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Does SB4e use an "Attack and Defence Matrix"?

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I'm not sure this will be very helpful in your quest, but I enjoyed this site for its inspirative capabilities: The Star Wars Deckplans Alliance. Wonderful drawings and plans.

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Indeed! A search for title brings up the blog announcement by Charlie when it was first offered: http://www.chaosium.com/blog/wind-on-the-steppes/ but nothing else.

Curiouser and curiouser...

Well, I'm glad I got mine when I did :-)

Once upon a time, early college age, my brother GMed a game wherein we--a couple of us--did this. He set the game in our home town which had just undergone some sort of strange attack. We really weren't sure what kind of attack, but all indications seemed to point toward aliens--there were many peeps missing, but only a few were found dead without apparent reason. By the way he described things, the environment had a something of a Gamma World vibe to it without the years-since-the-holocaust decay and ruin.

As for our characters, my brother questioned us concerning our likes and dislikes, making notes about what we really knew at that moment. Being readers we actually were aware of a lot of things. He highlighted our skills, he exaggerated them  somewhat, and then gave them percentages. He unilaterally decided we were all a bit more than average on the INT scale, 14 as I recall, and he used some mechanism I can't recall for calculating CON, STR and DEX. APP/CHA never really came up. We spent most of the game trying to access food, weapons and transportation while investigating the disappearances and dodging local gangs on the prowl for supplies, loot and slaves. 

We had just broached the subject of POW after encountering public park areas where evidence indicated some sort of arcane ritual had taken place when we ended the game for the night. We all agreed it was a blast and wanted to do more. I'm sad to say we never did get back to the game, but I certainly wish we had.

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Hey, in a world where even Chaosium can come back from the dead, anything is possible! 

I'll go where ever you take the conversation, Paolo, but I must admit, I have a soft spot for BRP Central.

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I got to chime in too :-) How 'bout a little alliteration? A Conversion of Creatures or Creature Convergence or Chris's Creature Conversion?

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In honor of all the wonderful BRP settings your company has published that I own and enjoy--Merrie England, Crusaders of the Amber Coast, Dragon Lines, The Celestial Empire, ROME and Wind on the Steppes, you have both my enthusiastic support and my crowd funding dollars, Paolo.

May RevolutionD100 ever remain a...present concern :-)

Long live Alephtar Games!

Never mind. I went to the doctor and now I can see! LOL!

I'm blind and can't seem to find the option in my profile. How's 'bout a hint :-) ?

Okay, I'm in!

I rolled...a 3. Hmmm, Mr. J, I'm your neighbor across the straight.

Nakana! Send the map that I may populate the environs forthwith!

Bring me your finest wine and cheeses! This game amuses me.

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Gorgeous maps! I agree.

Though I found the combat and spell systems were far, far too crunchy for me (my perspective is decades old), I thoroughly enjoyed a few of their publications and am glad to see the company is still around and investing in their fan base with official forums, timely communications, as well as creation and re-creation of new  and old material. Their GM club "Order of the Iron Crown" is a cool idea too and I like that they're offering play-testing opportunities to their fans as well.

I invested in Spell Law (both boxed and bound) and Character Law & Campaign Law over 30 years ago (WOW! I am an old fart!) and got the most bang for my buck from the later. I bought SL because I was playing SB1E at the time and all it had was demon magic and I wanted a spell system I could adapt. It didn't work out so well. I'm sure a more knowledgeable GM could have made the conversion better. The campaign portion of CL&CL delivered. I literally have almost worn the cover off that bad-boy. I still use the outline offered for "...Developing a Campaign" and world-building. Good times.

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I agree, but what about all the skills for making progress from basic to more advanced careers? Though you could fudge here and there, you'd end up having a lot of skill conversion and creation to do. I mean, Holy Moly, WHFP (1st ed) lists 133 skills to cater to various careers; MW has but 35 by comparison. Lots o'work there :-)

Hmmm...or...I dunno. I just called up my homebrew character sheets from my RQ III days. It actually had 74 skills listed when RQ III proper only described 30 some odd and suggested a few others to make it a grand total of 42. I wonder where I got those other skills? Hmmm...well, regardless, it would probably be more doable and less time consuming than I first thought.

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It wasn't one of your choices, but I'd go with BRP Magic World. It lends itself to a flowing, cinematic...even pulpy style but can still be tinkered with using the Big Gold Book to add grit (if needed) without slowing things down. On the other hand your peeps are riding giant snails so speed may be relative :-).

