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At 21 MB, It's probably a scanned book. More de-gloranthaized stuff from their vaults, but I can't think which one it'd be? How did you find it, it doesn't show up under the BRP heading? Edit: Duh, it's on the list of PDFs...

That's "Drakar och Demoner", not Drakkar :-)

If you want to read the rules, 4th edition used to be free to download. I think I got a copy from e23.com, but other shops may have it as well. The rules give descriptions of what each technique and form combination can handle at various levels of skill, so you could probably use that as a guide for adapting the system to BRP.

Harn uses the silver penny (d) as the basic coin, a shilling is worth 12d (12 pence) and a pound (£) is worth 240d. I think the shilling is mostly used for notation and is not an actual coin though. A penny can be cut up into two (ha-penny) or four (farthing) pieces for pocket money. Gold coins are extremely rare and copper coins are not used.

Another option could be to steal from another game. Harn has a pretty detailed economy with prices and weights for lots of things. There are various files scattered across the net, but the following links might help. Hârnmaster Equipment List Bill Gant's HârnMaster House Rules Lythia.com I also a few files on my drive, PM me if you're interested.

While it hasn't been released yet, Rome: The Life and Death of the Republic will be available soon. From the samples we've seen it looks very tasty indeed. BRP Rome

Your best bet is probably to head over to rpol.net I'm in one MRQ and one BRP game over there. And advertised for a GM for another game yesterday. There is also a good chance we'll get a city-based BRP fantasy game next month. Feel free to contact me privately here or over on rpol (I have the same alias over there) if you need any help. rpg.net also has a section for PbP, but I'm not sure if there are any BRP games running now.

I don't think so. Nick Middleton's fanzine Uncounted Worlds has an article describing a lifepath system for BRP that does something similar. You can get it as a free pdf from Chaosium or basicroleplaying.net which also offers it printed from Lulu.

Your own, otherwise very excellent, Outpost 19 doesn't display correctly using Gnome's PDF viewer on Ubuntu Linux 8.10. Images don't span across columns.

That's Chaos for you...

No. The character defending gets no penalty parrying or dodging the first attack. For the second attack he has -30, for the third -60 and so on. Well, I think so anyway. Haven't read the rules in a while.

As long as it's raw. Only those crazy ZZs eat burned food. Yeah, I wouldn't want to come up with something that kept myself out.

Sounds easy enough to me, maybe a slight clarification in case someone doesn't know what a beetle is. A beetle, like all insects, has x number of legs. What is x? Please answer using lower case letters only. Is this a competition? :party: Whoever comes up wit the bestest and mostest questions gets a bowl of beetle soup? Which American company produces the games Call of Cthulhu and Basic Roleplaying? One word only. Answer: Chaosium

That looks like so much fun I'll have to try it soon. :thumb: Thanks for the link.

The dragonnewt is indeed wise and on the path to becoming the cosmic dragon.

I don't think this is mentioned specifically in the book anywhere, so I see no reason why a skill couldn't be reduced below base chance from armour penalties. I would probably not go below 1% though to allow for a lucky break.

As am I, I definitely enjoy reading it. Looking forward to a compiled A to Z PDF :-)

Just came across this in a post on rpg.net It installs under Linux with Wine, but I haven't tried it yet. NBOS Character Sheet Designer v1.0

I got my copy on Friday and had a few very enjoyable hours reading it. I really liked the Lifepath system and Ulfland sounds like an interesting place I'd love to read more about. A good first issue, and with slightly more varied content from more authors I think this could become just the sort of thing I like to read. One thing that I wouldn't mind seeing, is material to complement the BRP Monographs. I'm sure those of you who have written, or are in the process of writing one, have something on your hard drives you could tidy up and submit? Good job Nick!

God Jul och Gott Nytt år!

Maybe something like this could be started outside of Chaosium (with their permission obviously) as a pdf/pod magazine focused on a few shared bare bones settings. For some reason I find myself looking directly at Nick and our Norwegian host. Magazines have been mentioned... Yes, yes, I know you're busy. If not a magazine, someone really should try to convince Dustin et al that this would be a good idea. What Ottomancer and Newt are doing with your respective books sounds very interesting too, and I is assume similar to Outpost 19 in that respect.

I actually had the old Greyhawk pamphlet and various 1st ed AD&D modules in the back of my mind as I thought about this. There are companies that make both generic maps and old style dungeon crawl "modules" for download and/or POD, so there is probably a market for ready-to-run or almost ready-to-run products. Not that I have anything against the big detailed worlds, but as Chaosium is lacking in that respect this could be away for them to generate a few extra dollars (which means more stuff to buy for us). And making a new Glorantha isn't something you just sit down and do on a coffee break. And with a large selection of shorter cheaper books, I'd very likely spend more money at Chaosium than I do now. "Oh, a new nice looking little town book, 30 pages at $5. Yeah, sure worth a look."

Sometimes I get the feeling that published settings provide almost too much information. While a lot of detail can be great (and often makes for eminently readable books) it can also be a bit much to digest on occasion. It can also make a specific adventure or setting harder to adapt to your own campaign if it differs much from canon. I doubt many buy Gloranthan adventures to run them in a different setting. But a more loosely defined world would allow writers more freedom (and less need for brushing up on obscure knowledge) to produce fun and useful material. At the same time, GMs and players would find it easier to adapt the books to their own campaigns. It would make writing books easier, hopefully resulting in more books that might have a wide appeal.

The way Outpost 19 is written and the way the background and setting are presented sparked my curiosity. Would people buy books (adventures, locations) that are reasonably detailed about the specific topic (presenting the adventure and location), but leave the larger background (the rest of "Known Space") somewhat vague? Books would use the same same implied setting (as decided by Chaosium, and obviously dependent on genre), maybe with connections to earlier books, but the larger details would be left alone. In a way it would be similar to the Thieves World books and similar shared world anthologies. Books, or rather PDFs could be pretty much any size from a 4 page Inn to 120 page overview of a city. I think this is something I'd be quite interested in seeing. I might not buy every book, but I'd definitely pick up some. I probably didn't explain this too well, I blame wine and the lateish hour,

Just got a copy too, and it looks like great fun after reading the first 15 pages or so. There are a few things that got missed in proofing the manuscript, but nothing serious.