mhensley

Why are those two stats on a different bell curve than the other stats? Coming from D&D, it seems kind of weird.

Any word on when the updated book will be coming out? I don't want to buy the current one only to have to replace it.

Perhaps parrying with a shield should be an easy task or parrying with a weapon should be difficult. It seems to me that learning how to parry with a sword would be a whole lot harder than learning how to attack with it. I'm pretty sure that I (with no training) could hit someone with a sword, but I doubt I could parry anything (at least without loosing some fingers in the process).

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Another shield question- I've been reading thru the brp rules and I'm not quite sure why using a shield is worthwhile. It seems like you should just take something big like a halberd and max your skill with that. You can attack and parry in the same round with a weapon, right? Instead of spending points on shield skill, you could put those points to dodge instead. Am I missing something here?

Is the Basic Roleplaying book absolutely necessary or can I use this with the rules from another d100 game like Call of Cthulhu Dark Ages or Stormbringer or even the BRP Quickstart rules?

Hmmm... this sound interesting. It looks like a BRP version of Traveller. That's something I've been thinking of doing myself.

But shouldn't the same logic apply to other stats like Strength as well? Would someone with a Con of 3 even survived long enough to become a pc? Perhaps the best way is the way Elric does it by making all the stats 2d6+6. Or if you don't want above average pc's, weight the middle more heavily by rolling 5d6 (drop the lowest and the highest roll) for each stat. That will produce very average stats.

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In my first reading of the rules, the first thing that struck me as being a bit odd was that the INT and SIZ stats are 2d6+6 instead of being done as 3d6 like everything else. Why is this? It seems weird that all pc's are meant to be smarter and bigger than average.

I just got the BRP book about a week ago and so far it seems pretty sweet. I haven't given much thought to this system since I last owned the first edition rules for CoC. I'm thinking of maybe using this for a d&d or traveller type game.