Ottomancer

Darn. Oh well, I guess it is a good thing that it sold out! I settled for the PDF instead.

Otto, I am quite impressed with your work. I didn't read it in depth yet but the stuff on your website is mind blowing.

I hope Chaosium will ask for more of your stuff!

I am actually working on a follow-up monograph to Cthulhu Rising. A campaign book called Jovian Nightmares. It's slow going though, as I've hit convention season...

Astrosynthesis is a cool piece of software which allows you to generate star systems. It comes with a data file for all star systems within 20 ly of Sol IIRC, but on the downloads page there are downloads for the following, provided by Terry Kepner (who has written books on extra-solar planets etc):

Three data files of real universe star positions in .csv format that can be imported into AstroSynthesis. Files included are:

* All stars within 50ly of Sol

* All stars within 100ly of Sol

* All stars within 1000ly of Sol

* A text file describing the source for the data and methodologies used.

Astrosynthesis: AstroSynthesis v2.0

Kepner data sets: AstroSynthesis Downloads

More than likely it's because the monograph is currently out of stock. Monographs are printed in very small print runs, and the product disappears from the catalog when out of stock.

Once they have more printed up, it'll show back up in the catalog.

An out of stock notice would be nice...

Yup - they had it in stock yesterday - looks like they've sold out during the sale maybe. I have it on good authority that Charlie is bringing some to Continuum. An out of print message would be nice, you're right.

So, Ottomancer, would you mind if I ... ?

PM me and tell me more...

Seems interesting and pretty good for a game tie-in. If you like survival horror, Lovecraft, Alien, and science-fiction/horror, check this out:

Gametrailers.com - Dead Space: Downfall - Feature Film Trailer

Mmmm ticks all them there boxes...

Ottomancer, is there any difference between the pdf of Cthulhu Rising and the mongraph, anymore?

You mean the PDF and monograph on the Chaosium website? They're both in synch. The first edition of the monograph ended up out of date, and so when Chaosium did another print run, I took the opportunity to bring it up to date.

Where are you working on it, and do you need any input? :cool:

In emails exchanges, my head, and a word document on my computer. I'll have somewhere online for people to get involved once it becomes more structured...

and yes, input definitely welcomed. I don't think it's something I want to tackle alone. Cthulhu Rising started off like that, and I was glad of the input I got from others later down the line...

Nobody going anywhere with SciFi rules?

Shame.

I'm working on something. Have already approached Chaosium about it and they seem interested. Very embryonic at the moment. Will post more when it is more coherent.

I am a longtime fan of the fantastically out of hyper-kinetic/completely unrealistic world envisioned by John Woo from the 1980s and early 1990s. It's newest incarnation is in a summer blockbusterfilm called "Wanted, "but of course was most famously copied in films worldwide for the last decade or so.

How would you do it? What skills/abilities/powers would you use from the BRP book to make it happen? How would you handle HP? How would firearms have to be adapted (rate of fire, dual handgun wielding, impossible shots, etc.) to make it in BRP?

Love John Woo's HK era. Then again I am a long-time fan of HK Cinema in general. We've always used Feng Shui for running such games. Can BRP learn anything from the way that system handles these genres?

Hard copy will be good! I've allready printed out all the downloads from your website. Will you bring any to Continuum?

SGL.

I have been told Charlie should be bringing some copies for me to Continuum. Fingers crossed. Otherwise, the new version is on sale in print format at Chaosium: Cthulhu Rising in print format from Chaosium Inc.

I am actually working on a proposal for a hard sci-fi setting for BRP (with the blessing of Chaosium), but won't have anything concrete to post for a while yet. I'll post more when I have more...

:cool:

More than just one. Mac here too

My PC desktop is unaware I am having an affair with a Mac Powerbook...

Not exactly a character generator, but a chap who posts to the Cthulhu Rising forums recently built some rather splendid character sheets for the setting using the Adobe Acrobat Forms functionality. It calculates things like attribute modifiers, hit points, skill modifiers etc based on the stats you enter.

The only drawback is that if you only have the Adobe Acrobat Reader rather than the full version of Adobe Acrobat you will not be able to save completed forms - you will just be able to fill them in and print them off.

