All simulationist games since gurps secretly aspire to kill gurps and wear its skin while drinking the blood of its delicious heart. Additional information for magic appears in gurps fantasy and gurps thaumatology. Based on gurps magicby steve jackson and gurps grimoireby s. Many rogues and adventurers can command a few useful spells, but a true wizard. It has some of the same feel you need time, effort, and specialized magic to tell what things do. It is the paragon of the simulationist category of games. You will find premade characters, data files, and printexport sheets within this archive. The description of each item provides its aura strength and the school to which it belongs. All of the familiar magical shops from magic items are here, with new items for armor and protection, magical weaponry, mystical healing, necromantic magic, curses, tricks and traps, and more.
Alternate enchantment techniques more weird and wonderful ways to create magic items, covering charms, sacred items, qabala, and magic astechnology. Here is a collection of 520 different words, 20 for each letter of the alphabet, that can be used as command words for magic items. Magery 3, teleport and four different individual plane plane shift spells item. Glittering prizes pdf gurps dungeon fantasy treasures 2. Although gurps fantasy and magic items 1 are referenced, they are not required. So if you trap an area with link and a nasty spell, your foe needs detect magic to spot it, magery wont do. If you are looking for an ipython version compatible with python 2. It was very easy to download and featured no watermarks or drm code, which was a huge relief. Advice on building an effective wizard for someone new to.
Currently the canon delver loot only includes the misc utilities listed in df1 e. Steve jackson games spell prerequisite charts by michelle barrett based on gurps magicby steve jackson and gurps grimoireby s. There are generic items, suitable for a range of settings, as well as creations specifically for popular game settings like gurps technomancer, gurps steampunk, and gurps warehouse 23. Finally a section detailing power stones and a section. Dungeons and gurps dungeon fantasy monsters 1, but all creature stats are new to this work. Alternate enchantment techniques more weird and wonderful ways to create magic items, covering charms, sacred items, qabala, and magicastechnology. The book expands on the material outlined in the basic set, provides alternative forms of magic for gms to use, and contains much more material. More sorcerous shops and mysterious magics the second of three gurps books detailing various magic items, this one came out a year after the first. Gurps magic items 2 once again opens the doors to shops full of arcane artifacts and enchanted objects.
Place a cauldron on top of an open fire and fill the cauldron with water. To see through objects to spot magic items, you need mage sight gurps magic, p. Magics are specific to and provided by the ipython kernel. Included sections on the economics of magic items and a section about handling them in campaigns. Dam 2d 1 pi and 1d fatigue hypothermia, acc 2, page 1 magical items. Normally, i will take the total number of plusses a weapon has and divide it between.
Gurps magic, infinitely maintainable spells with my devilish combo. Magic items literally take years to make and thats time your character really cant be adventuring. Categories include swords and weapons, armor, wizardly tools, thiefs supplies, clothing, jewelry, healing tools, necromantic items and curses, tricks, and traps. Other references are an for gurps arabian nights, co for gurps conan, j for gurps japan, mi for gurps magic items, mi2 for gurps magic items 2, tt for gurps time travel and ww for gurps witch world. Pyramid, gurps magic spell charts, e23, and the names of all products pub.
This is the book for gms and players who are ready for a campaign with highpowered magic. Steve jackson games written by phil masters additional material by c. Kromm punch set out to become a particle physicist in 1985, ended up the gurps line editor in 1995, and has engineered rules for almost every gurps product since. If you do, itll probably one shot the boss and set you back all the gold you earned in the course of the campaign. There were also a lot of requests that the basic set cover magic. Some optional elaborations, such as mana itype,i clerical magic, and one spell mages. Advice on building an effective wizard for someone new to gurps im sorry your first exposure to gurps will be playing a 250pt mage in an anythinggoes campaign. Questions tagged gurps4e roleplaying games stack exchange.
Quirks compiled by ted brock introduction what is a quirk. Gurps magic, infinitely maintainable spells with my. Ritual path magic, a complete, standalone, and selfcontained magic system for gurps. This chapter covers the core rules involved in the.
The second of three gurps books detailing various magic items, this one came out a year after the first. Gurps magic third edition has extended rules and suggestions for use of magic in a gurps campaign, with an extensive list of example spells these actually make up the majority of the book. Gurps magic is a source book for the gurps roleplaying game from steve jackson games that provides in depth coverage of magic in the context of gurps. By default, it sorts by the number, or alphabetically if there is no number. To expand this point, quirks have two basic roles they play in defining your character.
