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Posted: 2026-09-01T10:00:23+00:00
Author: /u/AutoModeratorhttps://www.reddit.com/user/AutoModerator
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.
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Posted: 2025-05-01T10:01:00+00:00
Author: /u/AutoModeratorhttps://www.reddit.com/user/AutoModerator
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.
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Posted: 2026-09-01T04:56:06+00:00
Author: /u/BlabbyScidhttps://www.reddit.com/user/BlabbyScid
So I've been looking into mounted combat a bit and was thinking about the following situation: an mounted enemy charges my players, they brace with spears. They are able to evade the enemy lance point with a dodge roll and manage to land a spear hit on the charging enemy.
What's the damage? Do I calculate slam damage as if the enemy slammed into a wall or something and add the spear's imp damage on top? Or is there another formula?
Also: does a lance charge on a horse count as move and attack with the associated -4 penalty?
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Posted: 2026-09-01T09:31:11+00:00
Author: /u/Kecskuszmakszimuszhttps://www.reddit.com/user/Kecskuszmakszimusz
So the magic expansion says that you can buy the formulas themselves but it doesnt list the cost anywhere?
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Posted: 2026-08-31T19:09:18+00:00
Author: /u/plazman30https://www.reddit.com/user/plazman30
 | Steve Jackson Games has a very generous personal POD policy. If you buy the PDF, you can get ONE POD made for personal use. I'm sure this polict stems from a period of time when most of the GURPS books were out of print. Now that most of the line is available as a POD from Amazon, it's nice to see that they still allow you to get a POD made. One challege with getting a print-on-demand book made from a printer that supports getting just one book made is the cover. You need to design a full wraparound cover. Most PDFs only come with a front and back cover and no spine. As someone who's been a "typography nerd" since the late 80s, when I got my first Macintosh, I call pull this off, even thought I don't do it professionally. This involes pulling down their template, and thex extracting the front and back covers from the PDF, dropping them into the template and designing the spine (typing the text, picking a color, rotating it 90 degress, dropping it in place and lining it all up). To make sure you get the spine right, you really need to see a picture of an actual spine. And guess what nobody ever really photographs and posts online? The spine of the GURPS book they're showing off or trying to sell. I learned last week that any of the PDFs of books that are/were available for print actually have the full wrap-around cover in the PDF. It's just cropped to only show the front cover. But the data is there. I'm still tryng to figure out the best way to extract it. For my GURPS Supers POD, I let an LLM extract it for me. Here is an example of what I found: This is the cover as viewed in any standard PDF Viewer/Editor: With the assistance of an LLM, I got it to pull this out of the PDF: That being said, getting a personal POD made of a book available through Amazon isn't really going to save you any money. I'd buy a POD from Amazon or DTRPG to help support SJG. Just neat that I found this. Another note, any GURPS PDF that is only available as a PDF does not have a wrapround cover "hidden" in the PDF. No need for SJG to create a full wraparound cover for something they don't plan to offer physical copies of. I'm going to see if I can vibe-code a script that can pull this image out. We can't distribute covers we pull out. That would be a copyright violation. But creating a tool that can do this from your legally owned PDF is fair use. That full wraparound cover is way too low a resolution to use for a POD job. It's just here for demonstration purposes. [link] – [comments] |
Posted: 2026-09-01T00:02:12+00:00
Author: /u/pirinel_0-0https://www.reddit.com/user/pirinel_0-0
![[LotM TTRPG] Sailor Pathway (Sequence 9 – 4)](https://preview.redd.it/62ksmah2tsmh1.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=85fa0988d2de870816a1b68e735ec18791e1745d "[LotM TTRPG] Sailor Pathway (Sequence 9 – 4)") | – submitted by – /u/pirinel_0-0 [link] – [comments] |
Posted: 2026-08-31T14:56:41+00:00
Author: /u/kupfernikelrebornhttps://www.reddit.com/user/kupfernikelreborn
Posted: 2026-08-31T02:19:18+00:00
Author: /u/Demigorgon_Babehttps://www.reddit.com/user/Demigorgon_Babe
I haven’t GURPS’d in quite a few years and I’m having a bit of a mental block while trying to relearn the systems.
The thing is, the very first few pages of the character book define the thesis of the project as it being a preservative effort for the full scope of what story telling through roleplaying is fundamentally, to preserve the explorative experience via defining things in a modular code base.
However, because that code base defines everything: The structures within are very rigid for a roleplaying experience due to the fact that roleplaying lives best within the creativity of improvisation, which rigid structures oft do not allow.
From reading the thesis, having played it myself, and reading other tales I know this is a mental block due to the fact that the actual rigidity and fluidity of the experience is all up to the individual GM.
As a newborn GM that understands the fundamental philosophy, is there any advice that I should take in from the community to enable myself to not get so caught up on… what is essentially “rules lawyering”, so that I can enable and nurture free-thought that is evoked by the systems? I don’t want to use the systems as a prison.
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Posted: 2026-08-30T00:35:11+00:00
Author: /u/MoMaikehttps://www.reddit.com/user/MoMaike
 | The only one I've read cover to cover is the Basic Set... [link] – [comments] |
Posted: 2026-08-28T15:16:48+00:00
Author: /u/DemandBig5215https://www.reddit.com/user/DemandBig5215
 | Got my copy of 4th Edition Basic Set Revised. It's a big chonker of a book. My front lower left corner is slightly dinged from the shipping but not enough to complain about. I guess I know what my weekend will be all about! [link] – [comments] |
Posted: 2026-08-28T23:35:07+00:00
Author: /u/barsurfpehttps://www.reddit.com/user/barsurfpe
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Posted: 2026-08-28T16:06:35+00:00
Author: /u/BlindAudelayhttps://www.reddit.com/user/BlindAudelay
I’m curious when and why you’ve chosen to use GURPS over a bespoke game for a genre or setting, except when it otherwise doesn’t exist. Is it just because of familiarity with the system?
(Eyeing the revised basic set hardcover as a newcomer…)
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