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GTIW = GURPS Traveller Interstellar Wars

Note: This list includes the entries from the above GURPS Space list. However, if someone chooses one I’ll just cut it down substantially, de-Action-ize it, and then Traveller-ize it. I’m going to also throw in a few favorites from GURPS Action 1: Heroes, as this is that kind of campaign–but the action templates will be too pricey (at 250 points each - this campaign starts at 150 points). However, since it mixes all genres together, I’m going to make a subset “pick list” here to give to my prospective players.

The GURPS Wiki on Fandom has what looks like a pretty-darn-complete list of all of the published GURPS 4e templates, if this helps you. However, I wanted to add a little bit more choice in my campaign, so I wanted to go through other relevant books to find other templates that would give people more ideas. Templates that were published as a set in the same book are almost guaranteed to work well together: a big plus. The simplest way to handle this is to ask your players to choose a basic template published in the GURPS Space book. Remember that by default I’m designing this campaign for humans races only and they are not supposed to have psionic powers. I did write up some character creation advice for this campaign in order to help people who want to do everything themselves. I’ll still let players make a character from scratch if they want to, but it is SO MUCH EASIER and faster to use a published template. That means the occupational template is a start (it’s a job anyway), then the characters situation will be modified by how they decided to respond to that character prompt (click that link for examples). “Your character is in a boring suburb on a backwater planet and has a good reason to want to become a space pirate.”

That means that the players still have to come up with a concept for their character that relates to my prompt. In contrast, with the Deeps of Lyrae campaign I’m going to use the templates published in GURPS Space and GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars. It’s slow going, but man do you learn a lot. For the Land of the True Game campaign I’ve decided to write my own character templates for the players to choose from. After all this work on the spaceships, it’s time to get rolling on the characters.