Game WISH 74: Supplements

Game WISH 74 is Supplements You'd Like to See

Name three or more supplements (or core books, for that matter) for existing game systems that you'd like to see. Why? What inspires your interest in these supplement? What existing supplements or materials are you using instead?

First, I'd like to see another volume added to the GURPS Alternate Earths setting from GURPS Time Travel. The two existing supplements, snappily titled 'GURPS Alternate Earths' and 'GURPS Alternate Earths 2' each describe six worlds where history took a different turn, ranging from a brutal totalitarian world where the Nazis won World War Two, a world where Rome never fell, to one where the Vikings dominate the earth. While I'd like to see a third volume with six more worlds for crosstime adventurers to visit, I'd also like to see one detailing specific locales within some of the twelve worlds already published. What dark secrets lie in SS Burgundy, home of the occult Aryan mystics from Reich-5? What of the Benedictine monastic kingdoms in the Pyrenees from Midgard, surviving bastions of Christianity in a world dominated by Norse paganism?

Another GURPS books I'd love to see would be The Madness Dossier. This is one of the sample settings in Ken Hite's GURPS Horror, in which there was a reality quake in 535AD. Everything in what we believe to be history before that date didn't actually happen. The true history is that before 535, humanity was enslaved by the alien Anunnaku, who were not only overthrown, but completely edited out of history by means that we don't really understand. But the Anunnaku aren't totally vanquished, and occasionally irrupt back into our own reality. They possess the power to mess with people's perceptions, and if enough people start to believe in them there's the risk of a second reality quake, wiping out the last millennium and a half of our own history, overwriting it with theirs. Only the secret and ruthless men and women of Project Sandman stand in their way. All this is described in just seven pages; it deserves a full 128 page book of it's own.

Finally, I'd like to see the In Nomine line completed. In Nomine isn't quite dead, but its definitely on life support, and it's by no means certain that any more will be published for it. Earlier supplements detailed many of the superiors (Archangels and Demon Princes), but many more are still to be defined in detail. Since many of my IN PCs have served Jean, Archangel of Lightning, I'd especially like to see detailed writeups of him, and of his arch enemy Vapula, Demon Prince of Technology.