Dr. Bubonicus

I agree whole heartedly. The whole Tolkien style world building thing just holds no interest for me at all. What I need from a sci fi game is political and military factions, aliens and their philosophy and possible points of conflict for PCs.

IMHO each system needs no more than a line or two saying something about its main population centre, its government and maybe something interesting like "Its a binary star system with one red and one blue sun" or "This systems only population centre is a gas mining facility in high orbit around the gas giant planet Xymox"

Agreed.

If I have a sense of how the setting moves, the world details (aside from a few names) are really something I can just improvise.

(Hehe @ Xymox. My high school girlfriend my senior year (some 20 years ago) used to freaking love Clan of Xymox's album "Medusa" like nobody's business. Pretty much anything from 4AD made her happy)

Oh excellent. Thanks a ton, Nick.

Hello:

My name is George and I'm a freelance RPG writer. I've worked on books for the World of Darkness (new; core), Vampire: The Requiem, Exalted (first edition), as well as some d20 stuff.

Although I've played many the game since my humble gamer beginnings in 1982, my favorite game has always and forever will be Call of Cthulhu, Basic Roleplaying version.

I'm currently working on a setting for the BRP system that I hope to, at some point, publish it as either a monograph or as a licensed release.

My other hobbies include cats, horror film/books/art, rockclimbing, xing yi, meditation, going to Burning Man related events, and laying on the floor listening to old progressive rock albums.

Looking forward to exchanging ideas with you folks!

Be Well,

-George

I see this as an operatunity for several old Game to be revived into basic roleplaying system.

Just a few games out thier that would rock in the BRP system

Justifiers

Star Fronters

AFTERMATH

Other suns

Villians and Vigilaties

Space opera

Traveller

a revised and expanded superworld

Gamma World

Boothill

Adventures in Fantasy

Top Secret

Man, Myth and magic

THieves World

Conan

second age of Atlantis

just to name a few!

To this list of obscure items, I'd like to add Skyrealms of Jorune.

Hello:

I'm a new member to these forums. So, if there is a thread (or link) that offers answers to these questions, just post them and I'll waste no more of your time.

I was curious about what is involved in writing a monograph OR licensed setting for the BRP setting. I realize the latter is far more involved than the former and that Chaosium isn't going to toss out licensing to just anyone.

Also, does Chaosium give the writers of the monographs any sort of payment when they sell their work or is it just a way that Chaosium supports fan produced materials?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for having me on your forums and I look forward to spending more time here. Take care

-George