This is a monthly r/GURPS thread for anything and everything related to your own campaigns. Tell us how you and your friends are making out. Update us on the progress of your game. Tell us about any issues you've run into and maybe we can help. Make suggestions for other players and GMs.

This is a monthly r/GURPS thread for anything and everything related to your own campaigns. Tell us how you and your friends are making out. Update us on the progress of your game. Tell us about any issues you've run into and maybe we can help. Make suggestions for other players and GMs.

I'm planning on getting into GURPS because I liked the idea of running a game which takes place in an alternate 1934 San Francisco with magic. I want to run a game with firefights (with mostly period correct guns), some mystery and some encounters with monsters and such. Would GURPS suit this and what should I look at? I am getting into the system and I am looking forward to trying something new!

From my reading of the Basic Set and Magic (and even Zombies!), it seems like there is no clear rule for how long a zombie lasts nor to limit the number of zombies a caster can control (for instanelce, in D&D the spell lasts 24 hours and allows 4 controlled zombies at once). All I see is a vague sentence in the Basic Set about zombies decaying into skeletons. And Zombies! also doesnt explicitly deal with this, it seems more geared towards running campaigns that focus on zombies as a setting fixture.

I have a player who is casting Zombie on pretty much any corpse they can get their hands on and I dont really know how to keep them from just amassing a game-breakingly-large zombie horde. I dont want to get in the way of the player enjoying a necromancer, but I also don't want a horde of zombies to take over play from the rest of the party, either, not to mention balance issues and the plot line. The game is a run-of-the-mill medieval fantasy campaign with a party of 5 adventurers.

I would love some advice about how to handle this. Or am I just missing something in the rules?

Edit: Thank you all for the advice and information, it has helped me to get my head around this topic much better.

Lately I've been thinking of my own games, all of which are defunct, most of which never took off in the first place. I've been a TTRPGer since I was 11. Im 53 now and haven't really played for about 20 years. So, backstory done (for now)...

I would like to create a GURPS super. For a Super game. Y'know, tights, cape, ridiculous (or not) premise. Preferably 4-color cinematic awesomeness/awkwardness and such.

I was mostly a GM. I loved making stuff for my friends to deal with.

I dont need to use it. That would be asking too much, I think. I just seek -- creative motivation.

Give me a setting; TL; time period; desirable Traits; forbidden/undesirable Traits; about as much data as you think a player might need for your campaign (or one shot, I guess).

I haven't flexed my "muscles" for a minute (decades) and would like some external impetus.

I, quite frankly, dont know how to internet. I read stuff and move on mostly. So, if you are interested in interacting, I'm leaving it up to you to give me a heads-up.

Namu wiki even said that we entered it since 2023

So based on the 4th edition premise for a civilization capacity to think ahead (which back when 4e was written, it consider itself as TL8 level of knowledge perspective.), meaning that you can speculate as much as TL + 3 of your current tech level. Which is why TL11 is the limit and TL12 is so vague. See here: https://gurps.fandom.com/wiki/Tech_Level

What's your thought on this? Do you agree or even have your own ideas? Especially for TL12+ technologies.

I just can't help but to speculate, coming from someone who love

• Far future setting (which I assume TL12+): W40k Dark Age of Technology, Iain Bank's Culture, Xeelee Sequence, End Game + modded Stellaris
• Alternate Universe, with retrofuturism tech: Fallout (TL7+3), Wolfenstein New Order (TL7+2), Prey 2017 (TL8 + 3), STALKER/Metro series (TL8^+1).
• Space Sci fi/Space Opera (definitely TL10-11): Halo, Starcraft, Stellaris, Dead Space.
• Near future (TL9-10): Deus Ex series, XCOM, Crysis series, Watchdogs.

A monthly post to share your maps, tokens, and other image files with the GURPS community.

I'm running a Stardew Valley/Horror Campaign and I would like some Nice rules/books recomendations for the economic/farming part. You could use Stardew Valley as a setting reference for exemple

I have not used GURPS since 3rd edition in the late 90s. I recently brought up GURPS to some of the players at my table and one of them said the new GURPS book is totally worth picking up.

What do people think of the 4th ed revised book, other than it can be a deadly weapon?

As the title says. I've never had the opportunity to play GURPS and I'm looking to check it out. I found old posts about an LFG discord server, but all the posts I've found are old and the link is dead.

I wanted an occultist-like character. What would be a good way to integrate that magic into the game while keeping most the flavor and power?