josha

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Zamonia is a rather obscure fantasy world with a cult following, created by German author and cartoonist Walter Moers. It is the setting for such amazing novels as The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, and The City of Dreaming Books. The world is rather silly in the tradition of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, but its novels contain quite a bit of interesting philosophy and drama. They are charmingly illustrated with amusing cartoons, and yet are intended for an adult audience, which is awesome.

The only Zamonia books I have so far read is The City of Dreaming books, in which an anthropomorphic dinosaur visits a city called Bookholm in search of a mysterious author. Bookholm's economy hinges almost entirely on the sale of books, and rests on top of a massive network of book-shelf-laden catacombs containing long-lost libraries and tome-laden tombs. Our hero is marooned in this cave network, and must survive deranged Lovecraftian monsters and amuzingly sadistic traps in order to survive.

Its a lot of fun.

I think it would adapt beautifully to BRP. More so than d20, anyway. The characters aren't really defined by classes, combat is dangerous and gritty, monsters are truly terrifying, there are a vast multitude of useful skills, and much of adventuring isn't combat. All these elements fit perfectly with BRP.

Looks fun. Right now my group plays BRP with a fantasy theme, but these rules seem slightly better, so I'm going to see if I can convince them to convert.

I take it you live in the US?

There are actually a lot of settings I would like to see done for BRP, but these are the select few where I would truly rejoice if Chaosium converted them.

• Doctor Who
  Because pretty much nothing is more awesome than Doctor Who. I want stats for every incarnation of the doctor, every companion, every supporting character, and every adversary. I want adventures, supplements, maps, online stuff, and official campaigns run a hobby stores (similar to D&D Encounters). The whole works.
  
• Dune
  The Dune series seems just perfect for BRP. I would like to see only the stuff by Frank Herbert converted, not any of that cheap crap from the wannabe hack Brian Herbert.
  
• Lighthearted Faery Tales (For Young Players)
  This could be a great way to introduce children as young as seven or eight to roleplaying. It could be similar to Dungeons & Dragons in concept, but light, cartoonish, colorful, and very simple. I would also appeal to childish adults.
  

What d you think?

I think the new BRP hardcover should cost $60; but be leather-bound, ultra-durable, have gold-leaf pages, remastered full-color art, and a nice ribbon bookmark.

These are my combat morale rules:

- Characters have morale points equal to POW x 3.

- When a character takes damage they lose an equal number of morale points.

- When an ally they can see takes damage, they lose morale points equal to half the damage the ally took.

- At the beginning of a turn, they lose morale points equal to the number of enemies they have within 5 meters of them.

- At the end of a turn, they gain morale points equal to the number of allies they have within 5 meters of them.

- When they inflict damage on an enemy, they gain morale points equal to half the damage they dealt.

- If they run out of morale points, they have to flee.

- They go back to full morale between fights.

For BRP to become more popular, we all need to help.

If you put links in your forum signatures, encourage your friends, and spread the word on your blogs; BRP will have a larger player-base in no time!

I like the idea of Chaosium selling permission to make BRP games that don't require the core book. It's an amazing system that's highly underrated and that would certainly expand the audience.

Shiny. Perhaps you could run up a template design that could be then used by prospective GMs to publicise their own settings that they are running using BASIC?

OK. I'll work on that as well as a new improved version of my current copy.

To become more popular, BRP needs better advertising.

If they would just put up some ads on the web and some posters in gaming stores (as well as putting more of their books on the shelves), a lot more people would play.

The Chaosium Propaganda is such a good idea, but is poorly implemented and looks crappy.

To fix this, I whipped up some better flyer/handouts which you can download and print for free to help support Chaosium!