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Well I have 'Chronicles of Future Earth' currently on order from Amazon, so I should be checking it out next week. The setting looks really interesting. If it's going to succeed however, it will need to have support - Chaosium need to fully support another setting outside of CoC (which they have done really good), there needs to be supplements to flesh things out and to keep the punters interested. I have high hopes for Future Earth, but it will only succeed with heaps of support. I do really like what I'm seeing with other settings as well - Chivalry & Chivalry (RQ2) looks good, I would have preferred it to be BRP but that's just pedantic. I love the BRP Rome book, and I wish I had bought 'Stupor Mundi' - I'm eagerly awaiting the release of 'Merrie England', hurry up! :-) Still, I guess I knew my answer about BRP Glorantha, it was just wishful thinking really. As for a 'BRP First Age Glorantha' - well one of you writers should have a chat with Mr Stafford on that one, it's certainly brimmingwith potential...

Well... China Meville's works could be a definate contender, very sci-fi/fantasy/steampunk noir...

G'day 'GianniVacca' I see you love your Glorantha as well!

Well I'ld like to see everything done in BRP Top of my list would be Glorantha 3rd Age once again! (But a bit less quirky this time around...) Other settings: - Hyboria (it must be up for grabs now that Mongoose has left it) - Malazan Series would be good - Hell, any new mature fantasy would be cool, Game of Thrones, The First Law etc - A Cyberspace setting - Perido St Station - China Meville's worlds would be great - Pulp Series (1920s - 1950s) - More Mythic /Historic Earth - A Mad Max/ After Raganok/ Fallout style setting - grim, dusty, and brutal (reminds me of RQ Prax...) Well thats just a few for starters...

Yeah, Glorantha was unfortunately never as big as Krynn or Forgotten Realms as a setting, that's for sure. The inconsistent artwork and production quality didn't help RQ's plight much either. However there was something about it that had appeal. I still enjoy running games there to this day, which is weird as I jump from setting to setting, but always end up back in Glorantha. Probably just a limbic system thing. I never got into MRQ1, but MRQ2 seems to be alot better (and the books are a good production), but I haven't actually run it. There's a few things about it that are a little alien to the core system (eg Hero Points, they're more at home in GURPS or Savage Worlds, but RQ?), I prefer the BRP corebook as far as game mechanics go. Well the BRP system works well with a fantasy setting, it's time Chaosium started publishing another one, non-Cthuhlu in nature (no disrespect to CoC). Glorantha 3rd Age or possibly Hyboria (now that Mongoose has dropped it) would be a dream, but I doubt either of those settings will appear in BRP soon. Chaosium needs another product besides it's flagship CoC - however I do like all these new BRP licencee prducts springing up at present, it kinda feels like the early days of rpgs all over again. Anyway I digress - my 'dumb question about Glorantha' was just that, just a dumb question about Glorantha...

Well I don't know if Glorantha is a hugely marketable property, but the setting is pretty good (despite the Ducks!), it has just as much playability (if not more) than Middle -Earth or Hyboria as far as a fantasy setting goes. I think Mongoose are having fun with it, there's certainly enough resources out to indicate that it must be selling, it's just that it's an Age too early for my tastes... I love some of the flavour changes with Hero Quest, primarily I think Gloranthan Magic comes across better in that system than it did with RQ, but that's nothing that can't be tweaked using BRP as core rules. Thanks for those links Dragonewt, I'll check out those conversions. I've got Hero Quest and a few of the Hero Wars supplements, and I've been considering grabbing some Stafford Libary stuff as well as the Sartar Companion. I guess it's no biggie, I was just throwing it out there to the Void to see what came back, because y'know, Internet Forums are always right

I think I just saw a typo on the second page, you referred to the actions you can make within a combat round as a) Move Attack c) Combat Action - shouldn't the later be Non-Combat Action? On page one under 'Experience Checks' you probably should add in Experience Checks via Research/Training as well Other than that, it's a handy few pages, quite well done

