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Here you go. Not sure where you live, so here's the US and Foreign shipping policies.

I'm sure most of you saw this, but just in case you missed it, Chaosium's having a 30% off sale. You can get any of the BRP releases and monographs for a whopping 30% off the cover price. That means a new book like Fractured Hopes is under $14. You should already know how to get there, but if you forgot... Chaosium Inc. - Chaosium Inc.

Just because someone posted a copy of copyrighted material to the web doesn't remove the copyright. The copyright holder can enforce his copyright at any time.

I'm also a regular at rpgGeek. It's a great site. Yeah, it's just getting started, but it'll get there. It has a very different format from a lot of other web forums out there. Every game and game book could conceivably have it's own forum. But they are also all linked to make navigation easy. It sounds odd, but it works. My user ID here is the same user ID I use there, so you can track me down over there if you have questions.

I'll be running BRP at MACE, a gaming convention in High Point, NC, USA that runs from Nov. 6-8th. What am I running exactly? I don't know. I'm running BRP as part of their GM Improv contest. I'm handed a two paragraph plot summary fifteen minutes before the start of the session. The rest has to be made up on the fly. If you're in the area, stop by and check it out.

Welcome, Paul! You might want to check out nearbygamers.com. It shows a large number of entries near Kitchener.

I don't have the book yet, but just found out I'm tangentially mentioned in one of the scenarios. So far, I've been mentioned in both BRP Adventure books. First as an NPC in The Caravan in the first collection and then as a battle cry in Fools Rush In in the second collection. I'm still trying to decide if this is something to be proud of or not.

The BRP draft license is not used for monographs. The BRP draft license is only if you want to license the BRP system for a product you plan on producing and distributing yourself. Here are the monograph guidelines. If you have specific questions, you should contact Dustin@chaosium.com.

I track the weapons skill separately, using the granular rules described on page 258. Players can have different skill levels in different, but similar weapons which are tracked separately and accumulate experience separately. Think of it this way... Blaster has a 15% base. Laser has a 20% base. At character creation, you decide to put 100 points into those two skills, split 50/50 Blaster becomes 65% Laser becomes 70% Later in the game, you use the laser and get an experience check. You succeed at the check and gain 6 points. Blaster stays at 65% Laser becomes 76% If I used Weapon Classes, which it looks like you're doing, I'd decide on a base skill for Pistols, Energy and add skill points to that instead of whatever is listed for each individual pistol. Then, regardless of whichever type of Energy Pistol my character picked up, he'd have the same rating.

It looks good. Can't wait to read it. I've been meaning to ask you this for a while, Fergo, but I notice your avatar looks like a screencap from LOTRO. Are you still playing the game? I was in it from closed beta until recently. I decided it was time to take a break... I think I'll be heading back in soon, though. Which server are you on? I'm on Landroval.

I've been testing out the beta/uploading material for a month or so now. It's every bit as good as boardgamegeek.

The Smoke is another good option. One thing I prefer about this book is the map is hyperlinked to the text. Click on a section of the map and it takes you to the relevant text.

I'd just like to quote Simon Phipp's #1 rule for BRP: "If you can do it in real life you should be able to do it in BRP"

Best thing to do is make sure your location is visible to forum users. That way, you can see that you're about thirty minutes from me (depending on your locale in WS).

For all your LoEG needs, you now have Agents of the Crown.

Most likely the latter.

Based on this announcement, it looks like Cubicle7 has plans to release BRP sourcebooks based on a licensed property.

Congratulations, Newt! It looks good.

And it's fixed!

A flag not set properly? I let Dustin know and it'll probably get cleaned up quick.

There were 420 numbered copies of the BRP Zero edition book produced.

Here's a link to the PDF, minus the world's weirdest SID. Look ma, no SID!

The PDF is available now for sale. Hopefully the print version isn't far behind.

I forgot to add, there's one tweak that I used to use in my games to limit the number of skill checks. Players could only earn a tick if they crit'ed their skill check. That seemed way too harsh to the players, so I stopped using that rule.

I'm not sure where the 3d6 came from. Page 182 of the book says the following: Bear in mind, the higher a skill becomes the harder it is to get better. The player has to roll over his character's skill level. Not below. If you're playing CoC, you don't add 1/2 the character's INT as a bonus.