DUNE

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by soltakss

Imperial Shocktrooper (can't remember their name but it began with an S)
Honoured Maters (can't remember the organisation)
the chappies who could take on other people's appearance
the chappies who could grow pretty much anything from a genetic model

In order:

Sardaukar
Fish Speakers
Tleilaxu Face Dancers
Bene Tleilax (they make gholas)

(Yeah, I'm a huge Dune geek. I admit it...)

[sladethesniper]

You're officially nominated to make the BRP Dune PDF!!

-STS

[The Last Conformist]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

Fish Speakers

Er, no. The Fish Speakers were Leto II's female soldiers. The Honoured Matres were the order/cult/whatever of female adepts returning as conquerors form the Scattering in Heretics of Dune.

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by The Last Conformist

Er, no. The Fish Speakers were Leto II's female soldiers. The Honoured Matres were the order/cult/whatever of female adepts returning as conquerors form the Scattering in Heretics of Dune.

You're officially nominated to make the BRP Dune PDF!!

[Trifletraxor]

Hehehe!

SGL.

[Mithras]

No, man... this is Arrakis. Desert Planet. Dune. I want rules for ekeing out the fluids in my stillsuit to cross the next bled, for hoarding water, shit, for stripping out the water from the two Harkonnens we just killed. It all goes into the tribe's water. I want rules for climbing mountains, and trying to confound the worms as we cross the dunes, and rules for drum sands. What do the dust storms do? Can they be survived?

IN essence, I want a totally perfect desert-survival RPG in my DUNE RPG... I hope that makes sense.

But then, I love, love, deserts...... and to be truthful, that all started with Dune.

[quote=soltakss;10137]So, you only have 10-15 Backgrounds, a few professions within each background, descriptions of the few worlds that figure in Dune, rules for the tech/weapons, rules for the special powers, rules for Spice, stats for the Sandworms and God-Emperor and that's about it.
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[Mithras]

Surely he means the Bene Gesserit?

THe 'honoured matres' don't appear in my Dune Encyclopedia ...

Originally Posted by The Last Conformist

Er, no. The Fish Speakers were Leto II's female soldiers. The Honoured Matres were the order/cult/whatever of female adepts returning as conquerors form the Scattering in Heretics of Dune.

[soltakss]

From memory, the Honoured Matres were the bad equivalent of the Bene Gesserit. They had similar abilities but used them to do bad things.

It's been a long time since I read Dune, though.

No, google confirms my failing memory Honored Matres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia gives an overview of them.

[Hound of Tindalos]

Just wanted to chime in on a Dune BRP game. I'm a huge fan of the franchise as pertains to Frank's original works. I've developed and managed three different Dune rpgs over the years, ranging from large House vs House strategy style games to more traditional single character games. I definitely plan on developing one using the BRP system soon.

The era I am currently focused on is set during the 12 years of Muad'Dib's Jihad. I think this time has the most potential for gaming opportunities; the fall of the old Imperial order under the Corrinos, wide spread brutal religious conquest at the hands of the Fremen legions, the fall of ancient Great Houses and the unholy alliances of powerful factions like the Bene Gesserit, Spacing Guild and Tleilaxu. I'm looking at providing the option for players to either play as conspirators against the new Atreides Emperor, or to play as religious fanatics of the Fremen Jihad.

I think another solid idea for a Dune game is to have it be more of a "working class" kind of game where players play various low level agents (spies, assassins, saboteurs) in the employ of a Great House that is engaged in a war of assassins against another powerful NPC Great House. There is a lot of good background material to play off of using the Moritani-Ginaz feud as a setting.

Glad to see some fellow Dune fans here, btw.