What Do You Mean, "It's The End Of May"?
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What Do You Mean, "It's The End Of May"?
May blazed past quickly. That's probably because we were extremely busy behind the scenes. Please do not take the lack of a new GURPS title this time around as a sign that we made no progress on the line . . . We made great progress, but GURPS must share a finite number of hours of production time with other lines, and had to wait its turn this month.
Upcoming Plans
What exactly was this "progress" of which I speak? Here's the status of everything in our pipeline for GURPS. As always, where I do not guess at a date, there isn't one – although the order of this list roughly approximates the most likely publication sequence. Also as always, details can change in a flash.
- Matt Riggsby's GURPS Hot Spots: Istanbul is looking good for July.
- Bill Stoddard's GURPS Infinite Worlds: Gotterdammerung should see the (twi)light of day in October, and David Pulver's GURPS Guns is on target for November, if all goes well.
- Nathan M.M. Meluvor's GURPS Martial Arts: The Bolognese School and my GURPS Power-Ups 11: Roll Your Own Skills should be out in 2025 as well.
- Four other items by me – my remaining Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game adventure, GURPS Action 10, GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 24, and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 6 – are all in production but do not have projected release dates yet.
- The final draft of GURPS Banestorm: Whispers of Tohrent, by Thomas Pugh, arrived and awaits editing.
- GURPS Locations: Faculty Library is still with John Shimmin to produce the final draft, tentatively for July.
- GURPS Fantasy Folk: Fishmen, by Anders Starmark, moved into playtesting.
- The playtesting queue consists of by Matt Wehmeier's GURPS Infinite Worlds: Psionics followed by Alden Loveshade's GURPS Hot Spots: Victorian London – both sometime between June and August.
- Phil Masters is revising GURPS Magical Styles: Modern Magic before it, too, enters the playtesting queue.
- I finished writing a new GURPS Template Toolkit volume that's closer to 1 than to the others, and am now tidying up my manuscript as time permits.
The 5 Sekrit Projekts I hinted at last month continue to lurk in the wings. Look for leaks on those – and for that matter, on all of the above! – in my Friday updates to the GURPS thread in my DreamWidth.
Join Us! Join Us!
At this point, we are looking at 2026 or even 2027 for schedule slots for new projects, so there's plenty of time to monitor the Warehouse 23 Digital Wish List (updated May 5, 2025) and Warehouse 23 Wish List for GURPS (updated May 5, 2025) to see what we want, and to read the Freelancer FAQ, Submission Guidelines, GURPS formatting guide, and GURPS WYSIWYG template to learn how we want it done. In addition, please bear in mind that we are mainly interested in rules-light 12- or 21-page supplements at this time. We tend to be more flexible on all of these things with writers of long association with us, but everybody else should treat them as firm.