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Wish you nice day, I need advice from you :-). I want to play a game, where all players are kings. The game should be divided to rounds of year or so. I there a mechanic, a rules or something, to build a kingdom? To mine, harvest, build fortress, build army, conquere ... in BPR? Thanks. Sx. 555

We've all seen similar scenarios in the comics or on assorted animated series: the hero of our favorite superhero title is confronted by a group of opponents whose members were given their abilities and are sponsored by a corporate entity. However, the largest private employer in the world isn't Stark Enterprises, Star Labs or Lexcorp. It's Walmart, rural dime store chain grown into a global phenomenon. It had to happen and today it has; as part of its exclusive promotion deal of the upcoming Man of Steel movie, Walmart has named its official superhero team (drawn and scripted by DC Comics!). Each of these metahumans is based on a real employee. A Look at 2013 / June cover of Walmart World magazine From left to right, they are: Ninja -- loss prevention specialist skilled at fading into the background to detect shoplifters (how she does that in a slinky catsuit must involve the use of her powers) Fire Man -- emergency response and rescue expert; sometimes carries a fire extinguisher on his back The Giver -- encourages volunteerism and charitable giving in the face of natural and national disasters Path-Maker -- career guidance manager; his flowing cape billows about him dramatically whether there is a noticeable wind or not OK, here's the contest. Pick a character. Stat him or her up using the Big Gold Book and/or Superworld or Worlds of Wonder. Include a description of the character's powers, outlook, and origin. The winner gets a Marvel Comics-style No Prize. BTW, a fifth member of the team (not pictured on the cover) is Shirley Shrinkage, Walmart's first superhero, who gained her powers in 1986 after encountering a barrel of radioactive waste. Also a loss prevention specialist, she's an energetic, thin, middle-aged woman with long, wavy blonde hair. Her red leotard is offset by blue headband, cape, gloves, shorts, and boots with wide cuffs.

Blood and Badges contains the 9 winning entries for the 2010 BRP Adventure Contest: • I Sette Magnifici Bastardi by Kevin Ross (spaghetti western) • Blood and Badges by Jon Hook (western horror) • The Goblin Hoss by Kevin Scrivner (western horror) • In the Frozen Darkness by R.J. Christensen (fifties horror) • Out with a BANG by Tom Lynch (cyberpunk) • The Haunted Bridge by Rich LeDuc (fantasy) • Company Town: Stepchildren of the Night by Mike Czaplinski (humorous conspiracy) • From Pagania with Hate by Marko Ercegovi’c “Streebor” (medieval horror) • The Prison of Outlaws by Simon Yee (dystopian alternate history) 132 pages. Published by Chaosium June 2011.

Chaosium Incorporated has entered a contest to win a grant for up to $250,000. The contest is called Mission: Small Business and Chaosium Inc. has entered to be considered as a recipient, but they need our help. Please vote for Chaosium Inc. before the deadline on June 30th. It would be great for one of the oldest and smallest gaming companies to have a chance to win $250,000, we all know it could go a long way with Chaosium Inc. The information that voters need is: Name of Business: Chaosium Inc. State: California City: Hayward They already have 7 votes, another 243 and they will be eligible for consideration.

[highlight]One Page Dungeon Contest 2012[/highlight]! Dates: Submission deadline is April 30, 0:00 GMT (Monday evening). If you live West of Greenwich, you will have to send in your submission a few hours before the end of the month! Winners will be announced June 1. Help spread the word! Prizes & Sponsors: Do you have prizes to donate? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com! Submissions: Here's how to submit your entry. Create a One Page Dungeon. Submitting a dungeon to the contest releases it under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license with credit to the contest participant. The submission must have a name, an author, and a link to the license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). The judges and readers play a variety of systems. Don't waste valuable space with a lot of system-specific stats. A link to extra material on your blog such as wandering monsters, random events, adventure background, introduction, descriptions of tricks or traps are welcome for readers but will not be considered part of your submission. One entry per participant. Participants may revise/replace their entries up until the end of contest, with the last revision counting as their official entry. If your font size is too small to read, you will most probably not win. Many people will print your submission as a black and white document. Adding colors is no problem as long as the black and white printed copy is still good enough. Help us keep file size in check. A single page should not take more than an image with 3000x2000 pixels (1-2MB is cool, 5MB still works, 10MB is too much). Submission must be mailed in PDF format to Alex Schröder → kensanata@gmail.com. Usually we can help you convert your Open Office and Microsoft Word documents to PDF. If you have a blog article talking about your submission, send us the link. We'd love to link to it from the One Page Dungeon Contest page. Process: Here's how we'll determine the winners. Every judge nominates their favorite entries and proposes a category for each. We try to make sure that every judge has at least three of their nominations in the final list. The idea is to not only reflect popular opinion but to also capture some of the more eclectic entries out there. We'll make sure that every judge is well represented with three entries each. Based on the categories proposed in the first step, we try to assign a category to each entry on the list. Judges gets to check whether their favorites are still on the list. We fix omissions and rename categories until we're happy. We publish our list of winners! We will ask each winner for three items they'd prefer to win and any items they prefer not to win. Then we try to do a best match, giving precedence to those winners that got more nominations in the first step. All the entries and a special PDF with all the winners will be available for download at no cost.

Here are the winning entries from the 2009 Chaosium BRP Adventure Contest. Explore mythic Australia, battle for lost New Caledonia, assist Boston police in a kidnapping, and make a strategic strike against the Nazi Occult Bureau in the 1930s! These and other adventures take place in different times and places, for Basic Roleplaying and the Basic Roleplaying Quickstart rules. 168 pages total. THE ADVENTURES INCLUDE: The Battle for New Caledonia, by Oscar Rios. The River Terror, by William Noble. Save Me an Angel, by R.J. Christensen. OPERATION: Mind Storm, by Jon Hook. The King, The Maiden, and the Mad Man of Las Islas de los Muertos, by Kenneth Spencer. The Guns of Nero’s Rome, by Michael Silverling. The Soul of Ra Mihn Nudal, by Kevin Scrivner. The Twin Circle Defenders, by Bruce Thompson. The Burmese Extravaganza, by Patrice Crespy. Fools Rush In, by Tom Lynch. Incident at Vasir Station, by Greg White. By many authors. 168 pages. Published by Chaosium October 2009.

BRP Adventures presents thirteen adventures for the Basic Roleplaying system. These are drawn from the submissions from the first Basic Roleplaying Adventure Contest. Organized by genre, these stories illustrate the versatility of BRP and its adaptability to different kinds of storytelling. The following are the general genres and adventures included: • Fantasy: Sharazar, by Andrei Baltakmans. Travelers of Ka'rang, by Chad Bowser. King John's Treasure, by Jean-Philipe Chapleau. The Caravan, by Sverre Larne. • Horror: The Sign of the Goat, by Guy dondlinger. • Alternate Realities: Going Up the Country, by R.J. Christensen. The Black Book, by Stuart Godbolt. Daybreak Tomorrow, by Rich Leduc. Escape From the Slavelands, by Sarah Newton. Terror At 6666 Feet, by Matt Steele. Ruin Nation, by Jason Williams. The Time Share, by Simon Yee. • Science Fiction: Planet-Fall, by Bruce Thomson. By many authors. 168 pages. Published by Chaosium March 2009.