GURPS Bunnies & Burrows

GURPS Bunnies & Burrows adapted the GURPS rules to support playing with rabbits.[1]^: 319 GURPS Bunnies & Burrows uses the GURPS system common in all GURPS products.[2] Steffan O'Sullivan, who wrote GURPS Bunnies & Burrows notes, "The game has also been published as a GURPS supplement, but I usually play it in Fudge these days - the simpler rules seem to work better for this genre in particular. I've also run it in Sherpa, which is oddly evocative of the original rules."[3]

During a rise of "retro" games in the late 1980s and early 1990s,[4] Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.[5] In 1988, Steffan O'Sullivan wrote an unofficial conversion of Bunnies & Burrows to GURPS while the negotiations continued.[5] He indicated that he hoped to one day work on the official supplement.[5]

GURPS Bunnies & Burrows was published in 1992.[1]^: 76[6] It was written by O'Sullivan with interior art by Jim Groat.[7] GURPS Bunnies & Burrows was the first game world that Steve Jackson Games adapted to the universal GURPS system in the early 1990s.[1]^: 109 The book is now out of print, but (as of July 2015) is still available via digital download.[2] Loyd Blankenship,[8] the managing editor of Steve Jackson Games' former Illuminati BBS acknowledged that O'Sullivan received his wish, and kept the original conversion article online.[5] Steve Jackson Games continues to support the game, releasing an updated errata sheet in 2007.[9]

Lev Lafayette says that it is "really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever,[7] while the game has also been described as a "work of genius".[10]

Reviewed in White Wolf #35.