GURPS Space 3rd Edition

About this book

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 youll 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 youre ready to create your own future . . . its yours.