Richard Gorman, have posted on Mongoose Forums and GURPs Tarveller as Captain Skip. Started in 1980 on arrival at Aberdeen University where I set up Aberdeen University D+D Society with friends. Obsessive playing of D+D (I was young and naive...and it was fun!) the wonderful Traveller for some years. Since then Cthulhu, Runequest (3rd preferably), Ars Magica, Trinity, Space 1889, Golden Heroes, Judge Dredd, Boot Hill, Gamma World, Middle Earth, Rolemaster, Paladium, Harn, GURPs, Bushido, 'Spacequest' (My SF BRP adaptation), Skyrealms of Jorune, Paranoia, Star Trek, Chill, Mage etc etc. (Of course, inevitably, wrote own system ('Gladius') and unique (Obsessively detailed) setting which almost saw the light of day in the 90's and played well for many years). Love BRP which, like most I suspect, I got into through RQ and CoC. Adored RQ3. It had a few flaws (Some daft spells and confused magic rules, slightly over complex fatigue and character improvement systems...some way of introducing character background quirks, a less melodramatic version of the Ars Magica virtues and Flaws system would have been nice ) but these were easily fixed with simple house rules making it adaptable and detailed. I guess I had hoped this is what Mongoose would have done. Two decades of in depth hardcore campaigning followed around my own fantasy world (Which later introduced bastardised Gloranthan elements). Joy.
Got my hopes up but was seriously disappointed by what I saw of Mongoose Runequest with its broken combat table and very poorly thought out armour, high skills and crit rules. Excited to see BRP realeases on the way...just before my birthday to! Family circumstances have rather ruined my gaming opportunities but methinks I might be buying myself a wee birthday present on June 13th! Good luck with the forum and publications.