Announced: GURPS Fantastic Cities

[woodwardiocom]

-In today's Pyramid, my evil masters at Steve Jackson Games just announced GURPS Fantastic Cities, which I (and my Origins-award-winning co-author William Stoddard) am currently working on. (By "working" I mean, "Hmm, this is due in 3.5 months, I better get it in gear.") This will be a toolkit book for GMs, to help them build cities ranging from Lankhmar to Minas Tirith to the Emerald City to Ankh-Morpork. (All of which we're not allowed to mention by name except in passing, of course . . . ) Expect it to come out sometime late in 2005.

-Hmm. Now I need an LJ icon for this book.

Comments

[edg.livejournal.com]

...cool!

(Can it be late 2005 yet? :)

Seriously - I love this sort of thing, and if Fantastic Cities is as good as Hellboy was, it'll be awesome. I'm definitely looking forward to this one. :)

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a definitely interesting and useful concept. I fear I hear the sound of my wallet being opened again when it comes out...

[aota.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to this one. From some of the conversations on GBT it sounds like its going to be a good book.

[exponentialdk.livejournal.com]

Woot! Looking forward to it!

All the kids are into it these days...

[bluegargantua]

You may want to look into Perdito Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council by China Melvile(sp?). The stories are pretty much all about the odd cities they're set in. There's some sort of plot, but China just heaps on the weirdness so's you don't notice it too much. :)

Tom

Re: All the kids are into it these days...

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Yah, I've read PSS, it's definitely going to get alluded to.

Re: All the kids are into it these days...

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I'd like to recommend looking at Denver, there's a lot of weird stuff that's happened there that most people know nothing about. The heads of famous criminals in pickle jars in the basement, 5 star hotels with tunnels leading to brothels, etc. An excellent resource for that is the works of local historial Phil Goodstein (http://www.biblio.com/browse_books/catalog/93595/10110.html) and his books. I'd be willing to dig out my copy of the Seamy Side of Denver and loan it you.

Re: All the kids are into it these days...

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Given that I live in Massachusetts, I'd do Boston before I got around to Denver, and we don't have room for Boston. But, thank you for the suggestions.