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The Generic Universal Role Playing System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system published by Steve Jackson Games. The system is designed to run any genre using the same core mechanics. The core rules were first written by Steve Jackson and published in 1986, at a time when most such systems were story- or genre-specific. Since then, four…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GURPS | Designers | Steve Jackson | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | Genres | Universal | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | Publication | 1985 (Man to Man) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | Publication | 1986 (1st and 2nd editions) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | Publication | 1988 (3rd edition) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | Publication | 2004 (4th edition) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | Publishers | Steve Jackson Games | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | Systems | GURPS | 1.00 | infobox |
| GURPS | is a | reverse of the mechanics of most other RPGs | 0.90 | text |
| GURPS | is a | promising game in many ways | 0.90 | text |
| GURPS | is a | very cool idea | 0.90 | text |
| GURPS Discworld | instance of | This limited ruleset was also included with various books | 0.80 | text |
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