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GURPS Supers Paperback – January 31, 2018
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Men Like Gods
The 20th century gave birth to a new genre of fiction: the super-powered adventure. Men and women with strange powers gave a visible expression to the reader's sense of wonder, as they protected ordinary mortals from a variety of threats, from street crime to world-shattering disasters. When roleplaying games were invented, supers quickly became one of the most popular genres – and one of the most challenging to do right.
GURPS Fourth Edition provides the game mechanics and tools for the job, and GURPS Supers is your guide to applying them: a comprehensive playbook to the supers genre and to capturing it in your campaign. Focused on drama and characterization, it provides:
- A history and analysis of the supers genre, its precursors and variations.
- A guide to character creation, including powers and other abilities, codes of conduct, dual identities, and personal relationships.
- More than 20 new wildcard skills.
- 22 templates for super characters, each customizable to higher or lower power levels.
- Rules for creating equipment, vehicles, bases, automata, and magical spells.
- A guide to creating and running supers adventures.
- Continuity-creation guidelines and tools, so your supers universe can have the same depth as published worlds.
- New game mechanics for character creation, including new interpretations of advantages, disadvantages, and skills, and newly defined perks, quirks, enhancements, limitations, and techniques.
- Guidelines for running superhuman feats and combats under existing rules or adjusting those rules to fit the genre, and new game mechanics specifically for superhuman action.
GURPS Supers is a new work, but it draws inspiration from the previous editions of GURPS Supers. Using it to run a GURPS campaign requires the GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Powers. The material on genre conventions, character concepts and relationships, scenario creation, and supers universes can be used with any game system.
- Print length152 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 31, 2018
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.35 x 11 inches
- ISBN-10155634824X
- ISBN-13978-1556348242
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With GURPS, you can be anyone you want – an elf hero fighting for the forces of good, a shadowy femme fatale on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword in his hand and a beautiful woman by his side . . . or literally anything else! Thanks to its flexibility, quality writing, and ease of use, GURPS has been the premiere universal roleplaying game for over three decades!
What can you expect from GURPS Supers? Here is a brief contents overview:
- Larger than Life: Sources and Inspirations/History of the Genre/The Formula/Variants/Campaigns
- Heroes: Power Levels/Organization/Origins/Elements/Strength and Super-Strength/Advantages, Disadvantages/New Powers/Templates/Attack Abilities/Motivations/Dual Identities
- Supporting Casts: Teammates and Team Organization/Trusted Assistants/Sidekicks/Mentors/Personal Relationships/Archenemies and Rogues' Galleries/Entangled Relationships
- Sets and Props: Breakability/Equipment and Extra Effort/Costumes and Armor/Personal Gear/Weapons/Unique Equipment/Transportation/Headquarters/Pets/Servants/Magic
- All-New Adventures: On Patrol/Pieces of the Puzzle/Alternate Adventures/Adventure Seeds
- Amazing Feats: Four-Color Roleplaying/Raw Strength/Amazing Speed/Indestructibility/Ruling the Elements/Perception and Memory/Mastering the Mind/ Comic-Book Wizardry/Invention/Versatility/Amazing Journeys/Beyond the Limits/Spending Character
- Clashes of Titans: Four-Color Combat/A Matter of Life and Death/Master Against Master/One-Man Armies/Mighty Blows/Human Artillery/Bulletproof/Man Versus Machine/Speed and Maneuverability/Combat Teleportation/Duel of the Mind
- Universes: One Premise or Many?/The Beginning/Numbers/Careers and Histories/Roles or Supers/Historical Impact/Cultural Influence/Wider Horizons/Campaign Seeds
- Super-Abilities Table
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| What is this? | Covers the supers genre, including guidelines for creating super-powered characters and advice for running adventures with them. | A perfect introduction! Contains everything players need to start. Easy character creation, plus info on traits, gear, and combat. | For Game Masters and advanced players, more of everything! Vehicles, monsters, combat, world design, and more! | An in-depth introduction to GURPS Fourth Edition, from choosing the right supplements and options to running your first adventure. | Everything needed to power up your fantasy roleplaying campaign, with an easy-to-understand system and hundreds of spells. | The definitive expansion of larger-than-life abilities, from super powers to wuxia to weird science and much more. |
| What do I get? | A 152-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 336-page, full color, hardbound book | A 240-page, full color, hardbound book | A 74-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 242-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 242-page softcover book with black and white pages |
| Which edition is this? | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition | GURPS Fourth Edition |
Product details
- Publisher : Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated (January 31, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 152 pages
- ISBN-10 : 155634824X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1556348242
- Item Weight : 13.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.35 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #519,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #58 in GURPS Game
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