Strap on your skis and scrounge for ammo to fight for young finlands continued freedom, or join the russian armies trying to secure their border from german attack. Prepare for your finest hour as gurps explores the defining event of the 20th century world war ii. It also includes a modular vehicledesign system, for tailoring equipment in alternatehistory campaigns or simply. One of the biggest problems with gurps fourth edition is that many of the firearms havent been converted yet. Thus far their reputation as being useful inspirations and genre guides even if youre not using the system has been upheld. The era leading to wwii was what is known as the golden age of science fiction leading some to. Page 2 these conversions were originally written by curtis handsaker, also known as z09ss on the sjgames forum. These charts are the hard work of the lesser gurps gun god curtis handsaker, a. Iron cross is a valuable supplement for any wwii gaming group.
Business innovation from israels masters of espionage. Iron cross is a valuable supplement and information source for any wwii gaming group. Yenne, william, secret weapons of world war ii, berkley, 2003 disclaimer. But his triumphs were not part of a strategic conception that secured victory in. The german conquest of poland in september 1939 was the first demonstration in war of the new theory of highspeed armoured warfare that had been adopted by the germans when their rearmament began. The secret of the gneisenau scenario detailing the gneisenau. From the threeyear siege of leningrad to naval encounters in the baltic and black seas, from the final drive on berlin to the invasion of japaneseheld manchuria, red tide brings the horror and the bravery of the eastern front to your gaming table. Within these pages youll find a complete game, including. The secret of the gneisenau an adventure with even more weirdness for a very strange war. This means that, sometime after world war ii, real history and fallout history diverged, although where this happened is not exactly clear.
Weird war ii contains everything you need to run horrific world war ii adventures with the savage worlds game system. Gurps fallout, like the fallout computer game series, takes place in an alternate universe. Weird war ii an alternate setting in which magic, superscience, and the supernatural are real. From the threeyear siege of leningrad to naval encounters in the baltic. This pdf is a conversion of cyberware from gurps cyberpunk and shadowrun into gurps 4th edition. World war two is the beginning of an ambitious campaign by steve jackson games to bring the battles of world war two to life for gamers. Motor pool is the definitive sourcebook for it all. The pictures that defined world war ii getting the perfect shot in wartime is not only about weapons.
Bottom tier are core books necessary to play, moving up to least necessary. Mar 26, 2020 gurps wwii world war 2 gene seabolt on free shipping on qualifying offers. This is a ww ii roleplaying game that lets you game in a world at war. It expands upon the campaign setting of conflict between the infinity patrol, which is the dimensionjumping agency on. Aug 22, 2019 gurps wwii world war 2 gene seabolt on free shipping on qualifying offers. Explore the inner workings of the third reich in gurps wwii. Covers everything from armored cars to aircraft carriers. There are several cliffhanger serials involving wwii that can be used as ideas for a wwii themed gurps cliffhangers campaign.
The secret of the gneisenau is an adventure for gurps wwii. In september 1939 the allies, namely great britain, france, and poland, were together superior in industrial resources, population, and military manpower, but the german army, or wehrmacht, because of its armament, training, doctrine, discipline, and fighting spirit, was the most efficient and effective. Gurps infinite worlds is a supplement for the fourth edition of the gurps roleplaying game, published by steve jackson games in 2005 and written by kenneth hite, steve jackson, and john m. Nazi mystic archmages, ss superhuman troops, secret antarctic bases, foo fighters and thats just what the axis was up to. Download gurps the prisoner roleplaying in the village pdf.
Age of gold pulpera superheroes empowered by returned magic alchemical baroque a fairy tale fantasy world with a dash of clockpunk banestorm. Page 2 these conversions were originally written by. Oct 09, 2019 gurps wwii, pyramid, and the names of. Dont think of it as a library index, think of it as a street filled with bookstores and you have to talk to each shopkeeper. Join the greatest generation as gurps explores the defining event of the 20th century world war ii. Gurps wwii core rulebook steve jackson games gurps. Using the wwii modular vehicle design system from the gurps wwii core rulebook itself derived from gurps vehicles, motor pool has complete stats for combat vehicles of all types, from all theaters and combatants, in. Average rating 9 ratings there was a time when ordinary men did. Gurps wwii core rulebook steve jackson games gurps third. However, the half century that now separates us from that con.
World war ii was the largest and most violent armed con. For me, an anthology approach can be a real mixed bag, but it worked well here. Z09ss on the steve jackson games forum if you find mistakes or have an issue with a particular weapon stat please make a notation on the discussion page before making any changes. The secret of the gneisenau this book was also printed in a limited edition hardcover. The raids followed the failure of the german luftwaffe to defeat britains royal air force in the battle of britain julyseptember 1940.
Review of gurps weird war ii rpgnet rpg game index. Gurps 1st3rd edition world war ii noble knight games. Warehouse 23 offers worldbooks, supplements, and adventures, in physical and digital formats, for gurps as well as many of our other game lines. From world war i to world war ii the north atlantic and north african theater the european theater the pacific theater the uso in world war ii, produced by the history channel firstperson accounts, produced by pyramid studios. Gurps hightech is a gurps supplement of rules for weapons and transportation, focusing on firearms and organized into seven technological levels, from the blackpowdermusket era to a future of lasers and stun guns. Gurps weird war ii is an anthology,in the style of gurps y2k. Since these gurps wwii books can be used with any of the. Everyones heard the stories of world war ii now take a look at the stories your teachers couldnt tell you in high school. Most of gurps settings can be easily adopted as part of the infinite worlds settings. The clashes that shaped the course of the deadliest war of all time. This is a listing of the publications from steve jackson games and other licensed publishers for the gurps roleplaying game. Germany was so extraordinarily successful in the first two years that hitler came close to realizing his aim of establishing hegemony in europe.
