GURPS Old West
GURPS Old West is a supplement published by Steve Jackson Games in 1991 for GURPS.
Content
GURPS Old West provides details of how to introduce a Western setting to GURPS. Details include various forms of transportation, and activities such as panning for gold, robbing trains or banks, and cattle drives. Some exploration of Southwest Amerindian culture is included, with suggestions on how native religion could be adapted for spellcasting. New rules around gunplay and spellcasting are also included.Publication history
GURPS Old West is a 128-page softcover book written by Ann Dupuis, Liz Tornabene, Robert E. Smith, and Lynda Manning Schwartz, with additional material by Mike Hurst, Steve Jackson, and Loyd Blankenship. Interior art is by Topper Helmers and Carl Anderson, and cover art is by David Patrick Menahan. It was published by Steve Jackson Games in 1991.In the 2014 book Designers & Dragons: The '80s, game historian Shannon Appelcline noted that Steve Jackson Games decided in the early 1990s to cease publishing adventures, and therefore "SJG was now putting out standalone GURPS books rather than the more complex tiered book lines. This included more historical subgenre books. Some, such as GURPS Camelot and GURPS China, were clearly sub-subgenres, while others like GURPS Old West and GURPS Middle Ages I covered genres notably missing before this point."