Core books

These are the books necessary to play, with the core rules used in all settings (GURPS Basic Set: Characters and Campaigns), plus basic accessories.

GURPS Basic Set: Characters^[1]

GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns^[2]

GURPS GM's Screen^[3]

Rules supplements

These books detail general rules not used in all possible campaign, such as rules for magic spells, for superpowers and for martial arts, and also state-based treatments of cities, military units and other organizations.

GURPS Boardroom and Curia (PDF) by Matt Rigsby

GURPS City Stats (PDF) by William H. Stoddard

GURPS Gun Fu (PDF) by S. A. Fisher, Sean Punch, and Hans-Christian Vortisch

GURPS Magic^[10]

Magic rules from the Basic set are expanded, detailing a large number of spells, and rules for alternative magic systems, magic item creation, alchemy etc.^[11]

GURPS Martial Arts^[12] by Peter Dell'Orto

Includes new perks, skills, techniques, styles, weapons, and extended combat and injury rules, as well as history on the martial arts, pregenerated NPCs, and ideas for martial-arts campaigns.

GURPS Mass Combat^[13][14] (PDF), by David Pulver

Gives rules for large-scale battles between military units, as well as allowing for the actions of player characters.

GURPS Powers^[15] by Sean Punch

Extends the basic character creation rules to better handle high powered characters, and allow highly detailed customization of powers in which each power consists of a range of abilities (ie, advantages) and a talent, with a "source" and a "focus", adding color and helping to tie together the abilities, and an additional "power modifier" that acts like an enhancement (rare) or limitation to the power as a whole.^[16]

GURPS Realm Management (PDF) by Christopher R. Rice

GURPS Social Engineering (PDF) by William H. Stoddard

GURPS Social Engineering: Back to School (PDF) by William H. Stoddard

GURPS Social Engineering: Pulling Rank (PDF) by Sean Punch

GURPS Social Engineering: Keeping in Contact (PDF) by Kelly Pedersen

GURPS Tactical Shooting by Hans-Christian Vortisch

GURPS Thaumatology^[17] by Phil Masters

Extends further the rules about magic, adding ceremonial, spirit, runic, freeform, material (alchemy, herbalism), and real-world-inspired magic.

GURPS Thaumatology: Chinese Elemental Powers (PDF) by William H. Stoddard

GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles (PDF) by Sean Punch

GURPS Magical Styles: Dungeon Magic (PDF) by Sean Punch

GURPS Magical Styles: Horror Magic (PDF) by Sean Punch

GURPS Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic (PDF) by Jason "PK" Levine

GURPS Thaumatology: Sorcery (PDF) by Jason "PK" Levine

GURPS Sorcery: Sound Spells (PDF)

GURPS Thaumatology: Urban Magics (PDF) by William H. Stoddard

Power-Ups

These supplements add a small set of new abilities for characters.

• GURPS Power-Ups 1: Imbuements (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 2: Perks (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 3: Talents (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 4: Enhancements (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 5: Impulse Buys (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 6: Quirks (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 7: Wildcards (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 8: Limitations (PDF)
• GURPS Power-Ups 9: Alternate Attributes (PDF)

Creatures

Technology and equipment

These handbooks describe the data, in terms of GURPS, of specific objects, gadgets and vehicles, and how to construct new ones.

• GURPS Bio-Tech, second edition, by David Pulver and David Morgan-Mar describes medical techniques and enhancements, and modified life forms.
• GURPS High-Tech, second edition, by Hans-Christian Vortisch, S.A. Fisher and Michael Hurst,^[18] describes technologies from the invention of gunpowder to the present day.
• GURPS Low-Tech, second edition, by William H. Stoddard, Matt Riggsby, Peter V. Dell'Orto and Dan Howard
• GURPS Ultra-Tech, second edition, by David Pulver describes technologies from the near future onwards.

Genre toolkits

These books describe how to design and play campaigns in a particular genre, such as fantasy, science fiction or detective fiction.

