Vorax Transtellaris

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!

Hehehe... Tree-huggers!

SGL.

Elves the size of Great Trolls shooting arrows the size of javelins and flying on giant beasties - what's not to like?

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:

Avalanche Press did a whole series of books like that; including a Norse/Viking book where the woman on the cover must have died from hypothermia. (...)

Yep, just take a look at this one. It is an adventure about the mysterious

end of the Norse colony on Greenland, but you really only have to look at

the cover to know why these Norse in Greenland went extinct ...

Sadly it's covers like that that give RPG's a bad name.....I mean those battle axes are completely inaccurate for the setting.

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 was a BRP based Aztec / Mayan game started in the mid 80s. I don't recall all the details now as it has been sometime. I remember signing up for a playtest of it at Dundracon, run by one of the Chaosium people. I wonder if it might still be floating around at Chaosium.

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 was kinding of aiming at this sort of feel: large animals, dinosaurs, and wierd tribes. I was reading Doyle and Burroughs in the middle of writing it. I think this shows up most in the Monster section.

I do not want to give the wrong impression, there are crunchy rules bits in it, I am just a little worried at how well I carried them off. Gm's should see this material as rough guidelines and feel free to tinker. I tried to leave the normal BRP options open and that made a few things a little difficult.

I would like to think the Green could link into Barbarians of Lemuria pretty well.

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?

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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.

Howdy folks, I'm Bruce... I've been RPGing since 1979. Oddly enough, my only real experience with BRP is via Pendragon which I consider my favorite all-time game. Recently, I've been looking for a non-battlemat generic system and realized that I had completely overlooked BRP.

Currently, I'm playing in a D&D 4E game, and I've been toying around with Mouse Guard in addition to my "generic" project.

Actually Sails on the Horizon sounds fine to me.

(...)cause most likely I'm the only one of this opinion... but I kind of hate the name you've chosen... 'Arrrgh Pirates!'

I like pirates games as much as anyone but that name just sounds silly to me(...)

Other than that, I am interested. Will this contain any material facilitating using it with CoC?

This sounds like a lot of fun. I do hope it will be possible for me to obtain a copy inspite of my refusal to get a credit card or use PayPal. So hopefully the online gamestore where I usually order my RPG materials will be able to get one for me. *crosses fingers*