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Heya All, Hopefully this is the right place for this kind of posts! I'm recruiting players for a Modern day play-by-forum investigative game. Originally I intended to use a rules light system (The WIndow), but absence of interest made me realize that people probably like their systems, and since BRP is the one I know best, why not. Anyone interested can read the blurb in the link below (there's a longuer introduction if I can find players!). That is the place I intended to run the game on, but if enough people are interested here, we can discuss other ways / forums to run it. https://rpggeek.com/thread/1523225/do-you-want-believe Thanks for the interest!

We're a couple of players looking for a gritty fantasy game (low fantasy setting), so we're looking for a GM to run the game, by forum, or even email. Looking at a game that is a sandbox, where our PC's could mature and develop instead of a single shot short pre-scripted adventure. Any adventurous GM's interested?

That meaning?... I do think that a well implemented fantasy setting would do well for the sales and for the popularity, even if it does not win industry prizes. Industry prizes bear little correlation with sales and popularity. Diaspora is in the nominees for best rules. Does it make it a popular system? No. With large volume sales? No. Of course one might argue that Chaosium wants BRP to be nothing else than a fringe book, but that seems such a waste that I find it rather unbelievable. Mongoose with what is a revised (for better or for worst) version of BRP is managing to establish several product lines on it. With a lot less time than BRP they already are bringing new settings (historical and fantasy), and later in the year will bring Elric (fantasy), also milking Glorantha (fantasy) as much as they can, and bringing another historical book (vikings). This proves there is a large market for BRP type engines. Note - Of course my view is relative and strictly personal. I do not expect (and will not try to convince) anyone to agree with me, and was just voicing my views.

I think it's somewhat stagnant. Here (UK) I see the rulebook, and virtually none of the dedicated BRP monographs. More than that, I never ever saw , in any of the play by post sites I usually attend saw any of the released 'settings' for it being played. In fact, it's even hard to find a semblance of a review on any of them on a major site like RPG net. The 'setting's published are for the best part seriously niche things that do almost nothing to increase any mainstream knowledge of the game. BRP needs urgently a solidly developed classic setting. That is, a fantasy or sci-fi setting remineshent of the likes of Traveller of the Forgotten Realms. The results of that voting on Chaosium's website speak for itself: Fantasy 1631 / 19 % Historical 807 / 9 % Horror 1746 / 20 % Post Apocalypse 1839 / 21 % Pulp 774 / 9 % Science Fiction 1660 / 19 % Funnily enough there has been a plethora of historical monographs (the least voted), no post-apocalypse settings (the highest voted) and the fantasy or sci-fi settings available are nowhere near the classic appeal of high fantasy D&D settings like FR, or the space opera of Traveller. Without a major setting and adequate support BRP will never be more than a niche game and as such prone to another period of dissapeareance. note - Traveller and the Forgotten Realms are just examples of a genre, nothing else.

Ladies & Gents, First time poster, but long time player of CoC , and long time interested in BRP. Firstly, a Merry Christmas to all! Secoy, a small question, I'm looking for a fantasy setting for BRP (or one using the BRP mechanics) , a must is that the system has pre-made campaigns and adventures, and that is a 'live' system, that i one with players and GM's , preferably using one of the PBEM systems (RPOL,etc.) Does anyone know of such a beast? Or can make any recommendations? Many thanks.