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Only three more days left! I don't have the patience to watch Salt & Serpent. Did anyone glean any interesting information from the stream about what the new edition will be like?

4 hours ago, Mankcam said:

This is a pity, I only found out about Ruin Masters kickstarter quite late, and it looks more interesting than Dragonbane to me. Very BRP/WFRP influenced, but simplified and with a classic fantasy vibe.

 

You really didn't miss anything. RuinMaster was a quick cashgrab by RiotMinds. It looks pretty, but its design is confused, its layout is amateurish, and is overall a forgettable game. Dragonbane is a much better designed and written game.

24 minutes ago, Godlearner said:

RQG currently has JC support, why not try something like that BRP?

Isn't that the whole point of the ORC license?

3 hours ago, DreadDomain said:

The only thing I didn't like in the lack of skill categories. I love my SC and how they are based on characteristics.

I doubt that won't be there as an option in the new BRP.

1 hour ago, NickMiddleton said:

The contents list somewhat echoes the BGB; and Jason has been working on a streamlined BRP for LotMS, alongside his other duties. And given the timescales, and Chaosium’s wider slate of material, my guess is this is more likely an evolution / streamlining of the BGB rather than an extensive, radical re-write.

My thoughts exactly. I have a hunch it will be closer to BGB than CoC7e or Rivers of London, though I wouldn't be surprised if it included options from them.

The BRP softcover is now available print on demand from DriveThruRPG.

You can always borrow from Mythras, where instead of weapon skills you can get proficient in combat styles.

I need all the worlds monsters, and at least three volumes of them.

Empire of the Petal Throne is worth mentioning for having ability scores on a range of 1 to 100. I do not remember if it had ability score checks though, and its skill system is binary (you either have a skill or not).

11 hours ago, Thaenor said:

Ambit question, would the start of work on a new edition be considered if there is any shift of BRP to an Open RPG Creative License (ORC) that Chaosium have announced they'll likely embrace?

I find it more likely that the current BRP Essentials will be re-released under the ORC instead of their own OGL.

4 hours ago, g33k said:

n.b. if you are in the USA, that warehouse still had print copies to ship, last I checked.

I am not, and I am not willing to pay $55 for shipping.

All the World's Monsters III had a guide for converting D&D stat blocks to classic RuneQuest. It's a good starting point, though I'm sure there are better, more up to date guide out there. 🙂

Bought it in a heartbeat. I also managed to buy a barely used copy yesterday from someone. I will buy another once Chaosium makes it finally available in print on demand.

In case someone wants to know what's going on with the game: I wrote a preview of the latest beta version.

It's more likely for Chaosium to publish PoDs on Lulu, which I don't mind, considering my DriveThruRPG orders keep getting lost or arrive slowly since Brexit.

Speaking of d100 and sword & sorcery... Does anyone have any experience with Jackals? How well would it fit the Hyborian age?

Looks intriguing. It feels like you are putting together something similar to what you originally wanted for OpenQuest 3e, before deciding to make a game remain closer to the original due to the anniversary.

Some things I would tinker with a bit...

Using a table for the skill summary is unnecessary. My general rule of thumb is if something would take more than two lines in a chart and you can't make your column wider, consider making it paragraphs instead. In case of your skill list a bullet point list would be more than enough, would look better, and would spare you some whitespace. Resistances for example would take around half as much space like this:

• Dodge (DEX+10): Gets you out of the way of physical threats, such as an incoming axe or dragon breath.
• Persistence (POW+10): This skill Is a measure of your character’s willpower and resistance against hostile magic and to resist attempts to influence the character against their will.
• Resilience (CON+POW): This skill Is a measure of your character’s health and their ability to survive exposure, hunger and thirst, and to resist the effect of diseases.

Speaking of skills, since you are going to use your One Magic skill system, I would drop the Magic category, put Magic Casting (bit of a mouthful, Spellcasting rolls better) under Knowledge, and merge Religion back into Lore. I would consider mergin skills a bit more, but that might hurt the amount of compatibility you want to have with OpenQuest, so I will keep that idea to myself for now. 🙂

Nice to see you borrowed the light grey skill bases for the character sheet! 🙂 I would drop the yellow background though, most of us print sheets in black & white, and light grey doesn't look good on another light grey.

I'm eagerly waiting for the KS, keep up the good work!

I know about Bloodlust, but that's a different story. I have a hunch the book in the ad was renamed as Octagon of Chaos - which was released in 1986, while Ringworld in 1984. Thanks @DreadDomain!

In the back of a Ringworld booklet I saw an ad for Bloodlust by Theatre Of the Mind Enterprises, inc. promising "Multiple interlocking scenarios combine to form an epic adventure for use with the STORMBRINGER role playing game." Does anyone know anything about this project? Did it ever see the light in any form?

There was a Future World booklet in Worlds of Wonder, of course Ringworld. Both of them are unfortunately out of print.

Wow, you mix RoleMaster's spell law with BRP? That sounds awesome! Any conversion guide for how you do it?

It's a pity it's not available in the UK or EU webstore. I would gladly buy the book, but not with $55 shipping fee.

18 hours ago, coolAlias said:

Hunting Knife - this is listed in one of the scenarios as doing 1d6 + DB damage, which doesn't match any of the knife entries on Table XVII: Weapons

• Is the Hunting Knife considered a Medium Knife?
• If so, which damage value is correct: the weapon table (i.e. 1d4+2+DB) or the scenario (i.e. 1d6+DB)?

 

Use it as statted in the scenario. Not everything you find in scenarios will have an equivalent in the rulebook.

4 minutes ago, smiorgan said:

Another said that the game was great but his players "don't do roll under" (😮).

Their loss. It's a great way to miss out on some awesome games, including anything BRP-based and the Warhammer rpgs.

Just what I've been waiting for! There is a strong influence of other Free League games, like in the utterly simple yet brilliant way Conditions are handled.