A Very Moving Month
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A Very Moving Month
I owe two apologies for April: First, this roundup is late. That is because I was moving, the preparations for which started a month ago, the frenzy of which utterly consumed the last two weeks of April, and the consequences of which will continue into mid-May. Sorry for the delay.
Second, forces beyond SJ Games' control dislodged the supplement we had lined up for April and threw the rest of 2026 into disarray. While that was in no way within my power to control, it still happened on my watch. Sorry about that wrinkle, too.
Recent Releases
The long explanation for why we had nothing new for April was that the GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition Revised continued to drag at the printer's end, taking with it two volumes of system crunch originally intended to benefit from and support it. Again, SJ Games had no control over that. We are now rearranging the rest of 2026 to get things out the door despite the setback.
GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition Revised Progress
The ETA on the GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition Revised – originally slated for March – slipped to May in early March and is now looking like July. Nobody is happy about that, but at this point, the most efficient course of action is to let the printer finish printing, binding, and shipping the product. I have submitted a revision to the FAQ to show this.
Upcoming Plans
April made two months in a row when we missed our goal to have something new for GURPS. As noted above, the schedule for 2026 now looks less certain than it once did. I hope that by the end of May, we will have that under control and I will be able to return to providing reliable dates.
- In Printer Hell and setting the pace for everything else below is the GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition Revised
- In the production queue for 2026 are GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 6: Tiny Terrors (Punch), GURPS Magical Styles: Modern Magic (Masters), GURPS Martial Arts: The Bolognese School (Meluvor), GURPS Power-Ups 11: Roll Your Own Skills (Punch), GURPS Ring of Fire (Stoddard et al.), and GURPS Template Toolkit 5: Quick and Pointless (Punch). Since we have to redo the schedule, I have sorted these alphabetically, not in publication order.
- Also in production, as reserve items for 2026, are GURPS Fantasy Folk: Fishfolk (Starmark) and a Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game adventure (Punch).
- Beyond all that, several other manuscripts are edited and in production for 2027: GURPS Banestorm: Whispers of Tohrent (Pugh), GURPS Locations: Institute of Metaphysics Library (Shimmin), GURPS Hot Spots: Victorian London (Loveshade), GURPS Infinite Worlds: Psionics (Wehmeier), GURPS Template Toolkit 6: Styles (Punch), and How to Be a GURPS GM: Handling Tech (Stefko). The sequence in which these will appear is "to be determined" as well.
- Currently with me for review (I am about 85% done) is David Pulver's first draft of GURPS Armor Design.
In addition, there are 4 Sekrit Projekts. I will leak any developments on those – and on the 2026 and 2027 schedules – in the GURPS thread in my DreamWidth, which gets updates each Friday.
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