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.

Hi all. I’m trying to track down the GM or players from an old homebrew GURPS fantasy campaign called "Fading Word," to clarify its status before I do anything more with it.

I have a long campaign log file. It was a game set on a world called Abbatine. The file is 65,000 words long and serves as a summary of everything that transpired from the middle of the game to its conclusion. That is to say, There were other files, but I neglected to download them. Unfortunately, the website from which the file originated no longer exists, and I can’t recall its name. The setting features:

• Nonhuman civilizations such as the adapoi (plant‑aligned forest‑dwellers) and the deyrey (eusocial lizard beings in hive mounds).
• The Free City of Paiden, the Yodai Forest, Ubele, Seitha, and Hegger.
• Major threats like the Eater, the Eyeless One, Vlad and his warriors on giant worms, and the Maelstrom that is at the edge of the world (or at the center of the universe).
• A ferryman figure named Yaggo, who travels near the Maelstrom.
• Long‑running PCs including a human nicknamed Pawnbroker, an adapoi named Messerbad, a human from a different world named Yorden, and others like Laerynth, Mungo, Kabak, etc.

The log also mentions Cypress and Houston in passing (as real‑world locations), and refers to a small in‑person group meeting weekly or bi‑weekly, probably in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

My purpose in posting here is:

• To give the original GM or players a chance to say “that was my game” or “I was in that campaign,”
• So I can treat the setting as either:
  • still “live” and owned/used by someone (in which case I will keep my work strictly private), or
  • effectively an orphan work where only personal, non‑commercial archival/expansion is appropriate.

I am not asking anyone to post real‑world contact details or to dox anyone. If you recognize this campaign, you can just reply “yes, I played in that” or “I know who ran that, DM me,” and we can take it to private messages. I’m not trying to claim ownership of anything; I just want to be careful and respectful about how I treat a setting I’ve become very invested in. It is also in my mind to create a non‑commercial documentary‑style video about the campaign and its world, simply to help ensure that, whatever happens, this fascinating setting is not lost to time. That goal is extremely important to me.

If any of this rings a bell, I’d be very grateful to hear from you. Thank you all very much.

During this period, I returned to reading GURPS. Now, although I am of an age that would place me among those who have played extensively with things like Advanced D&D, in reality, most of my RPG activity was concentrated in the second half of the 2000s and the first half of the 2010s with games influenced by The Forge. Except for a brief period at the beginning of this period with Gurps. Despite my preference for what are generically called indie or narrative games, my attachment to certain aspects of Gurps has never waned. The reason I have found for this attachment is that Gurps is a perfect set of rules for playing “dress-up,” providing you with a huge amount of accessories. Or, if you want to use a more “macho” comparison, it's a huge Lego box with a huge number of special pieces. There are certainly other games where you can customize your character in detail. But they don't have such aesthetically pleasing mathematical precision, at least for me.

In short, just to say that many people like Gurps for its realism (which, in my personal opinion, it doesn't have, but that's just my personal opinion, which I don't even want to discuss). I like it for the possibility of extreme customization combined with a “mathematical” skeleton of very defined and precise rules for making this customization.

Edit: I realize that the sentence I wrote about realism may be too peremptory. It's not that I came here to say that I'm right about GURPS not being realistic (but I don't think it has often similitude to reality either) and that's that, and there's no point in discussing it because I'm right and everyone else is wrong. What I meant was that I'm not interested in discussing it in this post , at this moment.

I have a question about GURPS 4e Discworld for Discworld/GURPS fans. How much of a spoiler does the book have for the series? I think I only read 9 out of the 42 odd books and I think it covers some of Mort, the witches , a bit of Rincewind, and Small Gods. I am sure I have read Guards! Guards! and Men at Arms so I would assume that Men at Arms is the farthest in the timeline I read. I think I covered most of the subseries but would appreciate some input from someone who has the Discworld book and have read the series.

I was thinking of a really expensive modifier (especially for the secondary attributes) that makes an attack (strikers, innate attacks with that modifier from power ups 4, etc) deal damage based on attributes other than ST

How would you price it? I was thinking of values between +150% and +300% but I don't know if that's fair

Weirdly, while every other World listed in the Alternate Worlds books has an Infinite Worlds sidebar, Aeolus does not.

Yet the current leader of ISWAT is from there.

Any official word on what the Outtimers are doing on Aeolus, how they are interfering or on which Quantum it is or anything?

Hello!

I am new to GURPS but I plan on running a campaign at some point. I'm not new to ttrpgs (I've been a player but mostly DM in dnd once a week for almost 5 and a half years).

There are 3 other people in my group, and none of them have ever played GURPS either.

I'd like to run a short one shot thats basically like a video game tutorial but for GURPS. Also, with things I've read in the GURPS books, theres a number of things that both dnd players and DMs need to unlearn from dnd to be able to play GURPS, and Id like to ease that transition.

My group likes narrative-forward, roleplay-heavy, low-combat games.

A majority of what I've seen as far as GURPS material goes is like... a lot of war, military or high tech games. That's not really my groups vibe.

So does anyone have ideas for one shots or introductory scenarios that work well for a new-to-GURPS group and GM, especially ones that emphasize skills, roleplay, and problem solving over combat?

I was working on a character sheet on GCS earlier, and now when I try and open it, nothing happens, no pop-up or error message. All of my other .gcs files open fine, it is one specific one. I would rather not lose all of my work and have to recreate it from memory, does anyone know anything that might fix it? My GCS is up to date and I have tried reinstalling twice.