Just so you know, I did run 3.0 when it first came out. We got to 5th level and I found I could not handle it, and at that point no one else in the group wanted to try. Before all the splat books started showing up even. That was one thing, because tastes and abilities vary. But when I starting finding nothing but 3.5 available around here, well grrrrr....but I do live 10 miles from WOTC central.
As for an upgrade of BRP, my views are already on record, here and elsewhere. I firmly believe every game has a sweet spot, and even Elric! went a little past it for BRP, already. My own sweet spot is Stormbringer 1-3 enhanced a little with Elric! and Magic World. I have run many campaigns with that combo, and with the same core group for a long time before we finally broke up (in between trying about every other rpg that came out for a long time, I can't even remember them all). I am perfectly happy with the description of the book as presented by Jason Durall and Chaosium so far, and really see no need for significant upgrading. Way too much could get lost or go wrong. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I say.
And I find the idea of outdated games to be just pointless. I mean, look at chess...even though it's a different animal, I know, but on some level a game is a game. But if you change it it becomes a different, and usually inferior, game. You said 3.0 was an improvement over 2e, but to my mind 2e (before ITS splat books) was more fun...and that is more important to me than superior design. To me and many others 3.0/3.5 has simply never felt like D&D, or any fun rpg I have experience with. And that makes it definitely inferior to my mind.
BRP is fun, as it is, and I don't want to lose that even though I very, very rarely get to play it these days. Official support for it, anewly printed version, means I might get to play my favorite rpg again, and officially sanctioned at that.
Glad to have you on this forum, by the way, and thanks for listening and not inferring my bad taste and stupidity as so often has happened at other sites, like rpg.net.