• William H. Stoddard (2006). GURPS Fantasy. ISBN 1-55634-519-4. - This toolkit covers creation of different types of fantasy settings include "High" and "Low", "Dark" and "Light", Swords and Sorcery, and Myth; it also covers typical fantasy races and non-standard settings, such as "Roma Arcana", based on a fantastical Rome that never completely fell. It was a nominee at the 2005 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game.^[19]
• Kenneth Hite (2011). GURPS Horror. ISBN 978-1-55634-803-7. Provides time-tested advice on running horror campaigns including current trends and tropes, showing how to run everything from old-fashioned Gothic and supernatural horror to the latest J-horror, survival horror, and torture horror.
• Lisa J. Steele (2006). GURPS Mysteries. ISBN 1-55634-761-8. - A PDF file and POD release about detective fiction based adventures and campaigns, crime scenes, and advanced rules for interrogating NPCs.^[20]
• Jon F. Zeigler and James L. Cambias (2006). GURPS Space. ISBN 1-55634-245-4. - Covers the planning and running of science fiction campaigns with special emphasis on the creation of star systems, worlds and alien races.^[18]
• William H. Stoddard (2007). GURPS Supers. ISBN 978-1-55634-771-9. - Builds on GURPS Powers to describe powers, rules, and guidelines to run a superhero campaign.^[18]
• GURPS Steampunk

These genre sourcebooks are all written by Phil Masters:

• GURPS Steampunk 1: Settings and Style (PDF)
• GURPS Steampunk 2: Steam and Shellfire (PDF)
• GURPS Steampunk 3: Soldiers and Scientists (PDF)
• GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World (PDF)
• GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances (PDF)

Hot Spots and Locations

Original fictional settings

These supplements details how to design and play campaigns set in particular fictional settings, either specific to GURPS (such as "Banestorm", a fantasy setting, or "Infinite Worlds", about exploration of parallel universes) or independent of it (such as ;the Star Trek universe).

Licensed fictional settings

• GURPS Casey and Andy (PDF) - A setting inspired by the Casey and Andy webcomic by Andy Weir.

• GURPS Prime Directive

One of the incarnations of the Prime Directive role-playing game, set in the Star Trek-derived Star Fleet Universe, together with its sourcebooks:

• • GURPS Prime Directive: Klingons
  • GURPS Prime Directive: Romulans
• GURPS Tales of the Solar Patrol (PDF) by "Lizard"

• GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars

Describes a period of the history of the science fiction Traveller setting, early in its history; includes rules for generating characters for the setting, starship design, interstellar trade, exploration, and ship-to-ship combat.

• Girl Genius Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game,^[34] based on the Girl Genius webcomic by Studio Foglio

• Vorkosigan Saga Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game

the sourcebook of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga.

Action

These supplements describe how to reduce GURPS to the essential abilities and rules you need to play in games inspired by action movies of the 1980s and beyond.

• GURPS Action 1: Heroes (PDF)
• GURPS Action 2: Exploits (PDF)
• GURPS Action 3: Furious Fists (PDF)
• GURPS Action 4: Specialists (PDF)
• GURPS Action 5: Dictionary of Danger (PDF)
• GURPS Action 6: Tricked-Out Rides (PDF)
• GURPS Action 7: Mercenaries (PDF)
• GURPS Action 8: Twists (PDF)
• GURPS Action 9: The City (PDF)

Monster Hunters

These handbooks describe how to reduce GURPS Fourth Edition to the essential abilities and rules needed to play in a typical modern "Monster Hunting" type of game. Example settings include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Charles Stross's The Laundry series.

• GURPS Monster Hunters 1: Champions (PDF)
• GURPS Monster Hunters 2: The Mission (PDF)
• GURPS Monster Hunters 3: The Enemy (PDF)
• GURPS Monster Hunters 4: Sidekicks (PDF)
• GURPS Monster Hunters 5: Applied Xenology (PDF)
• GURPS Monster Hunters 6: Holy Hunters (PDF)
• GURPS Monster Hunters Power Ups 1 (PDF)
• GURPS Monster Hunters Encounters 1 (PDF)
• GURPS Loadouts: Monster Hunters (PDF

Dungeon Fantasy

Steve Jackson Games produces two Dungeon Fantasy lines: GURPS Dungeon Fantasy uses the full GURPS system while the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game Powered by GURPS uses a modified subset of GURPS rules.^[35]

Other free books for 4th Edition

There is a total of 28 free GURPS products given out as no-cost PDFs,^[38] in addition to the three above and one below, this includes:

