NickMiddleton

Err - - winged as in wings instead of arms (Harpy in BASIC Creatures should work) or winged as in WIngs PLUS arms (Ruler Dragonnewts from the Glorantha Book in RQIII, albeit they have tails as well)? Nick

Sounds like the expected arrival date of the BRP hard cover, as that has been printed but has yet to arrive at Chaosium and it usually takes a few weeks from Chaosium receiving a book for it to hit distribution and reach local game stores. Cheers, Nick

Quickly scanning through my PDF (bought couple of years ago) I didn't spot any obvious problems with any tables - can you be more specific for me to check? I have the '04 b&w tape bound print edition for comparison as well... Cheers, Nick

Couple of minor updates - UW #2 is now available from Chaosium in PDF. And Meg's moved to the regional Spinal Injuries Unit at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield - she's off the ventilator, and the tracheostomy has gone so she's talking and eating normally now. She managed three hours in a wheel chair yesterday, and has some degree of movement in all four limbs (albeit quite small in her right side). It's quite daunting to face the future when we don't know how much more she will recover or how long it will take - but then I look back and consider that only 17 weeks ago today a neurosurgeon was telling me he was going to operate because otherwise she would die, and that that was one of the possible outcomes of the surgery anyway... I spent yesterday afternoon in a Cafe chatting with Meg (in the entrance hall of Pinderfields, and she was in her wheel chair). Thanks to everyone here for their kind words. I AM working on Issue 3 as well - Frank Mitchells "Constructs for BRP" is looking good and we have a few other excellent pieces in as well so I'm pretty confident this one will be out in a more timely fashion than #2. Cheers, Nick

According to Jason's post in the errata thread here it should indeed be 1%. Cheers, Nick

Urm, that's a tough one actually... I mean, BRP is about to be released as hard cover, and I already have a hard cover of CoC (and I assume there are separate plans already in place to do some sort of 30th anniversary hard cover edition of CoC anyway). I'd love to see a BRP setting or major supplement in hard back but I don't think Chaosium have anything in hand or close to release that's suitable and I'd guess Charlie's thinking in terms of a reissue rather than commissioning a new piece. Sadly I don't think Chaosium have clean OCR'd files of Land of Ninja or Vikings, nor the time to edit them to bring them in line with BGB BRP, not to mention that the copyright is somewhat murky on those I'd guess. I can think of a couple of Call of Cthulhu books that would probably do well in new hard cover editions (Malleus Monstrorum, Arkham) but they don't excite me. Oh, but if we're day dreaming - Horror on the Orient Express! Nick

There's a copy as a Windows msi here at BRP Central in the Downloads section - here. I'm on a Mac these days so no idea if that msi still works. Cheers, Nick

They are the only people who would know for sure. My assumption has always been that the copyright resides with Chaosium. Cheers, Nick

Ooh, shiny! Well, that's another chunk from the next pay packet gone... Nick

Bear in mind that releasing them as the BASIC monographs was I think a somewhat "off the cuff" decision. They were originally scanned, OCR'd and released as the Basic Role Playing monographs bask in 2004, several years before the Big Gold Book saw print, and were meant then to be literally RQIII sans Glorantha and the name "RuneQuest". They have only ever been a way of ensuring that this material for a previous BRP game that's highly compatible with BGB BRP are easily available without scouring eBay. And at least the egregious formatting errors introduced in the 2004 scanning / OCR'ing have been corrected. There is clearly however an opening for a good BGB compatible Bestiary... Cheers, Nick

Buy it. But it now. I've just finished skim reading it and it's a little gem. It sketches out a setting that has wonderfully evocative echoes of Vance, Wolfe et al without being a simple pastiche and possesses its own distinct feel, leaving great swathes open for the GM or future published material to flesh out. There's a fun scenario, and now I've finished reading it I want to a) run a game in this setting and read some more about it. If any one has had qualms about Chaosium publishing full distribution support for BRP that was as good as that coming from Alephtar, this should definitely placate you. I can't wait to try this out and I'me VERY keen to see the PDF adventure for CoFE Dustin has (project 9). Cheers, Nick

Picked up my copy in Travelling Man in York (UK) today. Nick

You are mixing up abstract game management divisions of time that affect the player and GM (the four phases) with the sequencing that affects the characters and NPCs actions "in" the game (DEX Ranks). Of course the GM or player controlling the orc would get to make statements / declare actions in phase 1 - but those actions would be constrained by the fact the orc is stunned until DEX rank 10. Cheers, Nick

Yes please, that would be very cool. Cheers, Nick

Nick Nacario has IIRC posted here, I think as NickofChaosium, but not in any official capacity... and the last activity was in 2009. Cheers, Nick

Not necessarily. Depending on how the files for the current soft back are structured it might be possible to save some space by adjusting sections of the whole. Mind, since page 384 in the current book is actually the Resistance table (the page numbering does actually go from the frontispiece in the hard copy, where as the PDF counts the cover), it could well be that the remainder of the reference tables are being excluded, perhaps for release as a separate PDF and / or maybe as a book of useful tables to include in a BRP GM's screen? Well, I can dream... Nick

That mark down is the standard (some what disingenuous) calculation RPGNow / DTR have always used for their PDF pricing - Chaosium sell a hard copy of the quickstart for $11.95, so they quote the hard copy price as the original price, to hype up the discount on the PDF price. that in this case Chaosium make the PDF version available free seems to have been missed... Cheers, Nick

Yes please! Nick

Leisure Games in London usually carry Chaosium stuff and most UK games shops who deal with Esdevium will get Chaosium books - I'm expecting to see it in my FLGS (Travelling Man York) sometime soon... Cheers, Nick Middleton

I haven't yet statted the Sauriki in the gate warden universe, nor the Quertzl, but Outpost 19 does include stats for a very Quertzl-like species native to Jeterieff V. But one could certainly use the stats from Future*World they are teh original inspiration in both cases. I do intend to do more, but as I mentioned up thread my writing's largely driven by what my local group play (and they aren't as big fans of SF as I am, sadly). Plus in the last eighteen months my life has been a bad soap opera, so free time has been scarce. But I'd still liek to do more in teh gate Warden setting. Cheers, Nick

Happy Christmas to you all. Here's to holiday season full of joy and hopefully a great 2011. Cheers, Nick

I got confused? The cover images was a detailed scan of the hand painted / drawn original and even after processing in to the final cover for Lulu was still quite big. I DO have a "compressed" version wit the cover but given it was compressed by Acrobat 9 standard to be accessible to Acrobat 4.0 or later I'me a little sceptical... But I had meant to make that version the PDF generally available! I have added that one to the downloads here as well. Cheers, Nick

I have every intention of continuing with UW. I'd like to get the next one out more quickly! Beyond that, other than my usual aspirations to have a diverse body of contributors and stuff that is useful in peoples games, I have no particular plans at present. I didn't manage to get a scenario in UW2 so I'd like to have one of more scenarios and some scenario seeds in UW3. Also, more SF / non-Fantasy stuff. Cheers, Nick

PDF copy is also available here at BRP Central - http://basicroleplaying.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=379 BRP Stress Rules by Ben Monroe and I Enhancing Your Game by Sarah Newton QI - Some Notes Toward an Oriental Flavour for BRP by Gianni Vacca Expert Skills In BRP by Bo Rosen End of Days: Post-apocalyptic Call of Cthulhu by Jason Durall Tombs & Tentacles: Sword and Sorcery Call of Cthulhu by Jason Durall Foul Spawn: Occulis and Rh'knaus by Darell Floyd Cheers, Nick