either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.-In ancient literature:...

. - This toolkit covers creation of different types of fantasy

Fantasy

settings include "High

High fantasy

High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel worlds. High fantasy was brought to fruition through the work of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, whose major fantasy works were published in the 1950s...

" and "Low

Low fantasy

Low fantasy is a term used to describe a variety of works within the sub-genres of fantasy fiction. Low fantasy places relatively less emphasis on typical elements associated with fantasy, setting a narrative in real-world environments with only vague elements of the fantastical, sometimes just...

", "Dark

Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy is a term used to describe a fantasy story with a pronounced horror element.-Overview:A strict definition for dark fantasy is difficult to pin down. Gertrude Barrows Bennett has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Both Charles L...

" and "Light", Swords and Sorcery

Swords and Sorcery

Swords and Sorcery is a 1963 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Virgil Finlay. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books...

, and Myth; it also covers typical fantasy races and non-standard settings, such as "Roma Arcana", based on a fantastical Rome that never completely fell. It was a nominee at the 2005 Origins Award

Origins Award

The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.The Origins Award is commonly...

for Best Roleplaying Game. - A PDF

Portable Document Format

file and POD

Print on demand

Print on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...

release about detective fiction

Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator , either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.-In ancient literature:...

based adventures and campaigns, crime scenes, and advanced rules for interrogating NPC

Non-player character

A non-player character , sometimes known as a non-person character or non-playable character, in a game is any fictional character not controlled by a player. In electronic games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer through artificial intelligence...

s. - Covers the planning and running of science fiction

Science fiction

campaigns with special emphasis on the creation of star systems, worlds and alien races. - Builds on GURPS Powers to describe powers, rules, and guidelines to run a superhero

Superhero

A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...

campaign.

Fictional settings

These supplements details how to design and play campaigns set in particular fictional settings, either specific to GURPS (such as "Banestorm", a fantasy setting, or "Infinite Worlds", about exploration of parallel universe

Parallel universe (fiction)

A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...

s) or independent of it (such as the Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

universe)., detailing a fantasy setting called Yrth in which standard fantasy tropes such as Wizards, Orcs, Elves, Dwarves are present, along with more unusual fantastic races like the Reptile Men. A basic premise of the setting is that magical banestorms pick up people, whole villages, etc. from other worlds (including Earth) and deposit them on Yrth.

Changing Times (PDF) updates the rules of the Transhuman Space
Transhuman Space
Transhuman Space is a role-playing game published by Steve Jackson Games as parts of the "Powered by GURPS" line. Set in the year 2100, humanity has begun to colonize the Solar System...

setting for compatibility with GURPS 4th edition., winner of the 2005 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement. Describes play in two settings, Infinite Worlds (cross-world travel, including other published GURPS settings) and Time Travel (within Earth's history).
GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars - Describing a period of the history of the science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

Traveller
Traveller (role-playing game)
Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, the first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop and subsequent editions by various companies remaining in print to this day. The game was inspired from such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest saga series by...

setting, early in its history; includes rules for generating characters for the setting, starship design, interstellar trade, exploration, and ship-to-ship combat.
GURPS Casey and Andy (PDF) - A setting inspired by the Casey and Andy webcomic by Andy Weir
GURPS Lands Out of Time (PDF) - A setting that pits man against dinosaur.
GURPS Prime Directive - One of the incarnations of the Prime Directive
Prime Directive (role-playing game)
Prime Directive is a role-playing game set in the Star Trek-derived Star Fleet Universe. The game has gone through two different incarnations.-Prime Directive RPG:...

role-playing game, set in the Star Trek
Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

-derived Star Fleet Universe
Star Fleet Universe
The Star Fleet Universe is the variant of the Star Trek fictional universe detailed in the series of Star Fleet Battles games from Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. and used as reference for the Starfleet Command series of computer games...

, together with its sourcebooks:
- GURPS Prime Directive: Klingons
- GURPS Prime Directive: Romulans ' onMouseout='HidePop("80107")' href="/topics/Group_SNE">Group SNE
  Group SNE
  Group SNE is a Japanese company founded in 1986 by the current president Hitoshi Yasuda, which produces role-playing games, light novels, board games and card games. Ryo Mizuno was one of the founding members. Group SNE is named after Syntax Error, the programming language BASIC's term...
  
  , 2006, in Japanese
  Japanese language
  is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
  
  , ISBN 4-903177-19-X) A few years ago world tree
  World tree
  The world tree is a motif present in several religions and mythologies, particularly Indo-European religions, Siberian religions, and Native American religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the earth, and, through its...
  
  s appeared all around the world, producing guardian spirits named Yuurei (lit. ghost) and interfering with real world events. Set in contemporary Japan. Published by . in Japanese)
Girl Genius RPG (in production), based on the Girl Genius
Girl Genius
Girl Genius is an ongoing comic book series turned webcomic, written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio and published by their company, Studio Foglio LLC under the imprint Airship Entertainment...

webcomic by Studio Foglio
GURPS Thaumatology: Alchemical Baroque - An updated alchemy magic setting that originally appeared in GURPS All-Star Jam 2004.
GURPS Martial Arts: Gladiators
GURPS Gun Fu
GURPS Locations: Metro of Madness
GURPS Hot Spots: Renaissance Florence
Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game - the sourcebook of Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo...

's Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga
The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. Most of these were published between 1986 and 2002, with the exceptions being “Winterfair Gifts” and Cryoburn...

.

Technology and equipment

These handbooks describe the data, in terms of GURPS, of specific objects, gadgets and vehicles, and how to construct new ones.

GURPS Bio-Tech
GURPS Bio-Tech
"The Future is Alive"GURPS Bio-Tech is a GURPS, the Generic Universal Role Playing Game, sourcebook that covers the implementation of biotechnology in the game. The first edition of the book was written for GURPS Third Edition while the second edition of GURPS Bio-Tech was written for GURPS...

- describes medical techniques and enhancements, and modified life forms.
GURPS Low-Tech - describes technologies and inventions up through the Age of Sail
Age of Sail
The Age of Sail was the period in which international trade and naval warfare were dominated by sailing ships, lasting from the 16th to the mid 19th century...

.
GURPS High-Tech. - describes technologies from the invention of gunpowder to the present day.
GURPS Ultra-Tech - describes technologies from the near future onwards.
GURPS Shell-Tech (PDF) - gives more cybershell designs for Transhuman Space.
GURPS Vehicle Design (forthcoming)
GURPS Armorer Handbook (concept considered for release)

Spaceships

These handbooks give a streamlined method for spacecraft construction and combat.

GURPS Spaceships (PDF) - describes the basic design and combat system.
GURPS Spaceships 2: Traders, Liners, and Transports (PDF) - concentrates on the economics of merchant spacecraft.
GURPS Spaceships 3: Warships and Space Pirates (PDF)
GURPS Spaceships 4: Fighters, Carriers, and Mecha (PDF)
GURPS Spaceships 5: Exploration and Colony Spacecraft (PDF)
GURPS Spaceships 6: Mining and Industrial Spacecraft (PDF)
GURPS Spaceships 7: Strange and Alien Spacecraft (PDF)
GURPS Spaceships 8: Transhuman Spacecraft (PDF) - spacecraft taken from the Transhuman Space setting

Creatures

These handbooks describe the data, in terms of GURPS, of monsters and creatures, mostly from myths.

GURPS Creatures of the Night, Volume 1 (PDF)
GURPS Creatures of the Night, Volume 2 (PDF)
GURPS Creatures of the Night, Volume 3 (PDF)
GURPS Creatures of the Night, Volume 4 (PDF)
GURPS Creatures of the Night, Volume 5 (PDF)
GURPS Dragons (3rd Edition with 4th Edition appendix)

Dungeon Fantasy series

These handbooks describe how to reduce GURPS to the essential abilities and rules you need to play in a typical Medieval Fantasy "Dungeon Crawl" type of game.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 1: Adventurers
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 2: Dungeons
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 3: The Next Level
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 4: Sages
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 5: Allies (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 6: 40 Artifacts (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 7: Clerics (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 8: Treasure Tables (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 9: Summoners (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 10: Taverns (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 11: Power-Ups (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 12: Ninjas (PDF)
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 1 (PDF)

Action series

These supplements describe how to reduce GURPS to the essential abilities and rules you need to play in games inspired by action movies of the 1980s and beyond.

GURPS Action 1: Heroes (PDF)
GURPS Action 2: Exploits (PDF)
GURPS Action 3: Furious Fists (PDF)

Power-Ups series

These supplements add a small set of new abilities for characters.

GURPS Power-Ups 1: Imbuements (PDF)
GURPS Power-Ups 2: Perks (PDF)

Monster Hunters series

These handbooks describe how to reduce GURPS to the essential abilities and rules you need to play in a typical modern "Monster Hunting" type of game. Example settings include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Charles Stross's The Laundry series.

GURPS Monster Hunters 1: Champions (PDF)
GURPS Monster Hunters 2: The Mission (PDF)
GURPS Monster Hunters 3: The Enemy (PDF)
GURPS Monster Hunters 4: Sidekicks (PDF)

Core books

GURPS Basic Set, First Edition: Characters
GURPS Basic Set, First Edition: Campaigns
GURPS Basic Set, Second Edition: Characters
GURPS Basic Set, Second Edition: Campaigns
GURPS Basic Set, Third Edition, winner of the 1988 Origins Award
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.The Origins Award is commonly...

for Best Roleplaying Rules.
GURPS Basic Set, Third Edition (Revised)
GURPS Compendium I
GURPS Compendium II
GURPS Lite
Man to Man: Fantasy Combat from GURPS, a boardgame of melee combat, using the combat rules from GURPS. Published in 1985, before the GURPS system.

Rules supplements

GURPS All-Star Jam 2004
GURPS Best Of Pyramid 1 - First selection of articles from online gaming magazine Pyramid
Pyramid (magazine)
Pyramid is a gaming magazine, publishing articles primarily on role-playing games, but including board games, card games, and other sorts of games. It began life in 1993 as a print publication of Steve Jackson Games for its first 30 issues, though it has been published on the Internet since March...

