I went with the gurps spaceships ruleset which is an abstract design system that divides a ship up into twenty slots and various systems are then plugged. At the very least, some indication of how these would be handled should be included. Gurps time travel project gutenberg selfpublishing. Excellent content is not made better with pretty pictures. It supports gurps space campaigns by providing readyto use spacecraft descriptions and rules for space travel, com bat, and operations. Gurps spaceships, a 4e supplement of rules for spaceship design, is now available through steve jackson games as a digital purchase. Campaigns gurps game design by steve jackson gurps fourth edition revision by david l. It covers spaceship design, travel, and operations, along with a mapless spacecombat system. Gurps space the best place to start for all your science fiction campaigns. Gurps 4e spaceships 4 fighters, carriers and mecha rocket. It offers gurps spaceships statistics and descriptions for dozens of combat.
Sparrials a complete alien species including culture, gear, and stats that you can add to your own space games. This genre guide gives you hard facts for spacebased campaigns, and information for creating your own setting. Gurps starships design spreadsheet for gurps space 3e gurps 3e. Fighters, carriers, and mecha is one of several books in the gurps spaceships series. Ive wondered how 4er it would cost to buy the rights to gurps to be able to give it the revamping it deserves. Direct link gurps 4th edition 4e basic set campaigns ocr. The gurps spaceships design spreadsheet is a pretty sophisticated spreadsheet which contains almost everything from the spaceship series of books.
Pulver edited by andy vetromile illustrated by dan smith. Gurps spaceships is the longawaited companion to gurps space, presenting rules for spacecrafts of every size and function. This pdf is intended to be a quick cheat sheet with the most vital information for combat laid out on a single page. Fighters, carriers, and mecha pdf gurps spaceships 5. Gurps prime directive 4e revised, volume 1 and volume 2. Warehouse 23 gurps prime directive 4e revised, volume 2. There were 4 xwings, 2 ywings and 22 tie fighters on the board. Although it never cracked into the top three for rpg sales, gurps 3rd edition became and remains one of the most successful lines of roleplaying material ever published.
I agree that steve jackson should probably open up the system. Gurps gms screen was announced for september 2004 when 4th edition was announced. Gurps spaceships presents a simple design system that minimizes the math and. It is available as one massive pdf over 360 pages or broken down into two volumes. It requires only the gurps basic set and gurps spaceships. And the sad thing is that too few people simply has that dedication. This is the second volume in the gurps spaceships series by david pulver coauthor of gurps fourth edition.
The battlefront beta and rediscovering star wars galaxies have got me in the mood to try something like it. This is a javascriptbased gurps 4 th edition character generator, based on gurps lite. This category contains articles about the fourth edition of gurps by their very nature the dungeon fantasy and pdf only lines are only 4th edition so this is a redundant category for those books to add an article, image or category to this category, append category. Likely set during or shortly before the galactic civil war. Page 2 these conversions were originally written by curtis handsaker, also known as z09ss on the sjgames forum. Pick a hull, fill it with components, and youre done. Gurps basic set is a hardbound two volume set written by steve jackson, sean m. Downloadgurps spaceships 8 transhuman spacecraft pdf. Gurps was designed to be a game system that transcended genre. Creating a character and gurps prime directive 4e revised, volume 2. A gurps 4th edition character generator, using only javascript, html, and css. It covers spaceship design, travel, and operations, along with a mapless space combat system. Ive been so disappointed in the magic system for some time. I dont want to have to take up so many hexes to resolve space combat in a vtt like maptool.
Traders, liners, and transports pdf concentrates on the economics of merchant spacecraft. Gurps spaceships is the longawaited companion to gurps space, presenting rules for tl712 spacecraft, from tiny lifeboats to giant dreadnoughts. Gurps lite, a pdf and free print release of the core rules distilled into 32 pages was released in july. Gurps spaceships design spreadsheet steve jackson games. Its pretty much across the board backwardscompatible. Gurps prime directive is a powered by gurps set in the star fleet universe, a variant of the canonal star trek universe.
