Editing GURPS (section)

=== Versions ===

====GURPS 3rd Edition====

Published during Steve Jackson Games' golden era, i.e. when they weren't broke. As a result 3e has a truly unholy number of splatbooks. Its genre and setting books are still loved today for the vast amount of information they contain. Its actual rules are, well... not nearly as loved. If there's a 3rd edition book you like, you should just take the stuff you like and convert it to 4e.

====GURPS 4th Edition====

The modern version of GURPS. It's not hugely different from 3e; if you're familiar with [[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]], it's more like going from D&D 3rd edition to [[Pathfinder]] than going from, say, D&D 4th edition to D&D 5th Edition. The first major change is that a number of optional rules from 3e's Compendium I and Compendium II have been "canonized" and made default assumptions in character creation & gameplay. The second major change is that 4e isn't as "human-level centric" as 3e; you can use it with minimal fuss if you want to make anything other than a realistic, 100-point, street level character, while in 3e you had to screw around with all kinds of janky exceptions and subsystems. In short 4e really puts the "Generic" and "Universal" in GURPS.