.
GURPS Best Of Pyramid 2
GURPS Grimoire - A companion volume for GURPS Magic, describing hundreds of spells and two new Colleges, Gates and Techs.
GURPS Magic (for GURPS 3e)
GURPS Martial Arts (for GURPS 3e)

Characters

GURPS Aliens, a collection of alien races.
GURPS Fantasy Folk, a collection of fantasy races.
GURPS Monsters, a collection of 48 monstrous characters including Tiamat
Tiamat
In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is a chaos monster, a primordial goddess of the ocean, mating with Abzû to produce younger gods. It is suggested that there are two parts to the Tiamat mythos, the first in which Tiamat is 'creatrix', through a "Sacred marriage" between salt and fresh water,...

, Bigfoot
Bigfoot
Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is an ape-like cryptid that purportedly inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid...

, Dracula
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...

, and original creations
GURPS Rogues
GURPS Supporting Cast
GURPS Villains
GURPS Warriors
GURPS Who's Who 1, a collection of 52 historical characters including Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...

, Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...

, Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

, William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, and Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
GURPS Who's Who 2, a collection of 56 more historical characters
GURPS Wizards

Creatures

, containing information and statistics for animals, including information to play animals as player character.

GURPS Blood Types, containing biographies and gaming statistics for 23 vampire
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...

s and vampire-like beings, and guidelines on creating more for various campaign settings., describing original "modern horrors" (such as "Grue Beetles", "Netherpunks" and "Slitherwens").
GURPS Dinosaurs, giving game data for dinosaurs.
GURPS Dragons (3rd Edition with 4th Edition appendix), giving game information and data about dragons, also as player characters., giving character templates and campaign settings for adventures involving the Little people., describing several fantasy animals and plants.
GURPS Shapeshifters, about creation rules, game environments and sample characters for werewolves
Werewolf
A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...

, Doppelgänger
Doppelgänger
In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger is a paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil or misfortune...

s and other shapeshifters
Shapeshifting
Shapeshifting is a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. It is also found in epic poems, science fiction literature, fantasy literature, children's literature, Shakespearean comedy, ballet, film, television, comics, and video games...

.
GURPS Space Bestiary, describing many fictional extraterrestrial creatures, including silicon-based, crystalline, energy and liquid beings.
GURPS Spirits, a guide to fictional spirits from several cultures (angels, demons, djinn, dryads, ghosts etc.), with a possible system of spirit-based magic.
GURPS Undead, describing several kinds of undead
Undead
Undead is a collective name for fictional, mythological, or legendary beings that are deceased and yet behave as if alive. Undead may be incorporeal, such as ghosts, or corporeal, such as vampires and zombies...

creatures (vampires, zombies etc.), with rules to create more and related topics.

Technology and equipment

GURPS Bio-Tech (for the 3e)
GURPS High-Tech (for the 3e)
GURPS Low-Tech (for the 3e)
GURPS Magic Items 1
GURPS Magic Items 2
GURPS Magic Items 3
GURPS Modern Firepower
GURPS Robots
GURPS Steam-Tech
GURPS Ultra-Tech 1
GURPS Ultra-Tech 2
GURPS Vehicles
GURPS Vehicles Expansion 1
GURPS Vehicles Expansion 2
GURPS Vehicles Lite
GURPS Warehouse 23

Genre toolkits

- A sourcebook for running campaigns inspired by B-grade

B-movie

A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

science fiction

Science fiction

and horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

movies of the 1950s. - Describes a post-apocalyptic setting also shared by the Car Wars

Car Wars

Car Wars is a vehicle combat simulation game developed by Steve Jackson Games. It was first published in late 1980 .-Game play:In Car Wars, players assume control of one or more automobiles, which may include any powered vehicle, from motorcycles to semi trucks. Optional rules include piloting...

boardgame and the Autoduel

Autoduel

Autoduel is a 1985 computer role-playing game published by Origin Systems for the Atari 400 and Atari 800 , Commodore 64, Apple II, Apple Macintosh, and MS-DOS. It was released in 1987 for the Atari ST and in 1988 for the Amiga...

computer game in which characters are involved in autoduelling, combat in armed and armored motor vehicles. The sourcebook contains rules for designing vehicles, additional skills used by autoduellist characters, and new technology and social conditions of the world. The setting is extended in an additional set of sourcebooks for the Autoduel world (see below). - Pre-generated characters for GURPS Autoduel. - Sourcebook with background material and rules for adventure tale in the style of 1920s and 1930s pulp fiction

Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...

. - A sourcebook to create realistic police officer characters and adventures.

GURPS Covert Ops
GURPS Cyberpunk
GURPS Cyberpunk
GURPS Cyberpunk is a genre toolkit for cyberpunk-themed role-playing games set in a near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer...
GURPS Espionage
GURPS Horror.
GURPS Illuminati, describing the secret societies/conspiracies genre, building on the Illuminati
Illuminati (game)
Illuminati is a standalone card game made by Steve Jackson Games , inspired by The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. The game has ominous secret societies competing with each other to control the world through sinister means, including legal, illegal, and even mystical...

card game, in its turn inspired by Robert Shea
Robert Shea
Robert Joseph Shea was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In...

and Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...

