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This is a fantastic idea. If I can contact Frank Shewmake I would like to ask him if he'd allow the ship building/space combat and world generation rules from WB to be published in a chaosium BRP supplement. If being the operative word.:ohwell:

Can you tell us more about Outpost 19?

Dredj, are there any questions that you may wish to ask Mr Shewmake, if I manage to collar him ( this question applies to anyone else interested in Worlds Beyond)?

Many thanks for that link and information.

Dredj, before you do that you may want to contact Frank Shewmake to ask if it is okay. Come to think of it Mr Shewmake might still have the missing chargen tables still knocking about in a file somewhere. It would also be interesting to ask him if he intended to publish any more products for Worlds Beyond. Can anyone give me a name and e mail address at Chaosium so that I can inquire about contacting Mr Shewmake? Since this thread shows that there is a (small) amount of interest in contacting the author I may as well try to do so. At the least we may get an interesting interview with Mr Shewmake out of it.

I'd love to see an official Traveller BRP book, though it is unlikely. I never liked any of the game systems for any of the Traveller games and, after seeing how Future World did things, thought that BRP would make a good system for that universe. I might try to convert Worlds Beyond to BRP using Stefan Mathias's Traveller BRP notes, seeing as both Traveller and Worlds Beyond are very similar in outlook.

I did.

Didn't like Nephilim ( I thought it was a White Wolf game that had accidentally been published by Chaosium!), but Superworld was wonderful:thumb:. If they have modified it for use with DBRP then I'll definately pick up a copy. GH was a fun little game. It would be good to see a conversion of its simpler superpowers system for use with BRP or Superworld.

I'm laughing at Badcat for his mental inflexibility, impatience and lack of maturity, like I have to laugh when my son throws a strop. These appear to be the main reasons why he isn't running a game. Badcat, please take some advice from an old timer. Take a break, have a holiday from roleplaying. Then you can come back to it all with a fresher mind.Frustration makes people do strange things. Learn some tolerance and patience. All good things come to those who wait ( and are prepared to run a game). I wish you good fortune with eventually finding the right group for you.

Cripes! I'd better explain myself then! I am excited about DBRP. However if it is like a fusion of Stormbringer 5th edition and the latest Call of Cthulhu rules, then I've been pretty much running that for the last few years. A lot of what I've read about in the new rule book I've already got. If I haven't then I've got some other rules that function in a very similar fashion e. g. psionics rules. I'm am looking forward to seeing the robotics rules and the example of a giant robot. The environmental damage rules would be nice to have a look at. But I often wonder why Chaosium didn't issue a compendium of rules using the Stormbringer system (sans background) as the core, years ago? I hope to see a revival of interest in BRP,to the level of the days of my youth, when the top games were D&D, Traveller and Runequest.

We get the picture. Now grow up and stop behaving like a spoiled child.

I wonder if there are D&D fans out there that are writing the same thing about BRP? I don't think most of them are even bothered about BRP right now, not with 4e just coming out. In what way is D&D mediocre? Just because the majority of "mindless" gamers play it? I've seen no end of griping about other peoples' games that either comes across as frustration or sour grapes that their beloved game isn't the most popular. Well, thats constructive, isn't it? It doesn't help you find a gaming group to run BRP with, or encourage D&Ders to take a positive interest in BRP, to describe them all as mindless. They're not, and some of them run and play BRP games. Frustrated and impatient attitudes are more likely the biggest impediment to running BRP based games with these groups. I used to run GURPS and the only group I could find, when my friends all vanished off to uni, were vehemently anti GURPS. They wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. It took me a year of playing D&D and other non GURPS games before they eventually came around to realising that my GURPS games weren't the ultimate blasphemy. I ran GURPS games for them for 5 years on and off before I ran into BRP and never looked back. I'm still gaming with this group, and they're playing my BRP games. But right now everybody is juiced up on what D&D 4th edition is going to play like. A bit of patience and a more tolerant attitude would be much more productive for you than frustrated name calling. Try it, it might even work.

I agree BRP is a better gamesystem than any of the various different D&D rules.But that is only my opinion, and perhaps that of many of the people on this site. However calling D&D players "mindless" or "blinkered" isn't the most intelligent thing to do. What next, perhaps they are brain dead? D&D is the most popular rpg going and will be so for a good long while. To gripe about it because it is more popular sounds more like sour grapes than reasonable argument. Sadly BRP will never be more popular than D&D, no other gamesystem will. But there is always a niche for other games to be played. Rather than waste time and energy railing against the most popular rpg perhaps using that energy looking for a suitable group is the wisest thing to do.

Do we have to sink to the level of badmouthing D&D? Why should playing D&D be a mindless habit but playing BRP isn't? Please lets not have this petty name calling. All the energy wasted on it could be ploughed into something more constructive, like running a game.

I second that opinion. Nice work on the pdfs, looks very good!

At last some land on the horizon!:eek:

It is a good job that my elder brother speaks fluent german. I can give him the task of translating some of your stuff for me. By the way your english is excellent.

Errrrrrrr... Ich sprechen ein kleine Deusche. Did I get that in any way near understandable?

Nicely imagined background. I hope that you can find the time to post a write up of it into the files section of this site. I'd love to read more about Pharos IV. Space is always the place!

A supernova at a respectable distance from an earthlike world ( light years away)would most likely destroy the ozone layer. UV resistant organisms, genetically engineered, would be a good thing to have or artificial creation of ozone high in the atmosphere by laser induced ionisation (using satellites) would solve this problem.

Thaddeus, it helps if you reply when someone posts in response to your request. I'd be interested to see some stats when if you get around to doing them. I'd be interested to see your stuff published as a supplement for DBRP.

Will you be sharing anymore stuff from your Twenty Moons of Toranor space opera game with us? Or are you planning on writing it all up as a supplement for DBRP so that Chaosium can publish it? If it were a published supplement, judging from the quality of the Corva article, I would buy it.

Dredj, you could always try e mailing Chaosium. I read a post on yogsothoth.com that said that it was none other than Frank Shewmake, the author of Worlds Beyond that told Chaosium about a box of unsold product he had. So the author might be contactable through Chaosium.

Nice alien concept, Ebonstorm:thumb:.

How would you turn the stats in the GURPS supplement into BRP stats? Do you have any conversion rules? I've tried to find the Space Gamer issue on Amazon but no luck;-(, so I'd love to read the article on Tschai again, after twenty years of remembering it wistfully.:ohwell: