GURPS Illuminati University

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GURPS Illuminati University
GURPS Illuminati University cover
Designer	Elizabeth McCoy, Walter Milliken
Publisher	Steve Jackson Games
Publication date	1995
Genre(s)	unknown
System	GURPS

GURPS Illuminati University (1995) (ISBN 1-55634-206-3), also called GURPS IOU, is a 128-page softbound campaign setting sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game. The authors are Elizabeth McCoy and Walter Milliken; the illustrations are by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio. The book details a fictional college where absurdity and awful puns are the order of the day; its students range from witches and werewolves to secret agents and space aliens. Adventures can involve joining fraternities, surviving dorm life, dealing with rampaging lab accidents, conquering other worlds on field trips, getting caught up in faculty bloodfeuds and even attempting to pass a class. GURPS Illuminati University won the 1992 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement.^[1]

The setting began life as an online campaign run on the Steve Jackson Games BBS Illuminati Online. It was codified into a book for the Third Edition of GURPS. There have been no announced plans to officially update the setting for 2004's Fourth Edition ruleset. Characters from every GURPS setting can be fitted into the campaign with little or no difficulty; the setting shares much in common with the equally bizarre game Teenagers from Outer Space. Agatha Heterodyne, from the Foglio's Girl Genius, is also featured in the book.