Towards a List of GURPS/HERO Products That We Ought To Own

David Johansen · April 29, 2012, 10:08:24 AM

GURPS Vehicles - Not only one of the tightest vehicle design systems out there (okay often a little too tight) but a great guide on specific features of vehicles and thoughts on handling them in play. Sure it's overkill but can any gamer honestly say overkill is a bad thing?

John Morrow · April 29, 2012, 01:24:08 PM

Quote from: danbuter;534891Hudson City (Hero 5e): Outstanding city book. Not an excessive amount of supers stuff in it, so it's good for just about any modern game.

Yes. The earlier treatment of Hudson City in Justice, Not Law, though not as detailed, is also good.

RPGPundit · April 29, 2012, 06:55:43 PM

GURPS Illuminati.

RPGPundit

David Johansen · April 29, 2012, 11:00:04 PM

You're not cleared for that.

fnord

Machinegun Blue · April 29, 2012, 11:31:50 PM

Quote from: jhkim;534875For GURPS, my favorites are GURPS Goblins (a fascinating fantasy parody of Edwardian London)

That would be Georgian London.

I've got tons of favorites for Gurps. I'll just recommend Horror for being an excellent guide to the genre.

James Gillen · April 30, 2012, 03:35:19 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;535068GURPS Illuminati.

RPGPundit

Well, the cover, certainly.

JG

jcfiala · April 30, 2012, 11:41:00 AM

GURPS Time Travel is pretty much the go-to book for a listing of all the ways Time Travel has been used in fiction and could be used in games.

I'm really fond of GURPS Transhuman Space. If you're not interested in a Transhuman setting, you won't like it, but if you are, it's great stuff.

GURPS IOU is a screamingly funny Gonzo college game setting, where you're running late to class, so you borrow a time machine, accidentally change the past and get an F on your history paper because it was written in the wrong time stream, which means you've got to re-steal a time machine to fix things so you don't go on academic probation. The illustrations by the Foglios are simply icing on the cake.

Really, it's kind of hard to find _bad_ GURPS worldbooks.

daniel_ream · April 30, 2012, 11:56:05 AM

The first printing of GURPS Supers has so much errata that large parts of the combat system are unplayable (and I don't mean "produces results I don't like", I mean "the text is incomplete, contradictory, or gibberish as written").

jcfiala · April 30, 2012, 12:37:43 PM

Quote from: daniel_ream;535264The first printing of GURPS Supers has so much errata that large parts of the combat system are unplayable (and I don't mean "produces results I don't like", I mean "the text is incomplete, contradictory, or gibberish as written").

Good point - GURPS Supers has been rocky in the past, and to be fair, it's just about the last system I'd want to use for superhero roleplaying in general.

Claudius · May 01, 2012, 03:32:19 AM

The line of GURPS historical supplements is outstanding. So many good ones, GURPS Imperial Rome, GURPS Greece, GURPS Egypt, GURPS Aztecs, GURPS Russia, GURPS Middle Ages, GURPS Vikings, GURPS Who's Who, GURPS Japan, GURPS Low Tech, etc.

GURPS Camelot is often overlooked, understandably because it had to compete with Pendragon, but it's a great supplement.

Of the GURPS 4th line, GURPS Infinite Worlds fascinates me. I love the random chart of alternate timelines.

I liked Fantasy Hero and Star Hero well enough, but since I'm not going to play Hero, ever, I decided to sell them.

Claudius · May 01, 2012, 03:33:58 AM

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;534896The only two GURPS books I don't have are China and Russia.

GURPS Russia in my opinion is one of the best GURPS historical supplements. I think that's saying a lot, taking into account GURPS supplements are famed for their quality.

James Gillen · May 02, 2012, 03:24:23 AM

Quote from: jcfiala;535277Good point - GURPS Supers has been rocky in the past, and to be fair, it's just about the last system I'd want to use for superhero roleplaying in general.

One reason I'm not as enthused about GURPS as a lot of people. HERO spoiled me, but then it operated on the model that to do superheroes, you had to have a generic system AND have it designed to work on that level.

JG

Shawn Driscoll · May 02, 2012, 03:38:40 AM

Quote from: James Gillen;535648One reason I'm not as enthused about GURPS as a lot of people. HERO spoiled me, but then it operated on the model that to do superheroes, you had to have a generic system AND have it designed to work on that level.

I bought Champions back in the day because it did superheros, and it had a tie-in with Car Wars. But I didn't think ahead that it would only do that.

I have not had proplems with GURPS Supers. But I may not be using it the way others are trying to make it or want it to work. If the book was released in 1982, I'd probably complain that there were no Marvel Superheroes in the book. SJGames forums has a list of Marvel characters with stats and all for GURPS. But I have not tried any of them. Probably because I'm not after a comic book superhero setting. I just need a power added to a normal human or alien once in awhile. Plus there is GURPS Powers for all kinds of just power stuff. Not so much costuming stuff.

Marleycat · May 02, 2012, 04:01:56 AM

GURPS IOU? You serious? I must have this even though I have no GURPS books.

RPGPundit · May 02, 2012, 12:26:30 PM

GURPS Imperial Rome is really good too.

RPGPundit