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=Fourth Edition= =Fourth Edition=
==Core books== ==Core books==
These are the books necessary to play, with the core rules used in all settings (''GURPS Basic Set: Characters'' and ''Campaigns''), plus basic accessories.
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*''GURPS Basic Set Deluxe Edition'' *''GURPS Basic Set Deluxe Edition''
*'']'' - A 32-page introduction to the rules of GURPS based on the core rules in the ''GURPS 4e Basic Set'' (mainly ''Characters''). It includes basic ] with ]s, disadvantages, ]s and equipment, as well as some rules for playing. It is freely available, as a ] from the Steve Jackson Games website, and a supplement to some GURPS books.
*'']''
*''GURPS GM's Screen'' *''GURPS GM's Screen''
*''GURPS Update'' - The official coversion guide from 3rd to 4th edition, released as a free PDF file and together with the GM's Screen *''GURPS Update'' - The official coversion guide from 3rd to 4th edition, released as a free PDF file and together with the GM's Screen


==Rules supplements== ==Rules supplements==
These books detail general rules not used in all possible campaign, such as rules for magic spells, for superpowers and for martial arts.
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==Genre toolkits== ==Genre toolkits==
These books describe how to design and play campaigns in a particular ], such as ], ] or ].
*'']'' *'']''
*'']'' (PDF) *'']'' (PDF)
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==Fictional settings== ==Fictional settings==
These supplements details how to design and play campaigns set in particular fictional settings, either specific to GURPS (such as "Banestorm", a fantasy setting, or "Infinite Worlds", about exploration of ]s) or independent of it (such as the '']'' universe).
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==Technology and equipment== ==Technology and equipment==
These handbooks describe the data, in terms of GURPS, of specific objects, gadgets and vehicles, and how to construct new ones.
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*''GURPS High-Tech'' *''GURPS High-Tech''
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==Creatures== ==Creatures==
These handbooks describe the data, in terms of GURPS, of monsters and creatures, mostly from myths.
*''GURPS Creatures of the Night'', volume 1 (pdf, series) *''GURPS Creatures of the Night'', volume 1 (pdf, series)
*''GURPS Dragons'' (3rd Edition with 4th Edition appendix) *''GURPS Dragons'' (3rd Edition with 4th Edition appendix)

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A rough breakdown of GURPS books. Bottom tier are core books necessary to play, moving up to least necessary. Using resources from further up the stack requires less preparation work on the part of the game master.

List of GURPS books is a listing of the publications from Steve Jackson Games and other licensed publishers for the GURPS role-playing game.

Fourth Edition

Core books

These are the books necessary to play, with the core rules used in all settings (GURPS Basic Set: Characters and Campaigns), plus basic accessories.

  • GURPS Basic Set: Characters
  • GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns
  • GURPS Basic Set Deluxe Edition
  • GURPS Lite - A 32-page introduction to the rules of GURPS based on the core rules in the GURPS 4e Basic Set (mainly Characters). It includes basic character creation with advantages, disadvantages, skills and equipment, as well as some rules for playing. It is freely available, as a PDF from the Steve Jackson Games website, and a supplement to some GURPS books.
  • GURPS GM's Screen
  • GURPS Update - The official coversion guide from 3rd to 4th edition, released as a free PDF file and together with the GM's Screen

Rules supplements

These books detail general rules not used in all possible campaign, such as rules for magic spells, for superpowers and for martial arts.

Genre toolkits

These books describe how to design and play campaigns in a particular genre, such as fantasy, science fiction or crime fiction.

Fictional settings

These supplements details how to design and play campaigns set in particular fictional settings, either specific to GURPS (such as "Banestorm", a fantasy setting, or "Infinite Worlds", about exploration of parallel universes) or independent of it (such as the Star Trek universe).

Technology and equipment

These handbooks describe the data, in terms of GURPS, of specific objects, gadgets and vehicles, and how to construct new ones.

