BRP Poll at Chaosium.com

[Jason Durall]

There's a new poll at Chaosium.com asking the question"Which Genre would you most like to see as a Chaosium BRP setting?"

The options presented are:

• Fantasy
• Historical
• Horror
• Post Apocalypse
• Pulp
• Science Fiction

Click here to go to the poll!

[Ars Mysteriorum]

No Modern Horror or Modern Fantasy subgenres?

[NickMiddleton]

It's a bit of a quick straw poll effort, and I suspect one would need to get in to some rather lengthy discussions to clearly define Modern Horror and Modern Fantasy as distinct from each other - AND explain how both aren't already to some degree addressed by Call of Cthulhu.

But I'm sure Chaosium would listen to / read a pitch on either one - and they might revise the poll in response to an email.

Be interesting to see what the results look like when it has more respondents...

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by Ars Mysteriorum

No Modern Horror or Modern Fantasy subgenres?

It's not the most detailed poll.

It's missing topics like Superhero, Action, and Western.

I suspect it's just out there as a bellwether.

[danbuter]

Fantasy, please. (Runequest with NO Glorantha would be great).

[Dredj]

Yeah, the poll really could use some detail. Personally, I would really like to see ultra-realistic slasher horror. Maybe even Gothic horror--something different and more "juicier" than CoC. And I would definitely like to see space opera as well as Hard SF.

Pulp is always good. BRP could use some more of that.

[Dredj]

I voted for science fiction because that seems to be most lacking genre (besides post-apocalypse, which I'm not too interested in) from the Chaosium repertoire. And one I'd like to see more of.

However, looking at the vote results, it seems I should have voted for Pulp--as that offers a very wide range of possibilities to explore.

[AikiGhost]

Voted Sci Fi, since those type rules are the ones that historically have had the least action. Id quite like to see post apocalypse as I think BRP would handle that kind of grit quite well.

[jarulf]

Voted Fantasy but the poll seems to think I already voted and got an error.

I want a semi-realistic fantasy setting, more Harn than Glorantha though not necessarily based on the European middle ages.

[RosenMcStern]

Originally Posted by danbuter

Fantasy, please. (Runequest with NO Glorantha would be great).

It is already out there: take RuneQuest and use all the non-Glorantha sourcebooks with BRP.

The point is rather: "What will the new main setting for BRP Fantasy be?", given that both classic fantasy settings used by Chaosium with BRP (Glorantha and Young Kingdoms) are now Mongoose's domain?