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  1. I think all those of us who bought the zero edition is very much likely to buy the 1st edition also.

    Of course I will buy the final version, too. I will not miss a chance to get even

    more excellent new ideas for my setting.

  2. I will continue to work on my Pharos IV setting already mentioned elsewhere:

    A comparatively young human colony on a water world in a remote corner of

    the "Honorverse" (of David Weber's "Honor Harrington"-novels), although with

    a "Traveller"-like atmosphere.

    The setting was created last year with "GURPS Traveller", I then moved it to

    "Cthulhu Rising", and now I will translate it into the new BRP.

    Since last September we have played 66 years of the colony's history, and I

    currently have about sixty pages of "canonical" material, a couple of maps,

    and a lot of notes.

    Until very recently I was quite proud of the sixty pages, but then someone

    mentioned a setting with 600+ pages (:shocked:), and this shows that I still

    have some way to go ... :o

  3. When I bought my first RPG, almost exactly thirty years ago, I had to mail

    order it from Britain, because I was unable to find any RPG shop in Germany.

    Somewhat later a first German RPG mail order firm was founded, and an RPG

    shop opened in Munich, 65 km from my hometown. There I could buy the few

    RPGs available at the time, mainly D&D, RQ and Traveller.

    Today there are dozens of RPG shops in Germany, selling hundreds of RPGs,

    both online as PDFs, by mail and at the shop. There has never been a higher

    density of such shops, and all of these shops have enough customers to at

    least survive.

    True, there has been a kind of decline over the last five years or so, partial-

    ly due to Germany's economic problems (people have less spare money to

    spend, and RPGs are often quite expensive), partially to the rapid growth in

    the time before. Some shops had to look for additional products like computer

    games or comics, but almost all of the shops survived.

    More important, there are still many more shops and gamers than thirty years

    ago, twenty years ago, or ten years ago. The once rapid expansion of the

    field has stopped, and there has been some decline, but this could as well

    be a temporary development.

    Twilight, fading fast, last glimmers and other Weltschmerz ?

    No, not at all, at least not for me. ;)

  4. As for Chaosium not having the resources to promote BRP - everywhere there is D&D for sale I see Cthulhu too.

    This is true, and at least over here the (few) RPG shops stock the games their

    customers ask for, whether the publisher does any promotion or not.

    If an RPG is really good, there is few need for any kind of promotion, because

    the players will inform each other about it - and if a game is bad, promotion

    will not increase the sales considerably, because the players will warn each

    other.

  5. There was a Dune RPG developed by Last Unicorn Games and published by

    Wizards of the Coast in 1997.

    According to what I have been told, this RPG probably was quite good, but

    it is now very difficult to get a legal copy of it.

  6. Second, because of the print quality, some people who do know about the book will wait until the official release.

    Yep, I know of several RPG players over here who are very interested in the

    new BRP and will most probably give it a try, but who prefer to wait for the

    "final version".

  7. I know that at least one copy has been damaged on the way to my favourite

    RPG shop and had to be sent back, one copy has been sold at the shop after

    I had bought my copy (and therefore probably has a higher number than my

    "235"), and one more copy is still at this shop.

    At least 4 copies are "accounted for" here in Germany ... ah, it is 5 copies, I

    forgit Turloigh's one ...

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