1. Infinite Worlds I.S.T.^[39]
2. Magic Spell Charts^[40] released 15 February 2006^[41]
3. Range Ruler^[42]
4. Skill Categories^[43] released 24 June 2005^[44]
5. Alphabet Arcane: Lost Serifs^[45]
6. Combat Cards^[46]
7. Lite Chinese^[47]
8. Lite Interlingua^[48]
9. Lite Italian^[49]
10. Lite Korean^[50]
11. Lite Lithuanian^[51]
12. Lite Portuguese^[52]
13. Martial Arts Techniques Cheat Sheet^[53]
14. Space: Planetary Record and Worksheet^[54]
15. Caravan to Ein Arris^[55]
16. Caravan to Ein Arris 4th^[56]
17. Transhuman Space: Teralogos News - 2100, Fourth Quarter^[57]
18. Transhuman Space: Teralogos News - 2101, First Quarter^[58]
19. Transhuman Space: Teralogos News - 2101, Second Quarter^[59]
20. Transhuman Space: Teralogos News - 2101, Third Quarter^[60]
21. Traveller: Flare Star^[61]
22. In Nomine: A Very Nybbas Christmas^[62]
23. Traveller Interstellar Wars Combat Counters^[63]
24. Temple of the Lost Gods PDQ Conversion^[64]
25. Advantages: A Compendium of Pregenerated Abilities (A PDF of Player Generated Advantages)

Core books

• GURPS Basic Set, Third Edition, winner of the 1988 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Rules.^[65]
• GURPS Basic Set, Third Edition (Revised)
• GURPS Compendium I
• GURPS Compendium II
• GURPS Lite (still offered for free as PDF on site,^[66] and in store^[67])
• GURPS Lite for Transhuman Space is also distributed freely, a copy of pages 207-238 is distributed as a free PDF.^[68]

Rules supplements

• GURPS All-Star Jam 2004
• GURPS Best of Pyramid 1 - First selection of articles from online gaming magazine Pyramid.
• GURPS Best of Pyramid 2
• GURPS Grimoire - A companion volume for GURPS Magic, describing hundreds of spells and two new Colleges, Gates and Techs.
• GURPS Magic (for GURPS 3e)
• GURPS Martial Arts (for GURPS 3e)
• GURPS Players' Book (1988)
• Pulver, David (1995). GURPS Psionics. ISBN 1-55634-196-2.
• Naylor, Janet (1994). GURPS Religion: Gods, Priestly Powers and Cosmic Truths. ISBN 978-1-55634-202-8.

Characters and antagonists

• GURPS Aliens, a collection of alien races.^[18]
• GURPS Fantasy Folk, a collection of fantasy races.^[18]
• GURPS Monsters, a collection of 48 monstrous characters including Tiamat, Bigfoot, Dracula, and original creations
• GURPS Rogues, a book of templates
• GURPS Supporting Cast
• GURPS Villains
• GURPS Warriors, a book of templates
• GURPS Who's Who 1, a collection of 52 historical characters including Aristotle, Aaron Burr, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, and Nikola Tesla
• GURPS Who's Who 2, a collection of 56 more historical characters
• GURPS Wizards, a book of templates

Creatures

• GURPS Blood Types, containing biographies and gaming statistics for 23 vampires and vampire-like beings, and guidelines on creating more for various campaign settings.
• Maykrantz, Scott Paul (1994). GURPS Creatures of the Night. ISBN 1-55634-273-X., describing original "modern horrors" (such as "Grue Beetles", "Netherpunks" and "Slitherwens").
• GURPS Dinosaurs, giving game data for dinosaurs.
• GURPS Dragons (3rd Edition with 4th Edition appendix), giving game information and data about dragons, also as player characters.
• Davis, Graeme (2003). GURPS Faerie. ISBN 1-55634-632-8., giving character templates and campaign settings for adventures involving the Little people.
• O'Sullivan, Steffan (1999). GURPS Bestiary (2nd ed.). ISBN 1-55634-184-9., describing several fantasy animals and plants.^[18]
• GURPS Shapeshifters, about creation rules, game environments and sample characters for werewolves, Doppelgängers and other shapeshifters.
• GURPS Space Bestiary, describing many fictional extraterrestrial creatures, including silicon-based, crystalline, energy and liquid beings.
• GURPS Spirits, published 2001, a guide to fictional spirits from several cultures (angels, demons, djinn, dryads, ghosts etc.), with a possible system of spirit-based magic. This expands upon the Spirit rules from Undead and the Ritual Magic rules from Voodoo.
• GURPS Undead, published 1998,^[69] a portion on the site^[70] describing several kinds of undead creatures (vampires, zombies etc.), with rules to create more and related topics.

