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The Future Is Yours!
Now updated for GURPS Fourth Edition, this is the ultimate toolkit for any campaign between the stars.
Explore options for space travel and technology, from the realistic to the miraculous. Design alien races and monsters.
Create campaigns of every style, from science fantasy to space opera to star merchants. Build worlds, from asteroids to Dyson spheres.
With this book, you can create anything from a single alien beast to a whole galaxy of civilizations and star systems... quickly and randomly, or with a detailed step-by-step process that's true to biology and astrophysics as we understand them today.
Customer Reviews:
GURPS Space.......2007-05-12
This most recent version of GURPS SPACE had virtually nothing new in it in comparison to the previous books. I really felt that I wasted my money.
Great!.......2007-01-10
This book is great! It covers all about space campaigns, at any detail level you want. Worlds, Star maps, Races and etc.
The book is beautiful, too!
It just don`t go deeper into building starships, but I think I know why. That is much more about engeneering and I bet SJG will soon release the Vehicle Builder in its 4th edition to help in this matter.
Great book!
What do you expect?.......2006-08-01
What you will get out of GURPS Space depends on what you are looking for. It does not have any stats for weapons or technology, no rules for spaceship construction and no rules for space combat. For that, Interstellar Wars is a better book, but neither are up to 3rd Edition standards (space combat is fairly boring as defined in IW).
Space is good for designing star systems and worlds, and has some decent material on alien life. If you want to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations, then this book is good.
If you want to build the spaceship that will take you there and be able to defend yourself when you meet hostile aliens, this is not the book.
That is about it. 3rd Edition Space is a better book.
Not perfect, but pretty good.......2006-06-26
This is the fourth iteration of GURPS Space. It's got a lot that's new, quite a bit that's appeared elsewhere in more primitive forms, and a few relics that have been recycled from GURPS Space 1, 2 & 3.
Bad bits first:
The book recycles a small amount of faily bland and pointless text about interstellar societies and "generic" organisations in chapter 1 and expands on most of this information in chapter 7. Thus, some of this text is a bit redundant. It also includes the irritating joke organisation "Special Justice Group" (SJG, like the publisher, Steve Jackson Games).
There are no game statistics for equipment in the book at all, and no ship design system.
Steve Jackson Games uses the avoirdupois system in preference to metric. So do most Americans, of course, but it just seems unscientific for a scientific game book.
Good Bits
The vast majority of the book is devoted to hard science concerns; possibile and miraculous technologies, world and starsystem generation, and alien life. These are excellent. The technology section contains no examples, but is nevertheless thought-provoking and useful. The worlds section is as accurate and up to date as the authors could make it, and is a vast improvement on all the prior GURPS spaces and, for that matter on any star generation system by anyone else. The same goes for the alien life chapter, which is more detailed than any other that I've seen.
The remainder of the book has solid advice on how to create, fine tune and run a space campaign, and sample templates for character creation. It's all good stuff.
Finally, should you buy this book? If all you want to know is "how does a 3rd Ed. TL8 gauss needler translate into a 4th Ed. weapon?" then no, because the book doesn't tell you that. But if you want to design and run a scientifically plausible, richly detailed space game for any games system, then yes, this book is definitely worth the money.
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Gurps 6501. A Compendium of Worlds for Interstellar roleplaying. Contains 25 planetary recoreds.
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The Space Atlas is your guide to the 28 star systems of the Old Frontiers Sector. On the edge of the explored space, youll find the bazaars of Bollux, the rival religious fanatics of Bannar and Drayhoah, the carnivorous plants of Talisman ... adventures galore. Each world description includes a complete Planetary Record Sheet, with an overview of the whole star system and a detailed description of the planet itself, using the GURPS Space format ... planetary map, atmosphere and gravity, day and year length, population, government, resources, economy, biosphere and special features. Some worlds include specific descriptions and game statistics for people, animals, plants or vehicles found on that planet, Adventure suggestions are included for every world. The Space Atlas is designed to fit into any campaign. You can use the worlds together (maps of the whole Old Frontiers sector are included), or choose individual worlds and fit them into an existing campaign. The books introduction includes historical and background information to fit the Old Frontiers into five different interstellar campaign backgrounds: Anarchy, Alliance, Federation, Corporation State or Interstellar Empire. The Space Atlas is designed specifically for GURPS Space, but can be used by the GM of any interstellar role playing campaign.
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GURPS Lensman: Starkly Astounding Space-Opera Adventure
Sean Barrett
Manufacturer: Steve Jackson Games
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Gurps 6052 : A compendium of worlds for interstellar roleplaying.
