What Genre do you use GURPS for?

[Travinius]

I play GURPS since more than 10 years, always 3rd Edition.

Usually I use GURPS for a more realistic, historical roleplaying (as opposed to D&D for High Fantasy, Call of Cthulhu for Horror and some more obscure settings occasionaly).

What we did in GURPS:

• GURPS Imperial Rome (a.d. 111 - that's what my nick comes from)
• GURPS Fantasy in an own gameworld
• GURPS Swashbucklers in a Hornblower-like naval setting around 1800
• GURPS Steampunk (Castle Falkenstein)
• GURPS today for Roleplaying in my neighbourhood (literally)

Last weekend I finally could not resist anymore and acquired GURPS 4th Edition. I am still reading the rules and then will start converting... :) I'd like to continue all campaings with the new ruleset.

[Dwarf99]

Homebrew Cinematic Steam Punk is FTW!!!

[quarkstomper]

I've used GURPS for...

D&D-style swords & sorcery
Wild West
Supers (both original and based on existing universes)
Steampunk (adaptations of SPACE 1889 and CASTLE FALKENSTEIN)
Modern-Day Espionage
Space Opera
Pulp Adventure
Pulp Space Opera
Victorian Era Horror
Modern-Day Monster Stompers
Urban Werewolves
Saturday Morning Cartoons

And a number of D-Hopper campaigns (e.g. "The Horatio Club" or "Infinite Worlds") where the PC's visit different gameworlds.

At the moment I'm running a "Secret Heroes" campaign, (Supers in a world where super-powers aren't generally known) and a solo campaign set in the Star Trek: Next Gen universe.

[Quadrone]

Currently playing/GMing (shared campaign):
30's Pulp Adventure

Planning:
World of Darkness (Demon, mostly, may allow some other character types)
Science Fiction (Firefly-ish tone with aliens and biotech)

[vicky_molokh]

Currently planning: Very non-mainstream fantasy (Celestial Ocean), with a gritty/cinematic style combo (think Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, but with realistic bleeding etc.), some early horror elements, and Final-Destination-esque middle part, and not sure what in the final chapters.

Oh, and the the Urban Decay Playground has stalled. 2/3 players love it, 1 hates it, but I definitely can't continue GMing it the way it turned out (not cinematic enough, too much planning and economics, despite the setting).

[zorg]

We usually cycle between these settings, adding a new one from time to time. SpacePunk is the current - though paused - game.

SpacePunk
Reign of Fire
Fantasy vs Extradimensional Space Nazis
Modern Occult Horror Conspiracy ("Witchcraft")
Pulp Fantasy

[Noven]

Currently Playing?
Fantasy Homebrew

Currently Running?
GURPS Kingdoms of Kalamar (we start tomorrow)

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Highland_Piper

With all the discussions about Original Settings and what Licensed material people would like to have I was just curious what people are actually using GURPS for.

Right now: Fantasy (about to take a turn for the odd*)

Future (I hope): Near-hard science fiction.

* If you are in my group, pretend you didn't read that.

[Kaldrin]

Currently running:

- Zombie Apoc game in the setting of rural Alberta.

Playing in:

- A crazy black ops inspired modern game.


Future, I'm hoping:

A fantasy set in a custom world.
-or-
Star Wars set in the universe well before even the Old Republic.
-or-
well, a lot of others.

[IrishRover]

I played in GURPS Horseclans long long ago...it's possible we might restart the campaign again sometime. That was fun...some of the characters were from a settlement that knew the old ways, but the resources were running out, the genepool getting shallower...others were members of one of the horseclans. Campaign lasted a good 2-3 years of intermittant gaming. (We usually have 2-3 games ongoing at once, to spread the GMing load.)

I ran GURPS Lensman...homebrew...long before lensman came out. After a while, a hyperspatial accident left the PC's stranded in Hostigos in place of Lord Kalvan, and a new PC came in.

That lasted a long time before morphing into a brief Crosstime, after they seized an Infinity conveyor, and accidently activated it. Many years of gaming before we let the campaign drift to an end.