Steve Jackson Games d20 Magazine!

[bwgwl]

Dungeon Adventures is a proposed book focusing on more D&D-esque sword & sorcery style campaigns. It, like Hell, is waiting for Sean Punch to miraculously have the time to write it.

cool! now there might be two GURPS books i'll be needing to pick up...

 

[Jon F. Zeigler]

i know what you mean. i think a lot of my enthusiasm for d20 is that i perceive it as being long-sought (but never found) GURPS Cinematic. (GURPSheads will know what i mean by that.)

when i want a realistic game, GURPS is hands down the best system, IMO. but for the past few years i've been on more of an action-adventure-movie kick, and i feel d20 is much better at emulating that genre than GURPS.

Heh. You know, I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes complete sense. I know I tend to choose GURPS for realistic games and d20 for cinematic ones. The major breakdown in that scheme is that I choose GURPS for genres that aren't well-supported in D20 yet, even for cinematic games.

[shameless flattery]
btw Mr. Zeigler, First In has for a long time been my favorite GURPS book, and i don't even like Traveller... i've even used your world-building system for my Star Wars d20 game...
[/shameless flattery]

My blushes, Watson! Thanks. I like to think that one has aged well, although I would live to do a second edition. . .

 

[Jon F. Zeigler]

It does seem offhand to me. He's already done the "Munchkins Guide to Powergaming," which took a poke at all roleplayers. I took this as no more than doing the d20 version, just like there are d20 versions of Call of Cthulu, Fading Suns, Deadlands, Sovereign Stone, Star Wars... I saw it as a joke within a joke. And very much in the same vein as the Slayers Guide to Rules Lawyers, coming from Mongoose eventually.

Note that SJG has a long history of doing comedy and even satire in games. This has offended people other than gamers in the past.

 

[Jon F. Zeigler]

He is, and, IIRC, has just about finished it. I believe that he's got one book to do a final draft of (GURPS Blue Planet), and then he goes back to working on Fantasy*. If I understand correctly. The bits he's mentioned so far on Pyramid sound really interesting. Can't wait for the playtest.

Correct. I'm Bill's co-author on GURPS Blue Planet. We're starting on the final draft now, and once we're finished - in no more than 2-3 weeks, I imagine - I believe the Fantasy project is his next priority.

I strongly suspect that GURPS Fantasy is going to be one of those GURPS books that just about anyone interested in fantasy RPGs will want. The subject matter and the author just about guarantee it.

 

[coyote6]

My blushes, Watson! Thanks. I like to think that one has aged well, although I would live to do a second edition. . .

I want to see GURPS Chariots.

Though, hey, I'd settle for d20 Chariots.

 

[bolen]

We will see how D20 handles "realistic" Hard Sci-Fi when Traveler D20 comes out. These guys have a hard act to follow in that GURPS has done a great job in writing products.

 

[MaxKaladin]

The one time I met Steve Jackson, he came across as the sort who could make a sardonic comment about real roleplayers not using d20 and have half the room laughing at the joke while the other half never gets it because they're too busy being outraged that Steve Jackson insulted d20 players.

Edit: This isn't meant to be an insult to anyone.