How close can DBRP get to RQIII?

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by frogspawner

How does our SharedWorld stuff differ from such a proposal?

I'm not entirely sure what your SharedWorld stuff is (is it something on this site - or are you talking about Gwenthia?), but the sort of proposal I meant would:

• be submitted to Chaosium to be considered as a potential Chaosium product (a book or monograph)
• be clearly outlined and described (like "Chapter Three is the gazetteer, and Chapter Four is all about gods and religions")
• have an estimated word count and deadline (traditionally, both of these are radically exceeded)

I am bummed that Gwenthia didn't make it as a BRP supplement, considering the talent involved and the caliber of what I saw.

[frogspawner]

Yes, the SharedWorld stuff is on this site: Shared World(s) - BRP Central. No, it's not Gwenthia.

But it falls at the first hurdle, because making it a Chaosium product is out (due to the CC license), I guess.

[Shiba Homer]

Originally Posted by tzunder

I think they're not very nice product.

It would be cheaper to buy the AH editions or the GW editions on ebay. But I bet the poster has them...

I might do. [twiddles fingers in a shy sorta way]

Originally Posted by tzunder

I think the poster was excited that there would be a current and supported ruleset that he could run as close to RQ3 as he wanted...

I want to look at variants and some slight simplifications for RQIII-ish and tweak my up comming CoC campaign and maybe some supers. Oh, and all of what Tzunder said.

[tzunder]

Just buy Rq3 on ebay.. the Games Workshop editions are fine and cheap.
Then when you have BRP you will have the magic stuff from RQ3 as an option.

In other words, use RQ3 as a sourcebook for DBRP!

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by tzunder

Just buy Rq3 on ebay.. the Games Workshop editions are fine and cheap.
Then when you have BRP you will have the magic stuff from RQ3 as an option.

In other words, use RQ3 as a sourcebook for DBRP!

Games Workeshops edtions! Yuk! Cut to shreds.

Get the Perfect-Bound AH Edition.

[Mithras]

Originally Posted by Atgxtg

Games Workeshops edtions! Yuk! Cut to shreds.

Get the Perfect-Bound AH Edition.

Hey, they're hardback - last forever. My AH book is in danger of cracking open and loosing pages, and I've never even used it for gaming ...

[NickMiddleton]

Originally Posted by Mithras

Hey, they're hardback - last forever.

Apart from their propensity to drop pages from the centre at the slightest provocation...

The GW hardbacks of the mid-eighties are notoriously variable in quality. If you got a good one, it will probably stil be going strong. But some of them disintegrated phenomenally quickly.

My AH book is in danger of cracking open and loosing pages, and I've never even used it for gaming ...

My AH Softback is still doing fine, albeit it's not be subjected to particularly hard use. But I generally use photocopies of the Players and Magic books I did a few years back from a scruffy copy of the AH deluxe boxed set I picked up cheap off eBay.

Cheers,

Nick Middleton

[peterb]

Originally Posted by Shaira

Just wondering. Given that BRP can basically emulate RQ3 sans-magic enough to make existing RQ scenarios playable with little or no modification, it's really only the magic systems (and possibly bestiary - though the MRQ bestiary SRD is out there somewhere) which are lacking...

Chaosium of course has the text to the RQIII magic chapter and owns the rights so they could easily publish (as a PDF perhaps) a "Magic System Compendium" with additional alternative magic systems if they wished and it might be a good idea. Couldn't cost that much to produce and while it might not generate that much revenues it gives the customers/users more options and added benefits.

[NickMiddleton]

Originally Posted by peterb

Chaosium of course has the text to the RQIII magic chapter and owns the rights so they could easily publish (as a PDF perhaps) a "Magic System Compendium" with additional alternative magic systems if they wished and it might be a good idea. Couldn't cost that much to produce and while it might not generate that much revenues it gives the customers/users more options and added benefits.

The idea has been mooted sufficiently often by various play testers and Jason himself that I think it's pretty much inevitable that SOMEONE will pitch a "BRP Magic" book to Chaosium and I'd be stunned if they didn't pick it up - but I doubt very much it would be a PDF. Monograph or proper book would be my guess.

Cheers,

Nick Middleton

[soltakss]

If you wanted to go that way, the RQM SRD contains Rune/Divine/Sorcery which is pretty much RQ3 with a few changes. Using an OGL Licence, you could easily change it back and retrofit it to an improved RQ3 Magic Book.

Of course, that makes it RQ with OGL rather than BRP but that's just a technicality, surely.