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I'm just grateful that BRP is now released under the ORC license. The best thing about this new edition is that we are now free to create and publish our own worlds and scenarios. Basic Roleplaying is one of the most classic yet fictionally immersive rule sets of all time. For a content creator like me, it's a dream come true!

4 hours ago, g33k said:

Have you looked at the (also draft) "ORC AxE"?
https://www.chaosium.com/content/orclicense/ORC AxE.pdf

It looks (and we only have a draft of the ORC license to deal with, so things may change) like you will have some "Product Identity" stuff you'll designate up-front, as non-ORC content (Chaosium has already declared the art, layout, etc as non-ORC).  You may want some named characters &c to be non-ORC.

If you are going to X-ref the Chaosium rulebook, you may not need much ORC material.  If your book has little to no actual game-mechanics per se (just stat-blocks for NPCs (and/or pre-gen PCs)) then you might want to reverse that, shorlisting "only this is ORC" instead of "only that is Product Identity"
Exempli Gratia: "the game-mechanical components, such as stat-blocks and the 'hit location mannikin' diagrams for characters, plus the poisoning rules in Chapter 3, and all materials taken directly from the 'BRP:UGE. book, are ORC content.  All other material, including character-names, place names, and descriptive text (written in sentence format), plus the 'Random Events Tables' on pages 15, 22, & 37, are all Product Identity content, not covered by ORC."

*BUT* -- I am not a lawyer... and the ORC isn't finalized.

Thank you for the clarification. Of course we will have to wait for the final version of the ORC license. But at least I have an idea how it could work.

First of all: Thanks to the wonderful people at Chaosium who gave us the new BRP edition! 

The only thing i don't quite understand yet is the extent to which the license applies to my original content.

If I want to publish my original fantasy world, and characters, along the short stories I have written before (using it with and dedicating it to BRP) the stats will mostly be PD or ORC licensed, but my original content will not? Is this correct?

Are there any news about the current state of the QuestWorlds SRD? Can't wait

https://andrewjluther.com/2017/10/29/heroquest-and-star-wars/

I really enjoyed his thoughts about Heroquest and his takes on the different genres. This one is no exception!

I played a short HQ-based Star Wars game in 2010. We had a lot of fun, albeit we did't have much experience with the system at that point. It was kind of a struggle to get all those force powers done right. I think Andrew's article would have helped a lot these days.

Beautiful artwork! And the new layout is also very nice.