Appendix to the Basic Set, Third Edition.and get them instantly with a credit card or PayPal! Warehouse 23 offers worldbooks, supplements, and adventures, in physical and digital formats, for GURPS – as well as many of our other game lines.GURPS Character Builder – The official character creation utility for GURPS Third Edition.It covers the essentials of character creation, combat, success rolls, magic, adventuring, and game mastering. GURPS Lite – A 32-page distillation of the basic GURPS rules.
And you can download it for FREE! It's also available with updated stats for GURPS Fourth Edition.
While those prices are from going through Steve Jackson Game itself and Amazon can get you better deals on either set of books, from a "brand new" standpoint 4e is far cheaper in hard book form (and only slightly more expensive in PDF form) The only real advantage regarding Classic is that most of the supplements are in Classic rules and require conversion for use in 4e but these are being (slowly) replaced by 4e versions.Origins Nominee for Best Roleplaying Rules of 1986 So to get everything that is in 4e Basic Set ($84.93 hard copy $59.98 for PDF) in Classic edition you need Classic Revised, which is $29.95/$24.95 ($19.99 for PDF) and the two Compendiums for a grand total of $114.85 for the hard copies and $46.93 for the PDF versions. Not all the Classic edition rules were in the basic set from 1997 on - many advantages and information (including rule changes) that are in 4e Basic Set ($49.95 $29.99 for PDF + $34.95 $29.99 for PDF) are in the two Compendiums which are $26.95 (S16.99 for PDF) and $13.99 ($9.95). Appendix (replaced "Caravan from Ein Arris" which was reworked into Caravan to Ein Arris in 4e).Basic Set (Third Edition) Revised on its own can be viewed as effectively 3.25 Edition.
The informal name for this version (Basic Set plus Compendiums) was "GURPS 3.5 Edition" Its formal title, along with all pre 4th edition material still in print, is GURPS Classic which can be rendered as "Classic". If you have an old Third Edition, and the new Compendium, you’ll have it all." "The Compendium also include everything from this Appendix. Anything that’s in the Compendium will not be repeated in later books, freeing up a lot more space for brand-new stuff."
Plus, finally, once and for all, the Mass Combat System, and a lot of other things that GURPS players kept asking us to repeat.
These books include every advantage, disadvantage and skill that we’ve ever published (expect those that are so closely tied to specific licensed worldbooks that there would be no point in it).
"We have also released GURPS Compendium I and II. Most are for character creation – advantages, disadvantages and skills that would fit into almost any genre." Since GURPS first came out, a number of really (pardon the expression) generic rules have appeared. The Basic Set (Third Edition) Revised (1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004) started life out as the 9th printing of Basic Set Third Edition (1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994) but the people working on it "looked at the book and said, “Wait a minute! This is 1994!”