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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.

A Decade Of Fourth Edition

While contemplating goofy titles for this GURPS News update, I realized that come August 2014, GURPS Fourth Edition will be 10 years old. Wow! That suggests a lot of content; at a glance, I count 147 releases. There was a slow period in 2013, but we hit our stride again in the last quarter of the year. Let's take a look . . .

The biggest news of late 2013 was Zombies in hardback! After a long stretch without printed GURPS content, it's nice to thumb through a solid sourcebook. Given that I'm the author, any modesty would be false; I'll say only that in my not-so-humble opinion, this is a fine guide to the subject of undead ghouls, infected crazies, and other mindless freaks. I hope you'll agree.

On the digital front, we saw quite a few e23 originals as 2013 wound down. In alphabetical order (so Zombies will come last and I won't look too full of myself):

• Loadouts: Low-Tech Armor, by Dan Howard, presents 40 historically accurate armor sets in extreme detail, meaning that you don't have to wade through the extensive rules in Low-Tech to deck out your warriors.
• Locations: St. George's Cathedral, by Michele Armellini, describes a meticulously researched medieval cathedral suitable for historical gaming, low-tech fantasy campaigns, and adventures involving modern-day artifact-hunters.
• Martial Arts: Yrth Fighting Styles, by David T. Moore, elaborates on Martial Arts for the world of Banestorm . . . or for any low-tech fantasy setting, really.
• Thaumatology: Chinese Elemental Powers, by William H. Stoddard, uses concepts from Powers to flesh out ideas from Thaumatology into a flavorful magic system inspired by Chinese mysticism.
• Zombies, by y.t., is available in PDF form as well.

GURPS support also continued in the form of Pyramid. Our monthly 'zine kept up its heroic pace with these fine issues:

• Pyramid #3/60: Dungeon Fantasy III (October 2013) is full of goodies for the Dungeon Fantasy series: revised spell lists, a trap-design system, power-ups, and more.
• Pyramid #3/61: Way of the Warrior (November 2013) gives Martial Arts fans even more styles, cool moves, weapons, and rules for beating their opponents into submission.
• Pyramid #3/62: Transhuman Space II (December 2013) is dedicated to the Transhuman Space setting.

Remember that each month's Pyramid is a GURPS supplement, with a clear theme and the same level of editorial quality you've come to expect from items with "GURPS" splashed across the front. A permanent addition to our digital catalog, finding it later won't be a problem. Thus, you don't have to subscribe . . . though we would be thrilled if you did!

But of course you're hoping for a few clues as to what the new year holds. As usual, I won't get too specific about products we haven't officially announced; dates, titles, and so on are subject to change right up to the wire. I can hint and tease, however! Before long, you're almost certain to see the following:

• Pyramid is always a safe bet – we'll keep publishing it if you keep buying it. The January 2014 issue is just about ready, and I've heard that at least two more installments are filling up with submissions.
• Phil Masters' new edition of the Discworld Roleplaying Game remains a high priority. It's still making its way over the hurdles of approval, mostly art approval, but I know of no true obstacles in its path.
• David Chart's Transhuman Space: Wings of the Rising Sun is essentially ready to go. Look for it very early in the year!
• Ken Hite's Horror: The Madness Dossier has passed its various checks. The PDF should come my way for review any day now, and then it will go into the publication queue.
• Hans-Christian Vortisch's High-Tech: Adventure Guns still needs a few crunch tweaks, but otherwise it's streaking along like a speeding bullet.
• My on-the-clock writing is liable to go from "work in progress" to "released" unexpectedly, as the schedule demands, so I'm reluctant to give clues. I can confirm that my latest contributions to the Dungeon Fantasy, Power-Ups (two volumes!), Social Engineering, and Thaumatology series are in good shape, as is another item that will launch its own crunchy series. In fact, preliminary PDFs of several of these are currently at the review stage.

Seven other projects on my list are sufficiently far out or in flux that I should probably shut my trap. Still, keep an eye on the GURPS thread in my blog. I update that on Friday nights, by which time I'm sufficiently tired from a week's work that I sometimes let Forbidden Details slip.

We still have enough content in development that we're not aggressively seeking proposals for full-length supplements. Nevertheless, I'd encourage would-be GURPS writers to check the Pyramid Wish List (updated November 13, 2013) and the e23 Wish List (updated November 4, 2013) on a regular basis. We always need Pyramid articles, and e23 is definitely thawing after a glacial year. Just be sure to download the latest versions of the GURPS formatting guide and GURPS WYSIWYG template.

– Sean Punch

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