[Product] GURPS Tactical Shooting

Steve Jackson Games has released GURPS Tactical Shooting, the supplement to bring realism shooting to the game table of GURPS 4th Edition.

Building off the foundation laid by GURPS High-Tech, the supplement not only expands on the new guns and firearm equipment with 30 new items, including tripods, sights,camouflages and ammo options, but also adds dozens of new rules to simulate realistic gunfights, from firing stances to high speed firing.

GURPS Tactical Shooting also gives players new options such as 20 new perks and techniques of using their firearms and six styles of gunfighting.

Written by Hans-Christian Vortisch, the 87 page supplement also gives information on tactics to survive gunfights in ambushes and urban environments and debunk certain myths from real gunfights.

You can see a 9 page preview of the supplement here.

GURPS Tactical Shooting is now available as a PDF at e23 for $12.99.

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A New Edition of the Discworld RPG Under Development

Steve Jackson Games has announced that a new edition of the Discworld Roleplaying Game is in the works but it will be still quite a while before it will be seen in print.

GURPS Line Editor Sean Punch made the announcement on the Daily Illuminator that he is in the middle of reviewing a 'large' first draft of the game, which they are planning to reduce it to 400 pages for the final release.

The new edition would be updating the original Discworld Roleplaying Game and GURPS Discworld Also into GURPS 4th Edition, taking into account the novels that has since been written by Terry Pratchett since the last edition, including Going Postal, Thud! and Unseen Academicals.

In the announcement, Punch said:

"I cannot give out more details on dates right now. I must finish the review, and then Phil will want to make whatever changes he feels should be made before the playtest.

"Then there will be said playtest, followed by Phil making the rest of the changes I suggested, along with those recommended by his playtesters.

"And then there will be months of editing, followed by time for production, art, and printing. The release date is too far out for me to offer a prediction – I'm not actually a troll, so I'm not writing this with a unique view of the future. (Actually, the fact that I'm writing this should be proof enough that I'm no rock.).".

The original Discworld Roleplaying Game, named GURPS Discworld then, was written by Phil Masters and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and was published in 1998, using the GURPS Lite ruleset.

GURPS Discworld Also was a supplement published in 2001 and a reprint of the original RPG, renamed Discworld Roleplaying Game, was released in 2002.

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News: Metamorphosis Alpha Relaunch

Signal Fire Studios would be relaunching a new product line for Metamorphosis Alpha, with its creator James M. Ward.

The new product line would be using the D&D 4E rules under the GSL, as players can choose to play as primitive mutant humans, animal or plant fighting to survive in the vast generational Starship Warden and unlock the ship's secrets.

Metamorphosis Alpha is believed to be the first science fiction roleplaying game when it was created by James M. Ward and published in 1976.

Thirty five years later, Signal Fire Studios is proud to produce the new product line which will include a Player's Guide and a sourcebook on Starship Warden as the campaign setting.

The sourcebook will also be giving suggestions on ways to use mix science fiction and fantasy with the new rules.

Signal Fire Studios would also be running demonstrations of the new game with an adventure module titled 'The Petting Zoo of Death' written by Jamie Chambers in conventions.

Keep checking back at the Signal Fire Studios website for updates on release schedules and previews.

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News: Amethyst adapted for Pathfinder

EN World reports that Dias Ex Machina will be creating an adaptation of their Amethyst setting to Pathfinder which will be named Amethyst Renaissance.

There is not much detail of what the book will contain but the report indicates that it will be an adaptation of Amethyst Foundation and Evolution for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition to the Pathfinder system.

The report also emphasized that Dias Ex Machina is not shifting towards Pathfinder and three more books for the D&D 4th edition is forthcoming.

The cover of the book is still temporary.

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