Fergo113

What is the planetarium program you used Rust?

I have been more than a little slack in keeping up the transcription of my ME-BRP project. Christmas Holidays and New Year celebrations will do that I guess. So I have just uploaded the latest preview for the Free Peoples chapter of ME-BRP. This one gives an insight into the Elves of Middle-earth focusing on the Noldor Elves. Cheers, Fergo113

Merry Christmas from Down Under everyone :thumb: Its actually Boxing Day today. Eat waaaaayyyyy too much yesterday but that's Christmas for you Mercifully it's been a wet summer for us over here so at least I wasn't called away to fires and could actually spend Christmas Day with my wife and daughter. Hope you all have a great day and a Happy New Beer Thanks for all the hard work everyone has done into making this a fantastic web site and great community of BRP die-hards. I really appreciate all the input you guy's have given into the ME-BRP and City of Heroes stuff I have been doing. The players in my rpg group have certainly reaped the benefits of all your advice. Here's to a great BRP 2009 (rolls a critical success :thumb: ) Merry Christmas, :innocent: Fergo113

Hey Nick, Its now available as a download on the Chaosium website. Just got my copy last night and it looks great. Thanks for doing this. :thumb: Cheers, Fergo113

no worries. The Arial/Celtic fonts are the formats I am using for the ME-BRP project, so the other chapters will be the same. But I will keep this in mind about any other project I may do in future. Cheers :thumb: Anthony

Sorry about that. Its in Arial font for the main text and Celtic font for the headings. I could do a version in serif if people want it, but its a BIG file and I have to get Trifletraxor to load it up for me. So its not an easy process to load a second version in another font. Alternatively I might be able to send you a serif font version via FilePlanet if you can private message me an appropriate email to send it to you. :confused: Fergo113

Well, I'm back from a weeks leave and thought I should post an update on Chpater 9 of my Middle-earth BRP project. Chapter 9 focuses on the Free Peoples of Middle-earth. As such this is where the majority of player characters will hale from. It gives the background for the player character races and guidelines for GM's and players about creating characters for that race. It complements the player character development process in the BRP rulebook. The first race to be previewed is that of the Dwarves. You can find it in: Downloads > Systems & Settings > Middle-Earth Hope you enjoy :thumb: Cheers, Fergo113

I was wondering why it was about 17 meg smaller than my version Thanks for fixing that

Thanks Trifletraxor for taking care of loading it. Thanks heaps for the positive feedback also guy's. I'm getting into transcribing the races/cultures of the Free Peoples (Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits and the Mannish cultures). I'll start posting some previews of the races when they get close to being finished. But you can get an idea of what this new chapter will look like by having a look at the Orcs section of the Creatures chapter. There are notes there for running Orc PC's in the game. Keep you posted about how this new chapter is going. :thumb: Cheers, Fergo113

I can't remember what I used as inspiration for them. I think I had a look at a bunch of stats for cattle floating around invarious BRP based games and then threw together what seemed most fitting. Anyway, when the chapter gets posted it has stats for Lynx, sabertooth cats, mammoths and a few other critters that would be transportable to different game worlds (eg spiders for any fantasy setting). Hopefully Trifletraxor will get around to posting it this weekend.

Hi Frank, I am working on the player races for my ME-BRP project right now. Am an still transcribing and working with the stat's for Elves, but currently in my notes I have them as follows: STR 2D6+6 13-14 MOVE: 14 CON 1D6+12 16-17 HP: 16-17 SIZ 3D6+@ 12-15 INT 3D6+3 16-17 POW* 3D6+6 14 DEX 2D6+12 19 APP 3D6+6 16-17 @SIZ of an adult Silvan elf male is 3D6+1, and adult Sindar elf male is 3D6+2, and an adult Noldor elf male is 3D6+3. SIZ of an adult Silvan elf female is 3D6+4, and adult Sindar elf female is 2D6+5, and an adult Noldor elf female is 2D6+6. *Noldor and those Sindar that have been to Aman (The Undying Lands of the West across the bended sea) receive a +9 bonus to their POW due to their interaction with the Valar, ie the POW is 3D6+9. Hope that helps. :thumb: Cheers, Fergo113

