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Language:	English
Publishers:	Amarillo Design Bureau -- United States Cumberland Games -- United States Steve Jackson Games -- United States
Categories:	Complexity Level : Solitaire RPG (External Rules Required) Format : Paperback Genre : Fantasy Genre : Horror Genre : Science Fiction Licensed Property : Conan Licensed Property : Novel Tie-In Product Family : GURPS Target Age Group : Adults Target Age Group : Teenagers Writing Style : Present Tense Writing Style : Second Person
Translated Into:	GURPS (Portuguese)

GURPS, short for Generic Universal RolePlaying System, is one of the most popular and successful attempts to create a generic system that can be used for role-playing in multiple genres. It embraced one-player gaming from the beginning, including a fantasy solo adventure with the first three editions of its basic rules and then following this up with a line of adventures. The introductory adventure was not included with the fourth edition of the GURPS basic rules, though a version updating the adventure with fourth-edition rules was made available for free as a pdf over the Internet by the publisher.

The standalone adventures (all of which use third edition rules) tied in with popular properties licensed for use with the game (Conan, Horseclans and Humanx Commonwealth), but they only required the Basic Set for play, not any of the numerous world books released to supplement the rules. While some are considerably thicker than others, the books are all large-format and feature numerous numbered sections along with character sheets, special rules and, in some cases, material that can be used in multiplayer GURPS campaigns. One book, Bili the Axe: Up Harzburk!, was recalled from the market due to several design flaws that rendered it unplayable. Some copies still exist in the hands of collectors, however. An additional solo adventure for the GURPS Prisoner setting (based on the British science fiction television show) was completely or mostly written, but never published.

Years after the original batch of adventures was released, a solo adventure was included in a supplement for the GURPS Prime Directive science fiction setting, using third edition rules. While all the aforementioned solo adventures are currently out of print, the Third Edition Basic Set and the Conan-based solos (as well as the Module Prime Alpha supplement) are available in digital format from the Warehouse 23 store.

Two additional GURPS solo adventures have only been published in electronic format. The first of them, based on the GURPS Horror supplement, was written at about the same time as the first GURPS solos, but was never published in book form. Several years later, the publisher released the adventure for free over the Internet in a browser-only version. The second adventure (which apparently was written considerably later than the first) uses the setting from the GURPS Fantasy supplements. This latter adventure was also freely available in a browser version from the author's website (no longer online as of December 2023). Nowadays, readers can access and play the adventure through the Internet Archive or they can play a reworked version using the rules from Risus: The Anything RPG.

Role-Playing Games

GURPS Basic Set (All in a Night's Work)

Role-Playing Materials

Module Prime Alpha (Temple on Terilek Prime)

Solitaire Adventures

Nightcat
Partners
The Schizoid Man
1. Conan Beyond Thunder River
2. Bili the Axe: Up Harzburk!
3. For Love of Mother-Not
4. Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast
5. Conan the Wyrmslayer
6. Conan: Moon of Blood

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