GURPS Fantasy / Dungeon Fantasy

[Thomas Shey]

I had the 1e boxed set and 3rd books and even a lot of the 4e books. Eventually I grew out of it baeed in 4e. It was just too complex for me anymore. Especially after playing Savage Worlds and a multi genre FATE games.

Actually my drift away from GURPS started with an introduction to FUDGE.

I can absolutely see if Fate will do it for you that GURPS would be waaaay overkill.

 

[dbm]

It’s an interesting through-line as Fudge was written by Steffan O’Sulivan after writing a couple of GURPS books. And Fate started as a variant of Fudge.

 

[Theory of Games]

The versatility of GURPS is its strength, an unmatched strength in the ttrpg hobby space. Seeing what Mutants & Masterminds is shifting to (4e), I'll probably go with GURPS Supers and have just one ttrpg for all of my games going forward. I can do this because GURPS can do any genre

 

[Argyle King]

If you don't mind a little extra reading...

I've found that you can mix Dungeon Fantasy with After the End for a pretty good post-apocalyptic fantasy game. If you wanted to do something that's in the vein of Dark Sun, Thundarr, or a fantasy reskin of Fallout; that would be a good place to start. You'd also have a good mix of pre-made monsters to form a solid bestiary with minimal work.

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[Voidmoji]

I started GURPS back with the 2e boxed set. I ran a fair amount of the game back in the day. Cyberpunk, superheroes, scifi, and, of course, fantasy. I loved it to pieces...until I didn't. At some point I found it kind of a sprawling mess, and didn't feel like the Compendiums went far enough. I also had a number of other issues that bothered me, and eventually gave up on it.

Now, 25 years later, I have come back to the system with 4e. While there are still things about GURPS that I am not keen on, in general I feel that 4e is a massive improvement. If feels so much more consistent. I have been buying up as much 4e stuff as my finances allow.

I am really itching to play it. I almost started up a fantasy game, but then I had group that included two newbs who wanted to get a game going, so I went for Shadow of the Weird Wizard, which I also wanted to run. But the next thing I run will very likely be GURPS. I've started working on a setting, along with how magic works.