No prob Rust, here you go: :thumb: Aurochs: STR 3D6+24 34-35 MOVE: 12 CON 3D6 10-11 HIT PTS: 16-17 SIZ 3D6+24 34-35 Damage Bonus INT 4 4 +3D6 POW 3D6 10-11 Tres Fact: N/A DEX 2D6 7 Hit Location Armour/HP Right Hind Leg 01-02 3/5 Left Hind Leg 03-04 3/5 Hindquarters 05-07 3/7 Forequarters 08-10 3/7 Right Fore Leg 11-13 3/5 Leg Fore Leg 14-16 3/5 Head 17-20 3/6 NOTE: Aurochs have natural 3pt hides. Weapon Strike Rank Percentage Damage Butt@ 8 50% 2D10+db crsh Trample@ 8 50% 6D6 crushing @ An Auroch cannot butt and trample in the same combat round. Skills: Listen 50%, Sense 50%, Spot 60% Losrandir: STR 2D6+6 13-14 MOVE: 12 CON 3D6 10-11 HIT PTS: 13-14 SIZ 3D6+6 17 Damage Bonus INT 4 4 +1D4 POW 3D6 10-11 Tres Fact: N/A DEX 3D6+6 7 Right Hind Leg 01-02 1/4 Left Hind Leg 03-04 1/4 Hindquarters 05-07 1/6 Forequarters 08-10 1/6 Right Fore Leg 11-13 1/4 Leg Fore Leg 14-16 1/4 Head 17-20 1/5 NOTE: deer have natural 1pt hides. Weapon Strike Rank Percentage Damage Butt 7 35% 2D6+db crush Skills: Hide (in Woods and Forest) 80%, Listen 75%, Sense 80%, Spot 85%, Stealth 55%. Cheers, Fergo113

Well after many months of hardship and toil, the Creatures chapter of the ME-BRP project is finally finished :party: I finished the errata on the weekend and put the final touches on it. As we speak it is winding its way through the either to Trifletraxor to be placed into the Downloads/Middle-earth section of this site (I can't upload a file of this size onto the site). It’s in pdf format and stands at over 150 pages and around 47meg. :eek: It does have a lot of pictures in it, but you can see from the previews I have posted already what the format looks like. I apologise if you don't like photos but keep in mind that this is really a private project for my rpg group, but I am happy to share it with any who are interested in having a copy. The next chapter on the program for me is to do the Free Peoples Chapter. This is basically the background for the player character races. I've done some of it already, based on my rpg groups characters being played right now. You can get an idea of what this will look like by checking out the Orcs section in the Creatures Chapter. I don't have a time line on this chapter as yet, but given that the creatures chapter has blown out by months more than I expected it to be, it will be anyone’s guess as to when I can finish this next chapter (but I hope no more than three months should see it completed). If you’re wondering why the Creatures chapter is Chapter 10, it all relates back to the original order in which I started to compile my notes for this project. Hopefully the chapter will be in the Downloads section soon for those of you who want a copy. Enjoy! :thumb: Fergo113

Hey K, I like it. :thumb: I was thinking that I would love to do a 1920's & 1930's version of exactly the same thing. :eek: It would allow a cross over with the Mythos as well as some Dr Who badies and puts it at an interesting time in the worlds history going into WW2. Only problem is that right now my ME-BRP project is taking up all my spare time. I'd be interested in this when you get it going :thumb: Cheers, Fergo113

Thanks Lars, that would be excellent. :thumb: As for a Mac version of the BRP generator, sadly I don't know of any other version sorry. There is a thread in this forum for BRP generators that I started some time back regarding letting people know about the BRP generator mention above. There may be a Mac answer burried in there somewhere. Cheers, Fergo113

I only have a couple of creatures left to transcribe and I am also proof reading the text right now as well. Some of the creatures I have already posted will have some minor variations made to them (mostly their powers or armour and cleaning up typo's), but shouldn't change too much. So I hope to have the final version ready to be posted within the next week or two. As for a Foe's like set of pre rolled creatures, I have been using an excellent little tool called: Chaosium BRP Character Generator 4.10 :thumb: Just do a Google search for it. It is freeware and there are a bunch of sites that carry it. Its easy to use and can have creature stats, weapons, powers etc added easily enough (usually through adding stuff into the text files it uses). It will only produce humanoid creatures however. I want to go back through my MERP stuff and to an adventure setting for the Bree-land area after I have the Creatures and Free Peoples chapters finished. I was planning to put a bunch of pre-generated creatures into that, so that GM's had an adventure setting that would accommodate elves, dwarves, hobbits and men (orcs and goblins even) with lots of pre-rolled critters and beasties. Eriador is also where I am running my poor hapless saps... oop’s I mean player’s, through right now and they will be heading towards Bree in their adventures soon, so it will be timely. But I would definitely be happy if you wanted to do a Foes-like equivalent as I don't have that much time to do that right now. :thumb: Cheers, Fergo113

