GURPS Cliffhangers

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GURPS Cliffhangers
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Publishers Steve Jackson Games
Systems GURPS

GURPS Cliffhangers is a sourcebook for GURPS .

Contents

GURPS Cliffhangers is a GURPS campaign setting supplement describing how to run pulp-hero adventures set in the 1930s. [1]

Contents

Publication history

GURPS Cliffhangers was written by Brian J. Underhill, with a cover by Miro Sinovcic and illustrations by Butch Burcham, and was published by Steve Jackson Games in 1989 as a 96-page book. [1]

GURPS Cliffhangers was one of the broad genre books that followed the publication of the GURPS Basic Set . [2]

Reception

Paul Mason reviewed GURPS Cliffhangers for Games International magazine, and gave it 3 stars out of 5, and stated that "Overall the artwork is weak, but the material is up to the usual GURPS standards. If I wanted to play a game set in this period, I'd be hard pressed to choose between this and Justice, Inc." [3]

Reviews

GURPS Cliffhangers was reviewed in Alarums & Excursions #322.

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References

  1. 1 2 Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 388. ISBN   0-87975-653-5.
  2. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 107. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. Mason, Paul (December 1989). "Rolegames". Games International (11): 40.