Which books are required to play GURPS Fantasy?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

If you want some pre-worked examples of how to run a high fantasy game, Dungeon Fantasy supplements are your friends.

Genre definitions are always tricky but I wouldn't say that Dungeon Fantasy is High Fantasy; it's pretty much it's opposite. If it's close to any literary genre it would be Sword and Sorcery.

[Jürgen Hubert]

As an alternative, it is perfectly plausible to use any reasonably generic fantasy world (such as the Forgotten Realms) as your setting and GURPS as the rule system. GURPS Dungeon Fantasy is useful for the rules bits - use the monsters from that series (as well as, plug, plug, the online GURPS Monster Repository) to come up with your opponents).

[rosignol]

Originally Posted by viper5121

Which books are required to play GURPS Fantasy? Does GURPS have rules for miniatures? Do the core books have a large list of player characters and creatures, or are separate books required for that?

Any responses will be appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Books: The two core books, +Magic.

Martial Arts is very helpful, but the game won't be unplayable without it (sorry, Mr. DelOrto).

I expect Low-Tech to be very very useful, but as I don't have it (yet), I can't say for sure.

If you are comfortable home-brewing a setting from scratch, Fantasy is helpful. If you'd rather go with a pre-generated setting, skip Fantasy and get Banestorm.

[Agramer]

Originally Posted by Stripe

GURPS is very complex. If you get much more that the two books in the Basic Set, you'll be overwhelmed in no time.

Though,if you buy GURPS Historical supplements(like Rome,Russia,Japan,China,Hot spots...etc) or technical ones(like Low/High/Ultra/Bio tech) you can easily get "lost in wonder" of beautifully and intriguingly well researched history about which you knew little.From obscure facts to funny anecdotes written in interesting way.