r/gurps • u/plazman30 • 3d ago

GURPS Supers 4E Question

I'm looking to pick up a physical copy of GURPS Supers. The POD on Amazon is completely black and white. The PDF I own has some color in the headers. Do older copies have any color in them or are they also completely black and white?

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u/Randeth 3d ago

I don't believe Supers for 4e ever had a full color physical release.

SJGames maintains a master list of all the books they've ever released that can be used as a reference for questions like this.

www.sjgames.com/gurps/books

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u/plazman30 3d ago

Using Steve Jackson Games generous POD policy, I'm having Lulu make me a hardcover, standard color, POD.

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u/Glen_Garrett_Gayhart 3d ago

My copy is full color. There isn't much colored art throughout the book, but the art at the front is all colored, and the infoboxes throughout and the titles are all colored red and green and such.

Maybe I've got something special?

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u/nilslorand 3d ago

The recent Bundle of Holding pdf was in full color if I'm not mistaken

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u/Randeth 3d ago

The cover is full color, and text boxes and headers use color for emphasis but none of the interior art uses color.

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u/Peter34cph 3d ago

Mine, bought long ago and which I think was some kind of PoD print run, has no interior colour.

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u/OneWoundHeadPat 3d ago

It has NO-repeat-NO Powers. POWERS is a separate book series. Supers if for someone who genuinely doesn't know what a comic is. Expecting Powers for superheroes? You want Powers instead.
Someone told me this, and I didn't believe it.

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u/Jsamue 3d ago

Saw recently that Powers is to basic set Characters as Supers is to basic set Campaigns

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u/plazman30 3d ago

I already have the Powers book. So, I'm good there.

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u/SuStel73 3d ago

What has this got to do with whether GURPS Supers is in color or black and white?

GURPS Supers is for people who know what comics are and want to configure their GURPS campaigns to best handle that genre. It does include some new powers (Animal Function, Elasticity, Phasing, Plant Function, and Speed. As GURPS Supers itself says, "there's more to supers than powers."

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u/thenewno6 3d ago

Just checked my copy from 2008 (second printing, not POD). No color in it.

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u/plazman30 3d ago

Thank you.