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Welcome to the Generic Universal RolePlaying System!

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!

More than 1,500,000 copies are in print – not counting foreign editions. GURPS Lite, a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules, is available for free download. We also have dozens of GURPS adventures and e-books available on Warehouse 23.

Whatever your favorite roleplaying genre might be, GURPS can handle it. More about GURPS . . .

New GURPS Releases

Here are the last 15 GURPS supplements (including reprints and new editions) we have released, either in print or electronically. Click on a cover to go to that product's page.

GURPS Classic: Time Travel Adventures GURPS Loadouts: Starship Crew How to Be a GURPS GM: Combat Encounters GURPS Monster Hunter Adventure: The Face of Fire GURPS Power-Ups 10: Skill Trees
GURPS Fantasy Folk: The Reptilian Races GURPS Meta-Tech GURPS Infinite Worlds: Atlantropa Dungeon Fantasy: The Devil's Workshop GURPS Tactical Shooting: Extreme Conditions
GURPS Infinite Worlds: Worlds of Atomic Horror GURPS Boardroom and Curia: The Sospital Group GURPS Template Toolkit 4: Spirits GURPS Fantasy Folk: Winged Folk GURPS Fantasy Folk: Kobolds

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January 2, 2025: That Didn't Go As Planned

On January 2, 2024, I rounded up December 2023 a couple of days late, bid 2023 good riddance, and wished everyone a happy 2024. Now here I am on January 2, 2025, rounding up December 2024 a couple of days late. Given how 2024 went – I think we can agree that it didn't bring the turn for the better that we've all been hoping for since 2019 ended in pandemic – I'm almost reluctant to wish everyone a happy 2025. I'm not superstitious, though, so here goes: "Happy New Year!"

Recent Releases

How to Be a GURPS GM: Combat EncountersGURPS Loadouts: Starship Crew

December saw two GURPS-related items fall off a flying sled, one newly available, the other actually new:

How to Be a GURPS GM: Combat Encounters (December 12, 2024; PDF)

GURPS strives to cover all genres and settings, the majority of which include at least some fighting. But its bold promise of "Anything You Want. Any World You Can Imagine." means that battles can involve a wide range of wildly different warriors. Even when they don't, the combat system endeavors to suit every play style, encompassing countless tactics and situations, and approaches ranging from "theatre of the mind" to tracking every second, yard, and round of ammo. Such depth and breadth can overwhelm new GMs and slow down experienced ones. This supplement – originally a brief bonus offer – provides advice on setting up violent encounters, knowing when and how to use which rules, and giving clashes context in adventures and campaigns.

GURPS Loadouts: Starship Crew (December 19, 2024; PDF)

Speaking of endless possibilities, GURPS also aims to work across every conceivable set of technological assumptions. This grows trickier as technology progresses, because old gear hangs around and improves in several possible ways, while new stuff appears all the time. There comes a point where there's so much equipment to choose from – much of it cheap, light, and thus too tempting to pass up – that shopping can fill entire game sessions and confuse even veteran players. This outfitting guide tackles the problem for space-going heroes, supplying them with basic kits for TL9-12, add-on lenses for their roles as defined by GURPS Template Toolkit 3: Starship Crew, and options for fine-tuning to suit whims, budgets, and campaigns.

Everything Old Is New Again Department
 
As we labor to make past GURPS accessible in the present, finding and converting the remaining titles is sometimes an adventure. A good example is GURPS Time Travel Adventures, the latest "GURPS Classic" rerelease. You can buy that here.

Upcoming Plans

December was a month of significant behind-the-scenes progress. Here are all the tidbits I can share at the moment. Much of them are closer to insider guesswork than anything else, but I can see no obstacles impeding anything on the list below, whose order is at least vaguely related to the most probable publication order.

But wait, there's more! There are 10 Sekrit Projekts which are so new or so tangled up that I'd prefer not to name them right now. Moreover, several proposals await contracts. I occasionally relent and leak hints about such things on Fridays in the GURPS thread in my blog.

Bundles Of Holding
 
You have until January 6, 2025 to snag the Bundle of Holding for Transhuman Space for Third Edition – and, if you need it, the one for the GURPS 3E Core to go with it. These are amazing deals, so act while there's still time!

Join Us! Join Us!

We are rapidly running out of schedule slots for rules-light, 12- or 21-pagers in 2025 and 2026. If you want to gamble on getting in under the wire, please ensure that your queries and proposals meet needs identified in the Warehouse 23 Digital Wish List (updated November 18, 2024) and Warehouse 23 Wish List for GURPS (updated November 18, 2024), and are 100% in line with our Freelancer FAQ, Submission Guidelines, GURPS formatting guide, and GURPS WYSIWYG template. We can afford to be picky at this stage, so we're unlikely to make exceptions for anybody who hasn't written for us for years and years. Thanks in advance for understanding!

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