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[QuestingVince]

Originally Posted by GerallKahla

What do you find yourself playing mostly these days? What settings and / or systems?

Homebrew setting (I sometimes adapt commercial modules, mostly from Chaosium or Iron Crown, but generally prefer to design my own) with a free-form "sandbox" approach; I'd rather try to hasten ahead of the players than confine them to a plotline or locale. It's more amusing to see what they come up with.

System is a combination of AD&D creatures (mostly), magic, and "flavor" with RQ combat and mechanics. D100 was & is more popular with my players than classes, levels, and experience points, which were found to be both too complicated and too confining.

I'm hoping that adapting our system to BRP will clean up a lot of kludged bits left over from RQ and AD&D.

- QV

[mcrow]

Originally Posted by GerallKahla

QuestingVince and mcrow; welcome!

What do you find yourself playing mostly these days? What settings and / or systems?

Looking forward to reading your thoughts on the subject...

-pax-

I've been playing Roma Imperious, CoC, D&D 3.5 and a few others over the last year. With the exception of Roma and CoC, mostly homebrew settings.

[Negative_Thac0]

Hey, I finally managed to get registered, so I figured I'd say hey.

While I'm mainly an old School D&D'er, I like to play a variety of games and BRPG is probably one of my favourites. While I've unfourtunatly not been able to play a lot of it in recent years ( With the Exception of CoC) heres to hoping my brand new BRPG book changes that. I've already got a couple of games in mind...

Anyway, I hope I can contribute a bit to the conversation here.

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by tedankhamen

Tedankhamen in Kyoto here Got into gaming in '89, played DnD, GURPS, and various others but always loved my Stormbringer and Cthulhu. Been a bit too busy for gaming the past few years with grad school, job hunting, marriage, and births and deaths, but now have time and inclination but few people to play with here in Japan.

I'll check the site out for a bit then decide how or what I can contribute. I also am wondering if someone could post the old 3rd-4th edition Stormbringer Nationalities and Classes tables - I lost mine in one of my frequent moves and all I have now is my Elric! book

Cheers!

Sorry I'm so slow to respond, but I can feel your pain. I lived in Japan for six years and it was mostly a big time-out for gaming.

Several others on this forum were former Japan residents - a thread or two got derailed by our reminiscing.

[GerallKahla]

Originally Posted by Negative_Thac0

Anyway, I hope I can contribute a bit to the conversation here.

I'm sure you'll fit right in - cool handle, BTW!

Welcome!

Getting gnawed on by the Mythos? Excellent start! BRP is a flexible enough toolkit to run all kinds of games.

Don't be bashful -

[Negative_Thac0]

Originally Posted by GerallKahla

I'm sure you'll fit right in - cool handle, BTW!

Thanks! Its nice to be among people who understand it. I use it on my STEAM account, and am occasionally reffered to as "Negative Taco" by people on the voice chat. :P

I already love reading the threads here, everyone seems pretty well versed and thoughtful. I think I'll continue to peruse while I'm supposed to be working.

[Empty]

I'm Mark, from Alabama.

Been playing these "silly games" in '77-78 ... started with the D&D boxed set before the Player Handbook was published ... yeah, long time ago.

Anyway, I moved on to bigger and better things ... like Call of Cthulhu some years later and after something of a hiatus, I'm back into gaming.

Currently wanting to torture my players with a setting where their "Monster Hunters" and have to deal with SAN loss, leaving things open to pull them into CoC whenever it might shake them up a little. They're a cagey bunch and will play differentely if they think it's CoC, sometimes they are no fun at all

I'm also wondering if anyone can see an "easy" way that the magic system could be modded in to a "Dresden-esque" type system where a magician or wizard has access to "fast and dirty" direct energy spells, but has to fall back to rituals, or "mini-rituals" for anything remotely involving finesse.

back to work for me,

Thanks
Mark

[blizack]

Whoops, I just noticed this thread.

I've been gaming for about 20 years - I started young, with AD&D, but quickly moved on to other games. I played a lot of different games in my youth, many of them Palladium games, but also a good deal of Marvel Superheroes, Earthdawn, Cyberpunk 2020, and piles of other, more obscure stuff. The gaming group I'm currently in just finished a Cthulhu Mythos-based Adventure! pulp campaign, and we're trying out D&D 4th edition at the moment. My personal tastes tend towards something grittier than modern D&D, however.

I'm basically a newbie to BRP, having owned a few Chaosium games in the past but never getting a chance to play them. I am a big fan of percentile-based systems, though, and it looks like BRP is going to be perfect for my homebrew fantasy setting. I've already grabbed several books besides the new core rules - a couple different editions of Stormbringer, RuneQuest III, Malleus Monstrorum, Cthulhu Dark Ages - as guidelines.

So, bear with me, as I'll probably be asking for a lot of advice on how to manipulate the system to my tastes!

[Ars Mysteriorum]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

Sorry I'm so slow to respond, but I can feel your pain. I lived in Japan for six years and it was mostly a big time-out for gaming.

Several others on this forum were former Japan residents - a thread or two got derailed by our reminiscing.

Seconding Jason's statement: Your pain is felt. I only lived there two years (in Nagaoka-shi, Niigata-ken) and enjoyed many things about the culture, whiskey, food, sake, people, scotch, and beer... but as an ultra-hardcore RPG gamer it was RPG gaming hell, especially this was where I really started studying different RPG systems (I shall now call it my Grand RPG ADHD Re-Awakening) and developing my own methods for managing and running a game.

And then hardly ever getting to run them. Guh.

Yes. I totally feel your pain.

[Master of the Game]

Hi all, my name is Jeramy Ware, I'm from Austin, Tx, and I've been poking around these boards for a while, but I finally registered when I found a question I knew the answer to

I've been a gamer for 26 years and started BRP with Runequest 2nd edition. I've played a few other BRP games since then, but I went away from them for a while and just got back into it when I got excited about the new book.