Steve Jackson took a good crack at a system to cover the basics of any type of gaming with having a few generic abilities, and basic it around skills, and just some garden variety dice, and not many of.

A lot faster and easier to use than something like the HERO system, so points for that, and there are a huge number of decent and interesting supplements if you want to delve in depth into any one setting. ( )

This is a printing of the 3rd edition of the "Generic Universal RolePlaying System" (GURPS).

The name says it all. This puppy can allow you to roleplay just about any setting or genre. Not perfectly, but then what can?

I have some personal discontents with the system it's self, but then my opinion tends to be that any roleplaying game I haven't tinkered with myself needs some improvement so I won't bore you with the details here. Those who actually care to know can seek out my contact information.

Still, even barring those elements I'm dissatisfied with, this game really gives it the old college try at being thorough, trying to think of every combination of abilities you might possibly want to have interact.

One of the reasons I've rated this book as low as I have is that a newer edition has come out which provides significant improvements over this one. I mainly keep this book around out of nostalgia and because the shape of my copy makes re-sale a sketchy proposition.

However, I proudly admit that I refer to the old genre supplements for this game to this very day to help flesh out totally unrelated games.

- Peter K. ( )

I like this RPG because you can play ANY genre with the same basic set of rules. ( )