Global InformationGURPS Reign of Steel information
 GURPS Reign of Steel cover | |
| Designers | David Pulver |
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| Publishers | Steve Jackson Games |
| Publication | 1997, second printing 2003 |
| Genres | Cybernetic revolt, post-apocalyptic science fiction |
| Systems | GURPS |
Reign of Steel is a setting sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game system describing a future world conquered by a conspiracy of artificial intelligences. It is written by David Pulver, who also wrote the Robots, Ultra-Tech and Vehicles sourcebooks - all of which are strongly recommended to get full use of this setting, though they are not required.
The Reign of Steel timeline has been officially published as one of the alternate histories accessible to the Infinity Unlimited organization in the GURPS Time Travel setting, although the date has been turned back. In this book the Local Now is set about fifty years in our future, putting it in the same temporal territory as Cyberworld, Cthulhupunk, and Autoduel.
The Reign of Steel setting starts in the year 2047 AD, 16 years after the robot revolt has concluded with the machines' victory.