Gurps Uplift (Gurps)

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Summary: One of the best RPG books I've ever bought
Review: This is one of the best RPG books I've ever bought. GURPS Uplift is full of more information than a lot of core rule books. It is an excellent setting book and comes with the best optional rule set I have seen in two decades of gaming. The optional rule I'm referring to is a detailed alien creation system that takes up the entirety of chapter 4. Even if you don't play GURPS Uplift, the system is massively useful. Even if you don't play GURPS, the system is massively useful. It is easily translatable into any game system and it alone is worth more than the price of GURPS Uplift. It will quickly generate random (or non random) entirely believable aliens that will both seem different from humans but still have plausible reasons for interactions with them. For the rest of the chapters you do need the GURPS basic set. You should also probably have GURPS Compendium I and GURPS Space, though you can get away with not having them. I would also highly reccomend Contacting Aliens as an additonal resource to play, though you don't need it as a simplified version of that information is available in Uplift. The setting is completely true to the Uplift books and contains a lot of information to play in multiple time periods and places within David Brin's universe. The information is equally useful for alternative settings. If you play space based rpg's this book is worth every penny. Even if you play fantasy games, this can give you some good ideas for truly different species and cultures. Five stars does not do it justice, this is as good as it gets.