Cowboy Duck

I'm running Dino Night, my homage to 1980's action comedy movies, and its sequel, Dino Day. Dino Night focuses on teens trapped in a mall besieged by dinosaurs and other prehistoric horrors. Dino Day is their world 10 years later.

I received mine today and the book looks nice. I'm pleasantly surprised with the paper quality. As others have said, it's glossy without being shiny. The binding seems solid and I warrant the book will hold up with many years of use.

On the topic of errata, the text/examples of calculating special and critical successes (normal rounding) still doesn't match the results shown on the Skill Results Table (rounding up).

Cool! Nothing to add except that I'm jealous. My copy shipped from Chaosium earlier this week. My copy of the Laundry RPG showed up today, so I'll take comfort in that for now.

Awesome - I've already seen that you get this sort of style with Lightspeed, so I'm looking forward to this.

Just curious - where along the White Hat/Black Hat vs. Gritty scale does the Western influence fall by default? Closer to the Rifleman, Magnificent Seven, or the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?

For those who care, my order was finally received this past week. However, I had already cooled down long before that. My 20+ year love affair with Chaosium has proven stronger than one little spat.

I wouldn't rush to file a dispute with VISA. My understanding is that it takes some time to resolve. I'm pretty sure that Chaosium would just reverse it for you and it wouldn't take nearly as long. Sorry to hear of your bad experience. My previous experience with them is that they are understanding when it comes to resolving shipping problems.

Actually it's just a matter of documenting the facts and getting them to the financial institution who issued the card. They reverse the charge immediately and then the merchant has 30 days to prove that they did, in fact, provide the service.

And again, I have been working with them on the order and they still haven't done anything they said they would. I'm done with Chaosium.

And a week and a half after hearing from Fergie that my order was shipping, it still hasn't. They are not replying to e-mails once more. At this point, I'll just wait a few more days and file a dispute with VISA to get my money back.

This is no way for a company to operate. No excuses about how they're a small company - even if you can't pay your contributors (heck, I'm still waiting for my comp for some editing), even if you can't process orders, you still communicate. I'm tired of defending them time and again - especially since they can't even be bothered to reply to an e-mail, much less make excuses.

...And I just got an e-mail from Fergie... Sleeping gods awaken apparently...

I contacted Chaosium about my order back on October 26. The last I heard from Fergie was on October 30 - they've not replied to any other e-mails.

I'm probably over-reading the description of the Defense Super Power on page 151 of the big ol' book of BRP, but I am confused. Does the total reduction apply to each attack during a round or does the total need to be spread out among all attacks during the round?

Thanks,

Matt

Anyone know what the purchase threshold is for free shipping? I had a couple of tangible products that I wanted to buy, but was not above the free shipping threshold (and couldn't find it on the site -- which is bad marketing. The free shipping is supposed to entice me to buy more, but it doesn't do that if I don't know how much more I need to buy)

My original cart was over $60 in physical product and the free shipping did not show up as an option. I have gotten the free shipping in the past, so I wonder if sale items are disqualified from the offer.

Cool! Just picked up:

Fractured Hopes

River Terror

Arkham Airfield T-shirt

Has anyone used the Higher Starting Characteristics option with non-human characters built using characteristic rolls other than 3d6? How did you handle it? Did you simply replace one of the d6 rolls with a +6?

Thanks!

Matt

The Gen Con Indy 2009 event submissions are live. Outside of the myriad of Call of Cthulhu games being run, I could only find one BRP game on the schedule - a Gamma World-inspired game called "Them!" being run on Thursday.

Gen Con has accepted my submission - the movie Streets of Fire as a supernatural adventure - for consideration but has yet to put it on the schedule.

Any other games waiting in the wings?

Thanks!

Matt

Thanks for the input! I will be rounding up for the players, like what the chart shows, and possibly the important NPCs.

Next figuring critical and special successes question - do you calculate the chance for a critical or special off of the base skill rating or the modified skill rating, such as with an Easy task which doubles the skill rating?

Thanks!

Matt

Hey, all:

The text and examples for Special Success and Critical Success on page 175 in the big ol' BRP book show normal rounding for fractions. The Skill Results Table, shown on pages 172 and 384, contradict this and show rounding up.

Which method is preferred?

Thanks!

Matt

Nice work getting these up, STS!

Alignment

There is no alignment in BRP.

The Allegiance system is a nice replacement for alignment.

I will dig out my palladium notes soon and post those.

Be careful of that one - Palladium tends to get system conversions pulled off the Internet.

-Matt

Thanks. I just ordered Cthulhu Rising because I couldn't pass up the sale.

I know! Even though my last Chaosium order showed up in Saturday's mail, I had to place another order - it's too good a deal.

Chaosium is offering 30% off of all their store items for 48 hours! If you've been holding off on getting the zero edition of DBRP because of cost, you may find getting it for $28 an attractive option.

-Matt

Shaira has described it correctly.

The corrections/clarifications for the core rulebook should (I think) spell it out explicitly.

Cool, thanks all!

No wonder the Shaolin monks in one of my con games were so durned powerful...

We all knew that we were buying a proof copy - if anything it somewhat restores my faith in RPG publishing to hear that Chaosium have taken on board the comments about BRP0: too many modern RPG publishers these days would have simply released BRP zero and then thought about a revised printing if there was enough of customer reaction.

I'd always intended to get at least one copy of the full proper printing anyway

I'd say this sums up the sentiments of most people on this board!

-Matt

I'm not fond of the new look, as it looks fairly broken in Firefox.

Really? I'm using Firefox and haven't had an issue with it.

I see signs of life with gaming. Some of my friends have kids around the same age we were when we started gaming. Those kids are gaming. My boss' kid, as an extreme example, is even designing his own naval battle wargame in between hanging out with his friends/girlfriend and playing soccer/D&D/video games.

I've had the chance to help run a local game store for four months now. Many families - with kids - come in and buy and play. We have a Pokemon league nights that attracts a healthy turnout every week.

The other big local game store has been in business for 20+ years and shows no sign of slowing, without having to diversify their product lines into non-gaming areas.

So, for suburban Chicago at least, the gaming future looks bright.

-Matt

With BRP or using a kitbash of Palladium and BRP (they are very similiar...)??

I haven't decided yet - it depends on how lazy I'm feeling when it comes time to run the campaign. The new Shadow Chronicles RPG from Palladium would make a nice reference for the mecha stats either way.

My next game is a steampunk/fantasy/high tech BRP game...starting tonight with the kids and wife, hopefully...of course the kids are going to want to play something other than the 68 races I have :confused:

Why are they so difficult to please??

I'll see how it goes.

C'mon, it sounds like a hoot - from what I've seen, kids can be surprisingly creative in gaming. Keep us posted.

On the Robotech idea, I am fairly sure that my son is going to want to play an orc with a VF-1S tonight.

My son is a bit too young for gaming, but, by gum, he loves singing the Robotech songs... :party:

Hey, all-

Is the rating for a character's martial arts skill added to another combat skill and then each attack/maneuver is one skill roll based off that combined rating?

That's how I've been doing it, but I just want to make sure that adding the two separate skills together is the intention of the martial arts skill.

Thanks!

Matt