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GURPS Monsters

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. It contains biographies and gaming statistics for forty-eight monsters for various campaign settings.

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A Mythological MenagerieAmenhotep the Mummy, an undead pharaohAsterius 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 GrandeMedusa, 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 wolfBigfoot, 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 alligatorSpring Heeled Jack, a red-eyed, leaping trickster Legends of LiteratureThe Big Bad Wolf, a cautionary tale about carnality • The Doppelgänger, an identity-stealing manipulator • Dracula, the world's most celebrated vampireFrankenstein's Monster, Mary Shelley's famous creation • Geryon, a demon from Dante's InfernoGrendel, arch-enemy of BeowulfHeadless 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==
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. He has also designed a few computer games, including gToons for Cartoon Network. (published by White Wolf Publishing) and Quizgle.com. ==Reception==
Reception
GURPS Monsters won a rating of A in a review published in Games Unplugged. 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." 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." ==See also==
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