GURPS Monsters
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| GURPS Monsters | |
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 GURPS Monsters cover |
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| Designer(s) | Hunter Johnson |
| Publisher(s) | Steve Jackson Games |
| Publication date | March 1, 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Horror |
| System | GURPS |
GURPS Monsters (ISBN 1-55634-518-6) is a 128-page soft-bound book compiled by J. Hunter Johnson and published in 2002 by Steve Jackson Games as a supplement for the GURPS role-playing game system. It contains biographies and gaming statistics for forty-eight monsters for various campaign settings.
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[edit] A Mythological Menagerie
- Amenhotep the Mummy, an undead pharaoh
- Asterius the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull
- Curupira, a Tupi protector of the forest
- The Golem, the Jewish legend of a clay man
- The Great Leech of Tlanusi'yi, a 350-foot worm
- Lilith, Adam's first wife
- La Llorona, the Weeping Woman of the Rio Grande
- Medusa, a woman with a petrifying gaze
- Scylla, a six-headed dog-woman
- Tiamat, the Sumerian dragon-goddess
- Yama Uba, a Japanese witch
[edit] The Cryptozoo
- The Beast of Le Gévaudan, a giant wolf
- Bigfoot, a shy simian biped
- El Chupacabra, the Puerto Rican goat-sucker
- The Great Sphinx, the guardian of Egypt
- The Honey Island Swamp Monster, the Louisiana Wookie
- Hughes De Camp-D'Avesnes, French 11th-century nobleman and werewolf
- The Jersey Devil, a hoofed, winged near-man
- The Mothman, the prophetic insectoid creature
- Specimen Alpha-39, an intelligent alligator
- Spring-Heeled Jack, a red-eyed, leaping trickster
[edit] Legends of Literature
- The Big Bad Wolf, a cautionary tale about carnality
- The Doppelgänger, an identity-stealing manipulator
- Dracula, the world's most celebrated vampire
- Frankenstein's Monster, Mary Shelley's famous creation
- Geryon, a demon from Dante's Inferno
- Grendel, arch-enemy of Beowulf
- Headless Horseman, the pumpkin-headed Hessian mercenary
- The Phantom of the Opera, a deformed but cultured man
- The Queen of Air and Darkness, a cold-hearted faerie
- Shub-Internet, a transdimensional hybrid of Cthulhu and computer
[edit] Original Monsters
- Barclay Thormon, the disembodied brain of a cruel businessman
- Benny the Fox, a sadistic cartoon come to life
- Elrond Carver, a radioactive gangster for GURPS Technomancer
- Gill Man, an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon
- Hachi-Otoko, a man-shaped swarm of bees, possibly inspired by the Candyman
- Harvester, a gigantic, hungry mass of writhing tentacles
- Ixis, a shapeshifting imposter for a fantasy campaign
- Leatherjacket, a dismembered killer held together by his harness
- Leviathan, a conglomeration of many human victims
- Lord K'Han the Giant Ape, inspired by King Kong
- The Maylum Spirit, a vicious ghost trapped in an insane asylum
- Pusan Chen, an undead dragon
- Special Agent Thomas Johnson, a Man in Black like Agent Smith
- Stitches the Patchwork Clown, a murderous doll
- Sylvia Sternenkind, a beautiful bioroid serial-killer for GURPS Transhuman Space
- Tamok the Conqueror, a telepathic leader of an alien space fleet
- The Woodbury Blob, inspired by the movie The Blob
