BRP PDF?

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by Lord Twig

Quick question. What is SotC?

Spirit of the Century. It is a pulp "pickup" RPG, based on the FATE system.

SotC is published by evilhat and available for purchase at several places, especially the evil hat website. Evil Hat Productions » About Evil Hat


But....

Before purchasing anything you can check out both FATE and SotC by going to the fate.com site and downloading the free FATE and SotC PDFs.

The link is FateRPG.Com: Fate: Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment (TM)


FATE and SotC has a much more abstract nature than BRP. IMO I think it would handle Gloratha better than HeroQuest.

[TrippyHippy]

Going against the popular grain of thought, I actually think that the rule-set used in SotC are actually not the best types of rules to be used for a pulp action game - they are based too much upon heavy characterisation, and the skill system is too detailed. It would actually be better for playing in dramatic, soap opera-style, intrigue games - like Nobilis, which uses the same type of 'aspect' system by another name.

But hey, there always has to be one...

[RMS]

Originally Posted by Atgxtg

Before purchasing anything you can check out both FATE and SotC by going to the fate.com site and downloading the free FATE and SotC PDFs.

The link is FateRPG.Com: Fate: Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment (TM)


FATE and SotC has a much more abstract nature than BRP. IMO I think it would handle Gloratha better than HeroQuest.

Definitely check out FATE. It's a very good system and ironically I did convert Glorantha to it once in an attempt to get something midway between RQ and HQ, which FATE did quite nicely. Btw, you can incorporate Fudge elements right back into FATE to make it as concrete and detailed (or more) as RQ, if that's your desire.

[Jason Durall]

I've got no idea if Chaosium will release a .pdf of BRP, but I certainly hope so.

Up until the beginning of 2007, I was typing up my notes and adventure materials on my desktop, printing them out, and bringing a mini-DVD/CD player with speakers to game sessions to use for musical accompaniment.

Then, after the baby arrived and I lost my office space, I moved primarily onto my laptop. Racked for time, I was often scrambling to type up my notes up to five minutes before leaving for game sessions. Then a switch went off, and I realized:

"Hey, we sit around BSing for the first half-hour waiting for people to arrive.... I end up making notes all over my printouts... and it's a pain in the ass lugging the DVD player, speakers, and all those loose CDs. My laptop holds all my notes, itunes has all my music and integral speakers, the screen doubles as a GM screen, and I can even do stuff like Initiative and HP as simple docs rather than a lot of scratch paper. Plus, I can instantly look up stuff on Wikipedia if there's a real-world question I can't answer on my own!"

So now, I generally do all of my prep on my laptop, and take it to the game. I save the relevant files onto a thumb drive and email them to myself as backup, but it's worked like a charm.

So I buy any rulebook I can in hardcopy and .pdf (if available), if I'm going to be running it more than a half-dozen times.

[threedeesix]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

I've got no idea if Chaosium will release a .pdf of BRP, but I certainly hope so.

Up until the beginning of 2007, I was typing up my notes and adventure materials on my desktop, printing them out, and bringing a mini-DVD/CD player with speakers to game sessions to use for musical accompaniment.

Then, after the baby arrived and I lost my office space, I moved primarily onto my laptop. Racked for time, I was often scrambling to type up my notes up to five minutes before leaving for game sessions. Then a switch went off, and I realized:

"Hey, we sit around BSing for the first half-hour waiting for people to arrive.... I end up making notes all over my printouts... and it's a pain in the ass lugging the DVD player, speakers, and all those loose CDs. My laptop holds all my notes, itunes has all my music and integral speakers, the screen doubles as a GM screen, and I can even do stuff like Initiative and HP as simple docs rather than a lot of scratch paper. Plus, I can instantly look up stuff on Wikipedia if there's a real-world question I can't answer on my own!"

So now, I generally do all of my prep on my laptop, and take it to the game. I save the relevant files onto a thumb drive and email them to myself as backup, but it's worked like a charm.

So I buy any rulebook I can in hardcopy and .pdf (if available), if I'm going to be running it more than a half-dozen times.

I do pretty much the same thing. I convert a lot of old adventures over to BRP from other systems. I used to practically rewrite the adventure. Now I find a PDF copy online (yes I know, I know. but they are out there), and use Adobe to create "footnotes" and even link the encounters to an excel sheet that handles the creatures hit points, power points etc, all converted.

After, the encounter is over I get out of excel, and continue the adventure right from the PDF.

I have pretty much no written notes.

Oh, yah. And my laptop is my GM screen as well.

Rod

[Shaira]

Sorry - just got to jump in with a geeky comment. The BBC website was reporting today on Bill Gates' prediction about those new-fangled touchscreen PCs being in every house in 5 years, or some such. It's just occurred to me how cool those are going to be for RPGing! You can actually have all your minis, scenarios, etc, all stacked up and ready to go, and the table everyone's sitting around can effectively be the game board / miniatures layout / etc. Just touch your mini to move it directly on the dungeon map, etc - sound effects, animated monsters, the whole shebang. Yee-hah!

Sorry - geeky moment over. Calmer now...

Sarah

[Nightshade]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

"Hey, we sit around BSing for the first half-hour waiting for people to arrive.... I end up making notes all over my printouts... and it's a pain in the ass lugging the DVD player, speakers, and all those loose CDs. My laptop holds all my notes, itunes has all my music and integral speakers, the screen doubles as a GM screen, and I can even do stuff like Initiative and HP as simple docs rather than a lot of scratch paper. Plus, I can instantly look up stuff on Wikipedia if there's a real-world question I can't answer on my own!"

So now, I generally do all of my prep on my laptop, and take it to the game. I save the relevant files onto a thumb drive and email them to myself as backup, but it's worked like a charm.

So I buy any rulebook I can in hardcopy and .pdf (if available), if I'm going to be running it more than a half-dozen times.

Out of curiosity, do you find a certain amount of window flipping and selection gets tiresome? I run off my laptop too, and prefer it for some purposes, but find I like to reference a bit more material semi-simultaneously than is quite convenient on computer, so there's still some material I tend to print out.

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by Nightshade

Out of curiosity, do you find a certain amount of window flipping and selection gets tiresome? I run off my laptop too, and prefer it for some purposes, but find I like to reference a bit more material semi-simultaneously than is quite convenient on computer, so there's still some material I tend to print out.

I keep reference sheets printed out, and there's of course the core rulebook on hand.

Usually, up on my screen at any given time are the following:

- the adventure writeup
- a character information table
- the NPC document
- the initiative table (I create a table in Excel with the first column for Initiative scores, the second column for names, and then sort by descending order)
- itunes
- a .pdf of the rulebook, if available

I use a widescreen laptop, and have no trouble tabbing through all of these files when required.

[Nightshade]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

I keep reference sheets printed out, and there's of course the core rulebook on hand.

Usually, up on my screen at any given time are the following:

- the adventure writeup
- a character information table
- the NPC document
- the initiative table (I create a table in Excel with the first column for Initiative scores, the second column for names, and then sort by descending order)
- itunes
- a .pdf of the rulebook, if available

I use a widescreen laptop, and have trouble tabbing through all of these files when required.

The widescreen might explain some of it, and the fact I usually have NPCs in multiple documents (though paging through one isn't much better IME).

[Jack Tar]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

I use a widescreen laptop, and have trouble tabbing through all of these files when required.

Then get Vista and use the "switch between windows" desktop view!

e.g.,