This pdf supports adobe layers and the page backgrounds and images can be disabled to make printing easier. Gurps magic, infinitely maintainable spells with my devilish. Also included are several more weird and wonderful ways to create magic items, a dozen new guilds, organizations, and corporations involved in the magic item. The third edition of the gurps basic set includes a chapter on magic, and over 100 spells. Gurps 4e is a skillbased pointbuild rpg focusing on flexibility. There are even clever refinements like the bane enchantment. Gurps magic items 2 new items for armor and protection, magical weaponry, mystical healing, necromantic magic, curses, tricks and traps, and more. All of the familiar magical shops from gurps magic items 1 are here, with new items for armor and protection, magical weaponry, mystical healing, necromantic magic, curses, tricks and traps, and more. You can easily play anything from a stone age caveman, an ogre mage, a us navy soldier, or even a zenbuddhist psychokinetic killer robot from future who likes cats. When detect magic identifies a magic items school of magic, this information refers to the school of the spell placed within the potion, scroll, or wand, or the prerequisite given for the item. Dam 2d1 pi and 1d fatigue hypothermia, acc 2, page 1 magical items. Such a skill name it magic for simplicity both fills that gap and lets you finetune magic in your campaign, in at least 10 fun ways. Afflicted casting flagellants blessing, afflicted casting mystics stupor, better magic items necromantic, blocking spell mastery any, blood magic, elixir resistance, frightening side effects any, intimidating curses, knower of names, life force burn 15, obscure true name, sanctum 12, scroll reading, secret mage. Illustrated by kent burles, eric hotz, sean murray, dan smith, ruth thompson, and clifford vanmeter.
Im hoping to add randomly generated weapons and armors with all the fancy modifiers later. Simply put, a quirk is a disadvantage that is worth only 1 point. The core magic system for gurps, expanding on the material presented in the basic set. Whether magics are available on a kernel is a decision that is. Here is a catalog of hundreds of original and imaginative enchanted items for use in any campaign, from exotic trinkets to mighty artifacts. By continuing to use pastebin, you agree to our use of cookies as described in the cookies policy.
Magic is a creative force, and those who can harness its full potential can change the universe. We use cookies for various purposes including analytics. This spell has no effect on its own, but makes adding future enchantments much cheaper as much as 1 10th normal cost. Ritual path magic players have the option of a form of enhanced loot.
I strongly recommend you consider a more focused archetype, like a cinematic martial artist, and wait for a 100pt fantasy campaign to cut your teeth on the magic system. Ive built a 229 point mage started as 200, gained points in play whos main focus is that he can maintain an infinite amount of spells for as long as he likes. Gurps dungeon fantasy monsters 1 pdf gurps dungeon fantasy monsters 2. Gurps magic items has hundreds of original and imaginative. Gurps magic is a 240 page rulebook for gurps 4th edition with content by steve jackson, s. Page references that begins with an m refer to gurps magic, second editing. If you want to force a particular order, use the character to divide the number and the descriptor. Plus special material from the magic items series and wizards. If more than one spell is given as a prerequisite, use the highest. Rounding out the book is a detailed section on spellbooks. Gurps magic also has extensive rules for creating enchanted items by investing spells in them permanently. This 2003 excel file is a game aid for gurps, with around 2000 3d6 rolls on one sheet and a table that calculates damage from slams, falls, and collisions by crossreferencing hp vs. Also, missing items for spells in gurps magic are detailed.
Barsoom roleplaying in edgar rice burroughs john carter of mars setting. You start out paying the full cost to get it into play, but do you have to pay that cost again to attune to the item after it has been looted. The first volume, characters isbn 1556347294, addresses what players need to. If the series has an order, add a number or other descriptor in parenthesis after the series title eg. Environmental interfaces have normal command phase. Gurps is the generic universal role playing system from steve jackson games. Gurps magic items 1 also describes the eldritch shops that sell these wonders, with a complete and realistic guide to the economics of enchantment in a medieval fantasy world. The raw, fundamental power that distinguishes a fantasy campaign from a realistic one.
Its worth nothing this is all permanent items only temporary spells, even lasting ones arent magic items. Magic items across time and dimension guidelines for magic items at every tech level and in dozens of gurps settings, including secret magic settings and the dark postmanaclysm future. I have given up on many sites that use drm simply because it makes even personal, legal use of the file incredibly difficult. This pdf is an electronic copy of the second printed edition of gurps magic for the fourth edition of gurps. First, they give you minor roleplaying tags that help define your characters personality without needing. Magic items by xxjingleskdxx 862 1518 1 a little feature to troll your friends and makes fights more interesting. Expands the rules on enchanting items and contains sections on magical quirks of items. Spells take so much mana to cast, youre lucky if you ever cast a good one in a campaign. The magery advantage the magery advantage makes you a mage. Gurps magic contains nothing but magical source material. This portion of the site is dedicated to the generic universal roleplaying system, or gurps, published by steve jackson games. These supplements describe how to reduce gurps to the essential. Gurps was long funny in that it offered skills for each and every specific application of magic i. Sorcerous shops stocked with a multitude of might magics the first of books of magic items for fantasy settings.
Finally a section detailing power stones and a section detailing historical magic items are included to round out the book. Gurps magic items 1 here is a catalog of hundreds of original and imaginative enchanted items for use in any campaign, and the eldritch shops that sell these wonders. History, geography, politics, theology, and cosmology of the world are included. And the ability to turn people into toads if they annoy you. The gurps basic set for the fourth edition of gurps was published in 2004 by steve jackson games and contains the core rules for the fourth edition of gurps.
Velocity and the yards you must fall to reach that velocity. The material presented here is intended for use with the gurps system from steve jackson. There are also guidelines for the gm who wants to change how magic works in particular worlds in a multiworld campaign. Most of the spells are slightly reworked versions of 3rd edition spells from gurps classic magic, gurps grimoire, and a few other places.
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