Still publishing new material in pdf after the release of gurps fourth edition. It was compiled by ken hite and edited by him and gurps world war ii line developer gene seabolt. I apparently was one of the few folks to be truly sad that the gurps wwii line was cancelled. Using resources from further up the stack requires less preparation work on the part of the game master. Weird war ii, where the fantastic is mixed with the historical for the ultimate in roleplaying. Michaels army is a sourcebook for gurps world war ii that details romanias involvement from the early march on stalingrad to the defense of the ploesti oilfields to the taking of transylvania from hungary. The book includes descriptions of standard weapons from all levels. It also includes a modular vehicledesign system, for.
This coupled with changes in the gurps tl scale means that tls from sources before. While world war ii continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of americans. In current year 1942, world war ii is being fought with magic. Frozen hell covers the finnish campaigns of world war ii. The front roleplaying game is a streamlined roleplaying game that uses the original 1970s. Gurps wwii included a special edition of gurps lite for wwii. A world where magic entered the world in 1916, and is centered in germany. Note that this is a digital reprint of a gurps third edition product.
The era leading to wwii was what is known as the golden age of science fiction leading some to believe anything was possible. Published gurps settings, therefore, sometimes came out looking as weird as possible to snag that demographic. The ammunition of world war ii reanges from 1925 to 1945 see also weapons of world war ii 1925 to 1945, finlands wwii weapons, frances wwii weapons, germanys wwii weapons, great britains wwii. Gurps fantasy ii is an example of that philosophy, as well as how it failed. A background for play and setting for an adven ture for example, earth during world war ii. Romance a historical analysis of united states prisoner of war pow missing in action mia repatriation and remains recovery world war ii, korea, vietnam wars, philip corso. Everyones heard the stories of world war ii now take a look at the stories. There is a sequel volume, gurps alternate earths ii, and the concept of the conflict between the infinity patrol and centrum across the many parallel earths was made central to the fourth edition of gurps as the default setting in the basic set and in the supplement gurps infinite worlds. Can you save the gneisenau before her luck runs out. Motor pool premade ww2era vehicles using the variant wwii. Its so gritty i dont know what to say, even talents the term for those gifted can be killed in one hit, just like anyone. Curtis handsaker z09ss converted many 3e weapons into 4e which were posted on the rpg net wiki. World war ii world war ii the war in europe, 193941. World war ii, the american civil war, the napoleonic wars.
The true story of the greatest double agent in world war ii espionage spies inc. Red tide is the definitive sourcebook on soviet forces in world war ii. The world of darkness vampire, werewolf, and mage the 4th edition of gurps has a number of worldbooks, some of them relatively short pdf publications, including but by no means limited to the following. Written by gurps world war ii author gene seabolt, gurps wwii. Frozen hell brings you into an unfamiliar corner of world war ii a very cold corner of a very hot war. Jun 01, 2019 gurps wwii, pyramid, and the names of. The weapon pages have been reformatted to make them a little easier to use though because they are so long they are given their own pages as on rpg net wiki. There are hundreds or more alternate worlds in the gurps infinite worlds multiverse. Godlike is a game all about if superheroes appeared in the 30s, and wwii was fought with them on the forefront. It seems hard to believe that there are only six chapters in this book but there is quite a lot of detail in these chapters. Gurps 3e wwii weird war ii the secret of the gneisenau. Jul 7, 2016 world war ii was the greatest conflict in history.
Gurps wwii also comes complete with a customized version of gurps lite, making it a complete roleplaying game in a single volume. The blitz, september 1940may 1941, nighttime bombing raids against london and other british cities by nazi germany during world war ii. Some historical campaign settings stick closely to historical realities such as gurps world war ii but even there were things both real and imagined that go into horror and fantasy as seen in gurps weird war ii. Jul 11, 2019 gurps wwii, pyramid, and the names of. Da archive 2016 amended jan 3 2017 this is a compilation of most of the pdf share threads and the rpg generals threads from 2016. In the earliest days of world war ii, the soviet union agreed to split eastern. Gurps has been the leading universal game system for more than a decade. Jun 22, 2019 gurps wwii, pyramid, and the names of. When the successful campaign against poland failed to produce the desired peace accord with britain, he ordered the army to prepare for an immediate offensive in the west. Poland was a country all too well suited for such a demonstration.
Now your characters can fight the occult nazi menace as well. Germanys war strategy was assumed by hitler from the first. The material presented here is my original creation, intended for use with the gurps system from steve jackson games. Im a massive ww ii nut who knows the gear and battles. Nov 25, 2019 gurps wwii, pyramid, and the names of. You can roleplay in any background with just the rules in the gurps basic set. The alternate reality, henceforth referred to as the fallout. World war ii world war ii forces and resources of the european combatants, 1939. That gurps thread also includes the fantasy trip rpg pub. Weapons of world war ii 1925 to 1945 gurps wiki fandom. Godlike or gurps ww ii the battle of the rpgs so i have been researching for awhile now trying to find the best ww ii rpg.