Gurps, warehouse 23, and the allseeing pyramid are registered trademarks. Templates for agents in any setting, from the streetcorner thug to the secretive poisoner, from the mercenary to the religious fanatic. Black ops is a sourcebook for the gurps roleplaying game. Ten awesome military thrillers to check out this veterans. There may be some cross over equipment for spys too. The book is split into 9 chapters, starting with a 12. Character creation is the first of two compendia well be releasing for gurps. So, ive been looking into some militarythemed roleplaying games lately as the subject of 20th century and 21st century warfare has recently piqued my interest. Nov 12, 2012 i recommend gurps covert ops for info on assassins, saboteurs, and terrorists. Gurps covert ops can be used in any roleplaying game that involves assassins, saboteurs, or terrorists, either as the heroes or the enemy. Stoddard and hanschristian vortisch edited by kimara bernard with gene seabolt cover. Gurps covert ops is a great read for anyone interested in doing espionage or outsidethelaw technothrillers in their campaign, whether they are actually using the gurps rules or not.
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Still more rules were adapted from gurps gunfu 2009,authoredbys. In truth, there arent many gurps pdf files available online, although there are plenty of charts and character sheets that can be downloaded to act as replacements for your old ones. A guide to defenses and countermeasures that operatives must defeat to accomplish their mission.
Talents have a benefit in campaigns where training times are concerned in that they also reduce the amount of times to convert hours of study into a point in a particular skill. Gurps covert ops steve jackso n games gurps basic set, third edition revised and gurps compendium i are required to use this supplement in a gurps campaign. Most notably ive been researching recon and twilight 2000 and would love to own copies of. I recommend gurps covert ops for info on assassins, saboteurs, and terrorists. The cia special operations group is the most elite and covert spec ops force. The gurps third edition book series by multiple authors includes books gurps traveller.
If youre a fan of the generic universal roleplaying system, youre probably looking for a few downloadable forms and games to use with this rule set. A comprehensive catalog of the tools of the trade, from guns and bombs to adventure in the shadows. Combat and campaigns, will be released in november, 1996. Gurps covert ops can be used in any roleplaying game that. The descriptions and history found in this book will easily improve any covert ops campaign.
Gurps covert ops gurps cyberpunk gurps espionage gurps horror. Feng shui action movie roleplaying back for seconds. To the unprepared reader, it might cause spontaneous eyebrow elevation. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. Gurps cops, gurps covert ops with its faults, and gurps espionage, are generally useful. Dec 21, 2010 for a moredetailed treatment of computation, see gurps lowtech companion i. Covert ops is the gurps worldbook covering both the perpetrators illegal attempts to cause harm, including assassination, sabotage, and terrorists. See more ideas about rpg, pen and paper games and geek toys. Where to find gurps pdf files online altered gamer. It wasnt what tweaks they brought to the mechanics which i actually integrated into my 3rd edition games it was that they changed their product release paradigm. List of gurps books is a listing of the publications from steve jackson games and other licensed publishers for the. The pdf i have is 163 pages, but doesnt count the cover in the real page count, so 161 pages. The clandestine agency not bound to any one country that protects the world who, generally, is blissfully ignorant from these threats is simply called the company. The following list is far from complete, but covers essential fictional sources in various media and a variety of useful nonfictional works.
Weapon tables 18 pages of just weapon tables, available in a single convenient pdf. Gurps 4th edition just celebrated its 10th anniversary, marking ten long years since steve jackson games essentially killed the brand for me. The subject area is deliberately kept in narrow focus. They were largely compatible and hence are being grouped under one game entry. Chapters include an introduction, character creation, gear, defenses, and campaigns.
Gurps black ops, describing a setting that earth under threat from various alien, supernatural, and other monstrous powers, while the player characters are superskilled agents of the clandestine agency the company, known as black operatives or black ops. Any individual books that were released in multiple editions will be shown with the edition in parenthesis. I mined dark champions, the ultimate skill, and gurps gun fu, gurps tactical shooting, gurps hightech, gurps covert ops, gurps special ops, gurps swat, gurps action, gurps undead, gurps monster hunters, gurps blood types, and gurps horror both for mechanical. This is done by buying and spending resource points acquired through their own efforts at funding or manipulating. This is an older project, and some of these are not as uptodate as the web pages they are taken from. It is usually able to recruit the finest from every profession deemed useful to it, from. List of gurps books is a listing of the publications from steve jackson games and other licensed publishers for the gurps roleplaying game. This chapter talks about the next step in character creationcell creation. Assassins, saboteurs, and terrorists have been with us all through history. In a followup post, i will take a look at the gurps powerups series of books, and see what can be applied to the special ops templates. Profit and pitfalls among the stars, gurps steampunk, gurps robots.
