Vorax Transtellaris

The pdf is looking very nice at first glance but I don't want to start more detailed reading until I have the actual book in my hands. Any news on the shipping of the preordered books?

I've been spreading the word to anyone I know who may be interested. I got at least one other person to preorder as well, so far . How are the preorders going?

Just returning to the internet after some trouble with my connection I find this great news! :thumb: I immediately placed my preorder through PayPal and look forward very much to receiving the book!

On the D101 Games forums it says this will now be available real soon, possibly March 1st!

Exactly! The image your average "spiritual" housewife has of tribal peoples, which couldn't be further from anthropological reality. Heck, even the Ewoks made more ethnographic sense! The Na'vi suck and so does their planet and if some idiot GM would present me with them in a game I'd have trouble refraining myself from trying to destroy them . (I have the same gut reaction to elves, by the way.)

No matter how ridiculous they're still elves and I hate elves. And giant blue space-elves on a New Age/neo-hippie world even moreso.

I enjoyed Sherlock Holmes a lot. I was and still am afraid Avatar may annoy me more than it will entertain me and so we decided to go see Holmes instead. Since I am far from a CGI fetishist, to "go for the eye candy and leave your brain at home" is not as easy an option as it may be for others. Last but not least, the Na'vi are too elf-like to my taste and I hate elves.

I realize I am at risk of becoming annoying but will it still be out before the end of the year?

OK OK, back on topic now. Apart from my by now obvious obsession with Aztec themeds roleplaying material, a sourcebook covering the precolumbian Inca empire would also be pretty cool. :cool:

Haha, yes, just look at this *cough* Egyptian *cough* sourcebook. And THIS or THIS! I mean, wtf!! Besides, the reasons for its decline aren't that mysterious anyway, if you do some proper research.

The whole way of dressing is in accurate as well, no woman dressed like that! This woman would be considered highly offensive in Aztec society and probably be punished accordingly for bringing shame to her calpulli. Anyway, if Chaosium would do a properly researched and designed sourcebook for playing in an Aztec setting I'd definitely be interested in buying it.

There also was Temples of Blood (1985) by Pacesetter and Aztecs: Empire of the Dying Sun (2002) by Avalanche Press, both of which suffered from sensationalism, a lack of historical detail and, quite frankly, sucked big time, representing the Aztec as no more than another interesting fantasy race. The cover of the latter says it all (click link)! There really is a lack of historically correct and respectful gaming materials concerning precolumbian Mesoamerica, hence my choice.

I voted for Aztec/Mayan. With 'Aztec' included in the title of this setting we already focus on a fairly short part of the precolumbian Mesoamerican past (1325-1521 AD). This is a good thing, mind you, because it's no use trying to filter a usable game setting from thousands of years of history. It would be most interesting to present a detailed image of Mesoamerica during the reign of the Aztec Triple Alliance. There have been a few products on the RPG market concerning Mesoamerica but unfortunately most were not done very well, and that's keeping it friendly;). In fact I can think of only two decent products: Steve Jackson Games' GURPS Aztec and Pagan Publishing's CoC sourcebook Mysteries of Mesoamerica, though the latter is of no use for setting your game in the precolumbian past because it lacks decent, recent and clear information on the period. So we're basically stuck with one source, which is a bit meagre. Regards, a Mesoamerica fan

I probably started as a player in a GURPS fantasy game around 1992 or '93. Took up game mastering myself around 1995, first with GURPS, then Vampire. I only recently picked up Call of Cthulhu, Unisystem and HEX which are my favourites at the moment. I was born in 1971 so I came to RPGs rather late.

I may also use it with Call of Cthulhu so the BRP content is not lost on me . It's just that for a sword & sorcery setting that will serve as the prehistory of my Call of Cthulhu 1920s BoL seems like the perfect system, rather than the more deadly and skill-focused BRP that fits Call of Cthulhu better. The Green will then feature in both eras as a kind of land that time forgot.

The fact that there's little rules-related stuff in this only makes it better as I am now planning to integrate this into a sword & sorcery setting using Barbarians of Lemuria.

Yay! :thumb: This has been the my single most anticipated D100-related product this year, though I may actually end up using it primarily for setting info to add an arctic region or continent to the Barbarians of Lemuria setting. I'll have to see how well the two combine, as I haven't received my copy of the new BoL book yet.

My FLGS has informed me that they will probably be able to order this for me! :happy: So, how's things progressing?

According to Wikipedia

I read on another forums that BRP stats for Gojira/Godzilla have been published in CoC Modern: Secrets of Japan, only renamed as 'Gazira' or something like that. Unfortunately, since I only play CoC Classic, I don't own the book so I couldn't tell you anything about the range of its statistics.

(Up until now I had never even heared of a trollkin and assumed it was some kind of mutant rat guy.) The only thing that green thing has in its hands is the trollkin's weapon, so if the trollkin just lets go of it it can easily get away. It looks considerably faster and more agile than the green thing.

I got MG because both the setting and the mechanics (of which I don't know any details yet) looked different from anything else I tend to run. It seems like fun to use it sometime as a surprise intermezzo for my group.

Welcome Bruce! I recently picked up Mouse Guard but haven't gotten round to studying it in more detail. Do you think there would be people interested in a Mouse Guard BRP conversion?

Actually Sails on the Horizon sounds fine to me.

I agree with Simlasa. It sounds very tongue-in-cheek and also too reminiscent of the upcoming AFMBE supplement Argh! Thar Be Zombies, for which that kind of tongue-in-cheek name seems far more appropriate. Other than that, I am interested. Will this contain any material facilitating using it with CoC?