 GURPS Bunnies & Burrows cover | |
| Designers | Steffan O'Sullivan |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Steve Jackson Games |
| Publication | 1992 |
| Genres | Animal fantasy |
| Systems | GURPS |
GURPS Bunnies & Burrows is a sourcebook for GURPS . The Bunnies & Burrows game was modified by Steffan O'Sullivan and republished by Steve Jackson Games as an official GURPS supplement in 1992.
GURPS Bunnies & Burrows adapted the GURPS rules to support playing with rabbits. [1] : 319 GURPS Bunnies & Burrows uses the GURPS system common in all GURPS products. [2] Steffan O'Sullivan, who wrote GURPS Bunnies & Burrows notes, "The game has also been published as a GURPS supplement, but I usually play it in Fudge these days - the simpler rules seem to work better for this genre in particular. I've also run it in Sherpa, which is oddly evocative of the original rules." [3]
During a rise of "retro" games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, [4] Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement. [5] In 1988, Steffan O'Sullivan wrote an unofficial conversion of Bunnies & Burrows to GURPS while the negotiations continued. [5] He indicated that he hoped to one day work on the official supplement. [5]
GURPS Bunnies & Burrows was published in 1992. [1] : 76 [6] It was written by O'Sullivan with interior art by Jim Groat. [7] GURPS Bunnies & Burrows was the first game world that Steve Jackson Games adapted to the universal GURPS system in the early 1990s. [1] : 109 The book is now out of print, but (as of July 2015) is still available via digital download. [2] Loyd Blankenship, [8] the managing editor of Steve Jackson Games' former Illuminati BBS acknowledged that O'Sullivan received his wish, and kept the original conversion article online. [5] Steve Jackson Games continues to support the game, releasing an updated errata sheet in 2007. [9]
Lev Lafayette says that it is "really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, [7] while the game has also been described as a "work of genius". [10]
Reviewed in White Wolf #35.
Bunnies & Burrows (B&B) is a role-playing game (RPG) inspired by the 1972 novel Watership Down. Published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, the game centered on intelligent rabbits. It introduced several innovations to role-playing game design, being the first game to allow players to have non-humanoid roles, and the first to have detailed martial arts and skill systems. Fantasy Games Unlimited published a similar second edition in 1982. Frog God Games published a revised third edition in 2019 from the original authors. The game was also modified and published by Steve Jackson Games as an official GURPS supplement in 1992.
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