This is it--the key that unlocks the riches of GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) and gives you a wealth of information on how to create your character and fine-tune your play. Produced in partnership with Steve Jackson Games, the game's creator, GURPS For Dummies is the ideal companion to GURPS Basic Set, 4th Edition that explains the rules. It gives you insight into the choices you'll make in everything from creating a fun, dynamic character using the allotted number of points, to playing in an adventure, to becoming a GM. Whether you want to be an Amazon princess or a stalwart warrior, an old-fashioned swashbuckler or a modern investigator, a tough cop or a cat burglar, a sorcerer casting spells or a cosmic ranger, fighting lawlessness in the asteroids, this guide will help you:

Determine your character's basic attributes: IQ, DX (dexterity), ST (strength) and HT (health)
Figure out your character's secondary characteristics
Choose advantages (including powers and perks) and disadvantages (including quirks and disadvantages with a self-control roll modifier)
Optimize your points by using talents
Select your skills based on functional area or the campaign setting
Enhance your character with spells, magic items, magic staves, and powerstones
Strategically purchase equipment for different characters, tech levels, and campaign types
Create and manage a character sheet, write a character background, keep a character log, and more--all with samples
Choose good combat techniques and play with your character

If you want to become a GM, this guide gets you going with advice on creating the adventure, managing the character creation process, managing combat, and interpreting the rules. There's even a handy Cheat Sheet tear-out GM screen in the front of the book. There are tips throughout, plus advice on how to:

Create your very own GURPS universe for your campaign, whether it's dungeon-crawl, high-adventure, combat-focused, puzzle-focused, or masquerade-type
Provide a basic write-up of the world for your players, including technology level, supernatural and supernormal abilities and powers, races, setting, character templates, cultural and social information, and limitations
Create an electronic combat grid, a battle log, a tactical map, and more--with samples
Do mapping, planning, and plotting
Create memorable NPC (nonplayer characters), both good guys and bad guys

GURPS For Dummies helps you create more detailed, exciting, and interesting characters and take your game to the next level. That's important whether you're saving a princess or saving the planet...searching for hidden treasure or for secrets to eliminate disease... fighting crime or combating armies of evil robots...casting spells in medieval castles or destroying terrorist cells in modern day milieus. With GURPS, the only limitation is your imagination.

Autorentext
Adam Griffith is a 28-year gaming veteran skilled in creating characters and campaigns. Bjoern-Erik Hartsfvang has 24 years of experience crafting and running game worlds.

Stuart J. Stuple has 15 years of gaming experience with a focus on technology and alien races.

Klappentext
Get the scoop from the experts and start playing today This is it the secret passageway to success (and fun) with GURPS

GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) is not like other role playing games because it gives you the freedom to create any world or character you can imagine. This fun and easy guide gets you up to speed, so you can get into the game and hold your own right from the start.

Discover how to:

Develop your character's skills and attributes
Prepare for combat and other encounters
Role play your character's personality
Become a Game Master
Create and populate your own game world

Zusammenfassung
Let the adventure begin with this straightforward guide to GURPS!

This is itthe key that unlocks the riches of GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) and gives you a wealth of information on how to create your character and fine-tune your play. Produced in partnership with Steve Jackson Games, the game's creator, GURPS For Dummies is the ideal companion to GURPS Basic Set, 4th Edition that explains the rules. It gives you insight into the choices you'll make in everything from creating a fun, dynamic character using the allotted number of points, to playing in an adventure, to becoming a GM. Whether you want to be an Amazon princess or a stalwart warrior, an old-fashioned swashbuckler or a modern investigator, a tough cop or a cat burglar, a sorcerer casting spells or a cosmic ranger, fighting lawlessness in the asteroids, this guide will help you:

Determine your character's basic attributes: IQ, DX (dexterity), ST (strength) and HT (health)
Figure out your character's secondary characteristics
Choose advantages (including powers and perks) and disadvantages (including quirks and disadvantages with a self-control roll modifier)
Optimize your points by using talents
Select your skills based on functional area or the campaign setting
Enhance your character with spells, magic items, magic staves, and powerstones
Strategically purchase equipment for different characters, tech levels, and campaign types
Create and manage a character sheet, write a character background, keep a character log, and moreall with samples
Choose good combat techniques and play with your character
If you want to become a GM, this guide gets you going with advice on creating the adventure, managing the character creation process, managing combat, and interpreting the rules. There's even a handy Cheat Sheet tear-out GM screen in the front of the book. There are tips throughout, plus advice on how to:
Create your very own GURPS universe for your campaign, whether it's dungeon-crawl, high-adventure, combat-focused, puzzle-focused, or masquerade-type
Provide a basic write-up of the world for your players, including technology level, supernatural and supernormal abilities and powers, races, setting, character templates, cultural and social information, and limitations
Create an electronic combat grid, a battle log, a tactical map, and morewith samples
Do mapping, planning, and plotting
Create memorable NPC (nonplayer characters), both good guys and bad guys
GURPS For Dummies helps you create more detailed, exciting, and interesting characters and take your game to the next level. That's important whether you're saving a princess or saving the planetsearching for hidden treasure or for secrets to eliminate disease fighting crime or combating armies of evil robotscasting spells in medieval castles or destroying terrorist cells in modern day milieus. With GURPS, the only limitation is your imagination.