Thanks Jason,
You might have covered that before. You've been so good at answering questions that it is actually getting more challenging to come up with new questions!
I find the idea of writing something tempting, but will wait until I've read the BRP rules before taking any plunge. While I am famialr with RQ, RQ3, CoC, Strombringer, etc. it helps to see just how the core BRP rules look before starting something and having to revise it later to account for situations where I went left but BRP went right.
P.S. The bestiary sounds like a interesting project for me. I've got enough BRP critter stats (Gateway Bestiary, RQ3 Creatures, CoC, even Pendragon) to tap for inspriation/benchmarks. If the BRP rules are as similar to the earlier RPGs as suggested, then it shouldn't be hard to tweak deer or bear stats a few points to get them inline with BRP. It's not like bears are suddenly going to have STR 80! in BRP.