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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!

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Here are the last ten GURPS books (both new titles and reprints/revisions) we have shipped. Click on a cover to go to that book's page.

Here are the last ten GURPS supplements released on e23. Click on a cover to go to that item's page.

The First Half of the Second Half of 2009

That is, the bit of the year that starts after Midsummer. The last report was more-or-less equinoctial, which means it's time for a few words on what's going on in the wonderful world of GURPS. As is my mercenary way, I'll open with a look back at all the stuff released in the past quarter . . . that is, goodies you could rush out and buy right now. Since my March 2008 update, e23 has seen a lot of GURPS PDF action:

• Jason Levine's Psionic Powers takes my own Powers – which is a huge tool kit – and does all the work needed to bring psychic gifts to your campaign.
• David Pulver's Spaceships 3: Warships and Space Pirates and Spaceships 4: Fighters, Carriers, and Mecha expand the ever-growing Spaceships series and markedly upgun its ability to handle combat.
• Phil Masters' Dragons, available in print for some years, is now available as a PDF as well. Do you like dragons? They like you. Chomp.
• Matt Riggsby's Hot Spots: Renaissance Florence kicks off a new series with a detailed look at one of the most fascinating cities of Renaissance Europe. This item is a wonderful resource for historical or not-so-historical campaigns set in the era.
• Phil Masters also turned out Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 2 – The Meme Team, which is a sequel to his Third Edition work, Transhuman Space: Personnel Files. Expect more installments in the not-too-distant future.
• Genevieve Cogman's Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game, based on the award-winning science-fiction stories of Lois McMaster Bujold, is out at long last! This will also be in hardback before year's end.
• Volker Bach and Peter Dell'Orto's Martial Arts: Gladiators is an expansion of Martial Arts (which Peter wrote with me) that brings you the guts and the glory of Rome's deadliest games.

But wait, there's more! Pyramid kept up its monthly pace and brought us a bunch more issues that mix fluff and crunch in perfect proportion to support subgenres that aren't quite "big" enough to get their own full-sized publications. The last quarter saw Pyramid #3/6: Space Colony Alpha (April 2009), Pyramid #3/7: Urban Fantasy (May 2009), and Pyramid #3/8: Cliffhangers (June 2009). If a title grabs your eye, well, go take a look! The beauty of Pyramid is that you don't have to subscribe to get an issue. You can cherry-pick only the issues that interest you, and buy them exactly as you would other GURPS PDFs.

The GURPS Classic series continues to grow, too. GURPS Third Edition items ported into the digital era since the last report are Traveller: Starports, Mars, and Transhuman Space: Under Pressure. As sure as the sun rises, there will be more to follow.

And now for the stuff that people really want in an update: hints of upcoming releases! As usual, all of this comes with the "subject to change without notice" rider, and may cause irreversible changes in your brain. In rough chronological order, here's what I feel confident mentioning:

• There will be more Transhuman Space: Personnel Files volumes from Phil Masters. Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 3 – Wild Justice has already been cleared for release, while Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 4 – Martingale Security and Transhuman Space: Personnel Files 5 – School Days 2100 are past the final-draft stage.
• We have one Dungeon Fantasy supplement (by me) in the final-draft stage, one by Phil Masters in the first-draft stage, and one by Matt Riggsby and a second item by Phil in the early stages of writing.
• Pyramid will continue to deliver the goods each month. July's issue is Pyramid #3/9: Space Opera.
• I just turned in the first draft of the third volume in the Action series. Staff writing has a way of getting fast-tracked, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's released fairly soon.
• David Pulver's Spaceships series will see the release of Spaceships 5: Exploration and Colony Spacecraft and Spaceships 6: Mining and Space Industry, probably toward autumn. Spaceships 7: Strange and Alien Spacecraft and Spaceships 8: Transhuman Spacecraft are being written as I type this.
• As I mentioned above, Genevieve Cogman's Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game should go into hardback before year's end.
• William Stoddard's Urban Magics is in editing, and should beat the end of the year.
• Steve has finished editing Gene Seabolt's WWII: Red Tide, covering the Soviet forces in WWII. This will be a Third Edition supplement for the World War II line. I'm putting this last because we still have to get some maps in order, which can take a while. Fate could always surprise us.

Lots more stuff is past the first-draft stage and is either in playtest or about to start playtesting. There's the Low-Tech hardback and three supporting Low-Tech Companion PDFs – all by Peter Dell'Orto, Dan Howard, Matt Riggsby, and William Stoddard – for those who run TL0-4 campaigns, historical or fantastic. S.A. Fisher, Hans-Christian Vortisch, and I are winding down the playtest of Gun Fu, which will be a PDF that does for cinematic gunplay what the less-realistic parts of Martial Arts did for over-the-top melees. And then there's Ken Hite's Horror, which I should hope speaks for itself!

If you don't see what you want above, well maybe YOU could write it! As the saying goes, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Before shooting us a query, visit the e23 Wish List and Pyramid Wish List, and download the GURPS formatting guide and WYSIWYG template.