TLS

The game room will start operating at 10am on both Saturday and Sunday. The registration desk will open at 9am on Saturday.

This convention is focused on Fairytales, folklore and fantasy. Here is the website: Faerie Escape Atlanta | Faerie Escape Atlanta The website has been updated with an events schedule. The con is June 15-17(Fri-Sun). The event on Friday evening is free and open to the public; no entry fee and no convention badge required. I'll be in charge of gaming for the con. I'll bring a bunch of board games and card games. You are welcome to bring your own games. I'll also run a tabletop RPG on Sunday from 11am to 3pm. I'll use a system called Fudge and it will be a fairytale-based scenario. I'll provide dice. The Marketplace(i.e. dealer's room) and the gaming room are open to the public for the entire convention. You do not need to purchase a convention badge to enter either one of them. Of course, you will need a badge to enter any of the other rooms. Even if you just want to do some shopping or play games it will be a chance to see some great faerie costumes in the hallways. Ted

I have the Big Gold Book and Coc 6th edition. I have only a little bit of experience with Chaosium's systems(but lots of experience with other systems). There are no stats or guidelines for creating Mighty Children in CEoTC. How would you do it? What are their abilities?

I'm not sure if that was intentional or not but I'm not the one who posted that particular statement.

Okay, this is a long thread and I did not read it through. Hoprfully, I am not repeating what someone else might have brought up. This thread is a good opportunity to inform you about the Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games. This is a private, non-profit group that started out as an effort to counteract the negative claims made about RPGs back in the 1980's. There have not been many such claims in recent years so most of our activity has gone to a more academic research about RPGs as a hobby and cultural phenomenon. Anytime you hear of such negative claims please contact the Chair or one of the Regional Directors and let them know about it. There are a lot of forums and we can't monitor all of them so direct contact would be appreciated. You can find out the contact info here: www.car-pga.org I should also point out that CAR-PGa has a googlegroup and we also publish a newsletter( which can be had in paper or electronic form).

I'm thinking about using psychic abilities for some NPCs. What are your thoughts on the stuff in the Big Gold Book? I also have Delta Green: Countdown which also has some psi stuff. What are your thoughts on that material?

I'm planning on running the abovementioned game and I've borrowed CoC 6th Ed from a friend just to get critter stats and some spells. I realize that the Knowledge(Blasphemous Lore) skill from BGB is meant to be a generic Mythos Lore skill. Does it make any sense to have both that skill and Knowledge(occult) in the aformentioned game? If not, why not? If yes, then what is (or should be) the difference between the two?

Well, I ran all the micro-adventures except for Bank Heist and Footsteps in the Dark. The players seemed to enjoy them well enough. And, it's always good when you can give two hawt girls their first experience with tabletop RPGs. Really, I think that inducting hawt girls into the hobby should be much higher on everyone's list of priorities.

So, I plan to run these little buggers at Sci Fi Summer Con in about a week; got some questions. Lost Temple of Garthoon by Troy Wilhelmson Why does Jonan the elf have both biped and quadriped movement ratings? Escape From Earthport by Sarah Newton I get the joke about "Cola Station" since the station is a hollow cylinder but what's the joke behind "planers" and the "Custodian" ? Dwelling of the Ancients by Nick Middleton What is the structure supposed to have been before the big disaster? Is the side view supposed to be showing me the three stairways that are also shown in map #1?

Well, I could not get that group together. The personal schedules could not be rectified(dang-blasted work getting in the way of gaming). So, I plan to run it at Sci Fi Summer Con in June. It will be my first time GMing any kind of Chaosium RPG. I also plan to run all those mini-scenarios from the free BRP quick-start thing that is on the Chaosium website. If any of you live in the Atlanta area come to the con and play in my Zombie King game.

Next question: I already looked in the skill section and the armor section. Maybe I overlooked it but is there anything in the "Vitruvian Man" book that tells me if armor penulties will reduce a skill below the base skill? Which page?

Wow! An answer from one of the writers. That's cool. Hopefully, you will continue to read this thread. What was the thinking behind the "personality" part of chargen? And how, in your mind, does it mesh with the variable game levels? What was the intention there?

Umm...wait...INT x 10 free points? What's that? Did I overlook some major part of character generation? I know about the "personality" skill points. I know about the skill points to be spent on profession skills based on normal, heroic, epic and superhuman games. I don't remember seeing anything about INT x 10.

