I.S.T. - International Super Teams: A Heroic World for Super-Powered Roleplaying
Welcome to the super-powered world of the U.N. International Super Teams! Charged with enforcing the 1982 edicts banning strategic nuclear weapons and military super-squads¸ the ISTs are the U.N.'s premier peace-keeping forces - well-funded and well-equiped elite troops composed of the best and brightest metahumans. "GURPS: International Super Teams" tells you all you need to know to play members of the U.N.'s super-police force.
"GURPS: International Super Teams" is a worldbook for the "GURPS: Supers" sourcebook. It contains all the background necessary to survive in the world of the International Super Teams. Match wits with Qadaffi of non-U.N. Libya; investigate the disturbing secrets of South Africa; cope with international politics in the General Assembly; or defend civilian targets from the elusive neo-Nazi Kristallnacht and other members of the deadly PLO superteam.
"GURPS: International Super Teams" includes:
- Complete historical timeline¸ from 60¸000¸000 B.C. to today.
- Supers in the 1940s and the 1960s.
- Concise geopolitical and social summaries of the world of the ISTs.
- Fringe groups¸ radical movements and cults.
- Over two dozen fully-developed super characters¸ heroes and villains from around the world - and outer space.
- Three sample IST embassies¸ fully detailed.
- Guidelines for establishing your own International Super Team.