's The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magick-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both...

. Winner of the 1992 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.
GURPS Mars
GURPS Mecha
GURPS Space
GURPS Space
GURPS Space is a genre toolkit for creating Science Fiction campaigns using the GURPS role-playing game. It performs a similar purpose as GURPS Fantasy does for Fantasy games. Rules and guidelines are provided for running games from science fantasy and space opera to hard science, creating worlds...

(for the 3e), winner of the 1988 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.
GURPS Special Ops
GURPS Steampunk, winner of the 2000 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.
GURPS Supers
GURPS SWAT
GURPS Time Travel, winner of the 1991 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.

History and culture

, background for adventuring set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with character write-ups for such celebrities of the era as Catherine the Great (of Russia) and George Washington as well as Napoleon's crowd.

GURPS Arabian Nights
GURPS Atlantis, Mexico before Cortez., fantasy role-playing in the Arthurian genre., Once Celts raided, looted, conquered and settled over thousands of miles, leaving red-haired descendents from Ireland to Spain to Poland to Turkey, coming within a sword's width of extinguishing the Roman empire before it was born. They left behind rich and terrible mythos, of head-hunting and of poetry, and, of course, of the Fair Folk, a euphemism in the same vein as the Greeks used when they referred to the Furies as "the kindly ones."
GURPS China
GUPRS Egypt
GURPS Greece, describing rules and setting for role-playing in the time of prehistoric man, including a shamanic magic system.
GURPS Imperial Rome, describing the historical background and adventure ideas for roleplaying in ancient Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, including a parallel universe
Parallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...

where Roman Empire survived till today.
GURPS Japan.
GURPS Middle Ages I, a sourcebook
Sourcebook
The term sourcebook is used to describe many different kinds of books such as collections of core articles , bibliographies, biographies, printed archival sources, directories and so on...

for running a Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

themed GURPS
GURPS
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

campaign.
GURPS Old West
GURPS Places of Mystery
GURPS Robin Hood
GURPS Russia, details for playing in the milieu of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Scarlet pimpernel
Scarlet pimpernel is a low-growing annual plant found in Europe, Asia and North America...

books set in 18th century Revolutionary France, by Baroness Orczy
Baroness Orczy
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel...

., detailed 17th century role-play in the swashbuckler
Swashbuckler
Swashbuckler or swasher is a term that emerged in the 16th century and has been used for rough, noisy and boastful swordsmen ever since. A possible explanation for this term is that it derives from a fighting style using a side-sword with a buckler in the off-hand, which was applied with much...

genre, with rules for ship combat, fencing, guns, dueling, codes of honor and so forth.
GURPS Timeline, a source book with a timeline for play and many short articles, some of which describe "Lost Continents" and some tales about "Lost Fortunes".
GURPS Vikings

Fictional Settings

AADA Road Atlas Volume 1: The East Coast - The first in a series of road atlases detailing the setting of GURPS Autoduel (see above).
AADA Road Atlas Volume 2: The West Coast
AADA Road Atlas Volume 3: The South
AADA Road Atlas Volume 4: Australia
AADA Road Atlas Volume 5: The Midwest
AADA Road Atlas Volume 6: The Free Oil States
AADA Road Atlas Volume 7: The Mountain West
GURPS Alpha Centauri, detailing the setting of the Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is the critically acclaimed science fiction 4X turn-based strategy video game sequel to the Civilization series. Sid Meier, designer of Civilization, and Brian Reynolds, designer of Civilization II, developed Alpha Centauri after they left MicroProse to join the newly...

computer game.—presents six versions of Earth possessing alternate histories to that of our own world, as well as a number of less-detailed settings scattered throughout the book in sidebars: for instance, "Gernsback" is a parallel, inspired by 1930s science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

adventure stories (it is named for the editor Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback , born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G...

) has as its point of divergence is the marriage of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...

to Anne Morgan, daughter of banker and financier J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric...

. Attention is given to the ways in which agents of the Infinity Patrol presented in GURPS Time Travel and their rivals from the mysterious parallel known as "Centrum" attempt to influence the course of history in each parallel; the concept of the conflict between the Infinity Patrol and Centrum across the many parallel Earths was made central to the Fourth Edition of GURPS as the default setting in the Basic Set and in the supplement GURPS Infinite Worlds
GURPS Infinite Worlds
GURPS Infinite Worlds is a supplement for the Fourth Edition of the GURPS role-playing game, published by Steve Jackson Games in 2005 and written by Kenneth Hite, Steve Jackson, and John M. Ford...

.
GURPS Alternate Earths II presents six more alternate histories, among which that of Centrum, whose point of divergence is the successful crossing of the White Ship
White Ship
The White Ship was a vessel that sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur, on 25 November 1120. Only one of those aboard survived. Those who drowned included William Adelin, the only surviving legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England...

, meaning that William Adelin
William Adelin
William , surnamed Adelin , was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matilda of Scotland, and was thus heir-apparent to the throne. His early death without issue caused a succession crisis.William was born in Winchester...

