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Best GURPS Book NOBODY Recommends?

Started by FASERIP, May 23, 2013, 09:05:03 AM

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daniel_ream

#15
May 24, 2013, 01:58:24 AM
Quote from: Votan;657098GURPS Horseclans.  You will never find it mentioned and the series is out of print, but the gaming material (bought on a whim) made me buy and read the whole series.  

But I would be astonished if anybody else had even read it.

I seem to recall that Bili the Axe: Up Harzburk! had no errata, and the reason given was that the rules for mass combat were so completely broken it wasn't possible to errata them without rewriting the whole book.
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#16
May 24, 2013, 03:02:53 AM
GURPS Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. My favorite PC game ever in RPG form? I don't even like GURPS and I'm into it.
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#17
May 24, 2013, 08:19:25 AM
GURPS Scarlet Pimpernel.

Talk aboutb a supplement with a narrow focus. I was lucky to snag a copy at a con, I think they printed about a dozen or so.
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#18
May 25, 2013, 12:34:09 AM
Quote from: Killfuck Soulshitter;657109Are you kidding? Back in the day Horseclans novels and the GURPS books were, if not exactly first tier, at least known by most of my peer group.

There really wasn't much choice back in the mid to late 80s. You'd go down to the book store for a fantasy fix, there was Tolkien which you had already read, Stephen Donaldson, Shannara, Conan pastiches, and stuff like Horseclans.

Yeah, I definitely remember that bookstore era (before the rise of Amazon or large retailers like Barnes and Noble led to a much richer selection of books).

The series sold a lot of copies so somebody else had to be reading it too, but it seemed to completely vanish from the SF field about a decade or so ago.  But I really liked the GURPS book, even if it is deeply out of print.

daniel_ream

#19
May 25, 2013, 01:25:27 AM
Quote from: Votan;657377The series sold a lot of copies so somebody else had to be reading it too, but it seemed to completely vanish from the SF field about a decade or so ago.

That's not terribly surprising.  There's a ton of excellent series from the 1970s and 1980s that had their initial rush but haven't been reprinted.  I would love modern reprints of the Castle Perilous, Lord Darcy, and Gandalara series.
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#20
May 26, 2013, 04:45:58 AM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;657193GURPS Scarlet Pimpernel.

Talk aboutb a supplement with a narrow focus. I was lucky to snag a copy at a con, I think they printed about a dozen or so.

It was quite good!
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#21
May 26, 2013, 07:02:45 AM
GURPS Fairey. LOts of good info for a fae focused game. Plus tons of info ideas for a supernatural campaign.
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#22
May 27, 2013, 07:26:19 PM
Damn, missed by one. I was going to recommend GURPs Faery.

Has anyone mentioned GURPs CABAL yet?

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#23
May 28, 2013, 12:54:06 AM
myth. a really awesome sourcebook based on the video game series of the same name.

Mistwell

#24
May 28, 2013, 01:02:36 AM Last Edit: May 28, 2013, 01:04:47 AM by Mistwell
Quote from: Killfuck Soulshitter;656964As a Jack Vance fan, I enjoyed GURPS Planet of Adventure.

Yeah that's the one I was going to recommend as well.

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#25
May 28, 2013, 01:14:57 AM
Quote from: TristramEvans;657972Has anyone mentioned GURPs CABAL yet?

i don't think so but doesn't *everybody* recommend that? they did at one time.

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#26
May 28, 2013, 10:21:18 PM
Quote from: Mistwell;658001Yeah that's the one I was going to recommend as well.


Is this even real? I never heard of it.
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#27
May 29, 2013, 12:01:09 AM Last Edit: May 29, 2013, 12:03:20 AM by Mistwell
Quote from: RPGPundit;658404Is this even real? I never heard of it.

Yes, it's real, I own it, that's the cover.  Here's a link.

Most people have never heard of it...but I found it good, and he did ask what the best GURPS book is that nobody seems to recommend.

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#28
May 29, 2013, 04:25:44 PM
Well, that's certainly obscure!
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crkrueger

#29
May 29, 2013, 04:32:19 PM
It was an in-house only project, but GURPS: Fatal was much more accurate in many respects.  They were lucky Munchkin provided all the hookers and blow money they needed to conduct proper research.

I don't have a lot of obscure GURPS stuff, but I've won bets about GURPS Autoduel.
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