Written by Sean Punch, based on the GURPS Basic Set by Steve Jackson

32 pages. Suggested retail price $0.00
Stock number 6094 ISBN 1-55634-443-0

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GURPS in 32 pages! FREE!

GURPS Lite is a 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules. It covers the essentials of character creation, combat, success rolls, magic, adventuring, and game mastering.

The purpose of GURPS Lite is to help GMs bring new players into the game, without frightening them with the Basic Set, Compendiums, and a stack of worldbooks! With GURPS Lite, you can show your players just how simple the GURPS system really is.

It can also be used as a neophyte's stand-alone introduction to roleplaying . . . but it is really designed as a tool to let the experienced player bring his friends into the game.

It's available free, in PDF format, over the web (click here to download the 863K PDF file, last modified Friday, 11-Jul-2003 13:25:28 CDT). You are welcome to copy and distribute it freely, within the restrictions found at the bottom of p. 1 of GURPS Lite itself. It has also been included in some GURPS books, such as GURPS Discworld.

You'll need the Acrobat reader to view the pdf file. GURPS Lite has been known to have conflicts with PSViewer, the PDF reader found in many distributions of Linux. If you have encountered this problem, the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux can access the file without any problems.

To make GURPS Lite fit on a sheet of A4 paper, simply choose the "Shrink to Fit" option before choosing "Ok" in the Print window. This works for both Macs and PCs.

GURPS Lite for Specific Settings

Some of our newer Powered By GURPS lines have core books which include specially-adapted versions of GURPS Lite. Like the original, these new versions are free to download:

• GURPS Lite for GURPS WWII
• GURPS Lite for Transhuman Space

GURPS Lite In Other Languages

Here's an Italian version of GURPS Lite. Layout and supervision by Andrea Minini Saldini. Translation by Yuri Abietti, Paolo Barberis, Marco De Stefani, Ambrogio Di Renzo, Fabio Milito Pagliara, Alessandro Noviello, Pier Luigi Rocco, and Mario Tani.

And here's the German GURPS Lite, courtesy of the crew at Pegasus Games.

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• June 23, 1999 Printing