Eric Flint's 1632 series has spent two decades sprawling across more than 30 novels and anthologies, building what fans call the largest alternate-history setting ever written. Now Steve Jackson Games is partnering with Baen Books to bring that universe to the tabletop, with GURPS Ring of Fire heading to crowdfunding through BackerKit.
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Find events near youThe premise is straightforward. A small West Virginia town is plucked out of the year 2000 and dropped into central Europe in 1631, mid-Thirty Years' War, then has to figure out how to survive (and reshape) the seventeenth century with a high school, a coal mine and a power plant. The new GURPS supplement covers the chaos that follows, profiling scores of characters and nine of the setting's most famous organisations, with weapons, equipment, timelines and maps to anchor your campaign.
The creative team is stacked. Series writers Griffin Barber, Charles E. Gannon, Walter H. Hunt and Robert E. Waters all contributed material, and the adaptation was edited by William H. Stoddard, an award-winning GURPS writer with decades of supplement work behind him. The cover comes from fantasy art legend Larry Elmore, whose work helped define the look of TSR-era Dungeons and Dragons. It is compatible with GURPS Fourth Edition, so existing GURPS groups can drop straight in.
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See how it worksGURPS occupies a particular niche these days, with most new RPG groups starting on D&D or Pathfinder, but Steve Jackson's universal system has always thrived on specific historical scenarios. Ring of Fire fits perfectly. The BackerKit pre-launch page is live now for notifications.
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