05-05-2021, 08:12 AM | #11 |
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
Fantasy Folk, Powers, Thaumatology.
I really love Fantasy Folk and I'm so happy that the Fantasy Folk line is starting up with Alden Loveshade's pdf going into playtest soonish.
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05-05-2021, 08:20 AM | #12 |
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
It's hard to get this down to three.
I would probably say THAUMATOLOGY because it helps me think about the trickiest issue in adapting a setting. GURPS ILLUMINATI is just perfect as a source of ideas and (unreliable) facts. GURPS HORROR (the Ken Hite authored editions) not only provides a font of ideas but begins an analysis of not just the Horror genre but of roleplaying games as an art form. But if I put those up top then I have no space for BANESTORM (which is the book I probably use the most) nor GURPS IOU, nor DISCWORLD nor... You get the point.
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05-05-2021, 08:36 AM | #13 |
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
It really isn't hard for me to pick out my top three*
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05-05-2021, 08:49 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Wellington, NZ
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
Well, I use High-Tech and Ultra-Tech all the time,so they'd up there if amount of use was the sole criteria. However, while it's very useful I don't read UT for fun that much, so it's off the list. I do read HT for fun and inspiration, so it stay on.
I absolutely love making spaceships with the Spaceships series. I'd say the first of them is my all-time favourite book. My third favourite these days... hard choice. Bio-Tech probably. I don't directly use it that much, but I find it inspirational any time I'm looking to make some new species or non-standard character. Back in the 3e days it'd have been Vehicles 2e, Bio-Tech, and no clear third.
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05-05-2021, 08:49 AM | #15 | |
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
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05-05-2021, 09:04 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
My three, hard to reduce the list to three:
GURPS Celtic Myth, has inspired a long-lasting campaign with it's careful description of playing characters with a different belief and value system. GURPS Cliffhangers has done the same for another long-lasting campaign. GURPS How to be a GURPS GM, for many useful nuggets of keeping everyone involved in campaign's core ideas, things that went beyond what I've learned over the years. |
05-05-2021, 02:12 PM | #17 |
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
I'm boring:
Thaumantology Powers High-Tech Cheating now: Space 3e and Action 2 were also very good. Last edited by Donny Brook; 05-05-2021 at 04:40 PM. |
05-05-2021, 03:08 PM | #18 | ||
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Location: South Dakota, USA
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
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Third Edition, Revised had GURPS Basic Set (a single book), Compendium I, and Compendium II as its core three books. GURPS Fourth Edition has GURPS Basic Set Characters, GURPS Basic Set Campaigns, and GURPS Powers as its core three books. :) Teasing aside, I guess I thought this perception was more than just a "me" thing. Answering the question myself:
Don't mistake this as a preference for Third Edition over Fourth. Almost all... maybe all... of my actual play experience is with Third Edition. Plus, I was using Third Edition in high school, with my high school friends. Nostalgia is strong. Plus, the books I mentioned don't have Fourth Edition counterparts, though adapting them to Fourth Edition is actually kind of fun. :) Time consuming, but fun. XD Honorable Mentions are
I almost went on and on because there are easily a dozen GURPS books that have shaped me over the years, some I never even used to game. XD
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05-05-2021, 03:39 PM | #19 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
Dungeon Magic Styles: I love magic styles (I'd add Magic Styles itself but that would be a tad redundant), and I found that this magic style book in particular to be the best world-building GURPS has ever done. I love the relationships between the different chromatic styles, including the white robes pretending to be good, when they're actually the most evil.
Weird War II: I've been obsessed with creating a world war II superhero setting forever. Gurps Space 4E: Rolling up worlds is a great time killer and I love the random creature generator too. Last edited by David Johnston2; 05-05-2021 at 04:11 PM. |
05-05-2021, 03:50 PM | #20 |
Join Date: Dec 2020
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Re: Name your top 3 Gurps books of all time and why?
GURPS Banestorm and the 3rd Ed precursor
GURPS Fantasy Folk 3rd Ed. GURPS Fantasy Adventures 3rd Ed. If I have to choose 4th ed. then together with Banestorm GURPS Biotech GURPS High Tech and Low tech are a very close decision throwing a coin I take High Tech |
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