Another week in the life of GURPS

[dr_kromm]

Ah, ah, ah . . . I didn't forget! I just worked late writing up comments on a manuscript, and then decided that dinner was more important than blogging. Without further ado:

• We uploaded GURPS Spaceships 3: Warships and Space Pirates, by David Pulver. You may remember David . . . he wrote a couple of other items in this vein. If you like big, shooty spacecraft, then you need this supplement!

• We reviewed the PDF of my latest GURPS Dungeon Fantasy item. It has Crazy Legs in it. It's looking good, but I have no release date on it as yet – sorry.

• GURPS Hot Spots: Renaissance Florence, by Matt Riggsby (wombattery), moved out of editing and into production. We should be reviewing that PDF in a little over two weeks.

• We received the final draft of GURPS Martial Arts: Gladiators – by Volker Bach and Peter Dell'Orto (peterdellorto) – a little early. Yay! Soon we'll all be partying like it's, er, 99 BCE.

• We kicked off the playtest of GURPS Urban Magics, by Bill Stoddard (whswhs). This supplement is about magic that's enabled by and takes place in cities. I was quite happy with the draft on my pass through it, so I'm sure the playtesters will find little to hold it up!

• I wrote up comments on the first draft of GURPS Low-Tech Companion 3: Daily Life and Economics, by Matt Riggsby (wombattery) and Bill Stoddard (whswhs). Soon, GURPS fans will know how much wood a woodchuck can chuck, load on a boat, turn into charcoal, and a lot of other things. Darn woodchucks.

• I wrote up my comments on the first draft of GURPS Gun Fu, by S.A. Fisher and Hans-Christian Vortisch (with an assist from me). This amounts to "the cinematic parts of GURPS Martial Arts, but with guns." How cool is that?

• And Steven (waitingforgo) and I set the playtest order for the coming months. For those keeping track at home: (1) GURPS Urban Magics, (2) GURPS Spaceships 5 & 6, (3) GURPS Low-Tech and GURPS Low Tech Companion 1-3, and (4) GURPS Gun Fu. Book your time accordingly.

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Those statistics will also be applicable to muskrats. muskrat_john, please take note.

[wombattery.livejournal.com]

And we are grateful to the author of GURPS Woodchucks for the opportunity to read an early draft of the manuscript.

Gladiators

[peterdellorto.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to get it in. I didn't realize the timing would be so tight. If I stuck to its original deadline, it would exactly overlap Low-Tech. So I needed to get it in fast!

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Is GURPS Gun Fu expected to have a call for playtesters?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

One of these days, sure. After all the others. So far, we haven't even made it as far as settling on the playtesters for the Spaceships items. Then come the Low-Tech items. After that, we can start thinking about Gun Fu.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, this is your friendly neighborhood playtest leader under the LJ drag. You never know when the A-Team will strike.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

how much wood a woodchuck can chuck

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

My GURPS week: Played GURPS Bunnies & Burrows for the fourth consecutive easter special. The GM's scenario of "Hart of Darkness".

Say, is there any chance of a 4th ed B&B?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Say, is there any chance of a 4th ed B&B?

I guess there's always a chance . . . but in this case, we're talking about (1) a licensed work and (2) a 4e adaptation of something that was very much on the alternative fringe of 3e, rules-wise. Those factors definitely suppress the odds a little.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Alternative true... Cult following also true - have you seen the prices that B&B goes for? $100-plus and that's for the GURPS edition.

I'm pretty certain that I wouldn't have much trouble getting Dennis Sustare to agree for republication.

I'm thinking perhaps GURPS Bunnies & Burrows (subtitle: and other animals) which would include scaling issues (chimp's strength and the like). Plus scenarios!