GURPS Casey and Andy
GURPS Casey and Andy, written by David Morgan-Mar and Andy Weir, is a setting sourcebook for the fourth edition of the GURPS Role-playing game released in April 2005. It details a science fiction-fantasy setting based on Weir's webcomic of the same name. The standard science-fiction elements such as time travel and dimensional travel and cloning are present, along with connections to Infinite Worlds, Illuminati University, Space, Cyberpunk, Autoduel, Fantasy and Reign of Steel. There are also some more unusual fantastic races like the Zarb and the Hunkinites, and several others which can be added in as desired by the game master.
 GURPS Casey and Andy 4th edition cover | |
| Designer(s) | David Morgan-Mar, Andy Weir, Janie Murphy. |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | Steve Jackson Games |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy |
| System(s) | GURPS |
Setting
A basic premise of the setting is that the title characters are early-21st-Century mad scientists with a tendency to dabble in time and dimensional travel, instantaneous cloning, and increasingly complex apocalyptic doomsday devices. Apart from that, they live in suburbia with their girlfriends, Mary and Satan. Casey and Andy share their neighborhood with an old school buddy – now dictator of Japan – who wants to kill them, a seemingly normal next-door neighbor who also wants to kill them, and a local Nobel Prize-winning police officer who would also like to arrest them for breaking the laws of nature.
The setting's official timeline syncs up with our own so that the present of a "normal" campaign would be set in 2005 or 2006, during the events of the Casey and Andy webcomic, and during the late 1800s. The setting unfolds under the basis that science can indeed do anything – which means scientists are the most powerful, important people across the multiverse. And at the top of the heap are those undaunted by the constraints of inadequate theories, the challenges of defying conventional wisdom, and the dangers of nuclear radiation, the mad scientists.
Plot
One of the interesting things about the setting is that a different flavor of campaign can be had depending on which region of the alternate history world of Casey and Andy one uses. Japan, for instance, is a communist nation ruled by Lord Milligan, while France is a republic territory of Dr. X. Some countries are almost entirely human-dominated, and others are mixed, while there are still some area completely under the control of God, Satan, Quantum Crook, Grover Cleveland and the Zarb. The main story of GURPS Casey and Andy follows Satan as she (in the form of Frances Cleveland) attempts to seduce her older self's early-2000s boyfriend after he travels back in time to the 1800s to meet her when she had taken the form of Cleveland, both unaware of the other's relationship to one another in different times, bringing her to the present, while her 1800s-era husband, Grover Cleveland, follows in pursuit with a time machine of his own, reclaiming the position of President of the United States in the present.
Major Locations
- Fremont, California
- Casey & Andy’s Place: The house at 638 Wasatch Drive, resembling a typical single-story suburban dwelling. Contains a nuclear reactor core.
- Jenn’s Place: The house at 640 Wasatch Drive, enjoying relative normalcy except for the odd occasion when all the windows are shattered by an unexpected explosion next door.
- Fremont National Bank: Serving the needs of both its law-abiding and law-flouting customers for 150 years, with a state-of-the-art vault and video-surveillance system, though still keeping its cash in big, round bags with dollar signs printed on them.
- Fremont High School
- Fremont Police Station: Workplace of Quantum Cop
- Krazy Kostumes: Fremont’s local fancy-dress rental store.
- City Hall
- Fremont Family Dentistry
- Big Al’s Live Spider Emporium: Located on the edge of town, under the airport-approach flight paths
- Evil’s Domain
- Dr. X’s Lair: Concealed on a volcanic island with no readily apparent location.
- Lord Milligan’s Lair: Also located in an active volcano, Mount Fuji, the side of which has been turned into an enormous sculpture of Lord Milligan’s head.
- Hell: A large red-tinged cavern, its floor submerged by an endless ocean of red-hot lava, with a dull, smoky red glow suffusing the air.
- The Evil Cauldron of Fate: A sentient cauldron containing the distilled essence of the evilest sinners in history, tc grant its viewers clairvoyant or precognitive visions.
- The Soul Keeper: A baroque mechanical device of ancient origin. Its immense powers prevent the souls of the damned from escaping Hell.
- Heaven: Floats on a giant cloud, behind the Pearly Gates, which are attended by St. Peter.
Publication history
GURPS Casey and Andy was published in 2005, based on Weir's webcomic of the same name.[1]
References
- Haring, Scott (April 27, 2005). "April 27, 2005: GURPS Casey & Andy – Brand New For GURPS Fourth Edition!". SJGames.com. Daily Illuminator. Retrieved April 27, 2005.