colinabrett

@Questbird Thanks for the mention.

Just to expand on this, the "official" Cyberpunk timeline has moved on to 2045 (or 2077 if you play the videogame). I'm running a Cyberpunk RED campaign at the moment using the R.Talsorian rules (sorry, Chaosium). It's purely coincidental that my campaign's timeline has moved on to 2046 :-) .

I'm using the Talsorian rules because

a) One of my players was an official playtester for the RED rules and his input has been invaluable

b) The rest of the group wanted to play something that "wasn't D&D 5th edition"

I'll be back for more D100 games as soon as I've read the UGE rules properly!

Colin

18 minutes ago, Dr_Zarnak said:

Hello, how about sending this campaign to Marcus Bone, I’m sure he would be glad to host it at his site - www.stormbringerrpg.com

Dr_Zarnak,

That's a great idea. I'm sure Marcus is on this forum, so I'll reach out.

Thanks,

Colin

Just to let you all know, I have started uploading 'supporting materials' for the campaign. New skills, NPCs and a dungeon crawl, which can be inserted anywhere in your campaign world.

I have to re-draw some of the maps from the original PDFs before uploading the real campaign scenarios.

Colin

I've tagged this as I'd like to follow the topic.

Not a lot to contribute so far but I've always felt the Resistance Table would be useful.

Divide Attack (and Parry if applicable) by 5 to produce a number in the 1 - 20 range. Then match the attacking unit's Attack value against the target unit's Attack (or Parry) and roll on the RT. If the attacker is successful, roll damage equal to the unit's primary weapon damage (e.g. Broadsword D8+1) to indicate the number of casualties caused, then roll the defending unit's Armour value (e.g. Hard Leather D6) to reflect how many casualties were saved by their armour.

This is very sketchy at the moment, and obviously factors like charging, shock of impact, force backs and morale need to be covered (not to mention missile fire) but I thought I'd throw it out there.

Colin

On 6/28/2022 at 11:16 PM, Baron said:

Hi Colin!

Couldn't you just put them here in the Downloads section, like always?

I'm working on it, Baron. Life is getting in the way. Please bear with me.

Late to the party (as usual). I have been out of the BRP/RPG scene for some time now and only occasionally check back on this site.

My original website is now defunct, as I'm learning about site-builders (like WiX and Wordpress) and hope to create something new and better-looking.

However, I do have the original Golden Grimoire campaign as PDFs, so a question to the moderators, if I may: is it OK to replace or update the current (dead) links with the PDFs? Any suggestions would be most useful.

Colin

(Oh, and the A stands for Andrew, though I'm flattered @Chaot could think I was an Eternal Companion.)

Ooops!

Critical results are listed on the Success or Failure Results table of the SRD but they aren't described in the text. I withdraw my previous comment. Sorry.

The Quick Start guide doesn't include Crits at all.

Both PDFs have the Resistance Table.

The lack of critical results is the one thing that bugs me about the SRD. Crits and Fumbles have been a staple of BRP since forever. I know that they can be added to anything produced with the SRD but the absence is quite jarring.

Is there any chance of a revision to the SRD to include criticals?

"That is not dead which can eternal lie ..."

I have the Big Gold Book, which is well-thumbed and the source of great inspiration. I'd love to get my hands on another copy, be it POD or second hand.

I'm a bit late replying to these helpful suggestions. Sorry.

I'm going with a mixed bag of options. For example, a character with STR 12 and CON 14 is attacked by a Wasting Disease spirit, loses the spirit combat and is possessed/infected. They begin losing STR points at a rate of one per day and therefore have 12 days to find a cure (being kind here, and assuming the stat loss starts the day after infection).

This possession/infection is considered magical and therefore Physik and mundane medical treatment can't cure the disease but can slow its progress (as suggested by @NickMiddleton ). If the victim is being treated regularly - at least every 6 hours, say - and the medic can make a Physik roll once per day, this grants the victim a Stamina roll to avoid the STR loss on that day. This could keep the victim alive for longer than 12 days. Without daily treatment, the victim is not allowed a Stamina roll, and is doomed to lose one STR per day.

The only way to treat such a magical disease is to combat it with magic, i.e. a Healing spirit. The characters must find, convince (and probably pay) a Shaman with the ability to summon these spirits. This gives us a race-against-time mission to recruit the Shaman, which creates the sort of tension I'm after.

Now, this is where it gets tricky. According to the Magic World Bestiary, a Disease spirit has an average POW of 16-17, while a Healing spirit's POW is just 14, putting it at a mathematical disadvantage in spirit combat against the Disease. I had a thought, then, that an Apothecary working with mundane drugs and potions, cooperating with the Shaman, could grant a bonus to the Healing spirit's POW. I'm not talking a huge bonus (1 or 2 points or 1D3 on a critical Physik skill roll) but it might be enough to swing the balance in favour of the Healing spirit.

When the Disease spirit is destroyed or banished, the lost characteristic points regenerate at a rate of one per week to a level one point below the starting level. Again, Physik and Potions can help with this convalescence (at the same 1, 2 or D3 points rate) until the victim recovers.

I don't know if this seriously unbalances spirit combat but it fosters cooperation between vastly different character types (the nature-attuned Shaman vs. the more clinical Apothecary), lets explorer-type PCs search for and recruit the Shaman, encourages roleplaying, and generates a sense of urgency in the adventure.

