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Thanks for the replies folks. What a pity I can't just order them from Lulu. Tom

All, I'm a big fan of having my roleplaying books in "dead tree format", but for a majority(?) of Monographs it seems that you can only buy PDF's from Chaosium's website. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get high quality printing and binding of these PDF's? Personally I'm looking for a solution in the United Kingdom, but don't let that stop you for recommending solutions around the world as I'm sure there must be others who are disatisfied with just running these things through their home/office laser printer. Thanks, Tom

That was a surprise to me, as I don't ever recall having played it like that. I checked the d100 systems I had at hand: Call Of Cthulhu 5th Edition: agrees with you wrt Parry stating that "At the beginning of the round, the defender states which potential attacker he intends to parry, before anyone attacks." However CoC 5 doesn't allow multiple parries - where the existence of such a rule could be more difficult to apply. It is not prescriptive about when Dodges need to be declared. GORE: Seems to suggest that a Parry or Dodge only has to be declared after a successful attack.

My feeling is that it is an error as well. I wondered if it was a 'leftover' from someone thinking that a parry had to be declared before the to-hit roll. This would make sense in some ways, but I don't recall any BRP game (or any RPG for that matter) where this is the case.

So it's just a 'no-result', seems pretty pointless ;-)

Looking at the BRP "Melee Weapon Parry Fumble Table" p194 the result for 76-78 is "Wide open; foe automatically hits with normal hit." How does this work? The rules are fairly clear that a character only has to roll to parry/dodge attacks that actually succeed -- thus if you are rolling on this table you have already been hit for at least a "normal hit". Thanks, Tom