Jason D

I think Chaosium is putting out as much CoC as they're able to, given their resources. Good question. Given that three of the currently-in-development sourcebooks or monographs (I forget which is which) are fantasy, it remains to be seen which ones they'll support more. I know that during the final writing of BRP, Dustin was very interested in seeing a "house" fantasy setting for BRP. I don't know. What, to you, is anime in a gaming sense? Is it superdeformed stuff? The art style? Martial arts? A mix of sci-fi and fantasy? Ridiculously oversized weapons? Personally, I don't think there's much reason to do a BRP Anime generic rulebook, but a sourcebook based on a particular setting is a possibility. "Hallelujah, amen" to that.

It's not the most detailed poll. It's missing topics like Superhero, Action, and Western. I suspect it's just out there as a bellwether.

There's a new poll at Chaosium.com asking the question"Which Genre would you most like to see as a Chaosium BRP setting?" The options presented are: Fantasy Historical Horror Post Apocalypse Pulp Science Fiction Click here to go to the poll!

By "clothes", of course, I mean my bejeweled Martian battle-harness with concealed clasp-knife.

I'm just doing the words on this one, and I usually keep my clothes on when I write.

Indeed! I keep begging someone to propose it to Chaosium and write it! "The Big Book of Magic" would be an essential sourcebook for BRP occult and fantasy games.

No. It's the system from MW, cleaned up and altered slightly, revised for balance. That was actually the reason that system was picked - the broadness and ease of use. Those are easily added on, based on Sorcery spells or created from whole cloth. I hope that players and GMs do plenty of such creation.

You might take a look at Rolemaster Express (or HARP) for another system in which the quality of the dice roll directly affects the damage dealt.

It is the Magic World system. RQ3 was not consulted (or harmed) in the writing of that chapter.

As noted, if you need to note the amount of HP below 0 for the short period of time a character can be below 0 HP and be viable, then it's there for that. I think it also might have ramifications for some powers (like regeneration), but don't have my book handy and can't recall which.

Chaosium still owns the rights to any English-language version of the game. Despite interested developers, they have chosen not to release a new version. This might change in the future, but it's unlikely. Consider that until their sale earlier this year, they still had copies of most of the core books in stock, 14 years after the game's release. Not the best-selling line they've ever published. There has been recent interest from an outside source (at least, I've been in contact with someone who is considering making Chaosium an offer on it), but time will tell if it comes to anything.

Liber Ka basically said "We don't like the system from the core book. Here's a completely new system to use instead."

As the book will feature: a) a campaign in which the characters are pitched in a dangerous battle across the solar system, including a stop on each planet and a cover undoubtedly featuring a iron-thewed warrior in jeweled battle harness, fighting a towering alien under an exotic sky ...I think the title is still appropriate. Remember that I've said there will be some space travel, it just won't be a focus, and it certainly won't involve (as I've said) teams of jumpsuited space corps officers rocketing around in a ship in defense of the Earth.

I am quite fond of the promise of Nephilim, less so about the game that was released. There's some recent discussion about it on rpg.net, and I believe it comes up on gamingtavern.eu from time to time. The magic system from the core book was woefully wrongheaded in that it attempted to be a representation of Western magic. It was replaced by the system presented in the supplment Liber Ka. If you want an alternate magic system to the two presented in BRP, it would work (with a little finessing), but if you're looking for something approximating what people think of as "real world" magic, stick to Liber Ka. I would absolutely love to see a new English-language edition of the game that rethought the origin of the Nephilim, redid their relationship to their human hosts, and emphasized the "modern incarnations of mythological beings" aspect rather than trying to glom a Western occult conspiracy game around them. The success of the entire White Wolf line demonstrates that there's a market for a game featuring semi-human immensely powerful beings living in secret amongst humanity engaging in a secret war with one another and other forces.

It looks like the site's up, with two important bits of news: a) the official new BRP character sheet is now downloadable. official confirmation that BRP is at the printer. Woot!

The genre is also called interplanetary adventure, interplanetary romance, interplanetary stories, etc. I didn't necessarily want to use the "romance" label because the term is a bit dated, and I liked the punchiness of a one-word title. Planetary, however, has already been used for a long-running comic from DC.

There's a whole "news" part with all sorts of information about new games, as well as a ton of support material for Call of Cthulhu.

Neither of these are planned. What kind of rules outside the BRP core book do you think would be essential for that?

Their site was hacked a week and a half ago. They've been trying to get it up and running, but they're a smallish operation and are in the middle of a few other things, like trying to get BRP out the door, some Call of Cthulhu stuff, etc. Plus, the GAMA Trade Show was last week, so they were out of town at that (at least, I'm pretty sure they were there).

If you'll look upthread, you'll see that the date of my suggestion to Chaosium was 10/15/07, about three and a half months before Dark Heresy shipped. While I would have loved to have had my hands on a copy of Dark Heresy back in October, such was not the case.

Here's the mailing from Chaosium regarding the website:

Awesome! You're an inspiration!

There are plenty of spells that can enhance weapons (technically "weapon buffs") but only a few spells directly targeting an opponent. The magic system, however, is full of straight-damage spells.

Apparently you're not familiar with the genre this sourcebook is about. Words like plausible aren't remotely applicable to interplanetary adventure stories.

That was specifically to accommodate one of the PCs - a distraught engineer named Korrick Salvaridar (try saying that fast) who was eager to join the Rebellion due to his work being utilized by Seinar Fleet Systems in development of the Death Star. He wanted a skill to represent his being able to throw together technological devices, and other feats of engineering. With around half of his body replaced with cybernetics, he was essentially a Star Wars version of Tony Stark. That campaign was a lot of fun. But this is really off topic, so I'll end the discussion here.