Hello?....Bueller..Bueller.....Bueller?

The book addresses the idea of campaign power level. It has a sliding scale: normal, heroic, epic and superhuman. You get a greater number of skill points, the higher you go. Okay, no problem. Understood. There is also a "personality" section of character creation that seems to indicate it should be used for...well...heroic characters. How are these two elements of the rules supposed to mesh? If I try to do a normal level game but let them take the "personality" option, is it still really a normal level game? Your thoughts on this? Leaving aside the "personality" section, do you differentiate the campaign levels in some way other than just more skill points? Are there optional rules you would use? Homebrew rules?

The players are not particularly tough. The characters, on the other hand, should be up to the task. I pre-generated all the characters. I designed them based on a heroic level game. In addition, I gave them each a "personality" background boost.

Yeah, I don't mind if the regular zombies are "slow, stupid, and easily avoided" but they won't be flesh seeking zombies. They will be more like D&D zombies; magical automatons created by magicians as menial servants and mindless soldiers. They can obey simple orders. It will be the Zombie King that will be the improved version. He will have the same INT and POW as he had in life. The ZK has gradually aquired an army of zombie minions. Since he senses whatever his minions sense, he has an excellent intelligence gathering mechanism. After one group of his zombies has encountered the PCs, he can adjust his tactics to account for PC weaknesses. And, he can use a lone zombie as a scout to get immediate real time intelligence. Of course, he will equip his troops with whatever armor and weapons he can get. As for the mummy suggestions, I will read that part when I get a chance.

A few months ago I bought BRP. I've played Chaosium's games a little bit but never run one of them. I'm going to run a one-shot adventure in a few weeks; it will be a fantasy game. I'll use the Kingdoms of Kalamar game setting. So, I came up with a new type of critter as the main bad guy for the adventure: The Zombie King. The idea is that when a necromancer creates a zombie there is a slight chance there will be a mishap. The original spirit returns and inhabits the body. It is free-willed; not under the necromancer's control. If it touches a zombie it permanantly takes control. On the night of the full moon it can create a zombie of it's own from a handy corpse. It can sense anything any of its zombies can sense. Since I'm a newbie to BRP, what can you suggest about statting out this dude? Any ideas?

They didn't hear you. Yell louder.

Time for my next question. Take a look at the "Use of spells by non-magicians" subsection of the Magic section. The third sentence has confused me. I thought spells were bought like the other skills. If the character has INT of 12, he can know only 3 levels altogether? What does that mean?

The Aimed Attack section in Spot Rules chapter seems to hint that both methods are only for missile weapons, not melee weapons. Is that correct?

Anyone have this? What is your opinion of it? Which of the "power systems" from BRP does it use? Has there been mention of any plans to sell a printed version?

Who is Mr. Durall? The text is in error? Is that just someone's opinion of bad game design on the part of Chaosium? Or, is it meant that Chaosium really did not mean to put that rule in the book?

First of all, I am more or less a newbie with BRP. So, hopefully I won't come across as too laughable in my inquiery. I'm still trying to learn BRP RAW. Since this thread is about shields, maybe you guys can help me. Take a look at the "armor" section that begins on P. 202. Look at the 5th paragraph in that section. It begins with "In settings where shields" and the last sentence seems to be of particular importance. I think I get the meaning of the paragraph but I'm not certain. What is it? Is it germaine to MacTele's original question of this thread concerning utility of shield parry vs. weapon parry?

I will pose some rule questions and you folks can help me learn BRP a little bit better. Let us suppose that Joe the Warrior( no relation to Joe the Plumber) has a shield and a shortsword. Bob the Bandit has a knife in his left hand and a light club in his right. Joe makes an attack and gets a Success. Bob dodges and gets a Fumble. Looking at A/D Matrix, Bob has to roll on Fumble table. There is a Parry Fumble table but none for Dodge. Should Bob just roll on Parry Fumble? Assuming the answer is yes, let's say he rolls 88. That means Joe's attack is considered Special rather than the original regular Success. Yes or No? If yes, then Joe has Special and Bob has Fumble. That part of A/D Matrix says defender rolls on Fumble table. Bob has to roll on Fumble table AGAIN? Is that right?