GURPS Blood Types

GURPS Blood Types
Designer(s) Grate Lane
Publisher(s) Steve Jackson Games
Publication date 1995
Genre(s) Horror
System(s) GURPS 3rd edition

GURPS Blood Types (ISBN 1-55634-113-X) is a 128-page soft-bound book compiled by Lane Grate and published in 1995 by Steve Jackson Games as a supplement for the third edition GURPS role-playing game system. It contains biographies and gaming statistics for 23 vampiress, vampire-like beings, and guidelines on creating more for various campaign settings.

Contents

The three broad types

GURPS Blood Types breaks vampire and vampire-like beings into three broad types:

Mortal Vampires--Living beings who have become vampires through some pact or deal. Generally they are not undead.

Undead--Once living beings who have come back from the dead to feed on the living

Spirit and other worldly beings--Otherworldly parasitic beings that masquerade as a member of a mortal race.

Vampire Types

Those with a ^ can be active in daylight

Publication history

Blood Types is a GURPS game supplement, published as a 128-page softcover book by Steve Jackson Games and designed by Lane Grate.[1] Editing was by Jeff Koke and Scott Haring, with illustrations by Dan Smith and a cover by Tim Bradstreet.[1]

Reception

Rick Swan reviewed GURPS Blood Types for Dragon magazine #227 (March 1996), and rated it a 5 out of 6.[1] According to Swan, Blood Types "belongs on the shelf of every horror aficionado who's had his fill of recycled Bela Lugosis".[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Swan, Rick (March 1996). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR (#227): 113–114.
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