GURPS Essential core books

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Originally Posted by RyanW

I wouldn't call it essential core, but it is high on the usefulness/cost ratio chart.

I don't use it a lot because I tend to do low-tech fantasy gaming, for which it isn't so useful, but time and again I'm astonished with how densely packed Action 2 is with really, really good and immediately useful stuff for modern and peri-modern (yay, neologism) campaigns.

Originally Posted by RyanW

Plus, Action doesn't get enough love.

I'll go one farther: Action 2 is the single most underappreciated book in GURPS.