, the sole male heir of King Henry I of England
Henry I of England
Henry I was the fourth son of William I of England. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...

, was never drowned.
GURPS Black Ops, describing a setting that Earth under threat from various alien
Extraterrestrial life in popular culture
In popular cultures, "extraterrestrials" are life forms — especially intelligent life forms— that are of extraterrestrial origin .-Historical ideas:-Pre-modern:...

, supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...

, and other monstrous powers, while the player characters are super-skilled agents of the clandestine agency "the Company", known as "Black Operatives" or "Black Ops"; the setting relies heavily on use of various known or less known urban legends and conspiracy theories.
GURPS Cabal, a customizable setting depicting a modern-day secret society
Secret society
A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their...

composed of vampire
Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...

s, lycanthropes and sorcerers who study the underlying principles of magic and visit other planes of existence.
GURPS Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, a parallel world
Parallel universe (fiction)
A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality...

-themed setting based in a bar/space nexus that was created by Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson
Spider Robinson is an American-born Canadian Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author.- Biography :Born in the Bronx, New York City, Robinson attended Catholic high school, spending his junior year in a seminary, followed by two years in a Catholic college, and five years at the State...

in his Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
In the fictional universe of Spider Robinson, Callahan's Place is a bar with strongly community-minded and empathic clientele. It appears in the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon stories In the fictional universe of Spider Robinson, Callahan's Place is a bar with strongly community-minded and empathic...

stories.—detailing the world in which the adventures of Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....

's Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films , television programs, video games, roleplaying games and other media...

are set.
GURPS Cthulhupunk
GURPS Cyberworld
GURPS Discworld
GURPS Discworld
GURPS Discworld and the related supplements are role-playing game sourcebooks set in Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy universe using the GURPS role-playing game system.-History:...
GURPS Discworld Also
GURPS Fantasy
GURPS Fantasy GM's Pack
GURPS Fantasy Tredroy
GURPS Fantasy Harkwood
Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game, detailing the world in which the adventures of Hellboy
Hellboy
Hellboy is a comic book superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 , and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossovers...

are set.
GURPS Goblins, describing an original fantasy setting in a society of goblins in London in the 1830s.
GURPS Horseclans, detailing the post-apocalyptic future described in the "Horseclans
Horseclans
Horseclans is a science fiction series by Robert Adams, set in a North America that had been thrown back to a medieval level by a full-scale nuclear war.-Background:...

" science fiction series by Robert Adams
Robert Adams (science fiction writer)
Franklin Robert Adams was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, formerly a career soldier. He is best known for his "Horseclans" books. He wrote as Robert Adams, an abbreviation of his complete name.-Writings:...

.
GURPS Humanx, detailing the Humanx Commonwealth
Humanx Commonwealth
The Humanx Commonwealth is a fictional interstellar ethical/political entity featured in the science fiction novels of Alan Dean Foster. The Commonwealth takes its name from its two major sapient species, who jointly inhabit Commonwealth planets and administer both the political and...

, the setting of a series of science fiction novels by Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts...

.
GURPS Illuminati University
GURPS Illuminati University
GURPS Illuminati University , also called GURPS IOU, is a 128-page softbound campaign setting sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game. The authors are Elizabeth McCoy and Walter Milliken; the illustrations are by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio...

, detailing a fictional college where absurdity and awful puns are the order of the day; its students range from witches and werewolves to secret agents and space aliens.
GURPS Lensman, detailing the setting of the Lensman series
Lensman
The Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith. It was a runner-up for the Hugo award for best All-Time Series ....

, a series of science fiction novels by E. E. Smith
E. E. Smith
Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., also, E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and Ted was a food engineer and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others...

.
GURPS New Sun, detailing the setting of The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun is a novel in four parts written by science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a disgraced journeyman torturer who rises to the position of Autarch, the one ruler of the free world...

, a science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...

.
GURPS Myth, detailing the setting of the Myth computer game.
GURPS Planet Krishna, detailing the setting of The Queen of Zamba
The Queen of Zamba
The Queen of Zamba is a science fiction novel written by L. Sprague de Camp, the first book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna. It was written between November 1948 and January 1949 and first published in the magazine Astounding...

, a science fiction novel by L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...

.
GURPS Planet of Adventure, describing a distant world populated by many varied alien and half-alien races, set in the world of the Planet of Adventure
Planet of Adventure
Planet of Adventure is the name given to a series of four science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which relate the adventures of Adam Reith, the sole survivor of an Earth ship investigating a signal from the distant planet Tschai.-Inhabitants:...

series of novels by Jack Vance
Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...

.
GURPS Prime Directive (see above)
GURPS Prime Directive: Klingons
GURPS Prime Directive: Klingon Gunboat Deckplans
GURPS Prime Directive: Module Prime Alpha
GURPS Prisoner, detailing the setting of the UK television series The Prisoner
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.The series follows a British former...

