GURPS Who's Who 1

✍ Scribed by Phil Masters

• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Series: GURPS 3rd edition
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
About the Compiler
About GURPS
1. Birth, Luck, and Genius
Kings, Saints, Generals, and Poets
Historical Impact
Selection Criteria
Great Men as NPCs
104 Most Important People in History
Great Men as PCs
Playing Variations: Changing History
Assassination
Malleability Rating and the Great
Great Men or Irresistible Forces
Saving Lives and Extending Lifespans
Diversions and Distractions
Dropping Hints
2. The Ancient World and Dark Ages
Who Might Have Been?
Akhenaten
David ben-Jesse
Cyrus the Great
Xenophon
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Ch'in Shih Huang Ti
Julius Caesar
Boudica
Constantine the Great
Justinian I
Theodora
3. The Middle Ages
Who Might Have Been?
Sei Shonagon
Leif Eriksson
Harald Hardradi
Alexius I
Williams Marshal
Ibn Battuta
Geoffrey Chaucer
Joan of Arc
Vlad Tepes
4. The High Renaissance
Who Might Have Been?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Hernán Cortés
Paracelsus
Catherine di Medici
John Dee
Elizabeth I
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tyco Brahe
William Shakespeare
Cardinal Richelieu
Oliver Cromwell
Peter the Great
Bartholomew Roberts
5. From Enlightenment to Modernity
Who Might Have Been?
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Clive (Clive of India)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Aaron Burr, Jr.
Shaka Zulu
Lord Byron
Charles Darwin
Emperor Norton
Lola Montez
Harriet Tubman
Sir Richard Burton
Nikola Tesla
Rudyard Kipling
Alberto Santos Dumont
Mata Hari
Albert Einstein
"Two-Gun" Cohen
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Appendices
A. Other Significant Figures
B. Games Mechanics & the Great
Index

✦ Subjects

GURPS