GURPS Monsters (ISBN 1-55634-518-6) is a 128-page soft-bound book compiled by J. Hunter Johnson and published in 2002 by Steve Jackson Games as a supplement for the GURPS role-playing game system. It contains biographies and gaming statistics for forty-eight monsters for various campaign settings.
Amenhotep the Mummy, an undead pharaoh
Asterius the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull
Curupira, a Tupi protector of the forest
The Golem, the Jewish legend of a clay man
The Great Leech of Tlanusi'yi, a 350-foot worm
Lilith, Adam's first wife
La Llorona, the Weeping Woman of the Rio Grande
Medusa, a woman with a petrifying gaze
Scylla, a six-headed dog-woman
Tiamat, the Sumerian dragon-goddess
Yama Uba, a Japanese witch
The Beast of Le Gévaudan, a giant wolf
Bigfoot, a shy simian biped
El Chupacabra, the Puerto Rican goat-sucker
The Great Sphinx, the guardian of Egypt
The Honey Island Swamp Monster, the Louisiana Wookie
Hughes De Camp-D'Avesnes, French 11th-century nobleman and werewolf
The Jersey Devil, a hoofed, winged near-man
The Mothman, the prophetic insectoid creature
Specimen Alpha-39, an intelligent alligator
Spring-Heeled Jack, a red-eyed, leaping trickster
The Big Bad Wolf, a cautionary tale about carnality
The Doppelgänger, an identity-stealing manipulator
Dracula, the world's most celebrated vampire
Frankenstein's Monster, Mary Shelley's famous creation
Geryon, a demon from Dante's Inferno
Grendel, arch-enemy of Beowulf
Headless Horseman, the pumpkin-headed Hessian mercenary
The Phantom of the Opera, a deformed but cultured man
The Queen of Air and Darkness, a cold-hearted faerie
Shub-Internet, a transdimensional hybrid of Cthulhu and computer
Barclay Thormon, the disembodied brain of a cruel businessman
Benny the Fox, a sadistic cartoon come to life
Elrond Carver, a radioactive gangster for GURPS Technomancer
Gill Man, an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon
Hachi-Otoko, a man-shaped swarm of bees, possibly inspired by the Candyman
Harvester, a gigantic, hungry mass of writhing tentacles
Ixis, a shapeshifting imposter for a fantasy campaign
Leatherjacket, a dismembered killer held together by his harness
Leviathan, a conglomeration of many human victims
Lord K'Han the Giant Ape, inspired by King Kong
The Maylum Spirit, a vicious ghost trapped in an insane asylum
Pusan Chen, an undead dragon
Special Agent Thomas Johnson, a Man in Black like Agent Smith
Stitches the Patchwork Clown, a murderous doll
Sylvia Sternenkind, a beautiful bioroid serial-killer for GURPS Transhuman Space
Tamok the Conqueror, a telepathic leader of an alien space fleet
The Woodbury Blob, inspired by the movie The Blob
GURPS Monsters is a 128-page soft-bound book compiled by J. Hunter Johnson and published in 2002 by Steve Jackson Games as a supplement for the GURPS role-playing game system.
Hunter Johnson is a freelance game designer, author, and translator. He has translated many game rules and websites from German for Mayfair Games. He authored or co-authored six books for Steve Jackson Games, including GURPS Monsters, GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell, and the second edition of GURPS Japan. Johnson served for five years as the first coordinator of GURPS errata for Steve Jackson Games. He has also designed a few computer games, including gToons for Cartoon Network. (published by White Wolf Publishing) and Quizgle.com.
GURPS Monsters won a rating of A in a review published in Games Unplugged. John G. Snyder of gamingreport.com rated the book at 4 1/2 stars, saying, "You will be pleasantly surprised and not a little disturbed." Freelance writer Craig Oxbrow says in a 2001 review of the book for rpg.net, "GURPS Monsters is a wealth of ideas and inspiration for monsters as characters," and that it "will see use beyond the GURPS system."
