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Wait, did New Horizon just rip off the entirety of Cthulhu Rising? If so, I can understand its fate.

..the least you could do was to get your quotes right.. Simlasa said nothing about kicking and clubs, that was me - playing on an upthread assessment of how to deal with select WW2-enthusiasts. The thing about enthusiasts is that they're enthusiastic, and they will more than happily do their thing if you let them. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but the inevitable result will be that the club you're in won't be quite the same club that you joined. Again this is not necessarily a bad thing - up until threads like this.

If you're a David Bowie-fan, you'd already know about the drugs. So there is that.. As for the thread itself, there are plenty of places on the internet where you can rail about wrongthink and horrible people who have opinions you disagree with. None of those places are going to do any favours for anyone's mental health, but that's the price you pay if you insist on being silly. This is a gaming forum for a completely different kind of silly. These two kinds of sillyness do not mix well. In the words of another poster upthread; you kick this shit when you see it, or you can wave goodbye to your little club.

Allegedly the greyscale in CF was erroneous. A foregivable mistake. If they still haven't fixed it, less so.

Heroic HP-option to make them harder to kill, along with locations according to standard HPs to make them susceptible to getting hurt. Whether you want to keep track of location-HPs or just use them as static "major wound"-thresholds is up to you.

Helpful tip for the survival of this forum: a hand offered will lead to dismembered limbs very quickly.

I have very few gripes about the BGB as it sits on the shelf, all pretty. It was brilliant in its day, and it's still a great toolkit. The few gripes I do have are non-functional shields, wonky firearms and the fact that it's a rather uninviting read. Fix up the few shortcomings of the combat chapter, make it pop a bit more, add in some of the later games' stuff and maybe an expanded "how-to" section, and Dustin might have to come tell us again that the book sold surprisingly well. But for the love of Cthulhu, don't change the baseline.

I don't think you'll need many fingers to count who actively dislike Chaosium and their games across various forums. Even people who don't care for company or products have to struggle to find much to grog about. The fans are generally properly - as opposed to obnoxiously - fanatic. All are aware of the alternative to the ChaosiMoon-merger, and no one wanted that. Chaosium just needs to learn that a) the internet never forgets and b) how to deal with gamers with a grudge - factual ones or not . Until they do, grudges will be an unpleasant element in any discusssions they cannot moderate to their liking. But what kind of site do we want for BRP Central? I vote for a place where we can discuss d100-games, using the occasional adult choice of wording without having to look over our shoulder in fear of an approaching banhammer. Issues will inevitably arise when you expect people to behave like adults on the internet. We will have to live with that.

The children's primary attribute in helping them grapple down a fully grown man would be to be so adorable as to be unpunchable. Even in 10 on 1 situation, all ten can't attack at one, and their attacks, even if demonic and devoid of normal children's mental safeguards (such as they are), will at best be feeble. I'd treat them as singular rabble in groups of 2 or 3, depending on size. Only two groups can attack at a time, and with a success they'll effectively grip, not grapple. If a second group scores a success, they pile up and can use the grappling effects. Even so, they might struggle to hang on. If the children wants to stop the adult from leaving, they should take a rock to his toes to even the odds.

Then I am sorry to say that RQ, along with most of the BRP-family, will disappoint. The entire schtick is that a single good hit will drop you, and even a glancing blow is potentially worrisome. From my admittedly spotty memory of RQ3, there were magics to boost both survivability and badassedness. The new RQ might go the same way. Loz&Pete's tweaks to the system makes it less deadly, but you'll still drop real quick.

The new RQ uses much the same damage values as the original RQ and BRP-core. It is very hairy, and I'm pretty certain that was a design goal. There is very little in the BRP-core that doesn't work. This "problem" is adressed and fixed by The Design Mechanism in Mythras (and MRQII/Legend/RQ6). Combat is still dangerous and not something to be entered into lightly, but combat is more likely to end with a victor instead of a corpse or soon-to-be-corpse, and the outcomes rely as much on decisions made in battle as the roll of the dice.

Yeesh! Sorry guys, but I don't see that logo doing you any favours.

jezreel's question is a good one. Loz and/or Pete: any plans for the original rules on tactical movement? And if not, how about making them into one them free downloads? I liked them. They may be surpassed by Classic Fantasy, but they hit a nice sweet spot for me.

Chronicles of Future Earth would fit right in with all the other potentially great games they've got begging for mercy on the 2d20-rack.

Huh. I wonder if they can count on one single finger how many sales they've lost because of this particular file, and how many hands they need to count the net gain.