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It does. But only because we have very few expenses. I have run a company with several employees, and I can assure you that it is not easy. You simply cannot compare an indie publisher with a small but established company like Chaosium.

I have no means to know who bought a physical copy, whereas I know who bought a PDF.

Hmmm, while we are at it, we actually have some copies of Stupor Mundi we did not sell at Tentacles. This allows us to do the "Discount for who bought the PDF" trick. For a limited time, we will provide a printed copy of Stupor Mundi at a discount to anyone who already purchased a PDF. Price is 15 EUR in the EU (and Norway, to keep our admin happy) and 16 EUR outside the EU, including postage. To order write to info@alephtargames.com and specify your address and your DriveThru customer ID, or the email you use one YourGamesNow if you purchased through YGN. We will send you instructions for the payment.

The end of the world is not near... it is tomorrow :shocked:

You meant "Those FLGS that are still in business", didn't you? This is the typical market situation that requires a so-called "change in business model".

Thank you Rust, most German roleplayers have some CoC experience and they will appreciate the book.

The PDF version is online now at Arima or YourgamesNow. It is also on DriveThru and RpgNow! of course but we recommend the two sites listed, they are more friendly to us poor indie publishers.

Just to make it clear, the "acclaimed" Rome will also be available from Chaosium tomorrow or so. I am the one who oversees the delivery and I expect the FedEx man to be at their door this afternoon or so. Dustin and Charlie already have the PDF, too. Lulu is a Good Thing for us small publishers but an established publisher with in-house stocking capabilities should not go that way. I wish we at Alephtar Games were able to skip the lulu thing, but unfortunately we are not (yet). I can perfectly understand why Chaosium does not wish to publish physical books before they know whether there is a market for them. Some of our upcoming BRP products will be PDF only, at least at the beginning, because of the higher risk connected to physical publishing. The point now is that customers do not want to pay twice because they are supporters. Understandable. One possible solution could be that of deducting a fraction of the price of the PDF from the price of the book, if the book is later purchased. But this is Chaosium's choice, exactly as whether to buy the PDF or not is the customer's choice only. Alephtar Games would certainly do such a thing if we had the opportunity, but unfortunately we only sell physical books through lulu, which does not allow discount coupons, so it is not a viable option for us at present.

Thank you for your patience, dear fans. The lucky fellows at Tentacles, including our Forum Admin, already have their copies, but now you can order yours, too! BRP Rome is now available at the Alephtar Games Lulu.com StoreFront. US Customers are strongly recommended to wait a couple more days and order directly from Chaosium. The Chaosium batch of books is already printed and currently travelling through the States, so it should be in California within thursday Jun 3. EU customers can also order from the Chaos Society. The PDF version is online now at Arima or YourgamesNow. It is also on DriveThru and RpgNow! of course but we recommend the two sites listed. I also wish take advantage of the announcemente to thank again Fabian and all the Tentacles crew for twelve years of enjoyment. I am specially proud that the debut of Rome has been among the events of this closing edition!

I have rewritten the mecha stats for next Sunday's game and they were not disrupted by your modifications. I think they are an improvement over the standard table.

I thought this thread was started to clarify the points about the Opposed Roll mechanics in BRP as written, not to allow someone to issue another complaint against the combat resolution mechanism. Anyway, it should be noted that it is possible to play BRP without using opposed rolls. Pre-Pendragon BRP games had no opposed rolls and they worked. Frogspawner, just one question: why on earth should it be easier to dodge Swift Sam the fast-stabbing halfling (avg. damage 4-5) rather than Clumsy Bo the Slow-bashing Great Troll (avg. damage 15-16)?

My current group is always debating about how to best simulate h-t-h combat and we have a gap in the current campaign where we could fill a couple of off-topic sessions. Count me in.

Your contribution is priceless, atgxtg. If you do not mind, I will also put the revised table in our upcoming Mecha supplement

Well, point 3) was enough to persuade me I will be eternally grateful to you for this, atgxtg. I will be running a mecha game at Tentacles, and the SIZ values in the mecha range are really important for that kind of game. I'll have to rewrite all the stats, but it is worth doing it.

The problem is: what is the correct value in the original table? The metric tons or the british tons?

There should be 4-5 days left.

Hey, you US guys, don't worry. You can order from Chaosium later this month.

The first batch of Rome: the Life and Death of the Republic will be printed next week! If you are going to the Tentacles Convention in May or have some friends who do, please remember that this might be your last opportunity to secure a guaranteed copy and a discount. There will be some extra (not discounted) copies, but please believe me when I say that these ones will vanish once the fans have the book under their greedy eyes. I will be extremely unhappy if I see people looking at the last available copy in their friends' hands and whining that they must wait longer and pay extra shipping expenses to order from Lulu! Preview and preorder instructions at BRP Rome

But nothing prevents us from hoping. d100 gaming was clinically dead four years ago, except for Call of Cthulhu, and look at the situation now Welcome, newcomers, to the land of the ever-dreaming!

Rome contains over one hundred scenario hooks and cameos, both scattered in the text and collected in the Campaign chapter, and extensive guidelines on how to design your own campaign. There is no pre-written campaign, but all you need is to pick some scenario hooks and put them together. I will also exploit this opportunity to announce that the proof copy of Rome reached Chaosium yesterday. General availability at end of May confirmed, do not forget to preorder. Charlie sounded happy...

Definitely better than having X rounds of duration. After all, why should a spell duration be predictable in terms of seconds? A variation of Sandy's Sorcery. But it has the same limit as basic Sorcery, Free INT. Better use Presence, which starts as high as Free INT (the Vessel vow) but gets up as the Sorcerer becomes more powerful. All in all, this works rather fine. It could become a good alternate rule for both BRP and MRQ Sorcery.

Absolutely. If it's fun, it does not need to be realistic!

A Multispell of Fly, Animate (Metal) and Damage Boosting 10 on your dagger can do even more wonders, and it costs less PP per potential damage done

Well, at a first glance the evolutionary explanations given in the text make absolutely no sense (it is free moving animals that evolve into sextile species, not the opposite, ever), and no creature with such a rudimentary nerve system could actually walk efficiently like a mammal, even on four legs - it could only go on arthropod legs. But the creatures are fun and the explanations are well done.

Your reasoning is perfect, save for one detail. Music and MMORPGs are products you enjoy while being online. Pen and paper RPGs are not. I do not think the comparison between Hasbro and Blizzard can stand up. Whatever their new platform's characteristics are, it will not work similarly to Battle.net or Steam. Okay, it is a fact that we two are a sort of exception to this rule because we play online a lot these days , but most players go tabletop and read their dead tree copies in bed (or worse), not online. In the end, I think they have left a wide, albeit niche-shaped, gap for the other systems to thrive on, by pissing off their indie supporters and challenging the supremacy of the big online companies without having the strength or experience to do so. Remember, Hasbro has literally f***ed up the best PC game franchises of history with its insane policy after acquiring Microprose (Falcon 4, X-Com, Master of Magic, etc. etc.). Let me be doubt that it will do better this time with WotC.