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Are you a GURPS roleplayer? Are you still using pencils and paper for your character sheets? If so you need to seriously consider GURPS Character Sheet. GCS is free, works on pretty much every computer and is maintained and frequently updated, and is approved by Steve Jackson Games. The creators appear to work diligently to keep the program in sync with official GURPS changes. Did I mention it was 100% Free?

This program will change the way you roleplay! Generate new characters in a heartbeat, browse through a library of advantages and disadvantages that even has the source page listed! If you use GURPS you need to download this and check it out.  Featured at right is Arick Vordan, Master Wizard.  Other screenshots are available here.

It has a few faults, specifically it lacks a few features of GURPS Supers. Eventually I’m sure the developers will fix this as they all seem to be active roleplayers themselves. Steve Jackson Games had a previous program called GURPS Character Builder,  and have a current program called GURPS Character Assistant.  Character Assitant receives updates when new books are released, something Gurps Character Sheet does not have, however GCS is regularly updated.  The official Character Builder from Steve Jackson Games costs money, and to my knowledge only run on Windows.  GURPS Character Sheet runs on any platform and is regularly updated and it’s free… so decide for yourself!

UPDATE  3/27/09  GURPS Character Sheet Errors

Some people get an error saying that a file called MSVCR71.DLL is missing when they try running GURPS Character Sheet.  If you need it, you can download it here.  Just plop the file in your Windows directory (or in the folder where you installed GCS) and it should work just fine.  It’s a .7z file, so you’ll need 7Zip which you should get anyway, it’s the best way to open .zip and other compressed files.