Conrad

On page 249 0f the new book antimatter grenades are mentioned, but on the advanced explosives table (on page 267) only antimatter detonators are listed. Was the entry for grenades on page 249 an error or were the stats for these grenades left out by accident? Conrad the mechamunchkin:shocked:

This sounds similar to this futuristic weapon from the Orion's Arm background: Chemknife: Advanced construction places a hollow duct within a knife blade; this essentially turns the knife into a giant hypodermic needle. The handle contains a low-pressure piston and a fluid reservoir. Upon activation the piston drives the fluid through the duct and into the victim. The usual payload is a toxin or disease agent, but corrosives have been used for anti-cyborg or remote applications. Suspended nanotech agents are equally effective against both androids and biological organisms. Chemknives can be made with only medium tech, and assassins on medium tech worlds have been known to use them. There are more sci fi weapons here: http://www.orionsarm.com/tech/melee_weapons.html :eek: "GM please give me the hyperdiamondoid neutronium coated stasis field armour!"

That depends on what needs doing. Starships and space combat have already been done really well here: http://www.cthulhurising.co.uk/downloads.php Dustin Wright on Worlds Beyond: The answer to your question is "perhaps." I've had some difficulty in contacting the author/publisher. We live in hope.:ohwell:

At least there are enough SF rules in the new BRP book to act as a starting point for a creative GM.:innocent:

That is good news.

The poll might not be all that trustworthy if a certain SF fan repeatedly evened up the score with the fantasy voters. Maybe Cthulhu Rising should be given higher status than just being a monograph? Maybe Chaosium would do well to issue it as a lavish supplement?:thumb: Ashes to Ashes is fantasy by the way:focus:

Such a thing would be nice to see, but is there even a market for such a supplement? A few of us posting about such a thing may not give Chaosium the impetus to publish even a monograph. And even if it did you know how slowly Chaosium is in publishing such stuff. We may be better off getting our heads together and cobbling a BRP Space supplement together ourselves.

But is Chaosium even listening? Will Dustin reply to your suggestion? Or do we waste our time in suggesting things to our favourite games company?:ohwell:

GURPS Space popular? With astrophysicists? The main failing of the current edition of GURPS Space is that it has no background that is ready to use.

Just generic "BRP Space" rules I don't think would sell as well as generic rules plus a few space opera backgrounds with it.

I like the sound of a book of generic space opera rules ( ship design and combat and world generation) plus a few different backgrounds ( an updated Worlds Beyond plus an updated Future World possibly?). The generic rules would be essential to any of the backgrounds so that all the book was useful to the GM.

The mutated items rules from the new BRP book would be a good way to do the softech equipment.

:happy:Got my BRP book yesterday. I like the bleed and crushing rules. I can see myself being busy for the next few months.:happy:

Nice idea!:thumb:

The Perry Rhodan books are guilty of half inching a few concepts from elsewhere in SF too!

I will e mail Dustin to ask if Chaosium has any plans to reissue a revamped version of the game.

Could a supplement be large enough to combine the two and make Chaosium some money?

I thought that "chrome and rayguns" went right back beyond even E.E. Smith's Lensman series. If Iain M. Banks Culture books don't alienate readers then they could be used as some sort of starting point for developing a more modern type of space opera roleplaying for BRP. As for things seeming cliched, even modern space opera has its recurring ideas, but that doesn't hurt a roleplaying game that needs commonly accepted tropes to keep players from being alienated.

I'm in my mid forties and although I love Traveller and Firefly, but I would like to see a supplement for BRP that enables a GM to run space opera that is of a more modern type, like Iain M. Banks or Alastair Reynolds or Charles Stross. There are plenty of Traveller type roleplaying games out there.

Have you ever heard of Darkspace by Monte Cook? 1301 Dark Space It was Lovecraftian space opera. It would make for a good BRP conversion as it has magic, softech and SF all in one universe.

I kept thinking " Do I really need the new BRP book? I already have lots of rules to cover space opera games". Then I read the quotes above and realised how much better my games would be with rules for eidetic memory etc. Now when is that darned rulesbook gonna hit the shores of Britain?

I hope that it sees the light of day. I'd very definately buy it!:thumb:

I'd like to see a BRP SF rpg with ships that are alive, can change their colour (and shape) so that they strobe madly when going into combat. I'd like to see an option to be able to play living space craft as well. I'd like to see a space opera game where there are no baseline normal everyday humans. Every character would have some sort of enhancement.

Is Browncoast anything to do with Firefly?:confused:

All the more reason for us to try to get the game, or sections of it, published by Chaosium in some form. As Dredj says,there are many typos and some editing to be done if it were to be republished. However in the interim can I recommend Cthulhu Rising. It is free and has starships and starship combat that would not be out of place in any space opera. Here it is: [ CTHULHU RISING: Game Downloads ] Enjoy:D