[Joseph Paul]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

I'm not sure where you got that impression. Can you point at a specific post or comment that says that?

And my apologies if I've sent out a conflicting message over the long and tortured development process on this game book. <snip>

Q&A with the new BRP Author
Jason Durall:#28

There are rules for making stuff using powers, but they're admittedly light. Again, it's generally not a big part of the BRP game, and we were very strongly opposed to trying to make it just another generic rules kit like HERO, GURPS, etc.

Q&A with the new BRP Author
Jason Durall:#29

Having BRP become a substitute for GURPS, HERO, Action!, Tri-Stat dX, d20, etc. was ever a consideration or a goal. It's a different kind of game.

I was heartened during playtesting about the number of people who contacted me on the forum and outside about the ease they'd had changing existing systems over to BRP, and how much more fun they were having. I don't know if that would have happened if we'd gone down the "just another generic rules set" path.

Bolded for clarity. These three statements (and I am assuming that you meant '(n)ever a consideration' in the second one) are what led me to believe that the goal was not to produce a toolkit. It was very confusing especially the part about not competing with GURPS and HERO.

Q&A with the new BRP Author
Jason Durall:#28
I think those games have their audiences, and BRP has its audience. If anything, they're competing against one another and we're sort of on our own.

How is BRP not generic at this time? After all it is BRP and not RQ, CoC, SB, SW, EQ, RW etc. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, I am just confused how BRP could be seen as not competing with the others for share in the generic toolkit games market.

Hope that helps.

Joseph Paul