.
GURPS Reign of Steel, describing a future world conquered by a conspiracy of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

s, after a robot revolt
Cybernetic revolt
Cybernetic revolt or robot uprising is a scenario in which an artificial intelligence decide that humans are a threat , are inferior, or are oppressors and try to destroy or to enslave them potentially leading to...

has concluded with the machines' victory.
GURPS Riverworld, a setting in the fictional world described in the novels of the Riverworld
Riverworld
Riverworld is a fictional planet and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer . Riverworld is an artificial environment where all humans are reconstructed. The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods...

series by Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....

. This setting is an artificial planet where everyone who lived before a set date in history seems to have been resurrected.
GURPS Screampunk
GURPS Space Atlas
GURPS Space Atlas 2: The Corporate Worlds
GURPS Space Atlas 3: The Confederacy
GURPS Space Atlas 4: Phoenix and Saga Sectors, describing a setting and new rules in an alternative modern Earth where magic co-exists with technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

. It was based on the premise that the Trinity atomic test ripped a hole in the fabric of space-time, triggering a tornado of magical energy.
GURPS Terradyne, a future history suitable for a hard science fiction
Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Islands of Space in Astounding Science...

campaign-in the tradition of stories by Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...

, Lester Del Rey
Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey was the author of many of the Winston Science Fiction juvenile SF series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.-Birth...

and Ben Bova
Ben Bova
Benjamin William Bova is an American science-fiction author and editor. He is the recipient of six Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor for his work at Analog Science Fiction in the 1970's.-Personal life:...

-in which technology has moved man out into space and Terradyne, a space-based corporate state, dominates but does not have exclusive control of space-based industries. It was superseded by the Transhuman Space
Transhuman Space
Transhuman Space is a role-playing game published by Steve Jackson Games as parts of the "Powered by GURPS" line. Set in the year 2100, humanity has begun to colonize the Solar System...

series which covers the same niche.
GURPS Uplift, based on the fictional universe
Fictional universe
A fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with elements that differ from the real world. It may also be called an imagined, constructed or fictional realm ....

envisioned by David Brin
David Brin
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:...

in his Uplift Universe
Uplift Universe
The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction writer David Brin. A central feature in this universe is the process of biological uplift.His books which take place in this universe:* Sundiver...

series, where biological uplift
Biological uplift
In science fiction, uplift is the development or transformation of animals into an intelligent race by other, already-intelligent beings. The concept appears in David Brin's Uplift series and other science fiction works.-History of the concept:...

of animals has become common.
GURPS Voodoo
GURPS War Against the Chtorr, describing additional rules and a game setting based on the War Against the Chtorr science fiction novel series by David Gerrold
David Gerrold
Jerrold David Friedman , better known by his pen name David Gerrold, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek. He was invited to submit several premises, and the one...

, which depicts an Earth invaded by an alien ecology.—a setting based on the series of Witch World
Witch World
The Witch World by Andre Norton is a long series of fantasy novels set in a parallel universe where magic works and, at the beginning of the series, is exclusively performed by women. The series combines many traits of high fantasy and sword and sorcery. It begins with what is now called the...

novels by Andre Norton
Andre Norton
Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...

. Included are a bestiary of Witch World creatures, details on the non-human races, a history and geography of the planet, and a color-based system of magic.
GURPS Y2K, detailing some possible scenarios involving the year 2000 problem
Year 2000 problem
The Year 2000 problem was a problem for both digital and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits.In computer programs, the practice of representing the year with two...

and other world-changing events.

Supers

GURPS Aces Abroad
GURPS I.S.T.: International Super Teams
GURPS IST Kingston
GURPS Mixed Doubles, a collection of characters
Non-player character
A non-player character , sometimes known as a non-person character or non-playable character, in a game is any fictional character not controlled by a player. In electronic games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer through artificial intelligence...

designed to be used with GURPS Supers.
GURPS Super Scum
GURPS Supertemps
GURPS Wild Cards, detailing the setting of the science fiction/superhero shared universe Wild Cards
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, but it is mostly pulled together and edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin with assistance by Melinda Snodgrass, also a...

Transhuman Space

Transhuman Space
Transhuman Space
Transhuman Space is a role-playing game published by Steve Jackson Games as parts of the "Powered by GURPS" line. Set in the year 2100, humanity has begun to colonize the Solar System...
Broken Dreams
Deep Beyond
Fifth Wave
High Frontier
In The Well
Orbital Decay
Personnel Files
Singapore Sling
Spacecraft of the Solar System
Toxic Memes
Under Pressure

Traveller

A set of books designed to allow game play in Traveller's Third Imperium science-fiction setting using the GURPS rule system. Traveller

Traveller (role-playing game)

Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, the first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop and subsequent editions by various companies remaining in print to this day. The game was inspired from such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest saga series by...

was originally published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop

Game Designers' Workshop

Game Designers' Workshop was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers.-History:Game Designers' Workshop was originally established June 22, 1973...

. Steve Jackson Games also publishes online Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society, the official magazine of Traveller. provides details about the human-descended Zhodani and the alien Vargr, as well as three minor races.

GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw
GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 1 Beowulf-Class Free Trader
GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 2 Modular Cutter
GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 3 Empress Marava-Class Far Trader
GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 4 Assault Cutter
GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 5 Sulieman-Class Scout/Courier
GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 6 Dragon-Class System Defense Boat
GURPS Traveller: Droyne Coyn Set
GURPS Traveller: Far Trader
GURPS Traveller: First In
GURPS Traveller: GM's Screen
GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces
GURPS Traveller: Heroes 1 - Bounty Hunters
GURPS Traveller: Humaniti
GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars (4e; see above)
GURPS Traveller: Modular Cutter
GURPS Traveller: Nobles
GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 1 - Kamsii
GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 2 - Denuli
GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 3 - Granicus
GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 4 - Glisten
GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 5 - Tobibak
GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 6 - Darkmoon
GURPS Traveller: Psionics Institutes
GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire
GURPS Traveller: Star Mercs
GURPS Traveller: Starports
GURPS Traveller: Starships
GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds

World War II

GURPS WWII
GURPS WWII: All the King's Men
GURPS WWII: Hand of Steel
GURPS WWII: Iron Cross
GURPS WWII: Return to Honor
GURPS WWII: Dogfaces
GURPS WWII: Grim Legions
GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell
GURPS WWII: Weird War II
GURPS WWII: Motor Pool

System conversions

GURPS Blue Planet Based on the novel Watership Down
Watership Down
Watership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel, written by English author Richard Adams, about a small group of rabbits. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology...

, this setting uses animal characters with humans serving as an incomprehensible monster race.
GURPS Castle Falkenstein
- GURPS Castle Falkenstein: The Ottoman Empire
GURPS Conspiracy X
Conspiracy X
Conspiracy X is a role-playing game published by Eden Studios, Inc. The current version is based on the Unisystem, but previous versions have used GURPS and its own system...
GURPS Deadlands
- GURPS Deadlands: Hexes
- GURPS Deadlands: Varmints
GURPS In Nomine, the GURPS conversion of the In Nomine
In Nomine (role-playing game)
In Nomine is a role-playing game designed by Derek Pearcy and published in 1997 by Steve Jackson Games, based on the French game In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas. Players typically assume the role of angels and demons in a setting that draws heavily on the traditional Christian mythos...

roleplaying game
GURPS Mage: The Ascension, the GURPS conversion of the Mage: The Ascension
Mage: The Ascension
Mage: The Ascension is a role-playing game based in the World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf Game Studio. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic...

roleplaying game
GURPS Ogre, a roleplaying version of the Ogre
Ogre (game)
Ogre is a board wargame first released in 1977 as the first Metagaming Concepts Microgame, designed by Steve Jackson.Its basic premise is that it is an asymmetric-forces gameset in the late 21st century....

wargame
GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade, the GURPS conversion of the Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game. Created by Mark Rein·Hagen, it was the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world....

roleplaying game. Winner of the 1993 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.
- GURPS Vampire Companion
GURPS Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the GURPS conversion of the Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a role-playing game and series of novels from the now defunct World of Darkness line by White Wolf. In the game, players take the role of werewolves known as Garou , as well as other lycanthropes: warriors who are locked in a two-front war against both the spiritual...

roleplaying game

Adventures

GURPS Bili the Axe - Up Harzburk!, a campaign of solo adventures set in Robert Adams's "Horseclans" universe (see above), in which the reader/player accompanies Bili the Axe on four years of Middle Kingdoms campaigning. The book was printed with a serious error in the numbering of the paragraphs, making it virtually impossible to play the adventure as designed, and so was recalled.
GURPS Chaos in Kansas
GURPS Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast
GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River
GURPS Conan: Moon of Blood
GURPS Conan: The Wyrmslayer
GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures, winner of the 1992 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Adventure.
GURPS Deadlands Dime Novel 1: Aces and Eights
GURPS Deadlands Dime Novel 2: Wanted: Undead or Alive
GURPS Deathwish
GURPS Fantasy Adventures
GURPS Flight 13
GURPS For Love of Mother-Not
GURPS Martial Arts Adventures
GURPS The Old Stone Fort
GURPS Operation Endgame
GURPS Orcslayer
GURPS School of Hard Knocks (1989), originally written with support for the Champions 4th edition rules, but these rules were removed from the final printing. They were later published online.
GURPS Space Adventures
GURPS Space: Stardemon
GURPS Supers Adventures
GURPS Time Travel Adventures
GURPS Space: Unnight
GURPS Zombietown U.S.A.

Japanese products

Several books were produced in Japanese, mostly by the Japanese company Group SNE

Group SNE

Group SNE is a Japanese company founded in 1986 by the current president Hitoshi Yasuda, which produces role-playing games, light novels, board games and card games. Ryo Mizuno was one of the founding members. Group SNE is named after Syntax Error, the programming language BASIC's term...

, and published by various publishers.

Translations of GURPS, 3rd (published by Kadokawa Shoten
Kadokawa Shoten
is a well-known Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. Kadokawa has published both manga novels and magazines, such as Newtype magazine...

