seventeenth issue - RPG Review

Table of Contents
Administrivia, Editorial, Letters many contributors p2­4
Hot Gossip: Industry News by Wu Mingshi p5
Interview with Sean Punch with Sean Punch p5­11
GURPS Dinosaurs Designer's Notes by Stephen Dedman p12­14
The Best Dinosaur by Sandy Petersen p15
GURPS3e Combat System Revised by Michael Cole p16­31
GURPS: From The Fantasy Trip Onwards by Lev Lafayette p32­37
Narrativism in GURPS? by Lev Lafayette p38­39
Lillian St. John: A Paranormal Investigator of the Roaring 20s by Erica Hoehn p40­41
RPG Cultural Appropriation by Johnathan Korman p42­45
RQ III: Speedcast and Multitarget by Peter Marcani p46­47
MRQ II and RuneQuest Sixth Edition Reviews by Lev Lafayette p48­55
Console Games Review by Matt Lindus p56­58
Movie Review: Dark Knight Rises by Andrew Moshos p59­63
Next Issue by many people p64
Administrivia
RPG Review is a quarterly online magazine which engages in a mythical discussion about being in print when the
editor has spare time, which should be some time later this century. All material remains copyright to the authors
except for the reprinting as noted in the first sentence. Various trademarks and images have been used in this magazine
of review and criticism. This includes GURPS by Steve Jackson Games, Call of Cthulhu by The Chaosium, RuneQuest
by the Design Mechanism, the Dark Knight Rises distributed by Warner Brothers, and others. Any use of images,
material etc, is not to be construed as a challenge to any intellectual property and is used under "fair use". Text is in
Nimbus Roman, headings in Nimbus Sans, front page in Utopia. Any errors or omissions are unintentional.
Editorial
It has been argued by brave souls that our hobby of roleplaying and simulation games may actually have educational
benefits. In other words, people can learn whilst having fun. Certainly, there is an appeal to thinkers within the hobby
and within that group there are those who appeal towards "realism", in the mechanics of game systems.
At the very top of this appeal is GURPS, a game which had prided itself on "realism" from the outset, and of course as
a result many of its advocates claim "you can do anything with GURPS!", which has at least a degree of truth. At the
very least, if you can create a normal model of activity in your mind it is almost always easy to translate to GURPS
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