GURPS Swashbucklers


GURPS Swashbucklers is a sourcebook for GURPS.

Contents

GURPS Swashbucklers is a GURPS supplement of rules for musketeer and pirate campaigns. The book includes a historical overview of the era 1559-1815, rules for sailing ship design, travel, combat, and info on famous pirates and musketeers.

Publication history

GURPS Swashbucklers was written by Steffan O'Sullivan, with a cover by Jean Elizabeth Martin and illustrations by Donna Barr, and was published by Steve Jackson Games in 1988 as a 96-page book. GURPS Swashbucklers was published in 1990.
GURPS Swashbucklers was one of the smaller subgenre books published after the first broad genre GURPS books.

Reception

reviewed GURPS Swashbucklers for Dragon magazine #152. Bambra said: "Extensive background notes define the historical setting, but they fall short of really bringing the fictional worlds of pirates and Musketeers to life. As a basis for establishing swashbuckling campaigns it does a good job, but more detailed development of the individual settings is really needed to bring out the true potential of the genre."
Lawrence Schick notes that the book includes "such helpful sections as 'How to be French.'".

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Swashbucklers was also part of the "Denizens" series for GURPS Dungeons Fantasy.