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if I approached life with cool rationality I would get no where near the levels of drama I need to sustain myself on a daily basis.  ;)

I hope it's some technical glitch.  There's a ton of information in those forums, some I wrote and posted myself just so I could keep track of my thoughts?  Why are they gone?

There's definitely two thoughts to this.  I firmly fall into the party of 'it's all BRP, doesn't matter what it was called to begin with.'  Runequest and Ring World and River of Heaven and Stormbringer 1st and Elf Quest and all that other stuff are flavors of BRP.  RuneQuest is not Elf Quest is not Stormbringer but all of them are BRP.

I have come to understand that this is not universally accepted but it's how I process the whole thing.

A nice trade off is that the character buying the enchantment doesn't necessarily have a lot of POW.  Buying an enchantment gives them an advantage in general but leaves them more susceptible to magic (due to lowered POW) and with a less successful Luck roll.

I also tend to make PCs spend the mp that they would need to to activate an enchanted item.  So if you have a PC with 12 POW buy a 'Hell's Sharp Razor (or whatever) at 4mp the PC's POW goes down to 8.  They now have 8mp in the day to activate Hell's Sharp Whatever.

Great thread.  Love the implications.

I've run where an enchantment can be placed at a single point of POW by the caster so long as a willing individual pays the full enchantment cost as well.  I just equated MP to POW.  So somebody putting a 4mp spell on a sword, say, would lose 4POW while the enchanter only loses 1Pow.  If multiple spells are placed at the same time, I only charged the enchanter 1 point of POW while the recipient payed the full cost of MP in POW.  A 4mp spell  combined with a 3mp spell would cost the buyer 7Pow.  Leads to lots of magic weapons, which is not a bad thing in my book.

That being said, the suggestions in this thread are much more colorful.

I voted the same for much the same reasons.

GORE is great.  It's been a while since I've read it but I think it hews pretty close to the Elric! ruleset, which is easily my preferred poison.

Its funny, but there's been a few rumblings recently about independent BRP inspired gaming.  Then Paolo's Revolution popped up.  Makes me wonder if we might see more independent companies surface.

Charles, it is no secret that I am a huge fan of your work.  I hope you find a venue so that I can throw money at you.

That can be your Ravenloft expansion!

I'm calling my creature heavy upcoming Magic World game Monster World...

*pounds on the desk and screams*

This means WAR, tooley!  WAAAAAAAR!

If it is all human I have no problem adapting what I have.

Also, I have a bit designed.  Just need to do proper write up.

Totally no rush on this, because I really don't know when I am going to sit down and play with the map, but when you have a chance I'd love a copy of map 19.

I'm not Nakana so I obviously can't call the rules here.  Personally, I'm keeping an eye on what's done (the excellent work of Dave the DM) while doing what I want.  Right now I'm brewing up some civilized urban animistic theocratic orcs with an eye towards animal husbandry and truth magic who are currently fighting a semi-secret war against a dwarves lich-lord.

I forgot about this thread.  I rolled 19 so the south western continent is getting a lot of attention right now.

I use personality skill groups from Elric! in character generation rather than cultural skill groups.

I split damage bonus into a Brawn and Finesse bonus.

I add in a skill based magic system along with sorcery.

I do experience differently.

I modify demon summoning with stuff from the Corum book.

I use my lucky trinkets, heirlooms and named items rules.

I use minion rules from Gods of Law.

When I need a power or idea I sometimes look over at GURPS too.  That stuff falls neatly into line.

Chris, you are far too intelligent to take advice from me.  

Off the top of my head I would mention Lords of Tarsa and Rubble and Ruin too.  If monographs go by the wayside I hope these settings find a home.

If you've got significant time in it and you think it's something that's worth being out there, don't start by giving it away.  Refine it, select a small circle of people to review it, then look into your publishing avenues.  If at the end of all of that you still don't have an outlet for it, set it free here.

Slow trickle is fine with me.  When I introduce people to the system though, I get a better response when the system is actually in print.  This is why I now play 'Magic World' instead of 'Elric!'.

By the by, Ben just posted over at RPGNet.  WM looks like it will be fine.

Funnily enough, I was looking around at some of these ogl type things.  I think GORE actually comes closest to what I play at home.  I've been playing with some radical revisions to some magic systems.  Maybe I should just rewrite it from the ground up.  If the system I use is going to go away I will want some resources out there.

By the way, I do want to offer a very heartfelt congratulations to Pete, Loz and the good people at DM.  This change is pretty huge and you've got some exciting times ahead.  I do wish you all the best with it.  Please don't forget us MW folk in your future plans.

Edit: I meant MD.  DM and MD team up!