Games that use BRP rules that are not from Chaosium

[badcat]

Isn't that the guy that wrote the Praxis trilogy? Good sci fi writer.

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by badcat

Isn't that the guy that wrote the Praxis trilogy? Good sci fi writer.

Yup, that's the guy. Quite a few writers get their start in RPGs. Mike Stackpole, Raymond Benson, Timothy Zhan, the list goes on. Apparently both activities requires the same aptitudes (or tyhe same neuroses).

Oh, and Williams was part of George R.R. Martin's RPG group that played Superworld, that led to the creation of the Wild Cards series of books. Pity the RPGbook for that went to GURPS.

[badcat]

Or games in general. I once read somewhere that a lot of the fantasy and science fiction writers of the 30s+ started out playing wargames (what we call miniatures now) together on someones' living room floor in New York during the Depression...like L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, Leigh Brackett, Poul Anderson, I don't remember who all.

[Sverre]

Originally Posted by Agentorange

That'll be the chappy, very atmospheric artwork in my opinion. I especially like the one entitled Galtevar

I do hope they spend some more money the artwork this time around. Artwork and layout is the least important part of the book once you bought it, but counts a lot getting people to actually buy it, if they haven't deceided allready. (And I'm sick of defending the RQ artwork to my designer friend! )

Triff.

[jarulf]

<rant>As long as there are no 10cm borders with heavy artwork and swirly gray watermarks to render pages unreadable.</rant>

[badcat]

SECONDED.

[Atgxtg]

THat's no nearly as bad as what Mayfair did to CHILL. Someone got the idea that it would be "cool" if the game looked like it was written by an inmate in a pscho ward. SO everything was written is some wacky scribble font, with erraqtic size, lettering and spacing. It might have looked cool and artsy, but made it a lot tougher to actually read the book.

[jarulf]

*shudders*

The Horizon guys once-upon-a-time produced a Blakes 7 RPG which was BRP with the serial numbers filed off, complete with a version of Sanity rules for the future. By all accounts it was a creditable effort.

[Joseph Paul]

Götterdämmerung 1st ed by Anders Jacobsson, Magnus Malmberg, Theodore Berqquist (2005) Riotminds A mystery game set in the 18th century, inspired by "The Brotherhood of Wolves", "Vidoqc" and "Sleepy Hollow". There are many secret societies, and dark forces never spoken about. The core game consists of two books: Lex Libris and Codex Persona. It uses a percentile skill-based system based on Chaosium's Basic Role-playing
This is from John H. Kims website.