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[Barak Shathur]

I read somewhere there would be support for Roll20 in connection with the new BRP. This is really exciting. Is there a possible guesstimate for when this may transpire, if so?

Thanks. 

[hix]

Roll20 doesn't even have BRP in their "we are playing" box for campaign advertisement or a character sheet for the BGB. Missed opportunity really, a lot of younger players' first experience with RPGs is online because the barrier to entry is so much lower.

[Barak Shathur]

There is actually a functional, if a bit rudimentary and incomplete (and somewhat buggy) fan made character sheet for BRP in Roll20. But an officially supported one would be gold. 

[g33k]

I believe they plan to do one... hope to do one.

But so far as I know, there isn't even an "officially supported" Roll20 sheet for RQG...
and RQG is a much bigger deal for Chaosium, as it has a proven sales record... and it has been on the market for years.

Chaosium has a guy working on Foundry VTT, I know... Ariel Sawicki.  CoC+RQG are his 1st projects.

Dunno if Ariel is tasked to do BRP for Foundry, after that; or maybe Lords of the Middle Sea... or expanding onto Roll20..., or if they are looking for a different Roll20 dev... or what.


Off the top of my head, the BRP sheet seems to me to be a *LOT* more complex to implement than the sheet for a specific RPG -- BRP has so many different genre-options, so many possible RPG's within it.

I expect much will depend on relative sales-numbers.

Edited May 15, 2023 by g33k

[Jason D]

Right now we don't have any plans to implement BRP into Roll20.

This isn't because it's not on our wish-list, but because it's something we - independently - just can't throw effort at and get done. 

If we could get a toe in the door of Roll20 implementation, BRP would probably be low on our list of games to implement, just because there's much less, content-wise, than for our other lines. 

 

[RosenMcStern]

1 hour ago, Jason D said:

Right now we don't have any plans to implement BRP into Roll20.

This isn't because it's not on our wish-list, but because it's something we - independently - just can't throw effort at and get done. 

If we could get a toe in the door of Roll20 implementation, BRP would probably be low on our list of games to implement, just because there's much less, content-wise, than for our other lines. 

 

What's the status of the Fantasy Grounds version? I have not checked it for maybe 10 years, but it should be working fine. I have played several games and campaigns with it. Is anyone, apart from Smiteworks, working on it? The effort to convert it to the UGE version should be trivial, but there might be other issues.

[Barak Shathur]

2 hours ago, Jason D said:

Right now we don't have any plans to implement BRP into Roll20.

This isn't because it's not on our wish-list, but because it's something we - independently - just can't throw effort at and get done. 

If we could get a toe in the door of Roll20 implementation, BRP would probably be low on our list of games to implement, just because there's much less, content-wise, than for our other lines. 

 

I must have misunderstood something I read somewhere. I don’t even remember where. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

[Barak Shathur]

45 minutes ago, RosenMcStern said:

What's the status of the Fantasy Grounds version? I have not checked it for maybe 10 years, but it should be working fine. I have played several games and campaigns with it. Is anyone, apart from Smiteworks, working on it? The effort to convert it to the UGE version should be trivial, but there might be other issues.

I’m currently playing with it (as a player). It seems to work mostly fine, though there was some bug with some dice rolls. 

[peterb]

1 hour ago, RosenMcStern said:

What's the status of the Fantasy Grounds version? I have not checked it for maybe 10 years, but it should be working fine. I have played several games and campaigns with it. Is anyone, apart from Smiteworks, working on it? The effort to convert it to the UGE version should be trivial, but there might be other issues.

It's working fine. I play a weekly game and it works well. It got a much need overhaul a year and a half ago and I have posted a score of bug reports and those gets fixed. The BRP ruleset is the oldest FG ruleset that's still being sold, so it lacks in automotations, compared to newer rulesets.

AFAIK there's not really that much new or changed mechanics that would warrant an UGE update. And, I don't think the sales justify the investment either.

One of my players run a campaign using the Roll20 BRP sheet and so far the FG version shines, in comparison.

