Mister Apocalypse

At first I thought it would work, but it was only the high tide coming in.

Further tests did show that the Atlantic actually retreats from two of the

core books while it ignores the Monster Manual.

This could be interesting for countries negatively affected by the rising sea

level caused by the climate change. They could plaster the shoreline with

pages ripped from the first two core books (I could sell them some wheat-

paste for that ...) to keep the sea away.

Hmmm...maybe we can convince Wizards of the Coast to warehouse their 4E stock in New Orleans?

Yep, as Nostradamus used to say (although he did it in late medieval French):

"When the Unpronouncable reaches Twenty-and-Twelve, fear that day,

because the harsh sound of clicking mandibles will be coming your way."

BZZZ.

Sorry, you forgot to phrase that in the form of a quatrain.

Percussion muskets and rifles would not be uncommon. Anything else would be a rarity. If 600 foreign techs did come over in 64-65 you could be looking at a small number of Henry, Sharps and Spencer rifles (and carbines) entering the country with them. roleplaying characters being unique individuals in their environment you could probably justify anything you wanted - Volcanic lever-action pistols and a heavy barreled Sharps anyone?

I'll pass on the Volcanic. The Sharps isn't bad. It's Reliable and with range about as good as any firearm of the era. But I think I'll take the Spencer.

Rules: do not fiddle with RQ2/RQ3 mish-mashes and just use straight BRP. It is RQ3 with some improvements, and it contains RQ2 Defense as an option.

Not really. Jason based BRP on WoW and Elric! rather than RQ3. IMO a bad move as neither is very functional. BRP ended up saddled with the flaws of thiose systems as well. For example the lousy Elric! parry table.

Also BRP diverts from RQ in other ways, including opposed rolls.

It's probably easier to mish-mash RQ2/3 than it is to mish-mash the options in BRP to get it to work for Glorantha.

Most of BRP's perks, wouldn't apply to Glorantha anyway.

Certainly RQ2 Defence was a bit broken. (In two ways: 1. Fiddly modifications of opponent's attacks rolls; 2. Runaway increase - the more you got, the more it made a difference, so the more you got...)

It's the runaway increase that's the problem.

So what we would likely see would be mostly smoothbores with some rifled muskets, and the odd percussion cap or breach loading weapon?

Ah, good. I was already wondering what to do with the 4,575 cubic meters

of wheatpaste I have ordered if the apocalypse were postponed. There are

not that many uses for such a lot of wheatpaste, apart from building secon-

dary homeworlds, you know.

Amazing the things you can find on eBay these days.

And now I have to find me a real long ladder to reach the construction site,

and some way to pump the Atlantic over to my own world ("Rustworld" does

not exactly sound nice ...?) once I have finished the seabeds and the Hima-

laya ...

Just wait until someone builds a space elevator. It's too far to climb.

Perhaps you could call you world the Oxydationsphere? But, as it is made of wheatpaste, it isn't likely to rust. I'd be more worried about weeavils. Better take along a handy muzzle-loading smoothbore mass thrower.

/Rurik abrubtly does an about face and leaves the pool hall he just entered in search of a suitable babe to use as an offering.

A wise move, Runespear. I promise not to leave you twisting in the wind when you are surrounded by Trollkin like that solar Deity Elmal.

But what would you expect from that guy. Everyone seems to have kicked his butt during godtime, and in the last decade of so he lost and eye (as well as an "y" , and an "o").

"Oh, why did I lose and eye?"

-Elmal to Greg Stafford

I wondered when You would find you way here Mr. Apoc. You may be a threat to watch for down the road, and I will. But right now your piddly 4 posts do not threaten the existence of all humanity like Atgxtg, "He Who Cannot Be Pronounced" with his 1925 posts.

You can pronounce "Atgxtg" by simultaneously sneezing and coughing. It just hurts a little. An please do not confuse me with those Cthulhuian wimps who are too afraid to leave home without the right horoscope.

And what all powerful entity cant get his own hot babe?

Ah, oh ignorant one, I never said I couldn't. Only that you should send me one. It is expected of powerful beings to delegate minor task to the flock that we could easily accomplish ourselves. It is supposed to make you feel like you are being watched over. At the least, it gives you something to do and keeps you out of pool halls.:cool:

Someday you may be a concern Mr. Apoc, and we will be watching.

Thanks for the warning. I'll be sure to keep the curtains closed. :eek:

And there they at least have halfway useful body armor...

I don't now, I think the 8 AP vest in BRP is probably more useful than Morrow Project's resistaweave.

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Yeah, a decent hero point style mechanic can do a lot to mitigate this problem. The Fate Point system is just too conservative to be up for the job.

On the other hand, its quite likely that vanilla BRP would produce a virtually unplayable game in such settings, as the ability to avoid incoming fire is so limited by the book that unless it was a heavily non-combat setting, it'd be hard to get any continuity of PCs.

(Fate points help this a little, but only a little; the combination of difficulty in dodging bullets, lack of useful armor in the setting and lack of healing is probably just impossible to overcome).

Possibly. I know I "offed" a lot of PCs in Morrow Project.

My suggestion for adapting BRP to handling something like this would be to swipe Hero Point system from the James Bond RPG. Each Hero Point would allow a character to shift the die result by one level of success (or failure). So a character with a few HPs could use them to avoid the occasional lucky hit.

A very minor modification, as far as tweaking goes, with a very major impact on game play.

This is the key to why rules matter, really; unless the GM is only using the most vague outline of the rules, they'll influence how the game tends to play out; the same setting using BRP, Hero or True20 will play out quite differently among the three.

Yup. A good example would be running a firefight using D20 Modern. Once the characters hit a certain level, they are not going to drop from a single hit--even from a .50 caliber rifle! Most character have more that 20 hit points and the weapon does 2D10. This leads to tactics such as charging machinegun nests.

Conversely, running the same fight in a different RPG results in a different style, fell and tactics. In something like the James Bond RPG or BRP charging a .50 cal. is usually suicidal.

It's one reason why I would not want to run a Old West campaign using d20. The classic western "showdown" would turn into a comedy, with each shooter having to reload in order to do enough damage to drop the other guy.

Characteristic point within racial average: 5 points

Characteristic point above racial average: 10 points

Professional skill point within 75%: 1 point

Professional skill point above 75%: 2 points

Free skill point: 2 points

Super power: 10 points per power point (racial abilities must be "bought")

Magic spell: bought as skill

Sorcery spell: 10 pts. per level

Psionic power: bought as skill

Should be enough. An average character is about 800 points.

Wow! That was fast.

Relax mortals. I. in my infinite wisdom have diced to spare this pitiful planet. Bow down and send chocolate, a hot babe, and a new PC with 4GHz+ processor, 8 GB RAM, and at least 2TB hard drive.