GURPS Compendium I : Character Creation

By Robert T. Bakker

Book Overview

Build Character! GURPS Compendium I has it all! We've searched over a hundred GURPS books and dozens of Roleplayer and Pyramid articles to bring you the most complete compilation of character generation rules ever. Compendium I includes updated and revised versions of every character-related rule that has been published since the Basic Set Third Edition - all in an easy-to-use format. With Compendium I and Basic Set Third Edition, in hand, you will be able to handle all character design without every opening another book, except to select world-specific abilities like spells or cyberwear. Compendium I is a companion volume to the Basic Set and is a must-have for any serious GURPS player or GM! This book includes the latest, most up-to-date rules for: Attributes, Advantages, Disadvantages, Enhancements, Limitations, Skills, Language Rules, Maneuvers, Racial Generation... Everything you need to build any character you can think of. Also included are appendices listing page reference abbreviations for all the GURPS books, as well as a table cross-referencing every advantage, disadvantage and skill ever published in any GURPS book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155634290X
• ISBN13: 9781556342905
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Compendium 2

With the dozens of books on the market for GURPS, it gets really tiresome to have to look through all of them to find the skill, advantage, or disadvantage you want. This book makes that worry a thing of the past. I can not imagine making a character without it anymore.

My favorite GURPS supplement

This book has all, or at least the vast majority of the things you need for character creation all under one cover. It has all the disadvantages, all the advantages, and a good number of skills.If you are one of those people who buys GURPS books to read for entertainment, you might not want to bother, but this book is very helpful (almost a must have)if you are actually playing the game.

Best update of an RPG in quite a while

It's the nature of RPG publishing to generate more books for the games published. If all you need is 1 book and every potential customer has that book, you're out of business. The drawback to this is new material tends to duplicate and even contradict older material unless the game maker keeps a tight reign over it.GURPS generally has had such supervision but even so you have rules in one book that are useful in another...

An excellent book for people considering a return to GURPS.

Steve Jackson Games have managed to do for GURPS 3rd edition what the D & D Rules Cyclopedia did for D & D. A literally breath taking book that expands and supplements the GURPS 3rd edition Basic Set beyond it's comparatively humble origins. Almost a decade of GURP character generation material and advice have been lovingly compiled. I recommend this book. Guy Robinson