BRP Rome!

[seneschal]

I always thought the Macabbean period of Jewish history would make an interesting RPG. You've got the epic struggle against the Selucid Greeks, 200 years of nasty political intrigue and infighting, and the territory hungry Romans waiting in the wings to take over.

I applaud your efforts. I learned more world history gathering RPG campaign background material than I did in four semesters of college humanities. Look forward to the finished product.

[Owl]

Thread necromancy? Anyway, I was wondering after looking up some roman offfices on wikipedia and in dictionaries - Does this BRP Rome describe the offices held by the senators? I.e; do you spell out what the heck a quaestor, aedile and a praetor does? Not that I'm planning a political campaign and loathe to make a reference document for the players at all, no sir! Well okay, that's exactly it.
It's always a bother when a player gets the military and people's tribunes mixed up.

[Puck]

If not there is a great glossery in the back of any of Colleen McCullough First Man in Rome books. She also adds a bunch of other terms that are great for roleplaying including really nasty Latin insults for characters to sling around at each other.
You can probably find one of these books cheap at used bookstore.

[Pete Nash]

Originally Posted by Owl

Thread necromancy? Anyway, I was wondering after looking up some roman offfices on wikipedia and in dictionaries - Does this BRP Rome describe the offices held by the senators? I.e; do you spell out what the heck a quaestor, aedile and a praetor does? Not that I'm planning a political campaign and loathe to make a reference document for the players at all, no sir! Well okay, that's exactly it.

Yes, their responsibilities are explicitly explained.

It's always a bother when a player gets the military and people's tribunes mixed up.

That's been covered too!

[Pete Nash]

Originally Posted by Puck

If not there is a great glossery in the back of any of Colleen McCullough First Man in Rome books. She also adds a bunch of other terms that are great for roleplaying including really nasty Latin insults for characters to sling around at each other.

I already have a page dedicated to Latin insults... although we'll have to see what survives. Some censoring might be required!

[Trifletraxor]

Cool! How is the project going? Started playtesting? Any idea about the ETA?

SGL.

[Pete Nash]

Originally Posted by Trifletraxor

Cool! How is the project going? Started playtesting? Any idea about the ETA?

Project status. Well, I am currently finishing off the Creatures section and having fun making my own versions of some Roman monsters. A very kind gentleman who is professor of Classics, is now going through the chapters written so far, correcting all the Latin words I've included. Last but not least, a good friend of mine is generating a map of Late Republican Rome, from a collection of other map fragments I've gathered over the last couple of years - sadly there seems to be no good detailed maps of the city at that time available (at least on the net).

My current deadline is to be finished by the end of April - towards which I am currently flogging myself. All the tough chapters are now finished. Its just the fun ones left to go...

[GreatBear]

BRP Rome?
Who needs BRP Rome? What have the Romans ever done for us, anyway?
Nothing!

Now that you mention it, I have fwiends in Wome....

[Wolverine]

I was watching Rome last night, managing to burn through three episodes in one sitting. As I watched I was thinking, I'm really looking forward to Pete's Rome book. And I am.

Any news on a possible release date?

[Pete Nash]

About 90% of the manuscript has been Latin proofed by the very dedicated Classicist who volunteered his priceless services, and those chapters are now in the hands of a good friend for pre-submission editing. Also the first of the city maps has been finished and looks wonderful.

I'm still aiming for my submission deadline at the end of April, after which its in the hands of Chaosium.