Another week in the life of GURPS

[dr_kromm]

Aaaaaaaaaand . . . another Friday report on GURPS:

• Jason Levine and Scott Maykrantz's GURPS Creatures of the Night 4 is now very close to seeing daylight. We did the final production review this week and I found only a few things to nitpick.

• Jason and Scott's GURPS Creatures of the Night 5 isn't too far off, either. I just turned in my final comments on the rough PDF. (And as an aside . . . geez, these CotN items are full of creepy stuff. Take my advice: Never accept an offer to stay at Jason or Scott's place.)

• My own GURPS Action 2: Exploits is also through the editorial process and into production. In fact, I've already reviewed the rough PDF, which is looking good. (Nikki appears to know the Great Haste spell.)

• I reviewed the first draft of Shawn Fisher and Hans-Christian Vortisch's GURPS Loadouts: Monster Hunters. There's a lot more than loadouts here -- monster-huntin' gamers should really love this one, even if they already have GURPS High-Tech and think they have all the gear they need to stop Sorrow Sobstory, Eighth Generation Leech.

• We've moved another step closer to having princeofcairo contracted for a new hardback! I can't share the title yet.

• The GURPS News is updated, for those who follow it.

Comments

[wombattery.livejournal.com]

Scott showed me one of the entities they were writing up for CotN. Creepiest. Monster. Evar.

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Let's hope that Action 2: Exploits is up to expectations. I think it's looking pretty good. In the end I even got to add two boxes of text to it, so it wasn't clipped. However, I've already been publicly faulted for focusing on team-based thrillers (e.g., Heat or Ronin, or even Ocean's Eleven or Sneakers), making the early cutoff 1980 (thereby excluding stuff like Bullitt and half the Dirty Harry movies), and deciding that martial-arts movies are their own separate genre. So I'll qualify my remarks by saying, "If your view of 'action' is similar to mine, this one is looking pretty good." But I'm a freak who doesn't think that "crime or spy thriller" and "action" differ all that much, but who does think that "martial arts" and "action" are different things.