eGURPS (GURPS 5e)

[Buzzardo]

Originally Posted by hackbarth

What I would like:

To print my own GURPS Basic Set, with only the portions that will be relevant for the next campaign that'll GM. Only low-TL stuff plus magic for fantasy, only high-TL stuff plus ultra-tech for SF. Modified for technological path or magic systems of the settings.

So that I can take a guide like Dungeon Fantasy or Action, and turn it in my own specialized RPG using GURPS rules in a single book.

All that and Cheap. Waiting for the next TL to roll out.

Sure. That'd be great. The trouble is that, to do it, you'd have to have all the content chunked up into some kind of database and then properly (which means consistently, deeply, and meaningfully) tagged. And that has two obstacles: cost and policy. Converting all those Quark and Ventura (*waves at Fox*) files to a CMS-friendly format and then tagging them would cost a bunch. As for Policy, SJGames very likely doesn't want to put its intellectual property into that kind of arrangement and then make it available to the public, even on a subscription basis. On the other hand, they might love it for internal use (but again, they probably can't justify the cost).

So it's a nice vision of a great set of applications, but it's not likely to go anywhere.