Rlyehdreamer Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Hello All Apologies for asking a couple questions that may have simple and obvious answers. I want to rebuild an old 3X game in BRP. What are the best resources to emulate that feel? I haven't played Runequest and I realize that may be one obvious low hanging fruit. But I'd like advice. (Near horizon unreleased material counts!) Here is what I'm shooting for: Years ago I ran a fun campaign in D&D 3.5. The concept was a world setting with the Roman, Norse, and Egyptian Gods each with their own archetypical fantasy nations in a constant state of tension. Then the Great Old Ones start to emerge and tense rival nations become allies of need. Adventure follows. Fast forward a couple decades and I've been enjoying Pulp Cthulhu a lot lately. And that old campaign sprang to mind when I saw the BRP update. I'm not stuck with D&D spells or anything like that. But I would like to have a fairly high fantasy setting with wizards and warriors and clerics or whatever, but with the CoC core, including sanity. I'm thinking Pulp C is CoC with a bit a extra juice, and I want this campaign to be more in to 30% to 50% of the way to D&D feel. Maybe even more. And I think BRP gets me there. What resources will create a toolbox for me? Thanks much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenheart87 Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Mythras + Classic Fantasy or the brand new Classic Fantasy Imperative are worth checking out. Quote Wielder of the Vorpal Mace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albesias Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 BRP and D20s feels very different at the table. For fantasy settings Magic World is a great starting point. Notice that BRP has two main fantasy "specialities" , the runequest one and the elric/stormbringer one. Both are great foundatons for tweaking and get the appropiate set od rules for your table needs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raleel Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 Mythras and classic fantasy will make it look a lot like your old game. It has classes and vancian adjacent casting and all of that. mythras by itself has a kitchen sink setting called Thennla. It is very much in a similar space. It has gods that take an active role, various pseudo-real-world cultures, and so on. You can download the Thennla doc for free from the design mechanism’s website. small plug for my own site - https://d100-workshop.blogspot.com Largely because I have a small pile of cults on there that would fit well into a world like this. Cults really just give you the structure around gating powers and abilities. bonus part is that you can use the BRP:UGE and it will be largely compatible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyehdreamer Posted October 4, 2023 Author Share Posted October 4, 2023 Thanks much! The Classic Fantasy Imperative looks perfect. And, yes, I definitely get that BRP and D20 will feel different. That's why I want to take this particular campaign in the BRP direction. 😀 And thanks for the site plug. I'll check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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