badcat Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 OK, it's been almost 24 hours since I bought the pdf, and it ain't here yet. How long a time lag are you all having? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbowser Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 OK, it's been almost 24 hours since I bought the pdf, and it ain't here yet. How long a time lag are you all having? I'm not sure exactly how Chaosium's e-delivery service works, but have you gone back to their site, logged in, and checked to see if the 'requires purchase' entry on the downloads page has changed to a download link? Someone previously had mentioned that's what they needed to do. Quote Various RPGs I've worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies2720 Posted June 10, 2008 Author Share Posted June 10, 2008 I placed my order late last night & it was ok this morning. Based on others' comments, I just re-downloaded & now I have the PDF with the cover in it...I must have just jumped the gun with my order. Go check your account, it should have the download in it. Steve Quote Bathalians, the newest UberVillians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleriad Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 OK, it's been almost 24 hours since I bought the pdf, and it ain't here yet. How long a time lag are you all having? FWIW, I bought it this morning (about 12 hours ago) and it was done instantly. Came straight back from the paypal page and the download link was in place. That said, the purchasing interface was horrible in the extreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies2720 Posted June 10, 2008 Author Share Posted June 10, 2008 I'm assuming it is, but can anyone tell me if the PDF is printable? Just want to make sure before I purchase it! Thanks!Yes, I just printed the "Creating a Character" chart and it printed just fine. Steve Quote Bathalians, the newest UberVillians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Chapman Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Anyone else got that patchy black line running down the page on pg. 331 of their pdf (page 329 of the book)? I think it may be a remnant of a black edge on the left side of the image used on the page (in which case it may well be something that will appear on the print copies as well). Colin Quote Creator of Radioactive Ape Designs, award-nominated publisher of Atomic Highway and other fine RPG publications! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badcat Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Thank you, cjbowser, sdavies2720, delriad...I found the link and have the pdf. No line on that page on mine, Colin. Now to finally have a look at this puppy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDLeary Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Anyone else got that patchy black line running down the page on pg. 331 of their pdf (page 329 of the book)? I think it may be a remnant of a black edge on the left side of the image used on the page (in which case it may well be something that will appear on the print copies as well). Colin Not seeing anything here. Running on a G5 with OS X 10.5.3. Preview doesn't like the PDF, but Acrobat seems fine... haven't seen any anomalies on the pages yet. SDLeary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason D Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 No line in my copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badcat Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 I just looked through it and my initial impression is very good. There are things I like and things I don't so much (big surprise). Most importantly the book looks both useful and easy to use, with a lot of material for reference (that is a serious understatement). Taking into account my minor dislikes and such I guess I would rate it 9 out of 10. It really couldn't be much better because almost all those dislikes have to do with personal preference, and I know the book was written for, hopefully, as large a target audience as possible. There is no point in going into my personal preferences and so forth. In general it sort of reminds me of the GURPS 3 rulebook. Not a bad thing. One small caveat is that I am not sure it is going to always be easy to separate some of the specific rules that one might want to include from the general body of rules even though one of the stated goals, I think, was to make it easy to do so. For instance the skill section seems to assume criticals and specials with effects described for all levels of success. It may take a little work to construct a simpler skill list with only criticals (critical and success effects will sometimes need to be combined) if you want to have a skill set similar to Stormbringer 1, for instance. But that's OK. I really believe I am looking at possibly the most useful rpg rule book I have ever picked up, GURPS and all. There is a boatload of good stuff with only small dissatisfactions here and there. Thanks, Jason.:thumb: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Jest Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Yes, I just printed the "Creating a Character" chart and it printed just fine. Steve Thanks, Steve! I downloaded a copy and it looks really fun so far. Now I just have to decide what genre to run something in... There's no strange marks on my copy, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harshax Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 We need a pleasant read of a review on rpg.net asap. Unfortunately, I don't have time to properly review a 400 page rulebook. Quote And don't forget Realism Rule # 1 "If you can do it in real life you should be able to do it in BRP". - Simon Phipp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badcat Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 You mean a review from someone who likes it? I am sure there will be a review there soon. Pleasant, uh, who knows. There have been in the past several threads at rp.net speculating about the new BRP book. It is certainly going to be interesting to see what the reaction there is. I'd like to see reviews and a poll gauging reaction here, too. I have no idea how to set a poll up, though. Nor