GURPS Online

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 12:10 am

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For those of you into ye-olde skool roleplaying, you might be interested to know that there is now an official Gurps website - <a href="http://www.gurpsonline.com/" target="_blank">Gurps Online</a>.<blockquote><em>This is the place to be to check on all the latest news about the development of GURPS Online and its products. <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/" target="_blank">Steve Jackson Games</a> and <a href="http://www.worlds-apart.com/" target="_blank">Worlds Apart Productions</a> have joined together to create online games using the GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Playing System) rules and settings. Vote in the latest polls, read development articles and news, and join in the discussion in the forums about GURPS Online.

The first two games slated for launch in the GURPS Online universe are <a href="http://www.gurpsonline.com/oldwest" target="_blank">GURPS Old West</a>, based on the GURPS Old West sourcebook; and <a href="http://www.gurpsonline.com/ths" target="_blank">Transhuman Space</a>, Steve Jackson Games' popular "hard science" near future sci-fi RPG.

You can learn more about GURPS here, or visit the various GURPS Online projects in development by clicking on their links in the column to the left. </em></blockquote>If you know your Fallout history, you'll know that it was originally slated to be a GURPS game. Fancy that! Spotted at <a href="http://www.bluesnews.com" target="_blank">Blues News</a>.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:23 am

Not just one run-of-the-mill MMORPG, but, owing to the very nature of GURPS, an infinity of them. Yay!

HanoverF · Post by **HanoverF** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 8:35 am

Wait a gosh darn tootin' minute, there's going to be an old west CRPG?!?!

Bleh after reading some faqs it's not everything I'd hope it could be, but its a step in the right direction, and it doesn't appear to be a MMRPG. :/

Ninja Penguin · Post by **Ninja Penguin** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 9:09 am

HanoverF wrote:Wait a gosh darn tootin' minute, there's going to be an old west CRPG?!?!

Yeah. It's called Deadlands. It's steampunk/wild west. Made by the guys who're doing that cool looking Call of Cthullu game. Google it.

HanoverF · Post by **HanoverF** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 5:20 pm

I've known about Deadlands, Deadlands isn't old west.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 6:28 pm

Deadlands has been around for a long time and isn't really about the "wild west" but more like the "weird west".

Deadlands

Pastorius · Post by **Pastorius** » Thu Jan 23, 2003 6:38 pm

That game, if made correctly, could rock so much...

Ausir · Post by **Ausir** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:31 am

And there's a sequel to Deadlands, set after a nuclear war against supernatural powerful beings or something like that, called "Hell on Earth", set in Wasted West. Combine westerns, Fallout and Call of Cthulhu and you get this :).

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 6:36 am

Steve Jackson stuff? I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books, which Ian Livingstine also had a hand in with some, also.

requiem_for_a_starfury · Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:45 am

Stainless wrote:Steve Jackson stuff? I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books, which Ian Livingstine also had a hand in with some, also.

Different Steve Jackson, apparently.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:39 am

It is? So it isn't the one that has the Game Workshop or whatever the hell it's called then.

requiem_for_a_starfury · Wed Jan 29, 2003 12:06 am

Stainless wrote:It is? So it isn't the one that has the Game Workshop or whatever the hell it's called then.

Nah, this one is an American geezer. There's a Games Workshop opened up in my little town, didn't know they had gotten so big, or that there was enough of a market in this part of the UK.

Do you remember the sci-fi Star Trek style book that they did? Can't remember the title, was the only one of the series that I couldn't get anywhere with.