( or )
- - Translation of GURPS Basic Set 3rd edition.
- - Translation of GURPS Magic for 3rd edition.
- - Translation of GURPS Martial Arts for 3rd edition.
- - Translation of GURPS Psionics.
- - Translation of GURPS Cyberpunk.
Translations of GURPS, 3rd (published by Fujimi Shobo
Fujimi Shobo
is a Japanese publishing company that specializes in the publication of light novels, manga, role-playing games and collectible card games. The company started in 1991 as a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten.-Magazines published:Light novel magazines...

)
- - The complete translated version of and the translation of GURPS Basic Set Third Edition, Revised
- - The complete translated version of and the translation of GURPS Magic Second Edition for 3rd edition.
  - - The translation of GURPS Grimoire.
- - The complete translated version of and the translation of GURPS Martial Arts Second Edition for 3rd edition. - The for GURPS 3rd edition(published by Kadokawa Shoten
  Kadokawa Shoten
  is a well-known Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. Kadokawa has published both manga novels and magazines, such as Newtype magazine...
  
  ).
Translations of GURPS, 4th (published by Fujimi Shobo
Fujimi Shobo
is a Japanese publishing company that specializes in the publication of light novels, manga, role-playing games and collectible card games. The company started in 1991 as a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten.-Magazines published:Light novel magazines...

)
- - The translation of GURPS Basic Set: Characters for Fourth Edition.
- - The translation of GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns for Fourth Edition.
- - The translation of GURPS Magic for Fourth Edition. - Martial arts
  Martial arts
  Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....
  
  . The Supplement of GURPS Martial Arts. - Comical fantasy and the parody of Sword World RPG
  Sword World RPG
  is a very popular Japanese role-playing game created by Group SNE. 10 million copies of the related books including rulebooks, novels and replays have been sold....
  
  . - Modern horror. This supplement refers to GURPS Supers for Third Edition. - The sequel to GURPS Youma Yakou. This supplement refers to GURPS Supers for Third Edition, GURPS Compendium I and GURPS Compendium II. - Crossover of multi-planes - Modern female wrestling
  Professional wrestling
  Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
  
  - Written by Shou Tomono(友野詳), Tadaaki Kawahito(川人忠明) and Group SNE; published by in 2006: each player character
  Player character
  A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...
  
  possesses his own Yuurei (guardian spirit) and fights against bad Yuureis. - Written by Shou Tomono and Group SNE; published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1992; "complete version" and GURPS Yuel published by Fujimi Shobo
  Fujimi Shobo
  is a Japanese publishing company that specializes in the publication of light novels, manga, role-playing games and collectible card games. The company started in 1991 as a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten.-Magazines published:Light novel magazines...
  
  in 1994. Several novels have been published based upon GURPS Runal, set in a fantasy world strongly influenced from RuneQuest
  RuneQuest
  RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1978 by Chaosium, created by Steve Perrin and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. RuneQuest was notable for its original gaming system and for its verisimilitude in adhering to an original fantasy world...
  
  : seven mysterious Moons grant magic power to their worshipers.

Korean products

The Korean publisher Dayspring Games published the Korean translation of GURPS and at least an original supplement, GURPS Sylfiena, a fantasy setting.

Translations of GURPS, 3rd edition
- GURPS Gibon Set Gukmunpan - Translation of GURPS Basic Set, 3rd edition
- GURPS Mabeop - Translation of GURPS Magic for 3rd edition
- GURPS Mooye - Translation of GURPS Martial Arts for 3rd edition
- GURPS Fantasy - Translation of GURPS Fantasy for 3rd edition
- GURPS Fantasy Jongjok - Translation of GURPS Fantasy Folk for 3rd edition
- GURPS Cyberpunk - Translation of GURPS Cyberpunk for 3rd edition

Translations of GURPS, 4th edition
- GURPS Gukmun 2-pan Gibon Set: Character Book - Translation of GURPS Basic Set: Characters, 4th edition
- GURPS Gukmun 2-pan Gibon Set: Campaign Book - Translation of GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns, 4th edition
- GURPS Gukmun 2-pan Muhansegye - Translation of GURPS Infinite Worlds
- GURPS Gukmun 2-pan Mabeop - Translation of GURPS Magic for 4th edition
- GURPS Gukmun 2-pan Chosangneungryeok - Translation of GURPS Powers
- GURPS Gukmun 2-pan Dungeon Fantasy - Translation and compilation of from GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 1 to GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 4

GURPS Gukmun 2-pan Sylfiena - The first original GURPS book in Korea. A low-mana fantasy campaign setting on the Earldom of Sylfiena for GURPS, 4th edition.

Independent products

GURPS Gulliver, a fan-crafted expansion for GURPS 3e published online as an e-book
E-book
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by T Bone. It covers the physical aspects of the characters in greater detail than the basic rules. In April 2007, T Bone released a new version for GURPS 4e, titled GULLIVER Mini, covering only basic topics related to building and playing big and small creatures.
Historical Folks, the collected material for a planned GURPS Historical Folks title, which Steve Jackson Games cancelled late in the production process. The compiler, Brian C. Smithson, organised the material and produced a free PDF compatible with GURPS 3e with the permission of the contributors.

External links

The directory of all printed GURPS titles at Steve Jackson Games website. A BibTeX

BibTeX

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archive in progress to archive the bibliographical data for GURPS books.

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