It offers gurps spaceships statistics and descriptions for dozens of combat spaceships for the nearfuture and beyond, from tinybutagile fighters and drop ships to enormous fleet and assault carriers. Long in coming, gurps prime directive 4e has been revised. Gurps lite is a page introduction to the rules of the gurps roleplaying game based on the core rules in the gurps 4e basic set mainly characters. This is an updated treatment of the gurps space supplement for gurps third edition. Using resources from further up the stack requires less preparation work on the part of the game master. Gurps 4e spaceships 4 fighters, carriers and mecha free download as pdf file. Gurps 4th edition spaceships 2 traders, liners and transports. Gurps spaceships pdf describes the basic design and combat system. This is my entry in the reddit competition to design a 100dton scout ship any design rules.
Gurps spaceships pdf gurps spaceships on free shipping on qualifying offers. I think its more far trouble than its worth even spock might have a hard time with those rules, but maybe someone on here who has actually used gurps spaceships in actual play. Gurps space was designed by steve jackson and william barton, and published by steve jackson games as a 128page book. Gurps prime directive 4e revised, volume 1 and volume 2 long in coming, gurps prime directive 4e has been revised. Gurps prime directive is a sourcebook for gurps, first published in it is named after.
The way i designed the sheet you can duplicate the design table worksheet to. Gurps 4e is one of the better edition upgrades in rpgs. At the end, 1 xwing was destroyed and all but 2 ties were taken out one was about. Although generic and universal, gurps isnt open standard as such you will need to be careful where you search. Gurps space 4e spaceship solomani marizelaclass survey scout. You need a spaceship gurps spaceships presents a simple design system that minimizes the math and maximizes your options. Gurps spaceships presents a simple design system that minimizes the math and maximizes your options. So im fairly familiar with gurps, and want to try playing a star wars campaign. You see gurps spaceships was originally published as a pdf only book available from the sj games online store and was the first of a series of spaceships books which expand and expound on this volume to address particular types of ships and games involving them. The entire fight took an hour, during which time i had to teach all the rules.
The only thing i didnt get to was porting the two starships in the adventure to gurps spaceships format. This pdf includes a copy of the deck plan reduced size. Gurps spaceships pdf describes the basic design and combat. Gurps 4e spaceships 6 mining and industrial spacecraft. Gurps update, a document for all 3e 4e conversions was released shortly after the basic set. Playing the game includes information that the gm needs to run the game along with information about both personal and ship weapons and equipment the opening chapter on how to play the game has been greatly expanded from the original book so that you have most of the rules you need to play at your. Gurps 4e modulo basico personagens biblioteca elfica. This is a listing of the publications from steve jackson games and other licensed publishers for the gurps roleplaying game.
I researched other systems and theres nothing even close to gurps, despite its flaws. Gurps 4e spaceships 8 transhuman free download as pdf file. Bismarck, prinz eugen, scharnhorst and gneisenau 0 has. Fighters, carriers, and mecha provides the ships and game mechanics needed for spacefighter and carrier action. Pdf gurps 4e modulo basico personagens biblioteca elfica. Gurps 4e space combat hexes and distance roleplaying. Well, took a leap of faith and bought the pdf anyway. Gurps spaceships the longawaited companion to gurps space, presenting rules for tl712 spacecraft, from tiny lifeboats to giant dreadnoughts.
Gurps spaceships requires only the gurps basic set, but. The generic universal roleplaying system, usually shortened to gurps, is a roleplaying game made by steve jackson games. Currently, the books im using in cooperation with gurps 4e space is ss spaceships, ss3 spaceships. My question has a lot to do with mapping out distances in hexes. Fernandes cover art by jeff koke, christopher shy, and rogerio vilela edited by andrew hackard and steve jackson illustrated by abrar ajmal, michael clarke, chris dien. Gurps space 4e spaceship solomani marizelaclass survey scout with deckplan. Where to find gurps pdf files online altered gamer. Gurps space is the toolkit for building strange new worlds and alien civilizations as well as providing campaignplanning advice and space science. Gurps has a solid foundation for building vehicles, though better support for larger vehicles. It helps that gurps 3e was one of the better systems, so they didnt have to fix too much.
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