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Welcome to the Generic Universal RolePlaying System!

With GURPS, you can be anyone you want – an elf hero fighting for the forces of good, a shadowy femme fatale on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword in his hand and a beautiful woman by his side . . . or literally anything else! GURPS has been the premiere universal roleplaying game for almost two decades. The new Fourth Edition makes it even better!

More than 1,500,000 copies are in print – not counting foreign editions. GURPS Lite, a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules, is available for free download. We also have dozens of GURPS adventures and e-books available on e23.

Whatever your favorite roleplaying genre might be, GURPS can handle it. More about GURPS . . .

Here are the last 15 GURPS supplements (including reprints and new editions) we have released, either in print or via e23. Click on a cover to go to that product's page.

Two Quarters Down, Two To Go

It seems as though I was just writing about what 2014 would bring . . . and now here we are, halfway through the year. Whoa. Time flies when you're having fun, and I do hope you're having fun with the latest GURPS releases!

Let's start with original digital publications on Warehouse 23. After a long, slow period, things are starting to pick up. Here's a rundown of the newest GURPS goodies (all of them by y.t., which is coincidence rather than conspiracy):

Template Toolkit 1: Characters shows you how to design good character templates – individually and in sets – for your campaign.
Power-Ups 6: Quirks collects 27 years' worth of quirks in one place and provides plenty of guidance to help you create your own.
Dungeon Fantasy 16: Wilderness Adventures fills a huge gap in the Dungeon Fantasy series: quests that take place under the open sky rather than beneath tons of rock.

Works such as these might be GURPS' body, but Pyramid – the monthly roleplaying 'zine – is its beating heart. The game keeps on going, and going, and going thanks to Pyramid's regular support. For instance:

Pyramid #3/66: The Laws of Magic (April 2014) is a collection of add-ons, alternatives, overhauls, and updates to many of GURPS' magic systems – notably Ritual Path magic, Book magic, and the enchantment rules.
Pyramid #3/67: Tools of the Trade – Villains (May 2014) demonstrates the adage that everybody needs a little love, even bad guys . . . although they prefer to get it in the form of deadly toys, secret hideouts, hordes of goons, and whatever the price of a soul will fetch.
Pyramid #3/68: Natural Magic (June 2014) looks beyond the castles and dungeons of fantasy to take magic back to where it all started: the world's wild places.

These count as GURPS supplements, too, by the way. Pyramid issues enjoy no less editorial attention and are no more fleeting than anything with "GURPS" in the title. The differences are that you get the opinions of several writers on each topic and that you can subscribe if you want.

Our efforts to complete the GURPS Classic library also continued over the past quarter, with these additions:

GURPS Classic: Autoduel

From the past, to the future! Where are we going with GURPS? Subject to the usual caveats – we aren't fortunetellers, stuff happens, and publishers have to roll with the punches – here's some of what I hope we'll see before the end of 2014:

Pyramid, of course! I know what issues #3/69 and #3/70 hold (I've contributed to both), and we have enough themes and submissions to go far, far beyond that.
Ken Hite's Horror: The Madness Dossier now has a release date – and just between us, that isn't too far in the future.
Hans-Christian Vortisch's High-Tech: Adventure Guns needs only art approval. Then it should join the ranks of the published.
My latest Power-Ups volume, Power-Ups 7, is in final production as I write this.
And speaking of Power-Ups, Jason "PK" Levine's Power-Ups 8 recently entered production as well.
Phil Masters' second edition of the Discworld Roleplaying Game is in proofreading, and we have someone actively working on the art approvals. It's moving slowly because it's freakin' huge (more than 400 pages!), but it isn't stalled.

The full list is actually a lot longer, but I'd rather not offer predictions regarding projects that haven't entered production yet. Well, not here. I've been known to let such details slip in my Friday evening posts to the GURPS thread in my blog, because that's totally off the record and on my own time.

Finally, please note that the page formerly known as the "e23 Wish List" is now the Warehouse 23 Digital Wish List (updated March 4, 2014). We're still pushing to get the GURPS pipeline back in order, so I'd caution strongly against jumping on that right now; it's likely to disappear without warning, only to reappear, changed, weeks or months later. Instead, why not check out the Pyramid Wish List (updated April 15, 2014)? Pyramid is not clogged in any way. Whatever path you choose, be sure to download the latest GURPS formatting guide and GURPS WYSIWYG template.

– Sean Punch