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kaddawang

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  • Birthday 09/12/1974

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  • RPG Biography
    CoC, Warhammer, AD&D, Battletech. Those would be the Big Four.. Plus a smattering of others.
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    Call of Cthulhu in various settings, Warhammer, the occasional game of Stormbringer, poker. And poking around in Tamriel..
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    Frozen Wastes, Norway

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  1. I just want to throw my support in for Rod and Classic Fantasy. Personally I'd love seeing this supported by the core BRP - either from Chaosium or C7. If that is not an option, OQ is a solid alternative(just make sure Newt gets his coffee first;)) Either way, I hope you'll continue working on it and that we'll see a full product.
  2. ..at the printers, according to the good chaps at Chaosium. Or rather, according to one chap - Dustin and his twitter. Woot!
  3. If you pay the airfare from Norway, I'll play:p Joking aside, I know I've seen some Bostonians here.. Good luck.
  4. So we agree to agree with the rules as written? Because the RAW is the can of worms that sparks this debate every 4 months;)
  5. Police or military training won't make you an expert knife-disarmer. By a long shot. They will however train you in in picking up whatever object within reach to use as an improvised weapon. At least the good instructors will do that.. Halving dodge if you're unarmed(at least if you want to try a counter-attack of your own) makes sense. A bit on the harsh side, yes, but it makes sense.
  6. BRP has a small, but rabid, fanbase that is slowly growing. With the Gold Brick, the new RuneQuest, Newt's OpenQuest-crusade, some quite stunningly neat historical supplements from Alephtar, and Cthulhu on it's third decade I'm pretty sure it won't die anytime soon. The Laundry is on it's way, and there is a comforting level of BRP-related buzz on the boards I visit. All is not bleak:) The now-available monographs were long overdue, but the monographs won't sell this game. Catchy books on the shelf does that(and even in print, most of the monographs are not catchy). CoFE might very well be the one, but with Chaosium's past release schedules, the plan of releasing it in several volumes worries me slightly.
  7. Quick, everybody make a APPx5-roll! Dang, a 98...
  8. If someone cobbled together a fantasy(or whatever)-setting of the same calibre as Rome, I'm pretty sure it would be up for awards as well. I recently splurged on Stupor Mundi and Crusaders of the Amber Coast, and was suitably impressed with both of them. Any plans of follow-ups? As for BRP, it still lacks that crucial catch-setting. While many of the monographs are good, i don't see them selling BRP to anyone who isn't already sold. Chaosium has The Chronicles of Future Earth lining up, I hope it will be good, but I'm not entirely convinced... We shall see.
  9. Ooh, ripostes...yes, that is a seriously scary rule:) But it doesn't matter if you're wielding 1,2 or 11 weapons. That was the part of the OP's question that I got sort of hung up in. Rosen McS had a nice RQ-fix on two weapon-fighting: you cannot attack and parry with the same weapon on the same SR/dex-rank.(exepting ripostes). The Gold Book doesn't have anything on wielding two weapons. It doesn't grant any extra oomph. It is one of those things you have to houserule in if you want it.
  10. Basicly, the only advantage of an off-hand weapon is that you can attack two different targets in the same round when you don't have mastery(100%). If you have 100% skill, the advantage is moot, as you have to split your attack percentages, no matter what. This here is one of the slightly wonky parts of BRP...
  11. My houserule is that shields and parrying weapons are good at riposting(not sure it's really a word..). A good(special+) shield-parry will grant you a counter-attack(or, alternatively, a good weapon-parry grants you a shieldbash-counter). Same with longer weapons(polearms, spears etc). A good parry allows you to get distance automatically, so that an opponent will have to close again. I've found that this doesn't gimp the lone swordsman too much, while giving people a reason to develop skill in several different weapons, as well as lugging a buckler around.
  12. I wasn't aware of that. Good news. I also note that they charge cash for the QuickStart. Why is that?
  13. Killing a musk oxen with a crossbow would be pretty hard work. Not that I've tried, but I can only imagine. But I don't think I'm too far out on the historically correct treebranch if I say that big game hunters don't work unprepared or alone. What one crossbow-bolt fails to do, 4-5 bolts and a well-laid trap might be able to pull off. Apart from that, the major wound-mechanic makes sense. A good hit might not kill an animal outright, but the bleeding and weakening might. Of course, you'd have to track it down, maybe even run it down. Or run away from it... Edit: Or what he said..
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