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GURPS (the Generic Universal RolePlaying System) turns 30 this year, and Dungeon Fantasy focuses its award-winning power on hack ‘n’ slash fantasy roleplaying, where stalwart heroes kick down doors, kill monsters, and take their stuff in order to grow powerful enough to tackle the next quest . . . which naturally features stronger doors, tougher monsters, and better stuff!

This standalone boxed set contains everything you need to play: cardboard figures, combat maps, dice, and five full-color rulebooks that feature original art.

Adventurers (128 pages). GURPS is famous for letting you play any character you can imagine. Dungeon Fantasy keeps this flexibility while trimming away unnecessary details, concentrating on just what matters to monster-slaying, treasure-hunting action: Pick from 11 classic professions and nine playable races, customize your alter-ego using quick-start templates and a powerful point-build system, and gear up with an equipment list that offers dozens of weapons and lets you assemble exactly the suit of armor that fits your image.
Exploits (112 pages). Learn how the heroes actually use their abilities and gear. That means combat, of course – and dozens of other activities, whether your thing is sneaking around, swinging from the scenery, exorcizing evil, or getting rich through cunning deals in town. This book also describes countless bad things that can befall adventurers (poison, traps, dismemberment, lava pits . . .), as well as good things, namely loot. And it’s full of practical advice to the Game Master who leads this three-ring circus: challenging the players, keeping the action moving, settling arguments, and much more.

Spells (80 pages). What would fantasy be without magic? Adventurers features four spellcasting professions (bard, cleric, druid, and wizard), and this volume describes over 400 spells to help you customize them. It also includes complete rules for how spells work – whether their power comes from the gods, Nature, or creepy tomes of forbidden wizardly knowledge.

Monsters (64 pages). Once the adventurers are ready, and armed with weapons and magic, it’s time to test their mettle! This catalog starts you out with more than 80 things that want to bite, claw, grab, sting, and curse the heroes – not just the predictable orcs and zombies, but also several Dungeon Fantasy originals. Each offers notes on tactics and variants, and the whole collection comes with advice and rules for adventurers dealing with monsters . . . and monsters dealing with adventurers.

Dungeon (24 pages). I Smell a Rat is a simple (but not simplistic!) quest designed to show new gamers the ropes. Like any classic hack ‘n’ slash adventure, it starts at the inn. From there, the heroes will find themselves facing traps, enemies, and unexpected twists – and finding treasure, although not necessarily gold and silver. Advice and “adventure hooks” let the Game Master challenge advanced players or spin the tale into a series of adventures.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847271320/dungeon-fantasy-roleplaying-game-powered-by-gurps/description

I think if you have a dungeoncrawl RPG or boardgame of choice, or are even an existing GURPS player, this "complete starter set" might not be for you, but, it looks like a good starting point for a fantasy-based GURPS campaign. If you're a GURPS player, you can still support this campaign by letting your retailer know about the retailer pledge level, which gets them three copies of the game plus a GM screen for $75. If you're a *smart* GURPS player, you'll pre-order a game through your retailer at a discount for some savings!

If you're not familiar with GURPS, the GURPS Lite freebie is available: http://www.warehouse23.com/products/SJG31-0004

Looks like SJ Games have reached an agreement with their European distributors which means shipping to the EU has dropped to $30. If, like me, you were put off by the fact that shipping costs to your country could have been higher than the cost of the actual product this might make a difference. Assuming that stretch goals 1&2 are met (which seems likely) this will make the total cost of a boxed set in the EU $80, which seems very reasonable.

I should also point out to anyone who hasn't done business with SJG before that they have a solid reputation for delivering what they promise. This set will be well-written, tightly edited and almost certainly delivered on time. Their previous kickstarter for the OGRE wargame ran over, due to massively beating it's expected pledges and hitting a lot of stretch goals. Although the resulting delay was well within the norm for kickstarter-funded projects they considered it a great failure on their part and have made huge efforts to make sure that doesn't happen again.

To those at work I STRONGLY recommend against clicking on anything called 'Dungeon Fantasy' unless you want to have a long talk with your boss.

Oops.

Probably too late.

$10 off shipping plus these SG's:

ooh tempted but RPG's pretty much dead around here, but still tempted.

Found some GURPS Conan solo pdfs:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/ConanMoonBlood/
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/C...eenBlackCoast/
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/ConanWyrmslayer/

Search on "gurps solo" and "gurps all in a night's work" and you might have some luck!