GURPS Classic: IOU

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth McCoy, Walter Milliken

• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games Incorporated
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/IOU/

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
About GURPS
1. Welcome!
Obligatory Marketing Hype
Top 10 Reasons for Coming to IOU
Politically Correct Speech at IOU
Admissions
Financial Aid
College Acronyms
The “Smith and Wesson” Scholarship
Continuing Education
IOU Overview
The University
Where in the World Is IOU?
Campus Rules
History (Oral Tradition Version)
Student Handbook (Readers Digest Version)
Major Dorms
2. Building Character(s)
Point Levels
Character Types
Advantages
Disadvantages
Skills
New Advantages
New Disadvantages
New Skills
3.Colleges & Departments
School of Weird & Unnatural Sciences & Engineering
University Organization
Reorganizations
Other WUSE Departments
Department of Chemistry
Department of Genetic Engineering
Department of Computer Wizardry
Department of Military Biology
Department of Military Science & Cost Overruns
Government Grants
Department of Physics
Department of THE Computer Science
Forming a New Department
College of Obscure and Unhealthy Professions
School of Medicine
Other COUP Departments
Creating Courses
School of Law
College of Temporal Happenstance, Ultimate Lies, & Historical Undertakings
Faculty Blood Feuds
Department of Prehistory
Department of Ancient History
Department of Medieval Studies
Other CTHULHU Departments
Department of Modern History
Department of Future History
D.O.C.T.O.R
School of Conservative Arts
Other SCA Departments
School of Performing & Creative Arts
Other SPCA Departments
Department of Cinematography
College of Metaphysics
Other CoM Departments
Department of Alchemy
Department of Temporal Metaphysics
Department of Thaumaturgy
College of Communications
Other CoC Departments
Department of Journalism
Department of Mass Media
School of Social Anti-Sciences
Other SSAS Departments
English Department
College of Zen Surrealism
Other CZS Departments
4. University (Dis-)Organizations
The Administration
Axioms of Administration
Campus Mail
Board of Trustees
Campus (In-)Security
Health Services
Forms
Student Union, Local 666
The Library
The Ilumni Association
Career Planning Center
Student Disservices
Vehicle Pool
Student Investment Services
Student Organizations
Student Senate
Campus Crusade for C.T.H.U.L.H.U
Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
Democrats for Cthulhu
WIOU and KIOU
ROTC
The Daily Illuminator
The Student Overground
Student Liberation Organization
Society for Unimaginative Anachronism
Fraternities and Sororities
Sample Fraternities & Sororities
Sports
Basic Moopsball Rules
5. People
Personalities
The ArchDean
Dr. What7
Clark M. Walters
Dean of Metaphysics
The Unseen Dean
William Waldon
Lilly Ann Bie
Patricia Miller
THE Computer
George the Janitor
The Librarian
Robocrat
Madame Curry
Sample Students
Gillian Brent
Joe Calderwood
Loriel deForest
Guido
Sarah Holden
Johnathan Lirden III
Og
John Smith
Swomi Tift
Generic Staff
Campus Security
Sahudese Gardeners
6. Places
Buildings and Landmarks
The Pent
The Main Building
Mapping the Campus
The Founder
The Clock Tower
The College of Metaphysics Building
The Avant Gardens
The Avant Guardsman
Generic Buildings
The Library
Student Scab Building
Student Confederacy
The Museum
Campus Bookstore
The Botany Building
The Public TOILET
Madame Salome’s Performing Arts Center
Solar Power Plant
Croesus Ilumni Center
Dorms
Borgia Center
A Typical IOU Meal
Maiham Stadium & the Sports Complex
University Regulation of Pocket Dimensions
The Steam Tunnels
The Town
Pyramid Mall
More Off-Campus Sites of Interest
Campus Map
7. Things
Tech Level IOU
Matter, Anti-Matter & Doesn’t-Matter
Braindumping Machines
Campus Reality Stabilizers
Dimensional Gates
Miniaturizer
Po-Peel Artifact
Resurrectatron
SuperDuplicator
THE Computer
Vending Machines
Magic Items
Bare Skin Rug
The Crockpot of the Gods
Dimensional Gates
Life-Savers
Protection Racquet
Stupid Hat Tricks
Three-Piece Suits
VCR Remotes
. . . and THINGS!
Bimbiras
Bio-Ogre
Cats, the ArchDean’s
CIA Gulls
Dryads
Gerbils, Zombie
IRS Agents
Kajones
Meeps
Pigeons, Campus
Rabbits, Lab
Rats
Squirrels
Stranglevine Cactus
Turtles, Arctic Furred
8. The IOU Campaign
IOU in Other Genres
Campaign Style
Silly
IOU and Time Travel
Weird
Darkly Illuminated
Using IOU in a Time Travel Campaign
Campus Life
Housing
Parking Permits
Transportation
Roommates
Food
Money
Recreation
Jobs Table
9. Beyond Mundane
Technology
Weird Science and TL Modifiers
Do-It-Yourself Rubber Science
Control Ratings & Legality Classes
Gadgeteering at IOU
Catalogs
IOU in Space
Guaranteed Play-Balance Table
Character Death (or Otherwise)
Random Side-Effect Table
When PCs Own Too Much
Alien Tech
Gadgets for Non-Gadgeteers
Enigmatic Alien Device Button-Pushing Table
Loaning or Selling Gadgets
Gadgeteering: Inventing New Devices
Creating New Equipment
Bugs in Gadgets
Malfunctioning Gadgets
Optional Rule: “Gizmo” Gadgets
Gadgeteering During Adventures
Quick Gadgeteering
Psionics
Superpowers
Magic
Pun Magic
Weird Magic
10. IOU Adventures
One Card to Rule the Mall
The Ultimate Plot
The Egg and IOU
The Spammish Inquisition
From Bad to WUSE
Drafted into Security
Recruiting Drive
Sneak Preview
Old MacDonald had a Byte – AI IOU!
The Martian Morons
Terminal Exam
Off-Campus Adventures
Ya Cain’t Get Heah From Theah!
Lights! Camera! Illuminati!
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

✦ Subjects

GURPS