Another week in the life of GURPS

[dr_kromm]

What happened in the wonderful world(s) of GURPS this week? Here are the highlights:

• We released GURPS Crusades, by Gene Moyers and Graeme Davis. This one was marked "work in progress" forever . . . but it's finally published! For the curious, this is a realistic, historical treatment, with little word count given over to Templar conspiracies, fantasy clerics, etc.

• Nikki sent around the near-final PDF of GURPS Low-Tech Companion 2: Weapons and Warriors, by Peter Dell'Orto (peterdellorto), Dan Howard, and Bill Stoddard (whswhs). Barring disaster, this one should be out Real Soon Now, giving you all the weapon and armor options (and fortresses, giant cannon, and triremes) you need.

• Nikki showed around a very rough PDF of GURPS Horror, by Ken Hite (princeofcairo). We editorial types are now nitpicking the PDF, discussing its art needs, and so on.

• I am done my edit of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 1, by Peter Dell'Orto (peterdellorto) and y.t. There are still administrative tasks to do before I submit it for layout, but we're one step closer to having slorn and ciuaclá for you.

Oh, and I'm naming this week Siobhan because I had an amusing flashback whilst working on that last project.

Comments

[danbuter1.livejournal.com]

Please tell me someone has at least a second draft of a monster manual done.

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

Please tell me someone has at least a second draft of a monster manual done.

GURPS Fourth Edition won't be getting a single, monolithic bestiary or monster manual. The plan is for one or more series of PDFs with a few dozen creatures apiece. The final, edited draft of one of those is done . . . that's what GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 1 is. There will be other GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters PDFs, and hopefully some GURPS Bestiary PDFs, someday.

[alex fraebel (from livejournal.com)]

Has Tactical shooting move forward any since the last time you mentioned it?

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

The text has been edited, poured into a rough layout, and checked as a preview PDF. The current priority is art. Our internal deadline for that is in early January. Tactical Shooting should see daylight in the first quarter of 2011. Sorry that it's taking a while, but it's a chunky 80-odd-page item, not a 16- or 32-page short PDF, or even a 64-page mini-worldbook. I imagine that the Art Gurus want it to look presentable enough that an eventual printing is at least conceivable, should future sales support that.