Another week in the life of GURPS

And so we come to the first GURPS report of 2009:

• We uploaded David Pulver's GURPS Mass Combat. It's crunchy GURPS – that is, it isn't in any sense systemless or a standalone war game – but if you run GURPS, and if you have skirmishes, battles, or wars, then you need this! I can hardly wait to use it in my campaign.

• We uploaded GURPS Ultra-Lite. This is one of those freebies I've been hinting at. It's less an intro to GURPS than a mini-game of its own. Check it out . . . the price is right!

• We reviewed rough PDFs of the other two promo items I keep mentioning. One should be ready by next week; the other, by mid-February.

• We reviewed a rough PDF of the next volume in the GURPS Locations series, bringing it a step closer to reality.

• In GURPS Spaceships news, both GURPS Spaceships 3 and GURPS Spaceships 4 moved from "final draft" to "editing."

• GURPS Martial Arts: Gladiators, from Volker Bach and Peter Dell'Orto (peterdellorto), has been revised for playtest, which should start in the not-too-distant future.

• Obligatory workaday incremental progress report: Significant progress has been made on GURPS Low-Tech. I fully expect to see a first draft in late February.

Interesting biscuits

I'm not normally one for tinned biscuits, as I prefer the sort you make yourself, but these were a gift: Lucifer's Ginger & Chilli Biscuits, from Fortnum & Mason, are rather good. Like chocolate flavored with hot peppers, the juxtaposition of the fiery with the sweet is quite satisfying. That is all.