GURPS Blood Types
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| Designers | Lane Grate |
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| Publishers | Steve Jackson Games |
| Publication | 1995 |
| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | GURPS third edition |
| ISBN | 1-55634-113-X |
GURPS Blood Types is a vampire sourcebook for the third edition of GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Playing System), written by Lane Grate and published by Steve Jackson Games in 1995. It contains biographies and gaming statistics for 23 vampires, vampire-like beings, and guidelines on creating more for various campaign settings.
Contents
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The three broad types
[edit]GURPS Blood Types breaks vampires and vampire-like beings into three broad types:
- Mortal Vampires--Living beings who have become vampires through some pact or deal. Generally they are not undead.
- Undead--Once living beings who have come back from the dead to feed on the living
- Spirit and otherworldly beings--Otherworldly parasitic beings that masquerade as a member of a mortal race.
Vampire Types
[edit]- Adze, supernatural entity vampire from central Africa mainly Ghana and Togo.
- Alien, otherworldly vampire—may or may not be supernatural in nature.
- Astral, mortal vampire (sorcerer) found around the world. Some examples are Bebarlang of Southeast Asia and Philippines and the Chordewa of Bangal hill tribes.
- Baital, supernatural entity vampire from India.
- Ch'iang Shich, undead vampire from China.
- Civateteo, an undead vampire of Mesoamerica. Another variant of this from the same region is the Langsoir.
- Gaki, supernatural vampire-like being from Japan—may either be animated corpse or otherworldly spirit
- Ghul, Mortal vampire (flesh eater) from Arabian folktales
- Gothic, undead vampire made famous by Dracula and most of the movie variants inspired by it
- Half-Vampire, Mortal vampire that is usually a servant or slave to the Gothic type
- High-Tech, Mortal vampire created via super science
- Human, Mortal Vampire who feels the need to drink another's blood
- Incubus (Demon)/Succubus, supernatural vampire-like entity that drains life via sexual contact rather than blood
- Lamia, undead/supernatural entity from ancient Greece.
- Lilitu, supernatural entity vampire from ancient Mesopotamia. Given their name and nature they may have connection to Adam's first wife (Lilith).
- Loogaroo, Mortal vampire (soul pact) of Haiti
- Modern, Updated version of Gothic vampire type
- Nosferatu, In the context of GURPS Blood Types it is the vampire seen in the film Nosferatu
- Penanggalen, Female mortal vampire (soul pact) of Malay Peninsula. Male counterpart in Berma is the Kephn Can only feed at night
- Strix, Mortal vampire (witch) of ancient Rome
- Usrel, Undead child vampire of Poland. If not properly destroyed can rise again as another type.
- Vampir, Traditional undead European vampire of the Slavic nations. Usually attacks in astral form and is more likely to be a peasant than nobel
- Vyrolakos, Traditional undead European vampire of the Balkan nations. Usually attacks physically and in the legend would often take human mates and have families. Tympanios is a precursor variant that was less insane and did not depend on blood
Publication history
[edit]Blood Types is a GURPS game supplement, published as a 128-page softcover book by Steve Jackson Games and designed by Lane Grate.[1] Editing was by Jeff Koke and Scott Haring, with illustrations by Dan Smith and a cover by Tim Bradstreet.[1]
Reception
[edit]Rick Swan reviewed GURPS Blood Types for Dragon magazine #227 (March 1996), and rated it a 5 out of 6.[1] According to Swan, Blood Types "belongs on the shelf of every horror aficionado who's had his fill of recycled Bela Lugosis".[1]
Reviews
[edit]- Rollespilsmagasinet Fønix (Danish) (Issue 12 - Mar/Apr 1996)[2]
- Australian Realms #28[3]
Bibliography
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- Barber, Paul (1988) Vampires, Burial and Death (Yale University Press)
- Bunson, Matthew (1993) The Vampire Encyclopedia (Crown Publications)
- Frayling, Christopher (1991) Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (Faber and Faber, Ltd)
- Haining, Peter (1977) The Dracula Scrapbook (Bramhall House)
- McNally, Raymond T. and Florescu, Radu (1972) In Search of Dracula (N.Y. Graphic Society)
- Melton, J. Gordon (1994) The Vampire Book (Visible Ink Press)
- Summers, Montague (1928) The Vampire, His Kith and Kin (Routledge and Keegan Paul)
- Summers, Montague (1929) The Vampire in Europe (Routledge and Keegan Paul)
- Twitchell, James B, (1975) The Living Dead: The Vampire in Romantic Literature (Duke University Press)
- Wolf, Leonard (ed.) (1995) The Essential Dracula (Plume)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Swan, Rick (March 1996). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (#227). Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR: 113–114.
- ↑ "Anmeldelser | Article | RPGGeek".
- ↑ "Australian Realms Magazine - Complete Collection". June 1988.