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BASIC ROLEPLAYING NEWS:

Basic Roleplaying, 1st Edition Basic Roleplaying, the best roleplaying system of all times, has finally been collected into a complete tome collecting all the rules you would need to play in any sort of setting. This generic rule set represents the core Chaosium game system, based on nearly 30 years of use and refinement. BRP Zero, a proofreading copy has already been released to the public, and the 1st Edition at the printers, on track for a May 2008 release. It looks like Basic Roleplaying will be well supported by various supplements. So far, we know of at least six supplements that are on their way:

BRP Rome (updated 12.03.08)
Interplanetary (updated 12.04.08)
Fractured Hopes (updated 07.05.08) NEWS!
Mythic Iceland (written October 07) NEWS!
Chaos & Catacombs (written 12.04.08)
DeadWorld (updated 27.02.08)

BRP Rome

BRP Rome, inspired by the HBO series, is a historical campaign setting covering the period from Rome's beginning in 753 BC to the end of the Republic in 27ish BC. The setting is full of exciting possibilities due to its early mythology, and the later political chaos. For all those of you who loved the series, this is the supplement to get!.

The supplement will contain rules for character generation, information about the society, culture, mythology and religion, magic rules, info about the city of Rome, games, the legions and the historical timeline, in addition to several dozen scenario plot seeds. Throughout the entire manuscript are inserted dozen of quotes from Republican authors which illuminate Roman life of that era in the voices of those alive at the time.

The author is Pete Nash from the forum, who expects to have the manuscript finished by the end of April 2008

Interplanetary

Interplanetary, is an adventure sourcebook for roleplaying games in the style of the planetary adventure or planetary romance genre. The sourcebook will presents a sample campaign and exploration of the planets in our solar system in a manner appropriate to the genre. The defaul earth setting is set around 1920.

The sourcebook will include character generation (including alien characters), artifacts and equipment (including various spacecrafts), sci-fi spot rules, an alternate description of out solar system and it's inhabitants, and a sample planetary adventure campaign.

The author is none other than BRP's Jason Durall, who expects to finish the manuscript around May 2008.

Fractured Hopes

Fractured Hopes is a new space fantasy setting where the world humanity lived on was shattered into thousands of large chunks of rock, during a war between a machine race and bio-tech aliens. Some parts of the god from the original world still inhabit the largest chunks of rocks, and in most places provide the human inhabitants with what they need to survive. Magic users and sorcerors intercede with this spirit on behalf of the people, and are essential crew on any spacecraft.

The design goal for Fractured Hopes is to develop an exciting setting in which nearly every option available in the Basic book is not only available, but make logical sense. It should support a wide variety of player concepts. Players will have access to a ship to travel between fragments, looking for loot, helping refugees and battling killer robots.

The author is Charles Green from the forum. The setting have entered the playtesting phase, and the rough draft for the book is just finished! It will most likely be released in 2008.

Mythic Iceland

Mythic Iceland is a fantasy earth Vikings setting which will be based on the Icelandic Sagas, the Eddas, and the fairy tales of Iceland. The magical and mythical aspects from the Eddas and the Sagas will be incorporated into the setting, and much attention will be given to the elves, using the legends of the huldufólk.

The author is Pedro Ziviani from the forum, a historian living on Iceland. The work on Mythic Iceland is progressing well, and the playtesting should be starting soon. We expect to see the book released still in 2008.

Chaos & Catacombs

Chaos & Catacombs: Adventures in Hack-n-Slash is a spoof/parody of classic RPG campaigns, specifically D&D. While firmly a parody, is also a cleverly disguised D&D style RPG with conversions of all the classic classes and monsters, while keeping the freedom of the BRP game system.

Chainmail bikinies, with an optional wardrobe malfunction table is of course present. The actual game is supposed to be run seriously, but reading the book should be great fun for the GM.

The author is Rod, aka threedeesix, from the forum. It will soon enter the playtesting stage.

DeadWorld

Seraphim Guard will utilize the first BRP license Chaosium has given out for their upcoming DeadWorld RPG. The setting is based upon Gary Reed's DeadWorld comic. A supernatural plague have been unleased upon the world, and the dead returns to walk the earth! The zombies are soldiers for those who have crossed the Gateway, and have intelligent leader zombies. For humans, it's quite the struggle just to stay alive.

Due to the delay of the Basic Roleplaying System, Seraphim Guard have decided to delay the release of the Deadworld Role-Playing Game until Wizard World 2009. Currently the game is in its alpha-test stage. A notice will be given out when Seraphim starts looking for playtesters.