  • GURPS Bio-Tech
  • GURPS High-Tech
  • GURPS Ultra-Tech
  • GURPS Vehicles (forthcoming, pdf, series)
  • GURPS Spaceships (forthcoming, pdf, series)

Creatures

These handbooks describe the data, in terms of GURPS, of monsters and creatures, mostly from myths.

  • GURPS Creatures of the Night, volume 1 (pdf, series)
  • GURPS Dragons (3rd Edition with 4th Edition appendix)

Third Edition (and previous editions)

Core books

  • Man To Man: Fantasy Combat from GURPS
  • GURPS Basic Set, First Edition: Characters
  • GURPS Basic Set, First Edition: Campaigns
  • GURPS Basic Set, Second Edition: Characters
  • GURPS Basic Set, Second Edition: Campaigns
  • GURPS Basic Set, Third Edition
  • GURPS Basic Set, Third Edition (Revised)
  • GURPS Compendium I
  • GURPS Compendium II
  • GURPS Lite

Rules supplements

  • GURPS All-Star Jam 2004
  • GURPS Best Of Pyramid 1 - First selection of articles from online gaming magazine Pyramid
  • GURPS Best Of Pyramid 2
  • GURPS Grimoire
  • GURPS Magic (for GURPS 3e)
  • GURPS Martial Arts (for GURPS 3e)
  • GURPS Psionics
  • GURPS Religion

Characters

  • GURPS Aliens
  • GURPS Fantasy Folk
  • GURPS Monsters
  • GURPS Rogues
  • GURPS Supporting Cast
  • GURPS Villains
  • GURPS Warriors
  • GURPS Who's Who 1 - A choice of 52 real life historical characters (Aristotle, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, Nikola Tesla...) depicted as GURPS characters, with suggestions about using them in playing
  • GURPS Who's Who 2 - 56 more real life characters
  • GURPS Wizards

Creatures

Technology and equipment

  • GURPS Bio-Tech (for the 3e)
  • GURPS High-Tech (for the 3e)
  • GURPS Low-Tech
  • GURPS Magic Items 1
  • GURPS Magic Items 2
  • GURPS Magic Items 3
  • GURPS Modern Firepower
  • GURPS Robots
  • GURPS Steam-Tech
  • GURPS Ultra-Tech 1
  • GURPS Ultra-Tech 2
  • GURPS Vehicles
  • GURPS Vehicles Expansion 1
  • GURPS Vehicles Expansion 2
  • GURPS Vehicles Lite
  • GURPS Warehouse 23

Genre toolkits

  • GURPS Atomic Horror
  • GURPS Autoduel, describing a setting also shared by Car Wars and Autoduel
  • GURPS Autoduel: Car Warriors
  • GURPS Cliffhangers
  • GURPS Cops
  • GURPS Covert Ops
  • GURPS Cyberpunk
  • GURPS Espionage
  • GURPS Horror
  • GURPS Illuminati, describing the secret societies/conspiracies genre, building on the Illuminati card game, in its turn insbired by The Illuminatus! Trilogy
  • GURPS Mars
  • GURPS Mecha
  • GURPS Space (for the 3e)
  • GURPS Special Ops
  • GURPS Steampunk
  • GURPS Supers
  • GURPS SWAT
  • GURPS Time Travel

History and culture

  • GURPS Age of Napoleon
  • GURPS Arabian Nights
  • GURPS Atlantis
  • GURPS Aztecs
  • GURPS Camelot
  • GURPS Celtic Myth
  • GURPS China
  • GUPRS Egypt
  • GURPS Greece
  • GURPS Ice Age
  • GURPS Imperial Rome
  • GURPS Japan
  • GURPS Middle Ages I
  • GURPS Old West
  • GURPS Places of Mystery
  • GURPS Robin Hood
  • GURPS Russia
  • GURPS Scarlet Pimpernel
  • GURPS Swashbucklers
  • GURPS Timeline
  • GURPS Vikings

