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 pharaohAsterius the Minotaur, half-man, half-bullCurupira, a Tupi protector of the forestThe Golem, the Jewish legend of a clay manThe Great Leech of Tlanusi'yi, a 350-foot wormLilith, Adam's first wifeLa Llorona, the Weeping Woman of the Rio GrandeMedusa, a woman with a petrifying gazeScylla, a six-headed dog-womanTiamat, the Sumerian dragon-goddessYama Uba, a Japanese witchThe Beast of Le Gévaudan, a giant wolfBigfoot, a shy simian bipedEl Chupacabra, the Puerto Rican goat-suckerThe Great Sphinx, the guardian of EgyptThe Honey Island Swamp Monster, the Louisiana WookieHughes De Camp-D'Avesnes, French 11th-century nobleman and werewolfThe Jersey Devil, a hoofed, winged near-manThe Mothman, the prophetic insectoid creatureSpecimen Alpha-39, an intelligent alligatorSpring-Heeled Jack, a red-eyed, leaping tricksterThe Big Bad Wolf, a cautionary tale about carnalityThe Doppelgänger, an identity-stealing manipulatorDracula, the world's most celebrated vampireFrankenstein's Monster, Mary Shelley's famous creationGeryon, a demon from Dante's InfernoGrendel, arch-enemy of BeowulfHeadless Horseman, the pumpkin-headed Hessian mercenaryThe Phantom of the Opera, a deformed but cultured manThe Queen of Air and Darkness, a cold-hearted faerieShub-Internet, a transdimensional hybrid of Cthulhu and computerBarclay Thormon, the disembodied brain of a cruel businessmanBenny the Fox, a sadistic cartoon come to lifeElrond Carver, a radioactive gangster for GURPS TechnomancerGill Man, an homage to the Creature from the Black LagoonHachi-Otoko, a man-shaped swarm of bees, possibly inspired by the CandymanHarvester, a gigantic, hungry mass of writhing tentaclesIxis, a shapeshifting imposter for a fantasy campaignLeatherjacket, a dismembered killer held together by his harnessLeviathan, a conglomeration of many human victimsLord K'Han the Giant Ape, inspired by King KongThe Maylum Spirit, a vicious ghost trapped in an insane asylumPusan Chen, an undead dragonSpecial Agent Thomas Johnson, a Man in Black like Agent SmithStitches the Patchwork Clown, a murderous dollSylvia Sternenkind, a beautiful bioroid serial-killer for GURPS Transhuman SpaceTamok the Conqueror, a telepathic leader of an alien space fleetThe Woodbury Blob, inspired by the movie The BlobGURPS 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."
