Top 3 GURPS Settings

In this video, I will talk about my personal top 3 GURPS settings. Well, actually top 3.5.

[@LongestRunningSuperHeroRPG]

I've been playing 3e Supers for ages, and love it.

[@freddaniel5099]

While I enjoy reading and have sometimes played using the Yrth setting, my preference has been Andre Norton's Witch World (early 3rd edition book) and adaptations of other fictional settings including Saberhagen's Empire of the East. GURPS' ability to game in almost any setting is a huge part of its appeal, but it does take effort to set it up and one has to approach the work as part of the fun of running GURPS. I find it rewarding. Cheers!

[@MarkoPareigis]

Nice that you put a spotlight on these. I think they are highly underreported settings! Personally, I haven't played much in any of them, as I tend to design my own worlds or adapt worlds to GURPS

[@Adamthegeek70]

I have run Supers, a Sliders (from the TV Show) themed setting, and a Fantasy Space opera with just about everything thrown in.

[@Valdagast]

My favorite GURPS setting is probably the Madlands, where there be monsters everywhere...

[@HernTheHunter]

I always enjoyed GURPS Space TL 10-12 and also Post Apocalyptic settings.

[@Accounting_Fundamentals]

I love banestorm and Infinite worlds. Banestorm allows me to implement many current worlds religious practices and make them fantastic :) I love it for that.

[@FaoladhTV]

Those are all fine settings. I love the idea of Madness Dossier, though I haven't had any chance to play in it. Banestorm is fine as fantasy worlds go, and better than many. I love the idea of Transhuman Space, though I can't seem to find an angle to actually play in it; I'm just not solid on what characters should be doing. But my favorite setting by far is Voodoo: The Shadow War. My favorite magic system mixed with some really deep digs into the societal fault lines in the US. I guess it might not hit as well with people in places with a different history or with people who are invested in leveraging those fault lines. It probably does work for people who liked The Invisibles, especially the plot arcs featuring Jim Crow.

[@TheRyujinLP]

Infinite Worlds: GURPS Stargate meets Sliders. I love how the guy who develops the tech doesn't just keep it secret but uses it to advance the world AND make a nice profit off it. Capitalism working as interned heh. Horror: The Madness Dossier is good, I got that one. Banestorm: AKA a soft reboot of The Fantasy Trip, just without the very 70's (but also very cool) techno-sci-fi angle. Don't hate it but it never really popped at me.

[@rob679]

Never liked Banestorm, it mixes too much of real world stuff into the game where I like to have fantasy elements their own thing. But I also did not play any other 'official' setting aside Banestorm, our GM always created a quick setting we expanded along the way often improvising stuff. The downside of such way of playing is that the world is basically thrown away once the campaign goal is reached.

[@KimKhan]

"Top 3 GURPS Settings" Oh, he must mean Infinite Worlds, Infinite Worlds, and Infinite Worlds.

[@UsuarioGenerico-li5pf]

I think I'm the only one here who likes Banestorm xd It's not really my main setting but it really is a kind of fantasy that I get extra interest in how it mixes real historical data with fantasy (not like other "historically correct" worlds with begrudgingly added magic). Plus it's the only fantasy setting that humans don't make me turn my eyes 360 degrees, because they're earth humans brought to fantasy lands. And not the race/species of superheroes that so infests the fantasy genere. (but I have never said that I ever wanted to play a human character ;) ) And of course the setting is generic, it is to do what you want with the setting. Greyhawk is even more generic and bland, but still everyone hails it. And I say this as someone whose preferred setting is Wilderlands of High Fantasy (From D&D 3.x edition), which is such a generic setting that I don't know if the setting contains any piece of lore or not. And if it does, I don't care... I've already made my setting and I've already made all the additions and changes that I and my group wanted.

[@King.Leonidas]

if i played infinite worlds i think i would defect to the other side :D

[@hansbrackhaus8017]

Lol Banestorm is not sensitive to me, it's just lame to me. Every time there's an abrahamic religion reference, there is a place where something else had to die for it. Got a bit tired of the 2304823048320th Michael, Joseph, Maria and co decades ago. To think people had actual, indigenous names, faiths, cultures, etc before that. Ah well, at least they get to ascend to a heavenly plane where they possibly can look down on the earth for thousands of years, see the wreckage and betrayal and if they were to complain about it to the admin then they'd get banned for it. Its not impossible that heaven might just be modern internet. Seeing who the admin of it all is. Anyway, technically I find all of these settings cringe to some degree, but infinite worlds is the least bad because, yes, it's very GURPS.

[@dungeonsandgurps]

On the other hand, Infinite Worlds contains an infinite amount of cringe!

[@hansbrackhaus8017]

@@dungeonsandgurps Hahaha. Technically true, yes.

[@thekaxmax]

It's approximately historical, although could be better. Note that one tourney feast had more than 1/3 of the knightly attendees named Stephen, and surnames/towns of origin were vital. I've been running the setting since before the Banesorm book existed and I've not noticed the name thing being an issue.

[@hansbrackhaus8017]

@@thekaxmax Historically, Germany alone had so many actual Germanic names of Germanic origins that there's books of them spanning 1350 pages. And that's just one country/ethnicity out of, well, look up the list of ethnicities on wikipedia and count how many of them have at least partial abrahamization and you'll see that it will be less than 25% who still are reported as being untouched by it. And that's mostly small tribes. And the list on wikipedia has over 550 ethnicities listed. Let that melt on your tongue a lil, and then remind yourself that christianity and islam are 'missionary' faiths, aka displacement of what has been before. The damage done by it to the cultures and people of the world is so staggering that even I cannot fully fathom it, and I'm someone who actively indulges in that. With a passion.

[@thekaxmax]

@@hansbrackhaus8017 Yes. It's also historically true what I stated. I didn't say it was good or universally true, I said it was plausible.