Yeah, mobile devices blow chunks for posting. Especially with that auto correct: e.g. "witch" instead of "which".

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LOL! I was just thinking that when I finished reading it!

I got a couple of screen shots of it if you need it for reference!

Barsoomian Fliers Beta chart

Okay...I'm not very adept at this stuff, but I feel the need to add to Seneschal’s offerings. I'm eager and willing and hope that might may make up for some of the fumbles you'll surely find below. 

I decided to follow a Savage Worlds track and categorize fliers by general hull type (or size) rather than trying to address every permutation. If ever I need to design a special flier, say something for PCs or a named flier from Burroughs' canon, I can do that on a case by case basis. 

I tried to assume as much of the MW "Seafaring" chapter as made sense (I also tried to keep RQ III's "Ships and Sailing" section [AKA BRP's "Basic Gamemaster" supplement] and Elric!'s "Sailing on the Seas of Fate" supplement in mind as well) to keep things do-able from a MW standpoint. Some things, like Weapons Pods, Rate of Climb, and Acceleration have no derivative but I hope need little explanation. On much of this, I simply had to wing it (no pun intended...well, maybe a little) using best-guess methods. As I hope the timbre of my game will be more cinematic, I didn't feel the need to get too crunchy or simulationist. Burroughs' descriptions on the hows, whys and wherefores of Barsoomian flyers are few and far from detailed, thus, I have done the best I can based on my re-reading of the Mars Saga, and while the movie offers great visuals, its air ship designs are at odds with what descriptions ERB offers. And on that note, any descriptions of propulsion and lift systems, the 8th-ray, ship materials, weapon-pod make up are going to have to wait for me to finish my reading.

All constructive criticism welcome. I want to make this better and if you can offer something that would help, I'd appreciate it. If I've broken some major law of physics (both Jarsoomian and Barsoomian) don't hesitate to let me know. The same goes for any faulty computations.

When it has had enough time to mature, I'll set it up in the downloads section.

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"We still live!" said John Carter of BRP/MW

Newt, you don't happen to have copies of Hearts Never In Glorantha or Hearts Ain't Goin' to Glorantha or maybe Hearts in Southern Reaches or Magic World in there somewhere do you? :-T

Just kiddin', my firend. Congratulations and well done. Long live Hearts in Glorantha!

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"I left my heart, in San Fran-- er...Magic World..."

Then maybe a fan-conversion of MI is in order! By all the, gods:!

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"We still live!" cried John Carter of MW/BRP

I thought the same thing, so I tinkered a bit with the BGB tool-kit and came up with house rules for special success by weapon type. I also use the difficulty based skill resolution like Nick,  I employ a Magic Skill based on POW and a homebrew magical artifact enchantment system and a few other slight arcane modifications. Otherwise, I pretty much use MW as written.

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"We still live!" said John Carter of BRP/MW

This thread is one of the best part of my day :-)

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"We still live!" said John Carter of BRP/MW

Just a cursoury glance and quick fill, but it looks pretty good! Thanks Master Jones :-)

If you're looking for a published or a bottled home-grown construct that caters to your love of "genricness" and "streamlineyness", you might find it difficult to find a nicely wrapped hybrid beyond that which you already seem to have discovered in using Ren D100 and the BGB to fill in the gaps or needs. 

I wonder if BRP GMs aren't all by nature hyrid-eers in one sense or another. One uses general hit points, another uses hit locations, another uses wound levels and still another tries to get away with no HP at all ! We love to tinker. That's the beauty of the system; take what you need or want and reserve the rest for later.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

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Excellent quesitons, Paolo.

1. While I have much of the material in question, it would be nice to have access to those items just plain too expensive to purchase via ebay, etc. I would do so, however, only to sift from them details that I could add to my own setting and by extension BRP. I would still have concerns and a desire to see ongoing development for BRP.

 2. Because I would be looking at these books as a way of adding to my repertoire of BRP rules and mechanics, no, it would not replace the BGB.

 3. Like you pointed out, this has an obvious answer: if that’s all the support we’re going to get, well, as Henry I put it in The Lion in Winter, “There’s not much point in complaining about the air when that’s all there is to breath.” That being said and given a choice, no. I would not be satisfied with this level of support.

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