Is a new GURPS version in the works?

[darjr]

I kinda wish they’d take the sensibilities of GUPS and TFT and make a more modern game.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I kinda wish they’d take the sensibilities of GUPS and TFT and make a more modern game.

EXACTLY

 

[Faolyn]

This is based on my experience with the transition from 3e to 4e as a retailer was that people looked at the 4e rules, said "meh, not enough changes I was interested in, I'll stick with 3e" and so it didn't sell. This was for a game that in 2002-3 I was selling 3-4 copies of the 3e book a year. In addition, my GURPS group decided not to shift to 4e - but it did kill our 3e game . My experience is one micro story in a sea of stories about GURPS 4e; but I think it tends closer to representative than not.

Huh, that's strange--I thought there were remarkable differences between 3e and 4e, and I much preferred 4e. I just lost my ability to deal with that much crunch, and that caused me to move away from GURPS.

 

[Jer]

This is based on my experience with the transition from 3e to 4e as a retailer was that people looked at the 4e rules, said "meh, not enough changes I was interested in, I'll stick with 3e" and so it didn't sell. This was for a game that in 2002-3 I was selling 3-4 copies of the 3e book a year. In addition, my GURPS group decided not to shift to 4e - but it did kill our 3e game . My experience is one micro story in a sea of stories about GURPS 4e; but I think it tends closer to representative than not.

See for me I looked at the cost of moving to 4e and decided to tap out. I was already trending away from GURPS in general (3e D&D had pulled me back into D&D's orbit) but if 4e had come out with a single, smaller book instead of 2 big hardcovers, I probably would have gone along for the ride. But it didn't so I didn't - it took me years before I finally ended up buying the 4e books, and even then I got them used instead of new.

(I did pick up the 4e Infinite Worlds book new though - I did love me some GURPS Time Travel and all of the associated Alternate Earths books back in the day. I still use those for campaign ideas because I love multiversal nonsense, which is what drew me to GURPS in the first place)

 

[darjr]

I did start in with 4e but eventually the treadmill had to stop, regardless that the game itself wasn’t hitting all cylinders with me. I kinda denied it for a while.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I personally bought the 4e books, and sold off my 3e core book and "crunch" books, only keeping settings like Humanx and Japan etc. But sold off Vehicles I & II, Space, and more. The thinking being I'd buy the replacements of those in 4e as needed if and when I either played or ran more games. But as noted above the group fizzled, and I actually didn't play any RPGs until D&D4e came out - some 4-5 years later...

 

[dbm]

Still got these and won’t be unloading them:

Although Savage Worlds is my first choice system to run, GURPS is still my #2.

 

[darjr]

Oooohhh Girl Genius.

Dang well there is a GURPS book I want….

 

[MichaelSomething]

Wait, that's out???

Oooohhh Girl Genius.

Dang well there is a GURPS book I want….

 

[dbm]

Wait, that's out???

Came out August last year…