Customer Reviews:
Other Books.......2007-09-03
GURPS Space is one of the many competent supplements for Steve Jackson's Generic Universal Role Playing system.
Or, handy when you want to go haring around in spaceships and that sort of fun stuff. Mostly we used it as an adjunct to the other games we were playing at the time, but worth a look.
SUPERB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2002-01-04
Ahem ...
This is one of the best roleplaying books I have ever read and certainly among the best for GURPS. If you want to create a pace-based science fiction campaign, this is the book for you whether you play GURPS or not. Everything is in here: spaceship design, alien races, solar systems, planetary governments ... all organised in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion. If something seems to techy to you - leave it out! If you want hard sci-fi with colony ships and no aliens, GURPS can oblige. If you prefer Flash Gordon to Carl Sagan, GURPS has the reactionless thrusters (scientifically divided into slow and fast) primed and ready for take off. If you are desperate for a REAL hard sci-fi setting, then GURPS Traveller maybe a better purchase but if you're itching to create your own strange new worlds, this is the book.
Generic in the best possible sense.
A good sci-fi resource for GURPS.......1999-05-06
This book does wonders for a far future GURPS campaign. The world and ship generation techniques are excellent. Lots of cool gadgets too. The weak point of Space is it's lack of detail on creating alien races. But if it were more detailed they wouldn't have needed to make GURPS Aliens right?
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Complete your party with these ready-to-go Transhuman Space characters, usable as PCs or NPCs! Personnel Files has heroes and villains at a range of point totals, and includes bioroids, cybershells, weblife, and even ordinary humans. Dozens of humans and transhumans stand ready to welcome your group to 2100 . . . and adventure
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Continuing the Elwood Chapman tradition, author Cliff Goodwin brings you The Supervisor’s Survival Kit, 10
th Edition. Updated throughout, this edition focuses on the essential techniques and skills needed to be an effective supervisor. It offers a unique approach—fostering supervisory skills through the use of role plays, case studies, games and exercises—and will help readers gain confidence in their leadership and supervisory roles.
This book discusses how to make the transition to management, achieve productivity through people, build an effective team, and conduct essential supervisory tasks such as staffing, delegating, motivating and appraising employees.
For supervisors, managers, and those wishing to develop strong leadership skills.
Customer Reviews:
Want to enter the world of supervision?.......2001-12-13
This is an ideal book to the person who wants to grab the basic principles of supervision. It is a good book to read before an examination.
I am satisfied with the book because of the way the material is presented. Case studies are good and help to understand the basics of supervision.
A good starting manual for students and managers in training.......2001-05-31
Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step Into Management is a very well written educational manual for current managers looking for a strategic edge and students currently involved in business related courses. I had to use this manual for an internship during my fall term of 2000 at Central Michigan University. The contains over 13 in depth chapters that classify as lite to moderate reading. The literature is well written by Mr. Elwood N. Chapman and Mr. Cliff Goodwin and is very capable of holding the readers interest and communicating the importance of proper management techniques in the workforce. The concepts contained in each chapter stress the importance of time management, communication skills, and the ability to train employees and solve problems under various conditions and constraints. At the end of each chapter are a series of essay questions that ask the reader to provide detailed management concepts and strategies through the material covered in the chapter. The questions are also well written and designed because they force the reader use ideas and concepts they develop for themselves after reading the material. I would recommend this book to students studying in the business field and anyone else that is looking to gain a positive and succesful edge in their current management position
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Hospitality Supervisor's Survival Kit
Clifford R. Goodwin , and
Alfred B. Squire
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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This survival kit contains the tools needed to develop skills in human relations, labor and management relations, and customer service that are essential to effective customer and employee management and supervision. Contains sound principles and practical suggestions for resolving conflict, leading meetings, executing performance appraisals, imposing discipline, scheduling work, and adding value. For managers or directors of training and development in human relations and hospitality management.
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Supervisor's survival kit
Elwood N Chapman
Manufacturer: Science Research Associates
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ASIN: 0574206353 |
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Supervisor's survival kit: A mid-management primer
Elwood N Chapman
Manufacturer: Science Research Associates
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ASIN: 0574200002 |
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- I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire: The Ravenloft Covenant
- Indian Bead-Weaving Patterns: Chain-Weaving Designs and Bead Loom Weaving-An Illustrated "How-To" Guide
- IQ Puzzles: A Collection of Over 500 Mind-Benders & Brain-Teasers
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- Juggling: From Start to Star
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