GURPS Space 3rd Ed Steve Jackson Games 1999

GURPS Space 3rd Ed Steve Jackson Games 1999

The Future is Yours! GURPS Space is the star-spanning sourcebook for GURPS, now revised and expanded for its third edition.

In the 176 pages of GURPS Space you'll find: Scientifically accurate and up-to-date rules for creating star systems and planets . . . . either randomly or to fit a specific campaign. Detailed guidelines for creating futuristic and alien governments and societies.

An informed look at the technologies of tomorrow: what will be, what might be, and beyond! Character-creation resources for space campaigns, featuring 24 character types, three variant human races, and four alien races. 

A full science-fiction equipment list, including weapons, gadgets, and medical technology. Realistic treatments of the dangers of noxious atmospheres, crushing gravity, vacuum, radiation, and other hazards of space travel and exploration.

A self-contained, GURPS Vehicles - compatible starship construction system, covering TL8 (just around the corner) to TL13+ (superscience). Complete ship combat rules, no ship counters, just roleplaying, for playing out ship-to-ship battles.

GURPS Space does not tie your game to a single background. Rather, it is designed for the creative GM who wants to develop his own universe! This book presents a wide variety of choices and background information to let you recreate your favorite science-fiction background or build your own.

Years in the making and now extensively revised and updated, GURPS Space is a survey of the whole space-adventure genre as it relates to roleplaying. If you're ready to create your own future.... it's yours.