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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.

Road And Weather Conditions (10-13)

Well, well, well . . . even as 2013 cools down for those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere, it's starting to heat up a little for GURPS. Which is to say, there have been new releases and I have cause to suspect that there will be more before the end of the year – and quite likely before the end of the month! So, what's new since the last report?

First, we've finally seen the dam break on e23 originals. After only a pair of GURPS titles in the 12 months from September 2012 to August 2013, we've now seen just as many in two months:

• Martial Arts: Technical Grappling, by Douglas Cole, brings you all the rules you could ever want for strangling and mangling with holds, throws, and locks, whether you prefer bare hands, teeth, or a big ol' stick.
• Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic, by Jason "PK" Levine, presents a flexible magic system that lets mages do almost anything they can imagine, whether through hasty castings, lengthy rituals, magical charms, or potions.

Not everything for GURPS comes with "GURPS" pasted across the front, of course. No less effort goes into each month's Pyramid. Check out these recent issues:

• Pyramid #3/57: Gunplay (July 2013) brings gun-toting heroes new TL4-8 equipment, from uniforms to helicopters – not to mention weapons! – as well as more rules for using all that gear.
• Pyramid #3/58: Urban Fantasy II (August 2013) tackles the challenge of keeping things fantastic in built-up surroundings, from the towns in your Dungeon Fantasy game to the wainscot of your modern-day campaign.
• Pyramid #3/59: Conspiracies (September 2013) draws attention to stuff you're not supposed to notice: secret plots, the high-flying drones watching you right now, the poker hand of the shady operator across the table, and more.

I say it every season and I'll say it again: Each month's issue of Pyramid isn't just a 'zine but also a carefully crafted GURPS mini-supplement. Though you can subscribe, you never have to . . . the entire story so far remains available, awaiting that fateful moment when your campaign really needs extra attention to necromancy, poker, teleportation, Templars, or 101 other cool topics that have enjoyed an article. Then you can log in, buy what you need, and download it in seconds.

But all of that is the past! It's equally important to look to the future, and that's exactly what we've been doing behind the scenes. I cannot provide specific dates, or even the order in which we hope to publish the fruits of our labors, but I can guarantee that the following goodies aren't vapor:

• Pyramid shows no signs of slowing down. Steven Marsh has the October 2013 installment all but done, the one after that isn't far behind, and a couple more are filling up even as I write.
• My own Zombies is at the printer (really!), and there are fair odds of the PDF edition showing up at e23 within gore-splattering distance of Halloween.
• Michele Armellini's Locations: St. George's Cathedral is now in prepress, too, so the Locations series should grow by one volume before the autumn is done.
• David T. Moore's Martial Arts: Yrth Fighting Styles – a Banestorm supplement – is also in prepress. Get ready to find out who's tougher: Templars or orcs.
• Ken Hite's Horror: The Madness Dossier has left editing and insinuated its way into production as if it had always been there, so it's moving right along.
• Bill Stoddard's Thaumatology: Chinese Elemental Powers, a magic-as-powers system, is sitting at the early end of the art queue.
• David Chart's Transhuman Space: Wings of the Rising Sun is next in the art queue.
• Hans-Christian Vortisch's High-Tech: Adventure Guns is right after the previous project in the infamous art queue. As for actual guns, there's a waiting period; we're looking at 2014, probably.
• Dan Howard's Loadouts: Low-Tech Armor is yet another item with art queued up and a likely publication date in 2014.
• Phil Masters' Discworld Roleplaying Game has its final text and near-final art, and continues to wend its way through the various approval steps that come with the territory of a licensed product.
• Most of my staff writing qualifies as Secret Projects, but rest assured that my works in the Dungeon Fantasy, Social Engineering, Thaumatology, and Power-Ups series are making progress. I've already reviewed the PDF of the first of those, and the others should follow before long.

Another eight works are listed in my Secret Files, but all of those are in the "too far out" or "we want to surprise you" category, so I won't say more than that. Still, I've been known to relent. Gamers attempting to control my mind at a distance and squeeze hints out of me should focus their psychic efforts on the GURPS thread in my blog, which I update every Friday night.

With all of this stuff in the wings, it may be a while before we're accepting new proposals for anything but Pyramid articles . . . but I'd encourage those who want to break into writing for GURPS to check the Pyramid Wish List (updated September 12, 2013) and pitch us a submission. And we will need longer content eventually, so established writers should keep the e23 Wish List (updated July 12, 2013) in their sights as well. As always, the GURPS formatting guide (updated July 10, 2013) is here and our WYSIWYG template is here.

– Sean Punch