Thread: Site News & Introductions

Hi guys. Just registered and having a nose around. Hopefully my sig speaks for itself. I'm very happy to see BRP the book being published at long last, and its nice to see fan support like this site as well. Hopefully this will be a renaissance of gaming for me as BRP was always my go-to system.

Hello and Welcome, Gundamentalist !

Gundamentalist - I love The Black Seal!

Welcome . . .

Well, since the Forum keeps pestering me politely with the recommendation to post in the Introductions thread, I figured i'd best do so, if for no other reason than to quiet it down...

Unlike many people I've met who got their role-playing start on some archaic version of D&D, I got mine on some archaic version of RuneQuest. I don't recall exactly when, but I think it was just a wee bit before 2nd edition came out. I've been a big fan of the BRP system since then, and while I too turned to D&D occasionally during RQ's quiescent periods, the BRP-based mechanics were always my favorite (and who could not love Stafford's intensely detailed world of Glorantha?). RuneQuest, ElfQuest, Ringworld, Superworld, Cthulhu. Heck, the writing in a lot of the Cthulhu stuff was so good, I'd buy them just to read them, even with no intention of every using them in an actual game. :-)

After Stafford and Chaosium parted ways, I never could get into the new 'narrative' RP system Stafford introduced for his world of Glorantha. Time went on, and I was initially overjoyed at the prospect of RQ being done by Mongoose. I had the book pre-ordered and everything, but as time went on, and more and more official snippets of info came out about their upcoming rendition, I realized that it just didn't 'feel' right to me, and so reluctantly abandoned it, cancelled my pre-order, and bided my time once again.

And now, here we are, with the BRP system revised and dolled up all nice and new! And while I haven't finished looking through my copy which arrived yesterday, it so far appears to be exactly what I want in my "new version" -- a clean system, updated and smoothed out, with new options but still retaining both the heart and the spirit of the original.

Having been a member of one of the playtest groups for D&D 4.0 and seen how that deviated from the 'feel' of D&D, I am very pleased that Chaosium didn't try something like that, and instead stuck to the whole "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy when updating and revising their system.

My two lunars,
Steve M

Hey There,

I'm Yamil from the Hills of Pansalvania.

Been a looooong time since I checked out BRP. And I love what I see a straight forward, intuitive, well edited RPG book with which you can run almost any kind of game. Now I just need to meet gamers who play or are willing to learn it. And that's why I'm here.


Yamil,
Reading, PA

Welcome to the forum Steve M and Yamil!

SGL.

Ditto in re-The Black Seal. A marvelous and consistently excellent magazine.

So it's summertime and in some places quite warm in the Northern Hemisphere. Do you find yourselves gaming outdoors in the evening or do you have a pleasantly cool room to host your games?

Hello,

I just recently picked up the new BRP book and have become much more interested in using the system for general gaming (non-CoC games).

I mostly hang out a the RPG Site so some of you may know me from there.

Made it through the registration process at last!

I've been gaming since, oh, about '80 or so; recently got dragged back into it after a 10-year hiatus. I've been using bits & pieces of various Chaosium systems (RQ, Elfquest, RQ3) in non-Glorantha settings since I got tired of experience points and levels, so BRP was right up my alley (I bought the PDF and urged the others in my group to do likewise).

Computers are nice as aids to the player and GM, but we still use paper, pencil, battlemats, and miniatures extensively.

- QV

QuestingVince and mcrow; welcome!

What do you find yourself playing mostly these days? What settings and / or systems?

Looking forward to reading your thoughts on the subject...

-pax-