Why is BRP not that popular?

[Simlasa]

I don't recall there being a lot of superhero games around when Champions came out... so it wasn't just another drop in the bucket the way a standard fantasy setting would be nowadays.

I'm thinking a game like Exalted is as popular for it's mix of genres as it is for its setting... and the rules are much less of a draw (I'm basing this on what I've heard and read because I'm not very familiar with the game)... it's also probably a big bonus for some people that it comes from White Wolf.
(Which, saying that, brings me to wondering what sort of 'street cred' if any Chaosium has... except for COC).

That said, I don't think there's any surefire genre/setting BRP could take on that would guarantee interest... except for being 'edgy and new and unique'... hah.

The current suggestion of a Cthulhu Rising setting seems like it might have legs...

[drohem]

I am intrigued by the game's genre or setting first, and look at the rules second. If I don't like the rules, then I toss them out and convert to whatever rule system I like at the time.

There was a game called Time and Time Again, which was published in 1984, that I liked because of the concept and campaign setting. It had to do with time travel. There was some real hard science behind the concept and campaign setting. Basically, the characters were time agents in a military organization based upon the French Foreign Legion. The rules sucked rocks. It used some whacky d200 percentile system for combat and tasks. I threw out those rules and coverted it into BRP/RQ rules and GURPS later on.

I did the same with the game Justifiers, which was published in 1988. I translated the genre or campaign setting into BRP/RQ, GURPS, and d20 Modern.

I also did this with the game Talislanta. GURPS was supposedly going to publish a licensed Talislanta game, but, sadly, it never saw print. So I made up my own GURPS version.