

I recall discussion of Traveller in ‘rec.games.frp.misc’. Can’t dredge up more detail than that, though.


I recall discussion of Traveller in ‘rec.games.frp.misc’. Can’t dredge up more detail than that, though.


Thank you for the disclosure that you used Generative AI.


My mind was blown by how good the world of GURPS Reign of Steel, one of many great worldbooks from David L. Pulver.
Clearly an alternate conception of the Terminator universe, but instead of a single Skynet we get over a dozen demigod AIs who have divided the Earth between them, and each have widely varying attitudes to humanity and plans for what to do with us (all bad). This of course makes for (compared to Terminator) a richer world with more opportunities to move between different regions to keep the campaign interesting with the same characters.


The original GURPS Illuminati was rough, but a fun book of inspiration for wild conspiratorial world-girdling secret society weirdness.
When Kenneth Hite started working for SJ Games, he produced a great collection of well-researched and well-written alternate-history weirdness:


I have a lot of love for the World of Darkness adaptations:
They not only brought a much more coherent game system (the original White Wolf system was famously bad), but also brought that GURPS worldbook rigour to the “research” that went into describing the world, the factions, the story hooks, the background, etc.
Like so many other GURPS worldbooks, I thoroughly enjoyed reading them often but never got into a game using them.
You even directly quoted the complaint that this is built on the backs of thousands of people’s work. Without their consent, without the possibility of attribution and recognition for their work.
And then blithely ignored it, failed to address it at all.
You have demonstrated you just don’t care about the creative work of countless people over countless hours, that has been shredded and fed into the machine which extruded this thing you want to promote. Why should anyone care about giving you “constructive” feedback? De-construct this thing and think a lot harder about the people you’re trying to market to.