Steve Jackson's Man to Man explained

Steve Jackson's Man to Man
Publisher:Steve Jackson Games
Date:1985 (1e)
System:GURPS

Steve Jackson's Man to Man is a sourcebook for GURPS.

Contents

Man to Man is a subset of just the GURPS combat system for fantasy settings, including both basic rules and advanced rules, and comes with an introductory adventure scenario. Similarly to Steve Jackson's role-paying game The Fantasy Trip, Man to Man involves tactical combat on a hex grid, with a point-based system for character generation, and only uses six sided dice.

Publication history

Man to Man: Fantasy Combat from GURPS was written by Steve Jackson, and published as an 80-page book with cardstock miniatures by Steve Jackson Games in 1985.[1]

As the GURPS system was still being developed at the time, Steve Jackson Games released only the combat system to meet the deadline for the 1985 Origins Game Fair, as Man to Man: Fantasy Combat from GURPS.[2] Man to Man also had a supplement called Orcslayer (1985).[2] The original GURPS Basic Set (1986) then used the combat rules from Man to Man.[2]

Reviews

Notes and References

  1. Book: Schick, Lawrence. Lawrence Schick

    . Lawrence Schick. Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books . 1991. 0-87975-653-5 . 394.

  2. Book: Shannon Appelcline. Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. 2011. 978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. Web site: Abyss #37 - RPGnet RPG Game Index . 2022-08-02 . index.rpg.net.
  4. Web site: Different Worlds #43 - RPGnet RPG Game Index . 2022-08-02 . index.rpg.net.
  5. Web site: Asimov's v10n03 (1986 03) .
  6. Web site: Breakout! Quarterly No.21 . March 1986 .