would I attempt a review without having actually read through and played it as is. Someone here will soon, I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harshax Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 You mean a review from someone who likes it? I mean a review by a good writer who can give BRP an objective review that is enjoyable to read. Quote And don't forget Realism Rule # 1 "If you can do it in real life you should be able to do it in BRP". - Simon Phipp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aknaton Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 I have now printed the PDF. And it's a real TOME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Tar Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Just downloaded mine and in 1 minute I found a typo. Page 26 The "Character SIZ Chart" table has the line "19 82–84 205–\" obviously the backslash should be "210" I don't have an inappropriate line on page 331 Colin. Quote 132/420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 They chose not to scan the cover... 4. Pretty Picture Cover all present and correct... I don't see the cover picture on my copy. So is it supposed to be there or not? :confused: Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies2720 Posted June 11, 2008 Author Share Posted June 11, 2008 I don't see the cover picture on my copy. So is it supposed to be there or not? :confused:When I read that others had the cover, I went back to my account and re-downloaded the pdf. Now I have a version with a cover. On a different note, I also see that the text in the PDF is selectable (I have a full version of Acrobat), which means that cobbling together a "cheat sheet" for personal use will be pretty easy -- I can just copy key sections from the PDF and paste into Word. Very great. Steve Quote Bathalians, the newest UberVillians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogspawner Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 When I read that others had the cover, I went back to my account and re-downloaded the pdf. Now I have a version with a cover. Thanks for that - now I do too! On a different note, I also see that the text in the PDF is selectable (I have a full version of Acrobat), which means that cobbling together a "cheat sheet" for personal use will be pretty easy -- I can just copy key sections from the PDF and paste into Word. Very great. I only have the Adobe Reader, but find I can do that too. Very useful. Thanks Chaosium! Quote Britain has been infiltrated by soviet agents to the highest levels. They control the BBC, the main political party leaderships, NHS & local council executives, much of the police, most newspapers and the utility companies. Of course the EU is theirs, through-and-through. And they are among us - a pervasive evil, like Stasi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkD Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 On a different note, I also see that the text in the PDF is selectable (I have a full version of Acrobat), which means that cobbling together a "cheat sheet" for personal use will be pretty easy -- I can just copy key sections from the PDF and paste into Word. Very great. Good choice from Chaosium, the big advantages of pdfs are features like c&p. Everyone (who really wants to) can disable the security features of pdfs anyway, so it's a good thing if they don't use that nonsense to begin with. Are the pdfs watermarked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remm Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 When I read that others had the cover, I went back to my account and re-downloaded the pdf. Now I have a version with a cover. On a different note, I also see that the text in the PDF is selectable (I have a full version of Acrobat), which means that cobbling together a "cheat sheet" for personal use will be pretty easy -- I can just copy key sections from the PDF and paste into Word. Very great. Steve Ah, so they do update the PDF Thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunwolfe Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Hi, all: I'm so excited and pumped! Based on posts here, I D/L-ed mine np. I think it would help if Chaosium put some sort of link in their "Order Process" email, or posted a very prominent and visible notice during check-out that one needs to return to "such and such" a page after payment confirmation and click the d/l link. Though I pre-ordered from Chaosium only a few days after they posted the option, I feel the additional purchase of a .pdf will greatly enhance my enjoyment of the hard-copy when it arrives. There are just too many convenient uses of a .pdf copy for game purposes. Wonderful, Jason; you and Sam have done a great job:thumb:! Game on :happy:! Cheers, Sunwolfe Quote Present home-port: home-brew BRP/OQ SRD variant; past ports-of-call: SB '81, RQIII '84, BGB '08, RQIV(Mythras) '12,  MW '15, and OQ '17 BGB BRP: 0 edition: 20/420; .pdf edition: 06/11/08; 1st edition: 06/13/08 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dredj Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Now that people are seeing the finished product of BRP (and I can't get it for a little while as my personal computer doesn't have internet access, and needs some repairs), I would like to ask about the damage rules. Do the rules allow for doing splatterpunk well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simlasa Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 'Splatterpunk'? You mean graphically violent horror like Poppy Z Brite/David Schow/Jack Ketchum? So for that you'd want a combat system with really descriptive damage? What else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enpeze Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Now that people are seeing the finished product of BRP (and I can't get it for a little while as my personal computer doesn't have internet access, and needs some repairs), I would like to ask about the damage rules. Do the rules allow for doing splatterpunk well? why not? BRP with its hitlocations offers the possiblity to cut off heads and arms as much as you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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