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Message: <blockquote data-quote="corndog" data-source="post: 57074" data-attributes="member: 2623">GURPS is Steve Jackson Games' Generic Universal Role Playing System ( <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/" target="_blank">http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/</a> ). It is essentially the same type of rules system that d20 is, in the sense that it is a core set of fairly universal and generic rules that can be adapted or expanded easily to fit into any genre game. The actual mechanics do vary greatly from D&D and other D20 games though, GURPS being a more realistic (read: lethal) rules set that uses a character generation system that is almost entirely point buy, meaning you have little or no randomness in building your character.All you really need is the GURPS Basic set ( <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/Basic/" target="_blank">http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/Basic/</a> ), which is $29.95 USD. There are something like 60 or 70 "worldbooks" which you can buy to expand into different settings or genres, but these are optional. They are very good in general though, and are packed with enough non-rules background material and ideas to make them useful even if you don't use the GURPS system.If you want to give the system a try, SJG offers GURPS Lite ( <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite/" target="_blank">http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/lite/</a> ), a 'fast play' style downloadable introductory version of the game. It's complete enough to run a few one shot adventures to decide if the system is right for you, so I definately recommend downloading it and giving it a shot. One thing worth mentioning that a lot of ENWorlders will find important is that GURPS is available in a few different language editions too. Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, and Spanish are all available, as well as a Braille edition for the vision impaired gamers out there (I may be wrong, but I believe SJG is the only RPG company that offers Braille versions as a standard edition of their games).</blockquote>

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