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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! 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.

"4Q2K8! Come in, 4Q2K8!"

Wow, and now we're at the end of the third quarter of 2008. Time definitely isn't flowing at a constant rate. I'm going to ask for a refund on my physics degrees!

Let's start with those five mysterious POD releases that I hinted at for GenCon 2008. In reality, there were six . . . the universe is expanding faster than they claimed at The University, too. For those who didn't get to the show, those were Dungeon Fantasy 1, 2, 3, and 4; Power-Ups 1; and Thaumatology (the surprise item – Phil Masters' great tome of magic systems). I can't promise you continued availability, but POD items are likely when SJ Games attends big events, and some items sell well enough in this format that we're keeping them in print; for instance, Mysteries, Supers, and Spaceships 1 were just released into distribution in August 2008. You should be able to find them on the shelves of your Friendly Local Game Store right now!

Since the festivities in Indy, we've released several more e23 items. Third Edition favorites All-Star Jam 2004 (nine chapters of musings from top GURPS writers) and Reign of Steel (David Pulver's post-apocalypse setting, where The Computer is not your friend) are now out as part of our GURPS Classic series. And Matt Riggsby's Backdrops: The Tower of Octavius is the first in what we hope will be a long line of Backdrops items, which fall halfway between generic locations and specific adventures; this one is a wizard's tower, complete with detailed maps, that you could drop into any fantasy campaign that has wizards.

And of course we have more coming soon. In hardback, expect Thaumatology in late October 2008; my advance copy just arrived as I was writing this (really!), and boy, is it nice. Over on e23, I can promise you that the fourth volume in Jason Levine and Scott Paul Maykrantz's Creatures of the Night series is just about out the door, while my own Action 2: Exploits – the follow-up to Action 1: Heroes – is either kicking monster butt or being chased out the door by Jason and Scott's beasties.

In the realm of crystal balls, David Pulver is busily working on several open secrets, including Abydos (an island city-state of necromancers for Banestorm), Mass Combat (a Fourth Edition overhaul of the popular Third Edition skirmish rules), and the third and fourth volumes in the Spaceships series. We still have a Dungeon Fantasy installment in the works, too. What else? Well, I'm presently preparing editorial comments on the first of the Loadouts supplements for quickly equipping PCs, and we have at least one more item for each of the Backdrops and Creatures of the Night series in the bullpen. Oh, and I guess I should add that Phil Masters has already written up the first PDF release to support Thaumatology (which seems to be the "it" book this autumn!).

I'll end as I always do by reminding would-be writers of our Wish List – and by pointing them to the latest, greatest GURPS formatting guide, which was revised on August 20, 2008.

We know that our fans have a significant investment in the Third Edition of GURPS. One of our goals in the Fourth Edition design process was to make sure that your entire library would not become obsolete overnight.

While the new edition is different, it's still GURPS. Many Third Edition books will be good to go for Fourth Edition play with a minimum of conversion – and a conversion guide is available here. Most of the information in our typical worldbook or sourcebook – the thorough historical research, the detailed setting descriptions, the roleplaying advice for both players and referees – is usable with any other game system. That's still true now that the "other game system" we're talking about is GURPS Fourth Edition.

Of course, the very "crunchy" rulebooks, such as the old GURPS Basic Set itself, the two GURPS Compendium volumes, and GURPS Vehicles, are outdated. There's no way around that; that's the point of a new edition.

But most of the collection will still be completely useful. See this ludography for a more detailed list of Third Edition books that are easy to use with GURPS Fourth Edition – and still in print!

Fourth Edition Products

Here's a list of Fourth Edition products we've already released, through first quarter 2008.

