{"id":1372,"date":"2016-02-04T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2018-11-22T04:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:38:57","slug":"gurps-monsters-and-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/gurps-monsters-and-foes\/","title":{"rendered":"GURPS Monsters and Foes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <strong>GURPSDay<\/strong>, GURPS fanatics! I hope your week since the last post has been filled with games and good times.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; monsters and foes. Despite what I frequently hear both online and off, GURPS does have stats for a <em>bajillion<\/em> creatures to throw at your PCs (possibly a metric bajillion).<\/p>\n<p>Because GURPS tries to avoid a &#8220;one size fits all&#8221; outlook, they are usually grouped into smaller, more focused books instead of a giant tome that tries to be all things to all GMs&#8230; but they are definitely out there, both as official products and unofficial fan-created ones. Hopefully there&#8217;s at least one or two here you haven&#8217;t already seen!<\/p>\n<h3>Official<\/h3>\n<p>These are certainly not all the official GURPS 4th books with critters, but they seem to have the most. Remember that all of these pages will also have a link to the free preview PDF, which includes the full Table of Contents and Index.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/banestorm\/\">Banestorm<\/a><\/strong>: Racial templates for many &#8220;classic fantasy&#8221; creatures (Dwarf, Elf, Goblin, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/creaturesofthenight\/\">Creatures of the Night<\/a><\/strong>: Short PDFs, each with stat blocks for a handful or exotic creatures.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/dragons\/\">Dragons<\/a><\/strong>: Dragons!<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/dungeonfantasy\/\">Dungeon Fantasy<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0Many of the books in the DF series have stats or racial templates for fantasy creatures, and it even has its own sub-line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/dungeonfantasymonsters1\/\">Monster<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/dungeonfantasymonsters2\/\">books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/horror\/\"><strong>Horror<\/strong><\/a>: A fantastic book in its own right, Horror also has templates for many great monsters (Demons, Ghosts, Mummies, Vampires, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/landsoutoftime\/\"><strong>Lands Out of Time<\/strong><\/a>: Stat blocks for about 30 dinosaurs. Dinosaurs!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/magic\/\"><strong>Magic<\/strong><\/a>: A few templates of monsters tied to magic (Elementals, Liches, Skeletons, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/monsterhunters\/monsterhunters3\/\"><strong>Monster Hunters 3: The Enemy<\/strong><\/a>: Hey, Monsters Hunters need monsters to, ya know&#8230; hunt (Albino Alligator, Chupacabra, Cultists, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/zombies\/\"><strong>Zombies<\/strong><\/a>: All zombies, all the time &#8212; everything you need to know about &#8217;em.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gurps.wikia.com\/wiki\/List_of_published_creatures\">List of Published Creatures<\/a><\/strong>: A fan-maintained list of published GURPS 4th creatures and where they can be found. Also available <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gurps.wikia.com\/wiki\/List_of_creatures_by_book\">sorted by book<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/gurps\/books\/primedirective\/\"><strong>Prime Directive<\/strong><\/a>: A &#8220;Powered by GURPS&#8221; product that provides racial templates for many of the alien races of the Prime Directive universe (Vulcans, Klingons, Andorians, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Unofficial<\/h3>\n<p>These sites are unofficial collections of creatures with fan-made GURPS 4th stats.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/panoptesv.com\/RPGs\/animalia\/animalia.html\">Animalia<\/a><\/strong>: Stats for real-world animals in GURPS 4th Edition, by Pizard.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gurps.hardpoints.de\/downloads\/fantasy\/CreatureCatalogue.pdf\"><strong>Creature Catalog<\/strong><\/a>: Conversions of assorted D&amp;D monsters, by Pythagoras.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gurpswiki.wikidot.com\/monsters\">GURPS Repository: Monsters<\/a><\/strong>: A list of fan-made or converted monsters, collected by J. Hubert.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GURPSLand<\/strong>: Contains 4th Edition conversions of both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gurpsland.no-ip.org\/#Aliens\">GURPS Aliens<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gurpsland.no-ip.org\/#FantasyFolk\">GURPS Fantasy Folks<\/a><\/strong> from 3rd Edition, by Eric Smith.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesarta.com\/FFP\/bestiary.pdf\">It Came From the Forums<\/a><\/strong>: A collection of 160 monsters from the GURPS forums, collected by KMunoz.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesarta.com\/FFP\/NatEnc.pdf\"><strong>The Natural Encyclopedia<\/strong><\/a>: More than 600 4th Edition creatures, mostly converted from the 3rd Edition bestiaries. Also by KMunoz.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.sjgames.com\/showthread.php?t=63730\">Mailanka&#8217;s DF Homebrews<\/a><\/strong>: A system and collection of Dungeon Fantasy monsters, by Mailanka.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravensnpennies.com\/p\/triple-threat.html\"><strong>Triple Threat<\/strong><\/a>: More than 50 monsters with stat blocks not just for GURPS Basic Set, but also for Dungeon Fantasy and Monster Hunters. By Christopher Rice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Templates<\/h3>\n<p>Finally, no list of monsters and foes for GURPS 4th would be complete without a nod to Imion&#8217;s awesome (and up-to-date) list of all Character and Racial templates at the official GURPS forums. (You can also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=1520\" title=\"download a spreadsheet version\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-1520 ext-xlsm\">download a spreadsheet version<\/a><\/strong> here at GameGeekery).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.sjgames.com\/showthread.php?t=64979\">Character Templates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.sjgames.com\/showthread.php?t=103875\">Racial Templates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did I miss any of your favorite monster resources in the round-up? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/index.php?id=contact\">Let me know<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><b>Precis<\/b> &#8211;\u00a0Resources for monsters, animals, and enemies for GURPS 4th.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post and others like it, might you consider the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TheMookNet?ty=h\">Game Geekery Patreon<\/a><em>?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Happy GURPSDay, GURPS fanatics! I hope your week since the last post has been filled with games and good times. So&#8230; monsters and foes. 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