Nanotechnology has transformed life on Earth forever, and gene-enhanced humans share the world with artificial intelligences and robotic cybershells. The Royal Navy patrols the asteroid belt. China and America struggle for control of Mars. The material on genre conventions, character concepts and relationships, scenario creation, and supers universes can be used with any game system. Using it to run a GURPS campaign requires the GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Powers. GURPS Supers is a new work, but it draws inspiration from the previous editions of GURPS Supers. Guidelines for running superhuman feats and combats under existing rules or adjusting those rules to fit the genre, and new game mechanics specifically for superhuman action.New game mechanics for character creation, including new interpretations of advantages, disadvantages, and skills, and newly defined perks, quirks, enhancements, limitations, and techniques.Continuity-creation guidelines and tools, so your supers universe can have the same depth as published worlds.

A guide to creating and running supers adventures.Rules for creating equipment, vehicles, bases, automata, and magical spells.22 templates for super characters, each customizable to higher or lower power levels.A guide to character creation, including powers and other abilities, codes of conduct, dual identities, and personal relationships.A history and analysis of the supers genre, its precursors and variations.Focused on drama and characterization, it provides: GURPS Fourth Edition provides the game mechanics and tools for the job, and GURPS Supers is your guide to applying them: a comprehensive playbook to the supers genre and to capturing it in your campaign. When roleplaying games were invented, supers quickly became one of the most popular genres – and one of the most challenging to do right. Men and women with strange powers gave a visible expression to the reader's sense of wonder, as they protected ordinary mortals from a variety of threats from street crime to world-shattering disasters.

The 20th century gave birth to a new genre of fiction: the super-powered adventure.

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