Thread: Site News & Introductions

Welcome to all the newbies, and a merry Xmas to you all.

The name's kafka, well actually Franz but I take the most famous of Franzes and make it my own. I live in the Czech Republic and have lived in Canada...but largely call Europe my home.

I started with BRP when a picked up a 3rd Edition (Games Workshop) Call of Cthulhu rulebook from a local comic shop. I had a vague inkling about what Cthulhu was about from reading White Dwarf articles and more importantly adventures. When I found the rulebook really did not support what I was thinking about - kinda investigative Indiana Jones horror. The rulebook sat on my shelf and was eventually sold. But, all the while Cthulhu gnawed at me, as I read all of Lovecraft's works and many of his contempories and later hacks. I found the horror aspect most intriguing.

Eventually, I bought a 5.5e rulebook, a number of supplements from Chaosium. Found there a very playable game. But, still was lacking. Found the Unspeakable Oath in my local gaming shop - immediately, I found something that was right. Bought other Pagan supplements and found what Cthulhu was missing was contained there within. Then I came across Delta Green...and there was something I liked but at the same time did not like. Thus began my move toward making Cthulhu my own exploration of horror. I think Pagan and Pelgrane do it very well. Although, I find something not quite right about DG. Worlds of Cthulhu brought me back to loving BRP after a brief flirt with d20 Cthulhu.

Now, I am completely floored by Cthulhu Rising and the possible application of BRP to a wider set of games beyond Cthulhu. This, in turn, has triggered my earlier passion for an Indiana Jones investigative horror and numerous other possibilities.

Now, onto my gaming history, like most began with D&D and was wowed by it back in 1981. Next game was Cthulhu in about 1983. Quickly followed by Traveller in 1985. Stayed with Traveller to the present day. Left (A)D&D with 2e over what I perceived to be fundamental changes to the rules and did not like those changes.

Played all sorts of games from 1981 to present day...but the ones that are closest to my heart are AD&D 1e, Traveller and Cthulhu but not necessarily in that order. Best system is BRP, second best is GUMSHOE then comes a 2d6. No longer really interested fantasy either as a reading pastime nor as a gaming experience. Mainly interested in Non Fiction hence my games are wanting always to be grounded in the Real World with Larger than Life characters which is why I think I keep coming back to BRP.

Wellcome aboard! When do you write us a kafkaian Prag BRP game? A kind of early 20th century Paranoia with a bit of Chtulhu...

I’ve been lurking here for awhile and figured it was time to finally come out of the cold.

My first exposure to RPGs was through Basic D&D sometime around 1979 or 1980. By the mid 1980s I (along with my circle of friends) had switched to GURPS, and by the mid-1990s I was playing computer RPGs instead of tabletop games: Games like Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Fallout. I probably would have never looked back, had it not been for someone who replicated The Keep on the Borderlands for Neverwinter Nights. I went back and looked at that old module, and I got the itch to do some table-top gaming again.

I’m a newcomer to BRP. While some of my friends did own copies of Runequest and Stormbringer back in the early 1980s, for some reason, we never actually played those games. By the time my circle of friends was ready for a class-less, skill-based game, GURPS was coming out and filled that need. But when I looked at it again after a hiatus of more than a decade, GURPS didn’t seem like such a great game anymore. I went looking for a new game, stumbled across GORE, and found BRP and its derivatives, particularly Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, and OpenQuest – these are my favorites, now-a-days.

Thanks to all who post here – I’ve found this site to be quite informative!

Hi John White here, I've just started my account in BRP Central.
I started RPG in the 70's with D&D and Traveller and the good times just kept rolling.

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Welcome to the forum.

Hi all!
I was cruising the Metacreator site asking peeps if it was compatible with a game system I was desiging.
Several peoples sent me messages saying my system was pretty identical to CoC and BRP.
I've played /DMd dang near everything from blue book DnD back in '78 to 4.0 .
Top Secret, traveller, Gamma World, Rolemaster, Star Frontiers, Star Wars (d6 and d20), Star Trek(old school).
Anyway I decided to make my own system that took the best of these ideas and put them together.
Little did I know Chaos did the work for me. I dowloaded the quick start and freaked out. Some of the system was almost word for word identical to what I was attempting. I found a BRP gold book at the RPG store in town(25% off) and tore into it.
I laughed. I cried. I cursed aloud...
It is almost identical to my system. So here I am. A new fan of what a friend of mine calls "The greatest game no one knows about."
A few house rule tweaks and it will shine.
Glad to be a part of this community and would like to thank Chaosium for doing so much of my design work for me.

Well, keep it to yourself, Chris - what if everyone found out about D100!?

Hi folks,

My name is David. I started out with RPGs as a wee tyke, and have been a fan of the original Call of Cthulhu RPG and (The) Chaosium since the former's second edition (GW boxed set!). I like "Old School" AND "New Wave" RPGs, boardgames, and miniature wargames, but have a marked preference for games with slim rulebooks.

Trained as an archaeologist and historian, currently working in a university library. British expat/ US immigrant, living on the USA's East Coast, near the City of Brotherly Love. As an elderly British gamer, I have many fond memories of the days when White Dwarf published Runequest, Call of Cthulhu, and even Stormbringer material.

Oh. And I joined to learn more about the upcoming 7th edition of CoC (which I only heard about in the last week or so, so I guess I'm kinda out of the loop!).

Welcome to the forum, David.