GURPS Monsters

GURPS Monsters
	GURPS Monsters cover
Designer(s)	Hunter Johnson
Publisher(s)	Steve Jackson Games
Publication date	March 1, 2002
Genre(s)	Horror
System(s)	GURPS

GURPS Monsters (ISBN 1-55634-518-6) is a 128-page soft-bound book compiled by J. Hunter Johnson and published in 2002 by Steve Jackson Games as a supplement for the GURPS role-playing game system. It contains biographies and gaming statistics for forty-eight monsters for various campaign settings.

Amenhotep the Mummy, an undead pharaoh
Asterius the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull
Curupira, a Tupi protector of the forest
The Golem, the Jewish legend of a clay man
The Great Leech of Tlanusi'yi, a 350-foot worm
Lilith, Adam's first wife
La Llorona, the Weeping Woman of the Rio Grande
Medusa, a woman with a petrifying gaze
Scylla, a six-headed dog-woman
Tiamat, the Sumerian dragon-goddess
Yama Uba, a Japanese witch

The Cryptozoo

The Beast of Le Gévaudan, a giant wolf
Bigfoot, a shy simian biped
El Chupacabra, the Puerto Rican goat-sucker
The Great Sphinx, the guardian of Egypt
The Honey Island Swamp Monster, the Louisiana Wookiee
Hughes De Camp-D'Avesnes, French 11th-century nobleman and werewolf
The Jersey Devil, a hoofed, winged near-man
The Mothman, the prophetic insectoid creature
Specimen Alpha-39, an intelligent sewer alligator
Spring-Heeled Jack, a red-eyed, leaping trickster

Legends of Literature

The Big Bad Wolf, a cautionary tale about carnality
The Doppelgänger, an identity-stealing manipulator
Dracula, the world's most celebrated vampire
Frankenstein's Monster, Mary Shelley's famous creation
Geryon, a demon from Dante's Inferno
Grendel, arch-enemy of Beowulf
Headless Horseman, the pumpkin-headed Hessian mercenary
The Phantom of the Opera, a deformed but cultured man
The Queen of Air and Darkness, a cold-hearted faerie
Shub-Internet, a Lovecraftian transdimensional entity suffusing the internet

Original Monsters

Barclay Thormon, the disembodied brain of a cruel businessman
Benny the Fox, a sadistic cartoon come to life
Elrond Carver, a radioactive gangster for GURPS Technomancer
Gill Man, an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon
Hachi-Otoko, a man-shaped swarm of bees
Harvester, a gigantic, hungry mass of writhing tentacles
Ixis, a shapeshifting imposter for a fantasy campaign
Leatherjacket, a dismembered killer held together by his harness
Leviathan, a conglomeration of many human victims
Lord K'Han the Giant Ape, inspired by King Kong
The Maylum Spirit, a vicious ghost trapped in an insane asylum
Pusan Chen, an undead dragon
Special Agent Thomas Johnson, a Man in Black like Agent Smith
Stitches the Patchwork Clown, a murderous doll
Sylvia Sternenkind, a beautiful bioroid serial-killer for GURPS Transhuman Space
Tamok the Conqueror, a telepathic leader of an alien space fleet
The Woodbury Blob, inspired by The Blob

Publication history

GURPS Monsters is a 128-page soft-bound book compiled by J. Hunter Johnson and published in 2002 by Steve Jackson Games as a supplement for the GURPS role-playing game system.

Writer/compiler

Hunter Johnson is a freelance game designer, author, and translator. He has translated many game rules and websites from German for Mayfair Games. He authored or co-authored six books for Steve Jackson Games, including GURPS Monsters, GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell, and the second edition of GURPS Japan. Johnson served for five years as the first coordinator of GURPS errata for Steve Jackson Games.[1] He has also designed a few computer games, including gToons for Cartoon Network.[2] (published by White Wolf Publishing) and Quizgle.com.[3]

Reception

GURPS Monsters won a rating of A in a review published in Games Unplugged.[4] John G. Snyder of gamingreport.com rated the book at 4 1/2 stars, saying, "You will be pleasantly surprised and not a little disturbed."[5] Freelance writer Craig Oxbrow says in a 2001 review of the book for rpg.net, "GURPS Monsters is a wealth of ideas and inspiration for monsters as characters," and that it "will see use beyond the GURPS system."[6]

gollark: I can remember random facts fine, just not... life events, at all.

gollark: I did do geography for a while (pre-GCSEs), but it wasn't grouped in with the science stuff. I've also completely forgotten what we did, so very effective teaching right there.

gollark: Ah.

gollark: Wait, you do geology as one of your core science things? Weird.

gollark: So just anti-new-things indoctrination, how wonderful.

References

"Biographie : J. Hunter Johnson (French)". Guide du roliste. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
J. Hunter Johnson. "Hunter Johnson — Gaming". Hunter and Lori Johnson. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
Coots, Danielle (June 20, 2013). "Centerville resident develops word game on web". Centerville-Washington Times: 10A.
"Review: GURPS Monsters". Games Unplugged (17): 39. June 2002. Retrieved 13 August 2014. Print magazine contains review. The url given in this reference directs to an rpg.net site, which reports only the score of the review. The actual issue is reported to be available at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-05-06. Retrieved 2014-08-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) , but as of August 13, 2014, the link is not responding.
Snyder, John G. "GURPS Monsters Reviewed". Gamingreport.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
Oxbrow, Craig. "GURPS Monsters Capsule Review". rpg.net. Retrieved 13 August 2014.

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[roliste-1] "Biographie : J. Hunter Johnson (French)". Guide du roliste. Retrieved 2007-09-13.

[hunter-2] J. Hunter Johnson. "Hunter Johnson — Gaming". Hunter and Lori Johnson. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-15.

[Coots-3] Coots, Danielle (June 20, 2013). "Centerville resident develops word game on web". Centerville-Washington Times: 10A.

[4] "Review: GURPS Monsters". Games Unplugged (17): 39. June 2002. Retrieved 13 August 2014. Print magazine contains review. The url given in this reference directs to an rpg.net site, which reports only the score of the review. The actual issue is reported to be available at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-05-06. Retrieved 2014-08-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) , but as of August 13, 2014, the link is not responding.

[5] Snyder, John G. "GURPS Monsters Reviewed". Gamingreport.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2014.

[6] Oxbrow, Craig. "GURPS Monsters Capsule Review". rpg.net. Retrieved 13 August 2014.