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[Wolverine]

A friend, who has a proof copy, let me glance through it. I must say, I'm rather looking forward to it. Looks rather smashing! Pity that we wont get it until after Christmas. But I did notice my name under the "Special Thanks" section.

Thanks Jason! ^_^

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by Wolverine

But I did notice my name under the "Special Thanks" section.

Thanks Jason! ^_^

No need for thanks from you - if you were a playtester, you have our gratitude!

[Shiba Homer]

Originally Posted by soltakss

We went there in the Playtest Group.

I pointed out that the basic character sheet didn't contain Hit Locations.

Jason pointed out that Hit Locations were an Optional Rule and so shouldn't be in a generic sheet.

I pointed out that EDU was an Optional Rule and shouldn't be in a generic character sheet.

Jason said "Yah! Boo! Sucks to you!".

Or something like that, anyway. Obviously, I paraphrase

But, any character sheet that has EDU and no Hit Locations screams COC to me (and not in a good sense).

There is a bad sense?


Anywho it looks great, I'm firmly "meh." about the font, but it does look kinda early eighties.

Still, I can't wait for the fantasy companion...

[weasel fierce]

yeah, good character sheets are hard to find. At best, most of the time we settle for "functional"

A friend of mine cooked up a really good MRQ sheet, Im sure I can talk him into a BRP one too

[TrippyHippy]

Personally, I've only ever had a few minor issues with the BRP represented in Call of Cthulhu (not enough for me to stop considering it as my favourite game, though!). However:

- I didn't see the need for Characteristic SAN (you already have POW).
- I felt that the Characteristic values needed to be integrated with skills better, and to have more definable worth.
- I felt that the skills listed needed formatting better.

Looking through the photos, it very much looks like all these issues have been emphatically resolved. And there's even what looks like some sort of personality profiling too, which is a pleasant bonus! Definitely, a case of getting back to Basic!

[Enpeze]

Originally Posted by TrippyHippy

Personally, I've only ever had a few minor issues with the BRP represented in Call of Cthulhu (not enough for me to stop considering it as my favourite game, though!). However:

- I didn't see the need for Characteristic SAN (you already have POW).
- I felt that the Characteristic values needed to be integrated with skills better, and to have more definable worth.
- I felt that the skills listed needed formatting better.

Looking through the photos, it very much looks like all these issues have been emphatically resolved. And there's even what looks like some sort of personality profiling too, which is a pleasant bonus! Definitely, a case of getting back to Basic!

My biggest rule gripe (beside the idiotic skills "head butt" and "kick" with 1d6 damage) about CoC has been that a character has only a parry OR an attack per turn, but not both. (exception swords and -oids AFAIR) This sounded very "un-BRP" and I never used it.

[DavidLeeIngersoll]

Thank you Jason (and Charlie) for posting the preview pages. Now that these pages are up and Chaosium is selling the limited edition I'm starting to post jpegs of my BRP illustrations in the Gallery here. I'll be putting up one every week or two.

Cheers!

[Trifletraxor]

Yihaa!

Revolt of the furries!

SGL.

[DavidLeeIngersoll]

I was trying to include something for everyone

[soltakss]

Originally Posted by Enpeze

My biggest rule gripe (beside the idiotic skills "head butt" and "kick" with 1d6 damage) about CoC

There was a children's TV series in the UK years and years ago called Tucker's Luck, a spin off from Grange Hill, and the main character was invitied to play a game of AD&D. He rolled up a warrior and the DM asked him whar he wanted to do against a foe. Tucker said he wanted to "Nut him" and they all recoiled in horror and said "You can't do that" so he quit the game.

All us RQ fans watching said "He could have nutted him in RQ doing 1D6 + DB damage".

So, don't belittle the Head Butt attack!