randallorndorff

Possible point of clarification/suggestion: The Craft rules do not match the Equipment Quality rules later in the book. Also, by making the Critical skill bonus equal to the Manipulation skill bonus, you reference an optional rule and potentially make the bonus lower than the flat 5% given for Special success. Maybe make the Critical skill bonus equal to 15% like the Equipment table? Thanks for the hard work, as always.

Jason, thank you for your responses, that clarifies the justification for the pistol stats, as well as your answers to my EDU and Skill questions. Also bumping the following as I have not seen a response yet. Thanks!

This is minor and maybe completely intentional, but the Medium (9mm) Pistol is much less powerful in BRP than in CoC (1d8 as opposed to 1d10, 2 attacks per round as opposed to 3). The only real time this is jarring to me is that the SMG does the old 9mm damage but the medium pistol does not. Could these changes be due to introducing the "Major Wound" rules by default?

Exactly the same. I like all of the extra options for Skill assignment.

I don't know if this has been noted yet or not: The Skill Results Table (and at least one of the following examples) seems to assume that skills percentages are rounded up when calculating Criticals and Specials, while the rules as written say to round fractions down.

I realize that you are very busy working on the final version, but will we get the missing weapons at some point (i.e. Plasma Pistol, Daggers)? At least with regards to Daggers (as they are commonly used in many varieties of campaigns), are they statistically the same as the ones in Stormbringer 5th edition? It would seem so, but the damage for a thrown dagger in the combat example is different than that of the "throwing dagger" (although those could be different weapons). Thanks!

Originally I put this on rpg.net, but it was suggested I post this here for efficiency: "Got the 0th edition rules, good stuff! Both of these questions are regarding the Point Based Character Creation option on page 19. 1) No "base" level is listed. I assume 10 + normal modifiers for age (and intangibles such as background)? 2) The option says that you can alter the EDU stat with points as desired, but it does not list a cost. I assume 3 points because skills are based on it and it is thus goes in the more expensive category of characteristics? In all honesty though, errors/unclear sections normally stick out like a sore thumb to me, and I have found very few for a "0th edition proof" copy of the rules. Kudos to you and Chaosium!"