Hi, my name is Ben Nehring, and I'm new to the forum. And I'm fairly new to BRP--though I've known about CoC for almost forever and even played a little of it. I've also own a core book. But it's buried deep in storage.
I've played some D&D in the 80's. Loved the concept of role-playing, but hated the system. Then my friends and I switched over to Warhammer and we all thought the system was a great deal better.
However, over the years I've lost touch with those friends and over the years I've tried to find people who are interested in pen and paper rpgs. Haven't found any I wanted to play with yet. The last group I really considered playing with were really into the Vampire: the Masquerade game a bit too much with real life bloodletting/blood drinking. I pretty much gave up hope. Everybody else I've made friends with have very little to no interest in p&p rpgs.
Then I stumbled across Mythic Role Playing
Mythic RPG
Which allows you to play any P&P rpg solo. I strongly recommend the Game Master Emulator.
Lately, I was strongly considering using FUDGE with Mythic, but FUDGE can't do realistic gaming well, and I would really like to play survival horror games based on my fave video games: Resident Evil, Siren, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, etc. And for those, you need a bit of crunch, otherwise you'll just have something that resembles a Paul W.S. Anderson film. (While I actually do like Paul W.S. Anderson films, his screenplays and directing style thoroughly defeats the purpose of survival horror). Which led me back to CoC. I recently ordered the 6th edition and I expect to receive it sometime this week.
I would also like to create a game based on Tenchu (my most favorite video game series of all time). I would also like to do something that's "hard" space opera, like Starcluster and Jovian Chronicles, but with a cooler system than either of them has. Plus, I have a few ideas of my own. And BRP seems to fit the bill. I can't wait for the BRP core book to be released.
I think I'll give the gift of my two fave hard science resources for anyone who's interested. They could be very useful for world building:
Atomic Rocket main page
Space Settlement
Btw, I downloaded Flashing Blades a week ago. It seems like it could be very compatible with BRP. Is it very compatible?