3rd Edition had a solid implementation of variable damage types - Crushing, Cutting, and Impaling. And the vast majority of 3rd edition material can be used with 4th.
The support library for 4th Edition is smaller, but characteristically excellent.
KATANA GURPS 3RD EDITION SERIES
In the new few years a series of excellent supplement was put out to support the major genres, like Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and a major overhaul made superheroes campaigns in GURPS far more interesting than 3e. 4th Edition has all the base rules in just the two Basic Set books - Characters and Campaigns.
KATANA GURPS 3RD EDITION PLUS
By making character generation for the Dungeon Fantasy RPG and fantasy campaigns, fast, quick, and easy. The informal name for this version (Basic Set plus Compendiums) was 'GURPS 3.5 Edition' Its formal title, along with all pre 4th edition material still in print, is GURPS Classic which can be rendered as 'Classic'. They want to learn a few things, make some characters, make some adventures and get on with the campaign.ĭelvers to Grow I feel is a major addition to the work that been done in the past decade to make GURPS more approachable. Oriental Adventures, D&D 3rd Edition (3.0) Daisho Proficiency The katana and the wakizashi are the only 3.5 weapons that explicitly used the stats of equivalents bastard sword (which counts as martial or exotic depending on how you wield it) and short sword respectively. potential customers of GURPS, don't have time to sit down with a toolkit to develop the system they are going to use for their campaign. By general practice, volumes from different editions of RPGs are different works in this case, most of these books have been hugely expanded and frequently include the complete contents of several books from the 3rd Edition, even if they share the same name. Blank Time Use Sheets as above, except values are not calculated. Blank character sheet, as above, except Attribute costs only are not calculated. My opinion is that the problem is not because of the system but because of presentation. GURPS 4th Edition is the 4th Edition of Steve Jackson Gamess GURPS. Anyone have a 3rd edition character sheet Steve Jackson Games Forums. It it largely viewed as being pricey, complicated and a lot of work compared to other system and other generic systems.
Let cut to chase, GURPS as a system doesn't have a great reputation within the hobby.