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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! GURPS has been the premiere universal roleplaying game for almost two decades. The new Fourth Edition makes it even better!

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 e23.

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

Here are the last ten GURPS books (both new titles and reprints/revisions) we have shipped. Click on a cover to go to that book's page.

Here are the last ten GURPS supplements released on e23. Click on a cover to go to that item's page.

Heading Into the Home Stretch for 2009

Wow, the year is just flying past! We have but a single quarter left, which means that it's time for the year's second equinoctial update, and my personal favorite . . . I do love the autumn. But in the immortal words of Secretary of Defense McKinley, "You didn't come here to listen to me talk." No, you came to read about GURPS stuff.

I'll start by summing up what came out during July, August, and September 2009 – i.e., new releases since my last report. All of these items are available right now, unlike the rumored titles later in this bulletin. First, the e23 publications:

• Phil Masters' Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 3 – Wild Justice, Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 4 – Martingale Security, and Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 5 – School Days 2100 (sequels to Transhuman Space: Personnel Files) provide wonderful examples of characters and situations that suit the complex-but-fascinating Transhuman Space setting.
• My own Dungeon Fantasy 6: 40 Artifacts is the latest in the Dungeon Fantasy lineup, bringing you high-powered treasures that would suit just about any fantasy campaign (even one that doesn't use the standard GURPS enchantment system).
• My Action 3: Furious Fists is the third volume in the Action series, and deals with a glaring omission in the first two works: action heroes who use katanas and kicks instead of guns, and awesome Parkour moves instead of cars.
• Gun Fu – by S.A. Fisher, Hans-Christian Vortisch, and me – does for cinematic firearms combat what Martial Arts does for melee mayhem. While not an according-to-Hoyle Action title, it goes very well with that series.
• Phil Masters' Thaumatology: Alchemical Baroque provides another setting to support Thaumatology; if you liked Thaumatology: Age of Gold, you'll want this one, too!

Then of course Pyramid kept at it, providing a mix of crunchy GURPS support and generally useful background material for a wide variety of subgenres. The last few issues were Pyramid #3/9: Space Opera (July 2009), Pyramid #3/10: Crime and Grime (August 2009), and Pyramid #3/11: Cinematic Locations (September 2009). Don't forget that Pyramid isn't a "subscription only" zine! It's the digital equivalent of a newsstand release, in the sense that you can pick up just the issues of interest to you. But unlike magazines at the drugstore, these ones will remain available forever, like any other GURPS PDF.

We didn't neglect the GURPS Classic project, although it saw less action than usual during the summer months owing to convention activity (hey, we have to take the time from somewhere!). The GURPS Third Edition items that made the leap to PDF since the last update were GURPS Classic: IOU and GURPS Classic: Japan. As we like to remind you, this is a work in progress; digital conversion will continue as resources allow.

In the world of paper, there were two items of note during the past few months. First, we reprinted Ultra-Tech, by David Pulver and Kenneth Peters. That's pretty much a must-have item for futuristic GURPS campaigns, so if you missed it the first time, here's your chance to pick it up. Second, Psionic Powers, by Jason Levine, became available as a softback. It would make a perfect companion to Supers, and has a similar objective: simplifying Powers for those who dislike doing the math.

Now for the conjecture. What follows are hints, not promises. You have been warned! All information here, even the titles, is subject to change without notice. You have been warned again! In some semblance of chronological order:

• William Stoddard's Thaumatology: Urban Magics is in the prepress stage, and should be out just after this update gets posted, or maybe even before that.
• There are at least two freebies – a game aid and a very short Infinite Worlds item – slated for sometime in the very near future.
• David Pulver's Spaceships 5: Exploration and Colony Spacecraft and Spaceships 6: Mining and Space Industry are out of editing, and should be released before the end of the year. David has written the first draft of Spaceships 7: Strange and Alien Spacecraft, too – and he's working on Spaceships 8: Transhuman Spacecraft right now. For more on the series, see the Spaceships page.
• Gene Seabolt's WWII: Red Tide – a Third Edition supplement for the World War II line, covering Soviet forces in WWII – is out of editing.
• Genevieve Cogman's Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game should go into hardback before too late in the year.
• It's an open secret that we have four more Dungeon Fantasy installments in the works. The anticipated order of release: Clerics (by Phil Masters), Taverns (by Jason Levine and Loren Wiseman), Treasure Tables (by Matt Riggsby), and finally Summoners (by Phil Masters).

And of course Pyramid will continue to deliver monthly issues.

Everything else is theoretical enough that I won't mention it by name. Well, mostly . . . I'm hard at work editing Low-Tech, which will be a hardback. After that, I'll start in on the three supporting Low-Tech Companion PDFs. These works by Peter Dell'Orto, Dan Howard, Matt Riggsby, and William Stoddard will be must-haves for gamers running TL0-4 historical or fantasy campaigns. Oh, and final-draft revisions proceed on Ken Hite's Horror.

I'll close with my customary plea: Are you a writer? Do you have a great idea for a 16- or 32-page GURPS PDF? Visit the e23 Wish List, download the GURPS formatting guide and WYSIWYG template, and shoot us a query. Short PDFs like this are a boon for RPGs; concepts that we would have rejected as "too specialized" in the past are being published regularly, now. Don't be shy! The same goes for Pyramid; just swap wish lists for the Pyramid Wish List.