[New Release] GURPS Urban Magics: Hey, I'm Castin' Here!

[The Fox]

Here's GURPS Urban Magic, released a day early so as not to collide with Turkey Day. For those who have seen turkey collisions, you know why this is a good thing.

[AOTA]

Bought it.

[mehrkat]

How many pages is it? (I thought page number was sort of a standard part of the description but this one doesn't have it).

[AOTA]

55 pages. Good size book. Lots of interesting stuff.

[Turhan's Bey Company]

I notice that Bill selected the same Gilbert and Sullivan lyric I (much later) suggested for Treasure Tables. Fortunately, the editor didn't have room to fit that one into the rough PDF and I don't expect to see it in the final. Which is good; it'd be like wearing the same dress to an awards ceremony.

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by The Fox

Here's GURPS Urban Magic, released a day early so as not to collide with Turkey Day.

Any comment on the retitling to GURPS Thaumatology: Urban Magics? Is Thaumatology an official brand for magic-oriented GURPS supplements?

[Kromm]

There was no "retitling," really. The release title differs from the working title, but many projects have short working titles. For instance, GURPS Power-Ups 1: Imbuements was simply GURPS Imbuements while it was being written, reviewed, edited, and laid out. We do this a lot. There's no specific mandate to call everything with magic in it a GURPS Thamatology item, though.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Kromm

There was no "retitling," really. The release title differs from the working title, but many projects have short working titles. For instance, GURPS Power-Ups 1: Imbuements was simply GURPS Imbuements while it was being written, reviewed, edited, and laid out. We do this a lot. There's no specific mandate to call everything with magic in it a GURPS Thamatology item, though.

This one makes good sense to me, though, as marketing. Most of the book is a long, long series of optional rules and game mechanics for using magic in new ways in a campaign; that's exactly the sort of thing Thaumatology does. So the retitling seems to raise expectations that the product in fact tries to gratify.

I'm happy to see it out, and happy with my copy of it. Thanks to the Steve Jackson Games production staff for all their labors!

Bill Stoddard

[TheThingFromOuterSpace]

Hi,

I find it funny, how you've brought me to make the first thing coming home after work is looking if there's a new GURPS title on e23.
And even more funny how pretty, exciting and useful the stuff is.

Keep up that good work, I love it.

Soon today I will browse through Urban Magics... ;)

[Hanuman47]

Huzzah! Now I have reading material for my lunch break!