Hi everyone, I've lurked here for the past six months or so, and thought it was time to show my face, considering it's such a great site with an active forum. I'm from Australia, and roleplaying isn't all that big over here, but we have our little 'clusters' here and there... I was introduced to roleplaying as a 12 yr old way back in 1984 with Figthing Fantasy gamebooks, and then the Fighting Fantasy pocket rpg rule. Well that was lifechanging. My older cousin was an avid roleplayer, and he upgraded me to RuneQuest a year later, and I remember getting the RQ2 box for Christmas 1985. By 1987 I had upgraded to Avalon Hill's RQ3, and I guess RQ/BRP has been my favourite gaming engine ever since. During the late '80s my troupe played AD&D (briefly, grrrr) and ICE (MERP, Rolemaster), but I only ever GMed RuneQuest. During the 1990s my GM tastes expanded to other settings and also other systems. To date these are the games I've GM'd: BRP Chaosium (RuneQuest, Call of Cthuhlu, Stormbringer, Nephilim, and now 'The Golden Book') BRP OGL (purchased MRQ, more for supplements than system; also BRP ROME; interested in other BRP OGL products) ICE (ie MERP, Rolemaster, Cyberspace, HARP) White Wolf's WoD, both old and new incarnations (ie Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, Dark Ages Inquisitor) White Wolf's Aeon setting (eg Adventure, Aberrant) D20 OGL (ie D&D 3E, True20, Conan) Issaries Inc (Hero Wars, HeroQuest) GURPS Shadowrun (only played, never GM'd) Savage Worlds (multiple settings, and tried to run a SW Glorantha as well) Out of all of them though I think my favourites have been White Wolf's Storyteller system, and of course BRP. I have always been a big fan of Chaosium, not only for their system, but for the content they put into their supplements. Some of the setting books for CoC are just great to read, they really have done Lovecraft quite well. Recently I have really felt at home returning to BRP. I think if I want to play a 'Pulp' game I'll go to White Wolf or Savage Worlds, but for all other flavours I'll certainly stick with my true love of BRP. I absolutely love having this new BRP corebook (aka The Golden Book), and it seems to have reinvigorated my interest in the BRP system - I love the familarity I have with it, and the fact it is intuitive, smooth, yet 'crunchy' as well. I love combat, it really feels quite tactile at times, great for a Bronze/Iron Age setting rpg - Mongoose should look at porting CONAN into it alongside RuneQuest I reckon. I came to the rpg hobby as it was growing phenomena, and I actually yearn for the early days of 'less is better'. Hell I remember not even having photocopies of original character sheets and just stating up PCs on scratch paper - I'ld never want to return to that, but there was something liberating about it all the same. BRP represents to me a system which you can buy numerous settings for, yet feel confident that you have all you need in the one core rulebook at the gaming table - and even then, as long as you've made up a little GM screen of tables then that's all you really neeed for occasonal reference. It's so intuitive that you can play most of it out without any formal references, which for me is worth it's weight in gold, freeing my imagination up to get on with the buisness of role-playing, not 'rule-playing'. Anyway, that about sums it up - I've been gaming over half my life, always returning to some incarnation of BRP. That's pretty much why I'm here, I just love everything BRP, and I thought it was time to stop lurking about. cheers

A love this cheat sheet mate, I think it hits the spot. Recently I found the old "Game Aids" sheets from RQ3, it was a small booklet that was really a GM screen, this reminds me alot of it. Adding tips about Char Gen, weapon tables, and perhaps spell lists would be grand, perhaps a few more spot rules. You've done a good thing here.

Yep, Hero Wars isn't too hard to port over - I'm actually GMing the HW Trader Princes campaign "Blood Over Gold" using RQ/BRP, so it's no biggie. I just miss not having new 3rd Age campaign material and stats etc, and the discussion has arisen in my troupe a few times but I was certain it was just a dodgy comic-shop rumour about BRP Glorantha 3rd Age stuff, as Greg Stafford has made himself pretty clear where he sits from what I've read from the Issaries Inc site. I was just throwing it out there really, considering some people on this forum may potentially be "in-the-know" on such things. And yes, there has been rumours of such a thing as BRP Glorantha, but I frequent the comic book/rpg scene here in Australia, so it's pretty provincial as far as being close to the source of all things in regards to roleplaying, and all kinds of rumours start here. Thank god for the internet forums to set things straight...

I think I already know the answer to this, but I thought this was the place to ask... Does anyone know if Chaosium will ever do any more Glorantha 3rd Age supplements using BRP? Mongoose is doing a fine job with MRQ but as it's all Glorantha 2nd Age it tends to make my old supplements passe, and I would have loved to see some 3rd Age stuff again. I know Issaries Inc has the copyrights, but no matter how much I have played HeroWars it just doesn't do it for me. The magic is more in keeping with my vision of Glorantha, but the system isn't visceral enough for my tastes, I really think BRP does it justice. Does anyone know if Greg Stafford has inferred anything regarding BRP Glorantha? I tend to think that he's over BRP himself, but I thought if he ever has suggested such a thing then someone in this forum may know... Just a desperate thought cheers

Don't hold your breath - Amazon.com just informed me that my pre-order BRP Hardback would be delayed for at least another month But at least there's 'some movement at the station' from the Chaosium announcement, it shouldn't be too long now I hope

Well I'm a newbie here, but I've been a lurker for a while, and a gamer since 1984...and I almost had a heart attack with this WOTC announcement! Having watched Chaosium for half my life, I thought that this must of been The End of Days, I was almost waiting for the Four Horsemen to appear.. Great to see this forum has a sense of humour!