GURPS: Who's Who I - the first volume of a (currently) two volume set of some of history's greatest and worst characters, make 52 people from history come to life for your GURPS and gaming campaigns.
Although another reviewer has listed all the characters that are covered by this book, it should be noted that they are not in alphabetical order in the book. Rather, they are in time period order, making it slightly harder to find a specific character unless you already have a good idea of when that character lived. Admittedly, there is a good Table of Contents and a good Index should you wish to find specific people who were written up using the GURPS RPG system for this book.
The book covers people who lived in the Ancient World and Dark Ages, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, and the modern era. There are two small appendixes in the back that cover a few other characters and how the GURPS game mechanics were used to recreate these famous and infamous people.
And that is the strength of this book. These people were real people from history. It is very enlightening to see how real people are seen when measuring up to GURPS standards. Most people, when making themselves as a player character, or when creating historical NPC's for campaigns, tend to overestimate the amount of points that would be necessary to create that character.
There are also adventure seeds for each character, as well as a small group of people who never were that changed the history of their worlds. These "alternate earths" make a wonderful addition to this book, showing how history could be changed in strange ways by only one person.
I'd highly recommend this book to GURPS GM's that have historically based campaigns, and recommend this book to any student of history that might want to try to recreate a historical figure for another campaign. Non-GURPS GM's wil find the character stats fairly easy to convert to their favorite systems.
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From the Publisher
History is full of people who were stranger than fiction. People you'd want to meet. People you'd pray to avoid. People who changed the world.
This book gives complete descriptions and character stats for 52 of the most interesting people in history, ready to serve as patrons, allies, enemies, or role-models. From the man who united China to the real Dread Pirate Roberts; from the voice of an empire to a roistering aristocratic astronomer with a silver nose; from a doctor so brilliant that his foes ran him out of town, to a king with 1,200 wives but not a single heir!
Here is a brief content overview of GURPS Who's Who 1:
- Birth, Luck, and Genius: Kings, Saints, Generals, and Poets/Playing Variations: Changing History
- The Ancient World and Dark Ages: Akhenaten/David ben-Jesse/Cyrus the Great/Xenophon/Aristotle/Alexander the Great/Ch'in Shih Huang Ti/Julius Caesar/Boudica/Constantine the Great/Justinian I/Theodora
- The Middle Ages: Sei Shonagon/Leif Eriksson/Harald Hardradi/Alexius I/William Marshal/Ibn Battuta/Geoffrey Chaucer/Joan of Arc/Vlad Tepes
- The High Renaissance: Leonardo Da Vinci/Hernan Cortes/Paracelsus/Catherine di Medici/John Dee/Elizabeth I/Tokugawa Ieyasu/Tycho Brahe/William Shakespeare/Cardinal Richelieu/Oliver Cromwell/Peter the Great/Bartholomew Roberts
- From Enlightenment to Modernity: Benjamin Franklin/Robert Clive/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Aaron Burr, Jr./Shaka Zulu/Lord Byron/Charles Darwin/Emperor Norton/Lola Montez/Harriet Tubman/Sir Richard Burton/Nikola Tesla/Rudyard Kipling/Alberto Santos Dumont/Mata Hari/Albert Einstein/"Two-Gun" Cohen/Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Appendices:
- A: Other Significant Figures
- B: Games Mechanics & the Great
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| What is this? | Collection of descriptions and game stats for 52 intriguing historical individuals, drawn from every continent and 3,500 years of history. | Collection of descriptions and game stats for 56 amazing historical figures, drawn from every continent and three millennia of history. | Collection of expanded and optional rules for campaigning, combat, equipment, dangerous stuff, injury, fatigue, and mass combat. | Collection of thieves, rogues, charmers, and mysterious figures for every genre. With 29 templates and 116 characters. | Compilation of soldiers, warriors, specialists, and high-tech fighters for every genre. With 29 templates and 116 characters. | Writeups on over 50 villains and villain groups for many genres and settings. Includes backgrounds, stats, notable extras, plans, and more. |
| What do I get? | A 130-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 130-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 194-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 154-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 154-page softcover book with black and white pages | A 130-page softcover book with black and white pages |
| Which edition is this? | GURPS Third Edition | GURPS Third Edition | GURPS Third Edition | GURPS Third Edition | GURPS Third Edition | GURPS Third Edition |
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