Conrad

You mean like this? http://basicroleplaying.com/showthread.php/1522-OUTPOST-19-An-Archaeological-Research-Station-on-the-Frontier-of-Space

If you wanted a more fantasy edge to your island you could have your bats have become the bizarre night stalkers from the After Man book by Dougal Dixon(scroll down this page for the creature illo). http://stevyncolgan.blogspot.com/2008/05/all-about-flies-and-tubesharks.html

Isn't Cthuhu Rising really just Cthulhu meets Aliens, with the serial numbers filed off?

I'd like to see a BRP version of Cubicle 7's Mindjammer setting (for Starblazer Adventures), or something very similar, and published by the Alephtar games/Cubicle 7 coalition. But I don't think it likely to happen.

I agree with that.

I like the hat. What a pity I don't live anywhere near southern Ontario. Seeing someone GM in a hat like yours would be a blast! Good luck finding a group.

It looks good.

I'm glad you enjoyed reading them.

Deus Vult has an interesting take on the medieval setting. And Val Du Lupe looks like it has a lot of information, and another area to add to my list of potential starting points in my campaign. Thanks.

What happened to the rest of your blog entries? Did your job rob you of almost all your blogtime?

Judging by the age distribution of this site the default custom user title for most of us should be BRP fogey!

I'm with you on that criticism Merak. I've always been more into playing a character than about the stats. And I try to visualise a character before I start to generate it, making sure that the end character is as close to my idea as I can get it. I think that something like that, which has the potential to bridge the old school\indie gap would be of benefit to BRP. Since it was one of your posts that inspired this thread, I'd like to ask you what you think the state of BRP is at the present time, and if you see a bright, or uncertain future for BRP?

Germany needs an RPG history lesson!

Well if thats how they define "up to date" then BRP has been modernised too. 3:16 looks like a lot of fun to play.

I thought BRP was a rules lite game. Shows how much an old school fogey like me pays attention to the "indie" RPGs. Do these indie gamers consider D&D an old fashioned game too?

You could always convert your Solomon Kane game to BRP and not tell your players, until its time to generate their characters. Or if you are in a convention just hand them their pregenerated characters BRPified. I hope that you have better luck running a BRP game in the future.

I'm glad to hear that your game was successful in introducing some players, who didn't know about BRP, to the system.

Thanks for the information. I'm looking for a different kind of fantasy setting that is refreshingly different from the D&D games my group plays. Stupor Mundi, CotAC and Merrie England fit that bill. I'm considering just where to start my game, and having all the supplements set around that time period will give me much more information to make that decision.

The Cubicle-7/ Alephtar "coalition" does seem to be putting Chaosium to shame in the amount of quality supplements it has published. I hope that Chaosium cranks its BRP output up a notch.

What genre of game were you running?

I was reading an old (from 2008) post by Merak Gren, which seemed quite pessimistic. I was wondering what all you BRPers think about how BRP is doing? I personally think that BRP is undergoing a renaissance, with plenty of interesting supplements and monographs being published, however is it bringing in enough new players? How do you see the future of BRP going?

Thanks for the info.

Stupor Mundi is set at the same period of time as Crusaders of the Amber Coast is it not, but the essential difference is the location that each covers? So converting it from MRQ to BRP will be easier with a copy of CotAC? And they should both compliment each other with respect to the information on the setting background. Why aren't Stupor Mundi and Merrie England in my FLGS? I go down there and ask about Stupor Mundi, and all I get are flippant replies like "Oooh that sounds like a deep RPG, we don't stock it!":(

"They wear rude leather aprons" Whoops! That should be crude, not rude! I've fixed that little gaffe. You might want to give them 2 points of protection for the leather aprons.

Teutonic knights and bare chested "elf" maidens, who could ask for more. But, obviously, there is more to this supplement than just that.