Fictional settings

Supers

  • GURPS Aces Abroad
  • GURPS I.S.T.: International Super Teams
  • GURPS IST Kingston
  • GURPS Mixed Doubles
  • GURPS Super Scum
  • GURPS Supertemps
  • GURPS Wild Cards, detailing the setting of the science fiction/superhero shared universe Wild Cards

Transhuman Space

  • Transhuman Space
  • Broken Dreams
  • Deep Beyond
  • Fifth Wave
  • High Frontier
  • In The Well
  • Orbital Decay
  • Personnel Files
  • Singapore Sling
  • Spacecraft of the Solar System
  • Toxic Memes
  • Under Pressure

Traveller

  • GURPS Traveller
  • GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 1
  • GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 2
  • GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3
  • GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 4
  • GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw
  • GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 1 Beowulf-Class Free Trader
  • GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 2 Modular Cutter
  • GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 3 Empress Marava-Class Far Trader
  • GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 4 Assault Cutter
  • GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 5 Sulieman-Class Scout/Courier
  • GURPS Traveller: Deck Plan 6 Dragon-Class System Defense Boat
  • GURPS Traveller: Droyne Coyn Set
  • GURPS Traveller: Far Trader
  • GURPS Traveller: First In
  • GURPS Traveller: GM's Screen
  • GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces
  • GURPS Traveller: Heroes 1 - Bounty Hunters
  • GURPS Traveller: Humaniti
  • GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars
  • GURPS Traveller: Modular Cutter
  • GURPS Traveller: Nobles
  • GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 1 - Kamsii
  • GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 2 - Denuli
  • GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 3 - Granicus
  • GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 4 - Glisten
  • GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 5 - Tobibak
  • GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 6 - Darkmoon
  • GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire
  • GURPS Traveller: Star Mercs
  • GURPS Traveller: Starports
  • GURPS Traveller: Starships
  • GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds

World War II

  • GURPS WWII
  • GURPS WWII: All the King's Men
  • GURPS WWII: Hand of Steel
  • GURPS WWII: Iron Cross
  • GURPS WWII: Return to Honor
  • GURPS WWII: Dogfaces
  • GURPS WWII: Grim Legions
  • GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell
  • GURPS WWII: Weird War II
  • GURPS WWII: Motor Pool

System conversions

  • GURPS Blue Planet
  • GURPS Bunnies & Burrows
  • GURPS Castle Falkenstein
    • GURPS Castle Falkenstein: The Ottoman Empire
  • GURPS Conspiracy X
  • GURPS Deadlands
    • GURPS Deadlands: Hexes
    • GURPS Deadlands: Varmints
  • GURPS In Nomine, the GURPS conversion of the In Nomine roleplaying game
  • GURPS Mage: The Ascension, the GURPS conversion of the Mage: The Ascension roleplaying game
  • GURPS Ogre, a roleplaying version of the Ogre wargame
  • GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade, the GURPS conversion of the Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game
    • GURPS Vampire Companion
  • GURPS Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the GURPS conversion of the Werewolf: The Apocalypse roleplaying game

Adventures

  • GURPS Bili the Axe - Up Harzburk!
  • GURPS Chaos in Kansas
  • GURPS Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast
  • GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River
  • GURPS Conan: Moon of Blood
  • GURPS Conan: The Wyrmslayer
  • GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures
  • GURPS Deadlands Dime Novel 1: Aces and Eights
  • GURPS Deadlands Dime Novel 2: Wanted: Undead or Alive
  • GURPS Deathwish
  • GURPS Fantasy Adventures
  • GURPS Flight 13
  • GURPS For Love of Mother-Not
  • GURPS Martial Arts Adventures
  • GURPS The Old Stone Fort
  • GURPS Operation Endgame
  • GURPS Orcslayer
  • GURPS School of Hard Knocks
  • GURPS Space Adventures
  • GURPS Space: Stardemon
  • GURPS Supers Adventures
  • GURPS Time Travel Adventures
  • GURPS Space: Unnight
  • GURPS Zombietown U.S.A.
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