Any thoughts or opinions on this sort of approach? I'd love to hear them.

Colin

Hi,

I've posted this in the Magic World forum but I do suppose it applies to spirit magic in Rune Quest as well.

If a character is attacked by a Disease Spirit and loses the MP vs. MP struggle, they are then possessed by the spirit and suffer the effects (wasting disease loses STR, brain fever loses INT). I suppose two questions spring to mind:

• Can the infected/possessed character fight off the disease spirit through mundane medicine or natural remedies?
• When cured (either by Healing Spirit or Physik or Potions, if possible) what happens to the lost characteristic points? Are they gone forever or do they regenerate over a period of convalescence? (Perhaps one point per week up to one point lower than the original level.)

What I'm looking at is a 'race against time' scenario, where an important NPC is possessed and starts losing characteristic points. The PCs are tasked with finding the cure.

I'd love to hear any suggestions.

Thanks,

Colin

I did do some work on Cyberpunk and Warhammer 40000 settings for BRP. You can find them in the Downloads section.

Colin

I am undecided on this.

I 'cut my teeth' (so to speak) on Stormbringer 3rd edition. That used separate attack/parry skills for each weapon, with each increasing separately through experience. I still have a soft spot for that sort of crunchiness.

However, Magic World uses the broad class of weapons and skill with one = skill with all the others, and I kinda like that, too.

I think it depends on your group. My Stormbringer group were happy with the extra complexity. My Magic World group, almost all of whom were players new to RPGs of any type, prefer the weapon category approach. I'm easy with either.

Colin 

I got my son started with the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (way back when he could start counting the spots on 2D6) then gradually got a bit more complex. I have run BRP Star Wars (using files from this site), BRP Cyberpunk (using my own mash-up) and Magic World games for my wife and son.

I think RPGs are a great way of spending quality family time.

Colin

On 12/28/2020 at 5:15 PM, dmariz18 said:

Its a little pricy though, keep that in mind. 

dmariz18. I saw this on their site. Thanks for the heads-up.

Colin

3 minutes ago, dmariz18 said:

I use fantasy grounds and it works pretty great. 

Book-marked for future reference. Thanks.

Colin

Hi GothmogIV

I'm looking into Roll20 myself. I'd be interested in keeping up with any progress you make.

Thanks,

Colin

For me, D&D is like Warhammer 40K: anything after 2nd edition really didn't grab me. I've tried to keep up, tried to get a grip on the systems but 'meh' sums it up for me.

Give me BRP-based systems and I'm happy.

Hi,

I'm soon to be running a solo game which may involve some dungeon- or cave-crawling. The character is not combat-orientated and so can't blunder into a fight. MW page 88 says light from a torch or lantern can be seen from 100 metres away but this doesn't cover how far the torch-bearer can see.

So the question is: if equipped with a torch, lantern or candle, how far does that light reach to give reasonable vision? Five feet, 10, 50?

Are there any official or house rules on this, please? Any suggestions would be very useful.

Thanks,

Colin

I wrote a set of Perl programs for randomly generating PCs and monsters for BRP and Magic World. If you're interested, I could send you a tar.gz or zipfile.

Colin

I don't know if this will get me banned but here goes:

I experimented with this idea in (believe it or not) a set of LotR rules I wrote way back when the movies were big. In these rules the Dark Arts (Necromancy, Wizardry - which I define as the summoning of demons, elementals and other spirits - and Sorcery used for evil) could cost points of permanent POW. These points come either from the caster or those victims sacrificed on the altar. One sentient being generated one POW point, as the rest of the POW was expended in the sheer terror of the ritual and, essentially, go to waste. Animals generated POW based on their relative POW: one bull or tiger might equal one POW, lesser creatures (pigs, chickens) would generate a fraction of one POW (therefore a number might be needed).

Obviously, these magicks (in Middle-earth) were the province of the Haradrim and those nations under the thrall of Morgoth and Sauron.

Please note, these rules were written to describe the darkest of the Dark Arts and have clear warnings against using them in the games. They were also written before Sorcery spells like Brazier of Power, Chain of Being, Blood Feast and the Fey magicks in Advanced Sorcery.

Colin

For me, it's situational.

I tend to make an INTx5 roll for the bad guys. If they make it, they're smart enough to flee if things turn against them. If they fail (> INTx5) they're too stupid/obsessed/desperate or afraid of the BBEG controlling them to make a run for it.

I might also make POWx5 rolls if they encounter powerful magic.

Low-level undead rarely run.

Colin

As a follow-up to this, if I fire three shots with a light pistol (3 attk), does each shot after the first accrue the -30% modifier (similar to multiple parries)?

As a follow-up to the follow up, do all three shots happen on the same DEX rank?

Colin

19 hours ago, tooley1chris said:

 

  Also giving some thought to the Crauch Dragon. The MW book suggests the term dragon MIGHT just be symbolic and it might not be a living creature at all. I like a good dragon quest as much as anyone, but what if it were a portal into the Fey Realms or even a super volcano that the dwarves were keeping from erupting through their strange magiks, laying waste to the Southern Reaches if it ever blew...I dunno. Do you know?

I've always seen the Cruach Dragon like the dragon's breath in the movie Excalibur. Once freed, it will blanket the Southern Reaches in the Ithiluin Mists.

Colin