Technology and equipment

• GURPS Bio-Tech (for the 3e)
• GURPS High-Tech (for the 3e)
• GURPS Low-Tech (for the 3e) describes technologies and inventions up through the Age of Sail.
• GURPS Magic Items 1
• GURPS Magic Items 2
• GURPS Magic Items 3
• GURPS Modern Firepower
• GURPS Robots
• GURPS Steam-Tech
• GURPS Ultra-Tech 1
• GURPS Ultra-Tech 2
• GURPS Vehicles
• GURPS Vehicles Expansion 1
• GURPS Vehicles Expansion 2
• GURPS Vehicles Lite
• GURPS Warehouse 23

Genre toolkits

• Paul Elliott and Chris McCubbin (2001). GURPS Atomic Horror. ISBN 1-55634-533-X. - A sourcebook for running campaigns inspired by B-grade science fiction and horror movies of the 1950s.^[71]
• Christopher J. Burke and Rob Garitta (1997). GURPS Autoduel. ISBN 1-55634-240-3. - Describes a post-apocalyptic setting also shared by the Car Wars boardgame and the Autoduel computer game in which characters are involved in autoduelling, combat in armed and armored motor vehicles. The sourcebook contains rules for designing vehicles, additional skills used by autoduellist characters, and new technology and social conditions of the world. The setting is extended in an additional set of sourcebooks for the Autoduel world (see below).^[18]
• Martha and David Ladyman. GURPS Autoduel: Car Warriors. ISBN 1-55634-081-8. - Pre-generated characters for GURPS Autoduel.^[18]
• Brian J. Underhill (2002) [1989]. GURPS Cliffhangers. ISBN 1-55634-589-5. - Sourcebook with background material and rules for adventure tale in the style of 1920s and 1930s pulp fiction.^[18]
• Lisa J. Steele (2002). GURPS Cops. ISBN 1-55634-458-9. - A sourcebook to create realistic police officer characters and adventures.
• GURPS Covert Ops
• GURPS Cyberpunk - "The book that was seized by the US Secret Service"
• GURPS Dark Places
• GURPS Espionage
• GURPS Horror.^[18]
• GURPS Illuminati, describing the secret societies/conspiracies genre, building on the Illuminati card game, in its turn inspired by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Winner of the 1992 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.^[72][73]
• GURPS Mars
• GURPS Mecha
• GURPS Space (for the 3e), winner of the 1988 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.^[65]
• GURPS Special Ops
• GURPS Steampunk, winner of the 2000 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.^[74]
• GURPS Supers
• GURPS SWAT
• GURPS Time Travel, winner of the 1991 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.^[75]

History and culture

• Nicholas Caldwell; William H Stoddard (2003). GURPS Age of Napoleon. ISBN 1-55634-451-1., background for adventuring set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with character write-ups for such celebrities of the era as Catherine the Great (of Russia) and George Washington as well as Napoleon's crowd.
• GURPS Arabian Nights
• GURPS Atlantis
• Aurelio Locsin III (1993). GURPS Aztecs. ISBN 1-55634-260-8., Mexico before Cortez.
• Robert M. Schroeck; Peggy Schroeck (1991). GURPS Camelot. ISBN 1-55634-199-7., fantasy role-playing in the Arthurian genre.^[76]
• Ken Walton; Jo Walton (1995). GURPS Celtic Myth., Once Celts raided, looted, conquered and settled over thousands of miles, leaving red-haired descendants from Ireland to Spain to Poland to Turkey, coming within a sword's width of extinguishing the Roman empire before it was born. They left behind rich and terrible mythos, of head-hunting and of poetry, and, of course, of the Fair Folk, a euphemism in the same vein as the Greeks used when they referred to the Furies as "the kindly ones."
• GURPS China
• GUPRS Egypt
• GURPS Greece
• Kirk Wilson Tate (1989). GURPS Ice Age. ISBN 1-55634-134-2., describing rules and setting for role-playing in the time of prehistoric man, including a shamanic magic system.
• GURPS Imperial Rome, describing the historical background and adventure ideas for roleplaying in ancient Rome, including a parallel universe where Roman Empire survived till today.^[73]
• GURPS Japan (second edition)
• GURPS Middle Ages I, a sourcebook for running a Middle Ages themed GURPS campaign.
• GURPS Old West
• GURPS Places of Mystery
• GURPS Robin Hood
• GURPS Russia
• Robert Traynor & Lisa Evans (1992). GURPS Scarlet Pimpernel. ISBN 1-55634-212-8., details for playing in the milieu of the Scarlet Pimpernel books set in 18th century Revolutionary France, by Baroness Orczy.
• Steffan O'Sullivan (1990). GURPS Swashbucklers: Roleplaying in the World of Pirates and Musketeers. ISBN 1-55634-394-9., detailed 17th century role-play in the swashbuckler genre, with rules for ship combat, fencing, guns, dueling, codes of honor and so forth.^[18]
• GURPS Timeline, a source book with a timeline for play and many short articles, some of which describe "Lost Continents" and some tales about "Lost Fortunes".
• GURPS Vikings

