Tenkar's Tavern: GURPS PDFs for Sale at RPGNow

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

GURPS PDFs for Sale at RPGNow

In recent years, much of the GURPS support catalogue has only been available in PDF and only via Steve Jackson Games' e23 online storefront. The times, they are a changing.

GURPS PDFs are now available via RPGNow (and DTRPG). It appears they are watermark free.

Now I'm wondering if POD is far off...

In any case, always good to see GURPS reach more potential customers. Its a heavier rules system than I generally like these days but I did run it in high school and college. I've been following the system since the Man to Man rules first came out with its companion Orcslayer ;)

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UnknownNovember 16, 2017 at 5:06 AM
POD through Amazon's Createspace has been happening for a few months now for a slowly increasing library.
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

GURPS PDFs for Sale at RPGNow

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