Introductions

[Private Eye]

Hello there, I am an old-timer with BRP. I have played it on and off since 2nd ed CoC, and I am excited to see it finally getting the edition it deserves. For intuitiveness and disappearing into the background, I find it one of the best systems ever.

I have ed zero and I am really enjoying reading it. The trouble is - what to run first!

[StormBully]

Hello

I am a long time BRP player starting with RQ2 in'79. I also have played and own Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer and Pendragon. RQ3 is my favorite version. RQ Vikings was used as the basis of two of the three campaigns that I have ever run (the other was an AD&D campaign in college).

I own the MRQ version.
I am eager to see the new BRP version, to run someday some adventures in Prax/Pavis. But if that Mythic Isles is released maybe ... I go Viking again.

[drohem]

Hello Private Eye and StormBully and welcome to the forums!

[zomben]

Hey all,

I finally got around to registering for the forums, which I should have done a long time ago.

My name's Ben, and some of you might know me from other forums (RPG.net is where I spend most of my forum time). I've been a big BRP fan since discovering RQII back in 1981 or so, and I've done a little work for Chaosium over the years.

[zomben]

Originally Posted by Charles Green

My very first roleplaying experiences were with 4th ed. Stormbringer, and I find myself being consistantly drawn back to the game and the setting after periodic deviations with other games.

As the editor of that book, and the author of the 4th edition magic system, let me tell you how thrilled I am to hear that.

[drohem]

Hi Zomben and welcome!

[cleombrotus]

Originally Posted by Acrobatic Flea

My name is Tim and I'm a lapsed roleplayer, just crawling back onto the wagon after a 10 year (plus) break. I started gaming in 1977 with the usual suspects: D&D, Traveller etc and moved onto Champions, TFT, Villains & Vigilantes, Call of Cthulhu etc

I have just started playing in a Hollow Earth Expedition game and am looking to start some sort of BRP fantasy campaign next year.

Any questions?

Bloody hell, Acrobatic Flea! that's a name i remember from the mid-eighties!!! Is Heropress still going? I think I was the original player of "Hellfire" for an afternoon session in Pembury...I'm sure I still have Heropress issues 1-9 or something floating around somewhere...

[cleombrotus]

Okay, hey all,

my name's Stuart, and I've been roleplaying since 1980 when I got Basic D&D for christmas...

Like lots of people I went system berserk in the eighties when roleplaying exploded, and used to buy every system that came on the market.

Now, after many years with several breaks in playing, but never in reading or planning, I am back to several core systems:

Rolemaster/MERP. Luckily I purchased everything that ICE ever printed on Middle Earth before they lost the license. That stuff is awesome.

Harnmaster. Such an awesome system and world. Can you imagine how much headscratching and kinstrife would have been avoided if certain other worlds had the idea of publishing no event based material after a specific world date, leaving it to individual GMs? What a cool idea. I know that Glorantha never had its origins as a roleplaying world, but still...

Runequest. I can never escape it. Every time I get inspired by another game, I still get drawn back to Gloranthan Runequest. It's the ancient world thing, really. The original inspiration for me was the ancient Greek style Luise Perenne artwork, combined with thinking that the armour in Conan the Barbarian looked awesome, and RQ let me customise my character's appearence by different armour for different locations. Shallow, of course, but I WAS twelve. Of course I say that, but it's these things that still lie at the heart of my ideas about RQ and Glorantha.

I saw "The 300 Spartans" when I was seven, got into the hoplite look, went outside and turned a baby mattress into a shield and started hitting everything with a stick. When I saw RQ a few years later it clicked, got me into mythology and ancient history and ancient warfare, interest in which led me down a winding route but ultimately into the military because like every other idiot I wanted to see war, because like many roleplayers on certain other forums I thought that I knew something about it having continued to hit other like-minded people with pretend swords and shields.

Having seen war and found out just how daft it really is I returned to roleplaying and I now work in policing thus mixing my love of fantasy and ancient history with my now well developed ability to hit people with sticks...hmmm...

Our runequest game is ongoing and more fun than ever because we went back to basics. The mercenary adventurer trying to thrive in Pavis and everything developing from that. My character Cleombrotus is the best I've ever played because he is based on everything I have ever liked about RQ and since I am so aversed to him dying I get genuine adrenaline rushes when we run combats. Which is nice...

For the record, MRQ as a system was a huge disappointment...and that's being polite...now roll on BRP:Roleplaying in Glorantha...

[Colin Chapman]

Hey,

Er, well, I'm Colin Chapman: teacher, rpg freelancer, research monkey, and nut job. Freelanced on a whole mess of stuff (see my sig.), and I'm really looking forward to seeing Jason's work on Interplanetary.

cheers!
Colin

[drohem]

Hello and welcome cleombrotus and Colin!