Ah, yes I have been a little remiss about keeping that up to date. I guess its been three weeks since I added the last creature sooooooo how about three new ones: Animated Watch-stones Olog-hai Trolls (I know you wanted to see them!), and Lesser Spiders (I hate spiders....:shocked:, creepy little buggers!) Hope that makes up for my slackness over the last few weeks. Cheers, Fergo113 :thumb:

At this time, the work I have done on the magic chapter has been very much influence by Deciphers LoTR rpg, modified to the new BRP Magic and Sorcery magical systems with Runequest II thrown in as well. I like the magic background given in Decipher's LoTR chapter and the Magic suppliment that came out a few years back and have been using that as the background to how magic exists in Middle-earth. I feel that Tolkien pictured the way magic work in Middle-earth after the fall of Beleriand to be very subtle and also imbibed in the very landscape. Gandalf for eg was very reluctant to use magic overtly and there are a number of possible reasons for all that (drawing unwanted attention to himself being one of those reasons). The LoTR movies showed the overt use of magic a bit more than I believe the books did, no doubt for dramatic effect on the big screen (eg Gandalf and Saruman's dustup in Orthanc during the first movie). I have gotten around the problem of most FRP games having an abundance of Wizards who can throw fireballs all over the place by very much limiting the players to how much magic they can get access to. Currently I have three players running around in the campaign I have been running for the last year or so. Two of them are of the Loremaster profession (kind of a proto-mage that has skills more in Lore than in magic, modelled on Deciphers LoTR and the LoTR Shadows of Angmar MMO game), one is an elf and the other a human. The elf knows only three spells and the human only one. Both of them know the standard BRP Heal(ing) spell to Level 2. Where the players have been most able to access magic has been through runes matrix's on items (in the way that it was used in RQII rather than the current Mongoose RQ system). The whole magic system is currently in a flux right now but basically you will have a set of magical specialities that are a characters magic skills, like in the new BRP magic system. Spells belong to a speciality and must be learnt or taught but because they belong to a speciality (and thus have similarities in how they are cast) only the relevant magical speciality skill is used to cast them. Some spells also require a resistance roll on the Resistance Table (usually for POW vs POW). I am still working on whether POW sacrifice is required to learn some spells, as in the old RQII Rune Spells process. As for the spells themselves, I really like Deciphers LoTR spell lists and have been toying with manipulating them over to BRP. I don't want the spells to be too powerful however, but more along the lines of the power of the spells in the old RQII system. There is still a lot of work to be done on it all and right now I am about twelve creatures off finishing the Creatures Chapter for ME-BRP. That has been taking most of my spare rpg time (that and running my ME campaign). What you were working on for Song of Arda sounds interesting. Anyway, hope that gives you a better idea with what I have been using so far. As I said, it’s still very much in a state of flux and I haven't really settled on anything as yet. I just keep the players guessing and limit just how much magic that can get their hands on. Enough to heal them and keep them alive long enough so I can try my nasty critters and rule variations out on them bawahahahahahahahaha Anyway, it’s all up for refinement as far as I am concerned right now, so let me know what you think. Cheers, Fergo113

Got to echo Shaira's comments there Ray! Thanks so much for your hand in RQ I & II. I thought I would be lost forever in the D&D fantasy rpg system, but then I found Runequest and that changed everything. RQ I and II have been my mainstay in fantasy rpg ever since (for many years now). :thumb::thumb::thumb: Cheers Fergo113

Doesn't look primising does it I won't hold my breath then.

Hmmmm... this looks interesting. :thumb: Are you going to post any of the material you have here at BRP.com or is this just going to be played with your rpg group? I posted a while ago some stuff inspired by City of Heroes and have always been meaning to gm a game with my rpg group. But we are still running through my ME-BRP stuff right now, so that's going to have to wait. I would love to see what other BRP Supers games people have been working on because I do want to get around to running one myself and would love as much material as I can get my hands on.

Remember to keep your head down PK and good luck. By the time you get back I should have that creatures chapter finished (fingers crossed!)

Looks good Texaspoet, Thanks for this :thumb:

Lol, that one is done too :eek: If you desperately need it, I might be persuaded to add it as a weekly extra, otherwise if your happy to wait for the full chapter it can lay dormant till then. :thumb: