Is there any likelihood of a CRPG based on GURPS? IIRC, the Fallout CRPG was originally going to use GURPS before the companies split.
I met a guy that was involved in turning GURPS into an RPG for Interplay. It was off the record so I will not make any names.
Basically, he told me that the whole agreement fell apart because "It was just impossible to work with SJ." He had no knowledge about the process of creating a videogame but wanted to have a say in everything. He asked for changes in parts of the code that were "locked", not understanding that you can't change a code the way you can fire up a word processor and rewrite a rule or a description in a PnP RPG.
At the end the decision become simple: SJ was contractually able to be PitA but Interplay was also able to pull off the contract when they wanted. They went for the second option and built up, instead, a proprietary ruleset.
"You know what SJ hated the most?" this guy told me. "The Pip Boy. Go figure."
Given the success of the franchise, I always wondered how much money SJ lost by being an ass.