Games that use BRP rules that are not from Chaosium

[Agentorange]

Originally Posted by soltakss

Are you aware of the RQ Alternate Earth site? Not much happening at the moment, but it might kick back to life at any time. alternateearthrq : Alternate Earth and Alternate Earth RQ

Yup, joined a while back, as you say hopefully it'll take off a bit when various MRQ/BRP historical supplements start being produced

Have you written anything up? I'd love to hear about anything related to Ancient Earth .....

Alas no, mostly because I'm a lazy bastard and also because I keep getting distracted. I splurged on a few books from Amazon about middle eastern mythology a while back, the trouble was I spent loads of time reading the books and then looking at the bibliographies.......and buying more books and no time on actually turning it into a working set of rules

Another thing that put me off was the simple practicality of keeping the players alive. RQ combat is pretty deadly, one of the things that compensates is being able to armour yourself up, but in a even halfway realistic ancients campaign armour is going to be pretty damn scarce, maybe some cloth or leather and players coming up against anything more dangerous than a pygmy shrew
Flash » The Pygmy Shrew

are going to be mincemeat faster than you can say man eating lion.

I did run an Alexandrian era game once using the rules from Zozer games. The players were most taken with the battle chants. I made them sing something apprpriate in order for them to work ( beer was involved ) The rendition of Men of Harlech by a spearman was good .

[weasel fierce]

Burning Wheel takes inspiration from the BRP advancement rules.

Mutant Chronicles and the Warzone mini's game uses some parts (MC uses a D20 roll under instead, but both games use the resistance table)

Theres of course Pendragon as well, if that hasnt been mentioned yet