GURPS: Alpha Centauri

[Andemagne]

https://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/alphacentauri/

did you know about this?

its current status is "In Playtest / In Production".



GURPS is a award-winning roleplaying game published by Steve Jackson Games

[Pandemoniak]

it sounds good

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Interesting. I may suggest it to my D&D group sometime (after it comes out)...

[Lucidor]

Re: GURPS: Alpha Centauri

Originally posted by Andemagne
[url]GURPS is a award-winning roleplaying game published by Steve Jackson Games

Didn't those guys get their entire computer equipment confiscated for publishing the infamous hacker manual GURPS Cyberpunk...? FBI "Intelligence" at it's finest...

[Alex]

It is only surprising that it took so long for someone to do something like that. I always thought that SMAC is an RPG cleverly disguised as a strategy game.

[Urban Ranger]

I don't like GURPS. The system isn't really generic or universal. I much much prefer genre-specific systems.

[Archaic]

While I prefer genre-specific systems too, I must disagree. GURPS is far more universal and adaptable than any other supposedly generic system (Including d20 ), with only the possible exception of Big Eyes, Small Mouth. Just the fact that they're producing a SMAC sourcebook for GURPS is guarenteed to get me finally laying aside my Adnd 2nd's.

[Urban Ranger]

The problem with the so called "generic" RPG systems are they are not that scalable. I don't see how GURPS can be used to represent superheroes, for example, or model a world where magic is powered by a person's will (a la Runequest).

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by Alexnm
It is only surprising that it took so long for someone to do something like that. I always thought that SMAC is an RPG cleverly disguised as a strategy game.

hey! it's been under development quite a while now. I knew about this since SJGames and Firaxis made the deal, but I was not a SMAC fan back then (I just tought "Cool")(I started playing less than 2 months ago).

and for those who don't like GURPS: it's propaply easy to convert to another system.

Lucidor: I think you're right.

BTW I looked thru SJGames' site again and found that GURPS: Alpha Centauri is coming in October 2002
(Hardback 128 pages full color. $29.95)

[Dove]

I feel stupid

What is GURPS? What is RPG?

The last time I asked about RPG people were after cyber sex.

Call me naive, but I can't see how that would work for SMAC.

[Pandemoniak]

RPG is Role Playing Game. On apolyton, it doesnt mean the girl pretends to be a nurse, a princess, or whatever satisfy your lust (ouh, Deirdre... ). It s a kinda game that is usually played with pen and paper, and dices, and were you control a character. You play a role just like at theater. The story is made by the Gamemaster, and that guy plays every other characters.

GURPS is an "universal" role playing system.

[Urban Ranger]

No the GM doesn't play every other characters. Just all the NPCs.

[Nakar Gabab]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
No the GM doesn't play every other characters. Just all the NPCs.

Unless you don't have very many friends.

[Andemagne]

why can't I hear more "WOOOHOOO!!!!!" 's?
people, we're getting a new source book about Alpha Centauri here!
in october.

[Andemagne]

Bump!