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I'd be down. I'd need to know at least a few days in advance when you're wanting to play, though.

I don't notice anything so far. Only gripe is that multiple times during our first session, players had problems with skills disappearing from their sheets after closing and reopening.

Wow. This is an impressive ruleset. Nice work Foen.

Yeah, even disagreements on this forum are usually civil. I frequent a few other boards regularly, and this is one of two (out of around ten) that I don't get a weekly overdose of hostility. Thanks to us.

While that would work in theory, we have issues with load times on maps and images already, with a virtual box running it, I can predict some serious lag. My group is eight people, five of whom share GM duties.

That's what I wanted to know. I'm still going to purchase it, but this has placed it low on my priority list. It's my opinion that the way my group has used these sets in the past (and continues to do so) falls under Fair Use, since we are not redistributing the software outside our circle of players. I understand the motive behind the switch, a company needs to make money, and there's only so many people in the market for this product in the first place. However, Smiteworks can take the proverbial Long Walk as far as I'm concerned if they expect a group to pay 200USD collectively to use a ruleset. We play shared games, and GM duties always rotate, so this model is pretty much ensuring that after BRP, I won't be paying for any more software from them (Dear God I sound like an angry pensioner). However, bending the rules a little isn't impossible...it's not like it's too difficult to just uninstall copies when GMs switch, anyway, just a nuisance. I'm not meaning to come off as a dick, either. I REALLY appreciate what you have done here, Foen. One of the first things out of my mouth when I bought FG in early 2007 was (thinking that the BRP main book was coming out in May '07, coincidentally almost exactly a year before it finally did) "a BRP set for this game would be awesome".

I haven't purchased it yet, I was really busy with school, and hadn't had the time. Reading this post made me wonder if (now that there's a new guy installed at Smiteworks) the ruleset looks at the serial for each individual running it. Meaning, with all other rulesets, my group all install the version one of us buys on our machines to cut down on load times, and we also switch GM duties every so often, so it's necessary for all of us to have each ruleset fully installed on their machine. Numerous hints in this thread have made me believe that this is no longer possible. The main FG checks each instance connected for serial, we had a problem a while back with two machines using the same serial (my group bought the program in a batch, so we all have the same list of product keys, and one guy reformatted and used my serial on accident) and I get the impression that now it is checking the ruleset product key as well, and only allowing one instance to run at a time. I could go check on the Smiteworks board, but for convenience's sake, if you know that this is the case, could you let me know?

Post apocalypse...robots and mutants.

I filled a six slot game at a con recently in Michigan with eight players, three of which had never heard of the system.

I already knew what it referred to without reading that forum post. I hope it's there as a bit of dessicated sarcasm, but I'm inclined to think not.

That's hilarious...my post apocalypse setting has a "cult" that goes by the name Red Owl.

I'm going to be there Saturday and Sunday, barring some crisis on the horizon. I'll be running a session of Mongrel Future (post apocalypse BRP) and a session of Classic Fantasy. I haven't registered yet, and if I don't register prior to the event, I'll be updating on the boards for times and such .

This coming from the guy whose signature says "wallowing in my elitism".

I feel for him. I've been looking at magnified pictures of Peruvian teeth the last month and writing two papers on them. No time for gaming, and I shouldn't even be doing anything of personal interest on the internet save for email. In about a month's time, I get three months solid of gaming and working on my house. That knowledge is the only thing keeping me from doing something reprehensible.

Did the original subject of this thread ever get completed? I haven't kept up since all of the fan film talk started. Oh hey, while I'm at it, was Mythic Iceland shelved permanently?

At one point, I had 3, 4, and 5.x and we used all of them in game. The campaign I ran at the time, there were two copies of 5.x and 4, and the copy I used at the table was 4. Since I used 4, that was the declared default edition we would fall back on in the case of rules discrepancies, but I don't remember a single rules arbitration where it came down to one edition superseding another. The differences are so minute that they're not worth worrying about IMO. That, and factoring in the nature of CoC being more about atmosphere than crunch anyway, unless you're one of those people who need to "upgrade" every few years for the shiny new x, it shouldn't matter anyway. EDITED FOR (MIS)SPELLING

http://basicroleplaying.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=327&act=down Wow, you guys make pretty ones. If you want an example of a really blocky, bland sheet, click the above link.

They're just character sheets. I make the ones for all the games I run, and they are all very minimal, blocky and bland. As long as they have spots for people to write their information in, that's all I care. The way I see it, a boring homemade sheet is better than A) a commercially available one that has a bunch of stuff I don't need/use and a piece of notebook paper with random chicken scratches on it.

Yeah, that's what I was looking for. I'm pretty sure I looked at the document a week or so ago and didn't see that info. Maybe I should stop using my favorite aluminum pan...

Can I copy the mod and pare down my own skill list and houserules like the d20 version? I'll be buying it either way, but hopefully I can alter it to my personal tastes. Thanks a lot, man. I've been waiting (im)patiently for this one.

Thanks, I guess it's not really a big deal anyway. I'll buy a gold version eventually.

I've looked, I promise I'm not just asking because I'm lazy. I ran a game at a con a couple weeks ago, and since I never got around to buying a copy of the final vitruvian man cover version, there were some discrepancies between the people who used my book and those that used the finished copies for character generation (believe it or not, I had two players show up for the session with BRP books). Anyway, it wasn't anything major, but the gold cover version is low on my priority list right now, and I was hoping that there was just a final compiled errata document here or on the chaosium site. Anyone know?

At this point it looks like I'll be there on Saturday and Sunday. I'll be running at minimum two events. One will be a remix of a classic TSR AD&D module using Classic Fantasy, and the other will be a post apocalyptic game that mainly uses stuff from the core book. Not sure if I'm going to register up front, though. In fact, I may just update here and on another board I frequent to troll for players.

Serpent People (or Tengu, as they're named in my world) are one of the core races.