• GURPS Basic Set: Characters covers everything you need to know to create a character in GURPS Fourth Edition.
• GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns is the GURPS Fourth Edition GM's best resource for planning and running games.
• GURPS Lite is a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules.
• GURPS Update is the official conversion guide from Third Edition to Fourth Edition.
• GURPS GM's Screen. Four-panel cardboard screen with GURPS Lite and 48-page GURPS Fourth Edition insert of conversion notes, charts, forms, and tables.
• GURPS Fantasy, by William H. Stoddard. This book is all you need to build a fantasy game of any type, whether your model is Tolkien, Jordan, or Leiber.
• GURPS Magic. Hundreds of spells for GURPS Fourth Edition, including almost everything from the old GURPS Magic and GURPS Grimoire, plus dozens of entirely new spells!
• GURPS Infinite Worlds, the first core setting for GURPS! Jump between timelines and explore weird alternate Earths!
• GURPS Mysteries, a downloadable product from e23, is designed both for the GM who wants to create and run mystery adventures and for players who want to create and portray more effective investigators in any setting.
• GURPS Casey & Andy, a downloadable product from e23, is a setting book of comic-book mad science and diabolical plots.
• GURPS Character Assistant is the new, improved computer application for generating characters.
• GURPS Banestorm brings the world of Yrth into the Fourth Edition, updating the background and expanding it to 240 full-color pages.
• GURPS Powers is the ultimate creation guide for superhuman characters with every kind of amazing, off-the-chart superpower you can imagine . . . all the way up to gods!
• GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, the Fourth Edition corebook for GURPS Traveller, encompasses a whole new time period in the Traveller universe.
• GURPS Lands Out of Time, a downloadable product from e23, explores everything you need to, er, explore worlds with humans and dinosaurs together.
• GURPS Space is the Fourth Edition tool kit for creating space campaign settings.
• GURPS Bio-Tech revises the technology from GURPS Bio-Tech for Third Edition, and collects material from Transhuman Space, GURPS Ultra-Tech 1, and GURPS Ultra-Tech 2.
• GURPS Changing Times updates Transhuman Space to Fourth Edition.
• GURPS Ultra-Tech pulls together the best of the "tech book" classics from David Pulver, and updates them for Fourth Edition.
• GURPS Martial Arts updates the Third Edition book of the same name with dozens of new techniques and styles . . . plus an entire chapter of expanded combat rules. This one busts out of the normal GURPS format to 256 pages!
• GURPS Spaceships is a completely new design system for ships, allowing GMs to create SF vehicles in minutes!
• GURPS High-Tech is the comprehensive catalog of modern era guns and gear.
• GURPS Thaumatology collects rules for alternative magic systems from the Third Edition versions of GURPS Spirits, GURPS Cabal, GURPS Voodoo, GURPS Celtic Myth, GURPS Religion, as well as numerous articles from Pyramid, and updates all the rules to Fourth Edition.
• e23 also has Fourth Edition support, including the ever-popular GURPS Magic Spell Charts.

Future Releases

As time goes on, we'll be announcing GURPS Fourth Edition releases that don't yet have a definite spot on the schedule:

• GURPS Horror updates the best-selling classic from Third Edition, expanding in new and horrible ways!
• GURPS Fantastic Cities discusses the parts a city can play in a roleplaying game, with over 30 real and fictional cities.
• GURPS Conspiracies brings the award winning GURPS Illuminati into the Fourth Edition, with more historical conspiracies, more character templates, and more FNORD! Plus crates from GURPS Warehouse 23.
• The long-awaited The Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and RPG (Powered by GURPS) is based on the award-winning series of science fiction adventures by Lois McMaster Bujold.
• The Girl Genius Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game is based, of course, on the fantastic comic by Phil and Kaja Foglio. Kaja is a GURPS gamer and is writing the book, and Phil and Kaja will illustrate it together.

What Else Is New?

• Both Pyramid and e23 support Fourth Edition, with frequent articles and releases.
• We continue to support Fourth Edition wherever we can. e23 freebies, discussion on the Pyramid message boards (subscription required) and our forums (free to all!), and more.
• Our Men In Black are demonstrating Fourth Edition at conventions and game stores across the country and the world.

GURPS in Other Languages

Japanese – The Basic Set: Characters was released in the summer of 2005 from Kadokawa Publishing, and other releases are following. Kadokawa released a number of Third Edition books, including several excellent original backgrounds.

Korean – Dayspring Games was the first overseas publisher to translate the new edition of the Basic Set, and releases continue.

Portuguese – Devir Livraria, in Brazil, is our oldest licensor, and their translation of the Basic Set will appear soon.

We have no translation agreements for other languages . . . yet . . .

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