Anyhoo, the enhanced character sheets section is on this page:

CTHULHU RISING: Game Downloads

Those with strong web-fu (and Adobe Acrobat) should be able to extract the code that does the calculating and build their own forms.

Hey Ottomancer,

Congrats on an excellent monograph and website. You've put together a lot of great material.

Cheers,

Fergo113

Thanks.

:thumb:

Hard copy will be good! I've allready printed out all the downloads from your website. Will you bring any to Continuum?

SGL.

I'm hoping a handful of hard copies will be available at Continuum - watch this space (and my website) for more info.

:thumb:

Hi - does this forum have an RSS feed I can subscribe to?

Hi All,

Just to let you know that a revised and expanded version of the Cthulhu Rising monograph is now available from Chaosium in PDF format:

PDF of the Cthulhu Rising monograph

It features new cover art and layout and is over 30 pages longer than last time, bringing the content up to date and in line with what is available on the website.

If you prefer a hard copy, I am told the print version should be available at the end of the month.

That does help. Thank you.

There is a map of a space-station in the Transhuman Space adventure Orbital Decay. A small research station orbiting Earth if I remember correctly.

I already have ideas for a military campaign on Mars, each installment a play on a classic war film. For example:

Ice Cold In Orbit

The Guns of Olympus Mons

The Battle of the Tharsis Bulge

:cool:

Now this I've gotta see!:thumb:

I am happy to stick all the docs in a subfolder off my Cthulhu Rising website as soon as it is in a legible format. I'll post a link when it is.

Then we need to talk Ottomancer. TOTGM is my all time favorite show. Took me years to find it on DVD and I am glad I did.

Wish my brain would shut off, too many ideas want to see fuition, not enough time.

If you wanna chat about this, feel free to PM me via this site. :thumb:

ps - It's available on DVD..? :shocked:

Im sure no one even came close to mentioning this one.

Tales of the Gold Monkey!

I have always said if I ever got to run a Pulp era BRP/CoC adventure, it would use Tales of the Gold Monkey as a setting. Boragora Atoll, 1938...

All together now..

Happy Deep Ones, Deep Ones, Happy Deep Ones...

I'm planning to continue running Cthulhu Rising as my main campaign, but also test out the other settings coming for BRP, especially those with scenarios created for them (I'm lazy!). I will also try Gwenthia when the first scenarios are out, and maybe later run the Glorantha specific scenarios from Mongoose.

I've had to generate scenarios on my own now for around 10 years, and suddenly I find lots of new stuff for my favorite system. This is certainly not the twilight of old-school gaming, it's a new golden age!

SGL.

Glad to hear it. You're welcome to my Revelation Space stuff (as is anyone else) when I finally get it done...

I have a copy of edition zero of the BRP rules, and am happy to find that most of the info about sci-fi type games in there will allow me to run a campaign set in the Revelation Space universe of Alastair Reynolds. I plan to run a campaign set pre-diaspora, around the time of Reynolds' early short stories - Great Wall of Mars, A Spy In Europa etc.

I have got character generation for factions such as Conjoiners, Demarchists, Coalition for Neural Purity, Gilgamesh-Isis etc done. Just need to get some playtesting done...

I would like to have Transhuman Space or something similar as setting for BRP. THS is an ultra-hard SF setting based on realistic assumptions and some transhumanistic ideas. It is a extremely detailed description of the status of the world at the end of the 21st century.

It appeared from SJG several years ago and it is absolutely fantastic. It is written mostly by David Pulver and others who took much time to make technological and political research and plausible extrapolations of these topics. As soon as DBRP is out I will try to transfer the THS setting from Gurps lite to DBRP.

Here is the website for the setting if anybody is interested.

Transhuman Space

Transhuman Space is a superb setting. I am trying to do a BRP conversion at the moment, and use it as a basis for a campaign set in the universe of the Revelation Space novels by Alistair Reynolds. Always felt Transhuman Space would be a good starting point.

You're right, some hardback gaming books are terribly bound like the old Unearthed Arcana from 1st AD&D. I think that book fell apart with my first reading.

Does anyone remember the hardback edition of Stormbringer that GDW released in association with Chaosium? The one where all the pages fell out about 2 days after purchase, despite trying to be as careful as possible when handling it?