Re: Returning to GURPS - 3rd Edition or 4th Edition
I agree with everybody else that 4e is a better game system. However, 3rd edition was perfectly good and survived many years of usage. If you know you're going to be using the older sourcebooks, particularly for things without a clear 4e replacement like Traveller, go ahead and stick with 3rd edition. You get more use out of your presumably considerable investment, and you don't have to worry in play whether you're applying the 4e rule or are remembering the 3rd edition one instead, a problem I had a lot.
That said, if you want to expand out from there, I would recommend upgrading to 4e. It has its own very good sourcebooks like the DF and Action lines, and that's where the community is, so it'll be easier to get questions answered here.
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