[johndallman]

These were found with the same PDF diff tool as I used for Campaigns. The previously available PDF of Characters was third printing, published in April 2008; the new one is seventh printing, published January 2020. Some of the changes are updates that seem to be intended to make the Basic Set fit better as part of the GURPS line, rather than being a near-standalone product.

Back cover: Change of printing, publication date and country of printing.

Title page: Change of printing.

All the following changes are in terms of Basic Set page numbers, which start at p. 1. Where I list adjacent pages individually, I mean that the changes are entirely on that page, and no text moves between pages.

P. 2: Changes in staff positions at SJ Games, change of copyright and printing information.

P.4: Two new boxes in the Skills chapter added to contents listing.

P. 5: GURPS has been in print for nearly 35 years.

P. 6: Re-write of much of “Notes on the Fourth Edition” and “About the Authors”.

P. 8: Changed URL for GURPS Lite.

P. 13: Changed URL for GURPS resources.

P. 25: Introduces a GM-determined limit on levels of Multimillionaire.

P. 27-28: Under “People Affected” and “Frequency of Recognition,” removes the (round down) notes on modifications to costs of reputations and inserts an instruction to drop all fractions at the end of the calculation.

P. 34: Inserts a reference to GURPS Powers at the start of the Advantage List.

P. 50: Corrects “you victim” to “your victim”.

P. 53-54: Last two lines of p. 53 moved to p. 54.

P. 54-55: Last two lines on p. 54 moved to p.55, last two lines of first column on p.55 moved to second column.

P. 58-59: Gunslinger has been rewritten and the layout changed to make room for it. Several lines of Hard to Kill have been displaced to p.59. Other changes to layout on p. 59, which don’t change the text.

P. 60-61: Layout changed, two lines at the end of p. 60 pulled back from p.61, consequent minor change in layout there.

P. 79: Very Rapid Healing corrected to recovering lost HP, rather than lost HT.

P. 80: Recovery: Removed spurious “by”.

P.89: Supernatural Durability: “below 0 HP you are at half Move and Dodge”.

P.89: Talent: Changed “This effectively raises your attribute scores for the purpose of those skills only;” to “This effectively raises your relative skill level with those skills only;”.

P. 102: Inserts a reference to GURPS Powers at the start of the Enhancements List.

P. 105: Surge modifier re-written for clarity.

P. 106: Malediction: Corrected “Most importantly…” to “Most important …”

P. 109: Side Effect resistance penalties changed to -1 per two points of injury, rather than of penetrating damage.

P. 115, bottom of second column, “Nuisance Effect” corrected to “Temporary Disadvantage”.

P. 122: Addiction: added a line to the effect that drugs with minimal or stimulating effect are worth 0 points.

P. 141: Kleptomania: Corrected “If fail” to “If you fail”.

P. 162-3: Last line on p. 162 moved to p. 163.

P. 185: Added box “Team Efforts” for making one roll for a team, based on “Got You Covered” from Action 1, p. 5. Pull quote dropped to make space and layout changed completely.

P. 195: First Aid skill description re-written to match up better with the injury and healing rules.

P. 197: Gambling cross-reference changed to Regular Contests, rather than back to itself.

P. 204: Leadership affects loyalty checks, not morale checks.

P. 206 Added box “Complementary Skills” with a significant extension to the previously-published rules, covering contested complementary skills. Layout changed to make space.

P. 228: Veterinary: Modifiers changed almost completely, “+5 if the animal knows and trusts you” has been removed.

P. 229: Inserted a reference to Martial Arts for more about Techniques.

P. 257: PK Abilities: Corrected cross-reference to Innate Attack.

P. 275: Box “Silver Weapons (TL1)” re-written to use cost factors, although without introducing the term.

P.287: Shields note 2: Spikes are available at TL1+.

P. 297: Absolute Direction is M/P.

P. 298: Ultrasonic Speech costs 0 or 10.

PP. 299-300: Column headers corrected to “Disadvantage”.

PP. 329-334: Index updated.

PP. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 32, 33, 36, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 55, 63, 65, 66, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161, 163, 164, 167, 168, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 182, 190, 191, 192, 193, 199, 201, 202, 203, 209, 210, 211, 213, 214, 216, 217, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 228, 229, 233, 237, 238, 243, 244-45, 247, 248, 251, 252-53, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 262, 263, 264, 265, 270, 279,285, 289, 291, 293, 295, 296, 302, 304, 306, 308, 309, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 325, 327, 335 and 336: Minor changes in layout and/or typography, no effect on meaning.

Two pages added at the end advertising Warehouse 23 and the DFRPG.