RPG: ‘GURPS – Ring Of Fire’ Launches On BackerKit

GURPS: Ring of Fire has launched its crowdfunding campaign, hitting BackerKit like a half-ton pickup hitting the Thirty Years’ War.

That’s right, GURPS: Ring of Fire, the RPG based on Eric Flint’s 1632 novels of a small Virginia town transported back in time to the year 1632 (and forever altering history), is on BackerKit. With a running start that has already almost tripled its funding goal, the latest offering from Steve Jackson Games has a lot of that alt-history appeal.

GURPS: Ring of Fire – Now On BackerKit

I will say that a GURPS adaptation of the Ring of Fire series feels like the most GURPS possible splatbook. Because if you know GURPS, you know that its sourcebooks are often exhaustively researched and feature some surprisingly in-depth information. And if you know the Ring of Fire series, then you know how much work there is on that setting. Because it’s not just Eric Flint and the original novels.

There are magazines. Gazetteers. Short stories. Spinoffs. You name it, you can probably find it for the world of Ring of Fire. I think in part because of the specificity of the setting; it takes place during the Thirty Years’ War, which has enough meat to get your history buffs hooked, and then it mixes in alternate history, time travel, and futuristic technology, which is enough to get your sci-fi and specifically alt-history fans hooked. The rest is history. Er. Alt-history.

“Eric Flint’s collaborative Ring of Fire series – with its tales of castaways in time making the most of a one-way trip to the 1630s – has encompassed hundreds of books, anthologies, and magazines, making it the largets alternative-history setting yet created. Now it ventures into a new frontier: the gaming table.

GURPS: Ring of Fire is both an exciting setting to explore and an invaluable resource for fans of the book series.

Case in point, GURPS: Ring of Fire has contributions from Ring of Fire authors. If you want to find a timeline of the “history” of that particular era, you’ll find one spanning 1632-1637. You’ll find dramatis personae of the time, as well as “famous organizations” and of course, a writeup on Grantville itself.

Of course, you’ll need GURPS 4th Edition to play. But if you’re considering this Kickstarter, I can’t imagine you don’t already have it.

Today, Grantville! Yesterday, the world!

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and on occasion eats sandwiches. You can ask him about either at [email protected]

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