Edited May 16, 2023 by peterb

[dvdmacateer]

On 5/15/2023 at 4:41 PM, hix said:

Roll20 doesn't even have BRP in their "we are playing" box for campaign advertisement or a character sheet for the BGB. Missed opportunity really, a lot of younger players' first experience with RPGs is online because the barrier to entry is so much lower.

There is a BGB BRP sheet but it is not great.  Implementing BGB BRP on a VTT  is a nightmare because of the multitude of options. 

What appears in the "Playing Any of These Games" or "Playing" fields are at the whim of what the staff feel is cool  such as games like Maid

 

Edited May 16, 2023 by dvdmacateer

[sirkerry]

On 5/16/2023 at 8:30 AM, RosenMcStern said:

What's the status of the Fantasy Grounds version? I have not checked it for maybe 10 years, but it should be working fine. I have played several games and campaigns with it. Is anyone, apart from Smiteworks, working on it? The effort to convert it to the UGE version should be trivial, but there might be other issues.

It's still available. SmiteWorks has it in maintenance mode as there is no current developer for it. They're just keeping it compatible with CoreRPG ruleset changes.

From a quick perusal of the UGE PDF, it doesn't look like it would be that difficult to create an extension for the BRP ruleset to incorporate the needed changes.  

[devinlc]

I just tried using FGU BRP and when we add new skills to the character sheet, they disappear after we log off and back in. Additionally, weapons skills on the first page revert to 0% when logging back in. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

Edited June 21, 2023 by devinlc

[peterb]

10 hours ago, devinlc said:

I just tried using FGU BRP and when we add new skills to the character sheet, they disappear after we log off and back in. Additionally, weapons skills on the first page revert to 0% when logging back in. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

See my answer on the FG forum: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?59713-Problems-Bugs-with-BRP&p=690664&viewfull=1#post690664

[GothmogIV]

Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine

Has Chaosium considered doing a Kickstarter to get this on Roll20? The lack of content for BRP might be a chicken-and-egg issue. If you build it, they will come. I am pleased to see the design contest Chasosium is doing for BRP, but a great many people play online, and Roll20 is the big dog in VTT. I would love to use this system for all of my games, but we play on Roll20, and it is not supported at all (with the exception of a very rudimentary character sheet, as referenced above). 

Goodman Games just kickstarted their Dungeon Crawl Classics rules on Backerkit, and made plenty of money. You guys could do the same! 

[clive henrick]

So I am thinking of taking a crack at Roll20 to port my BRP Game into the system. I am glad that Orc Allows it, as it is a HECK of a lot of work to get this to work right, but as a programmer, I think I can hack away to get it running. Their tools ( roll20 ) are very 2010, and you would think they would have a better system, but they do not. I will let the group know as it goes and am happy to share any of the code as I build it, as I think it a very complicated.

 

See https://roll20partners.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10830543710359-Compendium-Building-Primer#h_01HBTBP4EEEEFC99MX1B4KV6CP

[dvdmacateer]

On 9/18/2024 at 5:12 AM, clive henrick said:

So I am thinking of taking a crack at Roll20 to port my BRP Game into the system. I am glad that Orc Allows it, as it is a HECK of a lot of work to get this to work right, but as a programmer, I think I can hack away to get it running. Their tools ( roll20 ) are very 2010, and you would think they would have a better system, but they do not. I will let the group know as it goes and am happy to share any of the code as I build it, as I think it a very complicated.

 

See https://roll20partners.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10830543710359-Compendium-Building-Primer#h_01HBTBP4EEEEFC99MX1B4KV6CP

Has the Roll20 no Custom Compendium policy changed?  https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2940484/custom-compendium/?pagenum=1.  

Here is the confirmation that custom compendiums are not possible. To clarify sheets can be created but not compendiums  which require some sort of official agreement would require some agreement between Chaosium and Roll20.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 25 by dvdmacateer

[Questbird]

There is a roll20 Stormbringer/Elric! sheet I think. https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets/blob/master/Elric/ReadMe.md

So you can choose the character sheet even if you can't select any BRP or Elric games from the dropdown.

There's a Basic Roleplaying one too, at https://github.com/Roll20/roll20-character-sheets/blob/master/Basic_Roleplaying/README.md

Edited September 25 by Questbird
added brp sheet