GURPS Space Adventures is an adventure published by Steve Jackson Games (SJG) in 1991 for the role-playing system GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Playing System), and more specifically, for the science-fiction setting provided by the previously published GURPS Space .
GURPS Space Adventures contains three adventures intended for use with GURPS Space: [1]
SJG published GURPS Space in 1988, one of the broad genre books that followed the publication of the GURPS Basic Set (1986). [3] : 107 GURPS Space was supported by several second-tier sourcebooks including the GURPS Space Atlases (1988-1991), GURPS Space Bestiary (1990), and GURPS Aliens (1990). [3] : 107
GURPS Space Adventures used this science-fiction framework for three adventures, written by William A. Barton, Thomas S. Gressman, and David L. Pulver, with artwork by Donna Barr, C. Brent Ferguson, Ruth Thompson, and L. A. Williams, and cover art by Alan Gutierrez. SJG published the 128-page softcover book in 1991.
In the September 1993 edition of Dragon (Issue #197), Allen Varney thought two of the adventures were "no more than competent, unremarkable science fiction." But he found the third adventure, Beware the Health Police, to be "a dazzling mix of cosmic adventure and comic invention." Varney thought this adventure alone was worth the price of the book, calling it "Great, goofy fun." [4]
OGRE is a science fiction board wargame designed by the American game designer Steve Jackson and published by Metagaming Concepts in 1977 as the first microgame in its MicroGame line. When Steve Jackson left Metagaming to form his own company, he took the rights to OGRE with him, and all subsequent editions have been produced by Steve Jackson Games (SJG).
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