I very often emphasize gurps space 2nd, 3rd and 4th edition are all somewhat different from each other, each iterating on the previous, unlike gurps horror which seems to start from. Gurps covert ops pdf version rpg item version link gurps classic pdf reprint available on e23. More than once, i joked that 3rd edition gurps had more published supplements than talisman. In a world violated by terror, the old lines have blurred. The book proper starts on page 5 or 7 and ends on page 154 or 156 for 149 pages of real stuff, though, the bibliography for the longer gurps book is actually a pretty pleasurable reference if you get bored and want to pick up some nonfiction. John dempseys lifeas an elite tier one navy seal named jack kemperis over. Historical, speculative, and fantastic methods for covert operations. In gurps basic set, this is not true, but the supplement powerups 7 wildcard skills introduces a similar benefit. Generic universal roleplaying system this game entry includes both the first and second editions of gurps. Da archive annex july 30 2016 new links will be placed here for a while before adding them to da archive. And lets face it, 3e gurps had a shmupload of worldbooks, with occasional supplements in between on how to handle different genres and settings in more general terms. Covert operations for historical, sciencefiction, and fantasy settings. Note that this is a digital reprint of a gurps third edition product.
Gurps hightech is the complete resource for equipment from the 18th century through the modern age, and will be appreciated by game masters no matter what system they use. Gurps 3 2003 gurps creatures of the night steve jackson games. This game takes advantage of the d00lite system, a fast and simple set of game mechanics created by dwd studios. Gurps 4 2011 pdf gurps lowtech second edition steve jackson games. Welcome to barebones covert ops, a role playing game of espionage and paramilitary operations. Review of gurps conspiracy x rpgnet rpg game index. But these days, its a while between publication of hardbound books for steve jackson games flagship system, as the team is. It is a shadow war where information and bullets hold equal weight, and enemies dont always wear uniforms. Gurps black ops is a setting that has our planet under threat from various alien, supernatural, and other monstrous powers. This game is about clandestine special forces parachuting behind. Annabeth albert goodreads author shelved 2 times as militarycovertops avg rating 4. As a member of this team, you find yourself once more putting it all on the line to get the job done, and get the whole squad home in one piece. A couple weeks back, steve jackson games released a new pdf entitled, how to be a gurps gm.
A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the. A comprehensive catalog of the tools of the trade, from guns and bombs to disguises and forged documents. Gurps special ops roleplay behindthelines strikes, hostage rescue, guerrilla warfare, and other special ops missions. Geekdo, boardgamegeek, the geekdo logo, and the boardgamegeek logo are trademarks of boardgamegeek, llc. Chapter five players will doubtless be ghrps interested in covert ops and security for exactly which reason, of course, gms should think a little before allowing any given new toy into kltratech. While most people know the name and what it commonly stands for, what they dont realize is that.
This information was converted from gurps special ops 3rd edition pp. Nevertheless, owning gurps special ops is a lot better than nothing. This is a digital reprint of a gurps third edition product. This new fourth edition is based on 16 years of gamer. A comprehensive catalog of tools of the trade, from guns and bombs to disguises and forged documents. Operation needle orccon 2014 february 14th and 17th. Information about covert ops through history, for background and scenesetting.
The information in this book can be used with any game system. In a followup post, i will take a look at the gurps powerups series of books, and see what can be applied to. Gurps gives you one set of clear, comprehensive rules to cover any background. I wrote this to address some of the common concerns about the system, and to hopefully entice some players and gms to give it a second look. Convention booklet summary the cia special operations group is the most elite and covert spec ops force in the world. Gurps fur generic universal role playing system, deutsch generisches, universelles. Similarly, while few full gurps games are available legally. Talents and wildcard skills i just went on an impulse buying spree and got this. Gurps conspiracyx is a roleplaying game set in a world where aliens walk among us.
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