Original fictional Settings

Licensed fictional settings

Adventures

• GURPS Chaos in Kansas
• GURPS Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast
• GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River
• GURPS Conan: Moon of Blood
• GURPS Conan: The Wyrmslayer
• GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures, winner of the 1992 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Adventure.^[72]
• GURPS Deadlands Dime Novel 1: Aces and Eights
• GURPS Deadlands Dime Novel 2: Wanted: Undead or Alive
• GURPS Deathwish
• GURPS Fantasy Adventures
• GURPS Flight 13
• GURPS For Love of Mother-Not
• GURPS Martial Arts Adventures′
• GURPS Operation Endgame
• GURPS School of Hard Knocks (1989), originally written with support for the Champions 4th edition rules, but these rules were removed from the final printing. They were later published online.
• GURPS Space Adventures
• GURPS Space: Stardemon
• GURPS Supers Adventures
• GURPS Time Travel Adventures

Core books

• GURPS Basic Set, First Edition: Characters
• GURPS Basic Set, First Edition: Campaigns
• GURPS Basic Set, Second Edition: Characters
• GURPS Basic Set, Second Edition: Campaigns
• Man to Man: Fantasy Combat from GURPS, a boardgame of melee combat, using the combat rules from GURPS. Published in 1985, before GURPS.^[84]

Rules supplements

• GURPS Fantasy (first edition) introduced the magic system that would be included in the Third Edition Basic Set and expanded in GURPS Magic.

Creatures

• O'Sullivan, Steffan (1988). GURPS Bestiary. ISBN 1-55634-087-7. containing information and statistics for animals, including information to play animals as player character.^[18]

Technology and equipment

• GURPS High-Tech (first edition)

Genre toolkits

• GURPS Horror (first edition)
• GURPS Space (first edition)

History and culture

• GURPS Japan (first edition).^[18]

Original settings

• Autoduel (first edition), based on SJG's Car Wars game. Supplements included The AADA Road Atlas and Survival Guides:
  • AADA Road Atlas Volume 1: The East Coast
  • AADA Road Atlas Volume 2: The West Coast
  • AADA Road Atlas Volume 3: The South
  • AADA Road Atlas Volume 4: Australia
  • AADA Road Atlas Volume 5: The Midwest
  • AADA Road Atlas Volume 6: The Free Oil States
  • AADA Road Atlas Volume 7: The Mountain West
• GURPS Fantasy (first edition) introduces the Yrth setting, which would be the basis for subsequent editions of GURPS Fantasy and later GURPS Banestorm.

Licensed settings

• GURPS Horseclans, detailing the post-apocalyptic future described in the "Horseclans" science fiction series by Robert Adams.
• GURPS Humanx, detailing the Humanx Commonwealth, the setting of a series of science fiction novels by Alan Dean Foster.^[18]

Adventures

• GURPS Bili the Axe - Up Harzburk!, a campaign of solo adventures set in Robert Adams's "Horseclans" universe. The book was printed with a serious error making it virtually impossible to play, and so it was recalled.
• GURPS Fantasy Harkwood
• GURPS The Old Stone Fort
• GURPS Orcslayer
• GURPS Space: Unnight
• GURPS Zombietown U.S.A.