What Genre do you use GURPS for?

[Crakkerjakk]

About to start:

GURPS Cthulhu: year-long(ish) campaign covering an expedition to the Antarctic.

Past:

GURPS Dark Sun: Post-apocalyptic fantasy a la TSR's old campaign setting. Fell apart due to lack of thematic focus on my part.

Considering at some point in the future:

GURPS Hell Boy: Medium-Low powered heroes circa WWII, fighting mythological monsters from various cultures.

GURPS Transhuman Space: Not sure what I'm going to do here. Maybe investigative journalists/cospiracy theories.

GURPS Seven Kingdoms: Fantasy China/Phillipines/Japan/India/Indonesia-etc. with Wuxia elements, alchemy, and sorcery to be constructed after careful reading of Thaumatology.

GURPS Malazan: Gritty High-magic campaign based off of Stephen Eriksen's Malazan Book of the Fallen series.

GURPS Freedom City: Medium-High powered Silver Age supers using Green Ronin's Freedom City setting for Mutants and Masterminds.

GURPS Golden Age: High Fantasy with multiple magic systems, test-bed for Thaumaturgy. Wizards with ritual magic and ceremonial casting with astrological correspondences, alchemy with the same astrological correspondences, clerics with threshold based spell magic, shamans with path based rituals and spirit assistance as optional, with no distance modifiers, herb lore as a cheaper and easier to learn version of alchemy, futhark rune magic modified so that one-shot items are easier to enchant, no finger tracing, syntactic realm based faerie magic with glamour, I think thats about it.

GURPS Shadowrun: Magical Fantasy + Cyberpunk meet, converted from FAFSA's excellent setting.


GURPS Deadlands: Wierd West, Horror + Wierd Science/Steampunk + Asian Martial Arts + Wild West.

There's probably more, but so far thats whats currently sitting in the back of my mind.

[3d6]

Currently GMing GURP: Ravenloft
Up Next: Modern Psionics

---Rusty

[Mark Skarr]

Current Games:
I have several iterations of my Super San Diego game going.
I have a GURPS BattleTech game going as well.

In the works:
GURPS Fallout

I'll use GURPS for pretty much anything.

[Mr_Sandman]

Current:

• Sort of wuxia/low power supers - introducing my kids, who watch Naruto and Avatar, to GURPS.
• 2300 inspired, safe-tech space

Past:

• GURPS: Mage the Ascension (my longest running campaign)
• Supers
• A bunch of other one-shot adventures or aborted campaigns (happens a lot, as my players and I have often have difficulties getting together on a regular basis).

Considering:

• Reduced power Black Ops/cliffhanger set in the 1930s.
• Old-fashioned sword and sorcery fantasy.
• Anything that players seem really interested in.

[Figleaf23]

Presently GMing:
A swashbuckling campaign on an archipelago world that has degenerated from ultratech down to TL4.

Presently playing in:
A homebrew continent of Hindu/Muslim cultures and variant native races set on the Banestorm world.

Recently played:
-A low magic, high realism early Vikings campaign.
-A First Crusade/Initial Banestorm campaign.

Planning:
A TL9 'just reaching for the stars' Illuminated Supers Space campaign.

Considering:
A framework for simple one-offs like an Autoduel home-brew, or a WWI Aces homebrew with horror.

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by Figleaf23

-A low magic, high realism early Vikings campaign.

Sounds awesome. I've always wanted to run/play in a low-fantasy vikings game, but I don't know anyone else who shares that desire, mores the pity.

*EDIT*
I like your new sig, Figleaf.

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk

Sounds awesome. I've always wanted to run/play in a low-fantasy vikings game, but I don't know anyone else who shares that desire, mores the pity.

The GM who ran the Vikings campaign did an amazing job of building a detailed understanding of the society. At first it was frustrating dealing with deep realism at TL2 (e.g. loooong healing times, if you were lucky enough to survive a fight), but ultimately it was very rewarding.

Thanks, re: the sig.

[ham2anv]

I've just started running an Illuminati University game. Hopefully it will have some real legs.

Unfortunately, I seem to have bad luck with GURPS campaigns. Despite my love of the system, for one reason or another, the campaigns I try to run fall apart after only a few sessions. I've run Infinite Worlds (twice, one lasted a half-dozen sessions and is my longest-running GURPS game to date), Banestorm (twice), Transhuman Space, Cabal, Technomancer, a homebrew Steampunk setting, and a Supers game based on the Ultimate Marvel universe.

I don't have this problem with other systems. I've run campaigns in D&D 3.5 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer that have run two years each (both with a few months off at a time, being run in college). I ran a Mage: The Ascension campaign for a year and a half (also in college).

I'm hoping to break my bad GURPS streak with this IOU game. I'm shooting for 6 good months of gaming, if not more. If it works out, I'm thinking about one of the following for my next game (among several ideas for other systems):

• A Banestorm campaign set in Teridar (Norther Megalos).
• A modern-fantasy Cliffhangers game set in the mid-50s.
• A modern-fantasy noir game set during WWII (a prequel to the above Cliffhangers game).

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by ham2anv

I've just started running an Illuminati University game. Hopefully it will have some real legs.

Unfortunately, I seem to have bad luck with GURPS campaigns. Despite my love of the system, for one reason or another, the campaigns I try to run fall apart after only a few sessions. I've run Infinite Worlds (twice, one lasted a half-dozen sessions and is my longest-running GURPS game to date), Banestorm (twice), Transhuman Space, Cabal, Technomancer, a homebrew Steampunk setting, and a Supers game based on the Ultimate Marvel universe.

I don't have this problem with other systems. I've run campaigns in D&D 3.5 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer that have run two years each (both with a few months off at a time, being run in college). I ran a Mage: The Ascension campaign for a year and a half (also in college).

I'm hoping to break my bad GURPS streak with this IOU game. I'm shooting for 6 good months of gaming, if not more. If it works out, I'm thinking about one of the following for my next game (among several ideas for other systems):

• A Banestorm campaign set in Teridar (Norther Megalos).
• A modern-fantasy Cliffhangers game set in the mid-50s.
• A modern-fantasy noir game set during WWII (a prequel to the above Cliffhangers game).

Here's to hoping you break your streak, ham. I've had some trouble getting my players to understand why I like GURPS so much. Part of the problem is I can be fairly impatient. The other part is they keep assuming it works like D&D. I'm trying a more modern game in order to highlight where GURPS excels, and to get away from any preconceptions that they might have pertaining to fantasy.

[Cernig]

Currently Running
Tethira, a fantasy campaign now in its fourth version, the first three being DnD games.

Beyond The Veil - Modern Horror/Conspiracy heavily influenced by the Anitaverse and Call of Cthulhu.

X-Side - near future mutant superheroes. (This and BtV started out as the same campaign, but it was too much in one setting so we junked it and started again, separating out the supers from the supernaturals.)

Infernal reign - post apocalyptic Hell On Earth, with demons entering the world in 45 through the Trinity banestorm.

Currently Playing
Tethira, a different part of the world as GMed by my son.

Contemplating
A conversion of my CP2020 campaign to GURPS

Traveller, with a twist based on my old Star Frontiers campaign from two decades ago.

Infinite Worlds

Regards, C