joela

I am thinking about converting this to BRP, SB1 rules to be exact. Has anyone else taken a look at this setting?

I play/am a fan of Savage World. Just recently secured all three books. I agree; it would be great setting for BRP conversion.

Uh, what's "SB1"?

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Coolio!

Also, take a glance at my side-by-side comparison of BRP Quick-Start Edition and GORE in the reviews section.

I'll check it out. Thanks!

Hi Joela. You can judge for yourself - as well as Newt's OpenQuest, the MRQ1 SRD and GORE are available for free in the Downloads area. (I take it you mean you've got the big new BRP book with a mutant 'Vitruvian Man' on the cover, but otherwise the BRP QuickStart is there too).

Obviously most people around here should prefer BRP, including me. These are my reasons:

Thanks for the lowdown, frogspawner!

RE: MRQ1. That's a goodly number of changes. Some sound intriguing, some do not. I'll have to grab a copy to check out their implementation. (I think my FLGS may still have one.)

RE: OQ. I'll check it out.

RE: GORE. It's kinda the SRD from Mongoose, eh?

RE: The new BRP and opposed-roll combat. I'm confused. Isn't the latter the old attack versus parry from the original RQ?

As author of OpenQuest I'm going to be lazy and point you in the direction of the two webpages that explain what Openquest is

The main game page

D101 Games » OpenQuest

and this page which sums up the main features of the game

D101 Games » Contents

I'm sure others will explain the subjective merits of OpenQuest in comparision to other D100 systems, but in short I was aiming to produce a cleaned up version of old skool BRP/RQ mixed in with some of my own house rulings and that was completely OGL so others could use it freely (which they are are I have knowledge of at least four games in development using OQ as a base).

Finally here's the link to the OpenQuest Developers kit, which has the free text only version

D101 Games » OpenQuest Developers Kit

Coolio. Also just discovered this review via Google.

Hi, y'all. Newbie here. Played RQ v1 back back in high school during the AD&D 1st edition heyday, and offsprings CoC 1st edition and Stormbringer 1st edition, and Hawkmoon 1st edition.

Fast forward nearly two decades. Now there's D&D 3.x (now defunct/living through Paizo's Pathfinder)/4th edition. CoC is, what? Sixth edition/printing? And Runequest is owned/controlled/published by Mongoose and is about to embark on RQ II. Oy vey!

So what, exactly, are the differences between Mongoose's RQ; Basic Roleplaying supp (I have the book); something called "OpenQuest"; and GORE? :confused:

Will The Green be offered in deadtree version in the foreseeable future?