[Dalin]

Originally Posted by b-dog

I think that GURPS people think of the DF series as a discreet separate entity from regular fantasy. In DF you can ONLY kill monsters and take their stuff and then exchange the loot in an abstract town.

Huh. I'm a GURPS person, and my DF game is a crossover with broader fantasy. No abstract towns at my table. The abstract DF town rules have worked well in my non-abstract towns.

I also highly recommend the Caverntown supplement for an awesome worked example of a DF town.

If you want to make a dungeon setting in medieval Europe the GURPS writers will not write a book on how to set up a town and how to make the monsters seem like the ones from myths instead of being like in AD&D or Lord of the Rings they will just point you to GURPS Fantasy and then say DO IT YOURSELF!

I don't doubt that SJG would publish such a book if they thought there was market appetite for it. Look at the vast library of 3e world books that they published. (GURPS Arabian Nights is one of my favorite and most used RPG books for any system ever.) I consult many of those books in my 4e DF games all the time. Sometimes I need some NPC names, or a generic layout of a hill fort, or some religious fluff for a cultist, or stat ideas for a monster that's not in the DF canon yet. GURPS Celtic Myth, to name another example that is available (cheap!) in both PDF and PoD, is packed with cultural material (literature, fashion, board games, bagpipes...) and plenty of crunch on character types, magic, Sidhe, etc.

There will be no easy to use book where there are classes that fit into Norse myths and legends along with notes on how towns and dungeons would be like and monsters that fit the Norse myths.

This is more about the marketplace than about the desire of Steve Jackson Games. A book like this would only sell to the subset of GURPS players who want a tightly focused Norse/DF crossover. That's a small group! Mind you, I don't speak for the company in any way, but I've seen dozens of posts from employees (from the CEO on down) about this, and they constantly emphasize that this isn't about "not wanting" to do such things.

Our best way to see more publications like this is to vote with our dollars. I echo johndallman's recommendation to see Hall of Judgment if you haven't already. It includes another example of a non-abstract town and lots of Norse culture to add to the DF stew. I love it and hope to see more like this from Doug. (And I hope jhis example inspires other 3rd party authors and publishers to jump in!)