I just made a huge score! My wife likes to look over the freecycle website/group whatever it is. Well she found a guy fairly near by that was giving away a bunch of 2nd and 3rd ed GURPS books. So I went and scooped them up.
The Haul:
Two copies of GURPS basic book 3rd ed(One very well used/worn)
Character Compendium I 3rd ed
Character Compendium II 3rd ed
Supers 2nd ed
Supers 3rd ed
Harkwood
Creatures of the Night
Religion
Vehicles
Space Atlas 2
Ultra-Tech
Magic
Fantasy Folk
High-Tech
Fantasy GMs pack
Space 2nd
Space Atlas
Bestiary
Fantasy
Magic 2nd ed
Reference Screen (GM screen w/ booklet)
Psionics
Grimoire
and lastly one non GURPS book,
The Primal Order. Which I know jack about other than it is an old Wizards of the Coast book.
Congratulations on the phat lewt.
Quote from: Ronin;738614and lastly one non GURPS book,
The Primal Order. Which I know jack about other than it is an old Wizards of the Coast book.
You sir, hold a piece of gaming history in your hands.
This is the book that made Kevin Siembieda sue a budding WotC nearly out of existence.
I'm a fan of the ultra tech books. Nice for inspiration.
Quote from: The Butcher;738615Congratulations on the phat lewt.
You sir, hold a piece of gaming history in your hands.
This is the book that made Kevin Siembieda sue a budding WotC nearly out of existence.
And an awesome book it was, to boot.
It's a crime against gaming that TPO has never been republished. Best system for playing deities in any system, hands down, no contest, Royce Gracy levels of better than everyone else.
Quote from: Ronin;738614The Haul:
That's within spitting distance of my own GURPS collection.
Congrats!
Quote from: daniel_ream;738662It's a crime against gaming that TPO has never been republished. Best system for playing deities in any system, hands down, no contest, Royce Gracy levels of better than everyone else.
Fuck, yeah.
Only one word I can write:
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Not bad at all! I trimmed back drastically on my old GURPS collection, as part of a massive selloff to Noble Knight Games, but that's definitely enough to be going on with.
Quote from: The Butcher;738615You sir, hold a piece of gaming history in your hands.
This is the book that made Kevin Siembieda sue a budding WotC nearly out of existence.
And I guess a case could be made that it is the book that is responsible for 3e getting the OGL and d20 License.
Harkwood alone makes this worth it.
Quote from: daniel_ream;738662It's a crime against gaming that TPO has never been republished. Best system for playing deities in any system, hands down, no contest, Royce Gracy levels of better than everyone else.
It has been released as PDF - POD (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/118293/The-Primal-Order?term=the+primal+order) on OBS!
Go forth, and build your godly DOMAINS!!!
The Primal Order is available at drivethrurpg. $9.99.
Congrats - a nice haul, especially for the price!
Quote from: Ronin;738614The Primal Order. Which I know jack about other than it is an old Wizards of the Coast book.
I still have my unused copy squirrled away somewhere...
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;738725Harkwood alone makes this worth it.
What's Harkwood?
Besides what I say to myself when I wake up in the morning (Ba-Dump-Bump)
I read the subject title for this thread and thought maybe some religious group had made a claim about the 7th score D&D characters had (I had a pamphlet that talked about "Rapist" as a character class...).
Quote from: TristramEvans;738886What's Harkwood?
It's an excellent adventure book, the very first released for the full GURPS system. Set in the Yrth/Banestorm setting, it's in a frontier barony in a frontier kingdom, in the runup to that kingdom's civil war, covered in future Banestorm releases.
The premise is that the party's a bunch of newbies, showing up for the great semi-annual tourney in said frontier barony, either to compete, as the squires or servants of a competitor, or to hook up with any of the several lords hiring mercs with the oncoming civil war. Adventures spill out from there.
One of the nifty bits is that there's no predetermined Big Bad. Instead, there are
six possibilities -- each with a different possible lead henchman -- and the GM's encouraged to choose which one will be It. The baron's sweet daughter and heir could in reality be spoiled and twisted, his senior knight could really want to be baron himself, the local charlatan could really be a stalking horse of an enemy lord, the baron could be in fact an insane split personality trying to ruin himself.
Definitely worth having and running.
Quote from: TristramEvans;738886What's Harkwood?
I'm pretty sure it's the sourcebook for The Land of Poncy Knights (http://eotbeholder.deviantart.com/art/The-Only-Fantasy-World-Map-245738593).
Quote from: The Butcher;738615Congratulations on the phat lewt.
You sir, hold a piece of gaming history in your hands.
This is the book that made Kevin Siembieda sue a budding WotC nearly out of existence.
Am I correct in remembering that this lawsuit set off a chain of events that led WoTC into eventually getting D&D? Was is that this was what pushed them into M:tG? Or am I remembering it wrong?
Quote from: RPGPundit;739265Am I correct in remembering that this lawsuit set off a chain of events that led WoTC into eventually getting D&D? Was is that this was what pushed them into M:tG? Or am I remembering it wrong?
Here's a decent summary; http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory1.phtml
Quote from: trechriron;739271Here's a decent summary; http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory1.phtml
Cool, thank you.