Chaos & Catacombs

[PK Games]

Originally Posted by HollyKnight55

For people that enjoy D&D, though, it sounds fantastic! While I'm not a fan of D&D (in any form), I think I might grab this if only for your take on creature stats.

I am an old school D&D guy, started with AD&D 1E, got my own copies of D&D basic and expert sets (because my parents didnt knwo the difference that christmas, they just knew I liked D&D and wound up getting me D&D expert set, AD&D Legends and Lore and a Grey Hawk box set, none of which were not all really that compatible, but me and my friends didnt seem to care. Just try to find The Isle of Dread on the Greyhawk maps.)

I though 2E was just about perfect. Late in high school i discovered palladium games and Marvel heroes.

In college I discovered the whole CoC world, amongst other games like DC Heros and Warhammer Fantasy.

Now I would rate the games as follows.

1. DC Heroes/Blood of Heroes
2. Dark Heresy/Warhammer Fantasy Role Play
3. BRP games, especially CoC
4. D6 system (not legends though)
5. MERP
6. AD&D 1E and 2E
7. Old School BXCMI rules for D&D
8. SLA Industries
9. Cyberpunk
10. Conspiracy X

As you can see Im not fond of level systems, as MERP and all Variations of D&D are up there for nostalgic reasons.

What I really like in RPGs is sourcebooks. Each game listed up there (other then Dark Heresy, but that is a new game) have lots of sourcebooks or variations of the game that work well together.

And yet Palladium still doesnt make the list. Hmmm.

Rifts, great initial setting, crappy system should have ended after 4 or 5 book.

So I too am looking forward to Chaos and Catacombs to see two of my favorite games merged into one set of rules and to see what I can steal from it for ideas.