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Coming supplements: Rome, Fractured Hopes, Berlin '61, Supernatural Western, Interplanetary, Chaos & Catacombs, Mythic Iceland, The Green, DeadWorld.  Published supplements: Ashes, to Ashes, Basic Roleplaying - 1st Edition, Basic Roleplaying - Zero Edition. 

Fractured Hopes is a new space fantasy setting where the world humanity lived on was shattered into thousands of large chunks of rock, during a war between a machine race and bio-tech aliens. Some parts of the god from the original world still inhabit the largest chunks of rocks, and in most places provide the human inhabitants with what they need to survive. Magic users and sorcerors intercede with this spirit on behalf of the people, and are essential crew on any spacecraft. The author is Charles Green from the forum.

The design goal for Fractured Hopes is to develop an exciting setting in which nearly every option available in the Basic book is not only available, but make logical sense. It should support a wide variety of player concepts. Players will have access to a ship to travel between fragments, looking for loot, helping refugees and battling killer robots.

Submitted to Chaosium in May -08.

Berlin '61 is an espionage horror setting that is currently being converted from GORE to Basic Roleplaying. Set during the heart of the cold war, this espionage horror setting explores the darker side of post war europe, where magic and demons are worshipped by cults and sorcerers, and good men and women draw the line between good and evil. The author is Christopher Barnhart, aka PK Games from the forum. 

There will be a section for spy games, super hero games and horror games, but the main focus overall will be horror.

Submitted to Chaosium in June -08.

Supernatural Western is a source book for BRP. The Book is actually a location called Devil's Gulch and is designed to be placed practically anywhere. The town is fully described as well as the personalities that populate it. The book has many special rules for wild west gunfights, chases, and weapons. Everything you need to run a western campaign.

The book has dual descriptions, so that it can be used in an historical campaign, as well as a weird west campaign. There are Hex Masters, Mad Scientists and Snake Oil Hustlers. The plan is to include 3 full adventures plus several adventure seeds. The author is Troy Wilhelmson.

To be submitted in July.

Interplanetary, is an adventure sourcebook for roleplaying games in the style of the planetary adventure or planetary romance genre. The sourcebook will presents a sample campaign and exploration of the planets in our solar system in a manner appropriate to the genre. The defaul earth setting is set around 1920. The author is none other than BRP's Jason Durall!

The sourcebook will include character generation (including alien characters), artifacts and equipment (including various spacecrafts), sci-fi spot rules, an alternate description of out solar system and it's inhabitants, and a sample planetary adventure campaign.

To be submitted by the end of July.

Mythic Iceland is a fantasy earth Vikings setting which will be based on the Icelandic Sagas, the Eddas, and the fairy tales of Iceland. The magical and mythical aspects from the Eddas and the Sagas will be incorporated into the setting, and much attention will be given to the elves, using the legends of the huldufólk. The author is Pedro Ziviani, a historian living on Iceland.

In the works. Currently no ETA.

The trees and swamps of the Green provide cover and sustenance to a broad array of life. The canopy is a world of its own with thousands of species: insects, snakes, lizards, birds and mammals, both intelligent and bestial, adapted to their verdant environment. Many of these creatures, like the trees themselves, have grown to enormous size. The Branches are huge and easy to walk on.. at least to a point. Much of the magic in the Green is based upon manipulating and influencing the ubiquitous wood and growing things. Beneath this green world is the dark, swampy root world where other less wholesome critters dwell. The Green will be a setting in its own right, but will be designed so that it can be placed of the edge of any homebrew or published setting, to give a kind of change of pace and setting for existing campaigns. The author is Scott Heiney, aka Puck from the forum.

In the works. Currently no ETA.

Seraphim Guard will utilize the first BRP license Chaosium has given out for their upcoming DeadWorld RPG. The setting is based upon Gary Reed's DeadWorld comic. A supernatural plague have been unleased upon the world, and the dead returns to walk the earth! The zombies are soldiers for those who have crossed the Gateway, and have intelligent leader zombies. For humans, it's quite the struggle just to stay alive.

To be released in March -09 at the Wizards World 2009.

Ashes, to Ashes, is a dark fantasy setting where wizards deliberately broke the world around a century Ago. The remnants of a mighty, high fantasy civilization litter the world, but civilization is no longer great. It's now a world of poverty, low magic and scarce resources, where people struggle to survive.  This setting casts the players as mavericks in a fantasy world that is losing a war it does not even know that it is fighting. The author is Jeff Moeller, aka neorxnawang from the forum.

Ashes, to Ashes, is a role-playing-heavy, philosophy-heavy, conflict-heavy type of game that would be best enjoyed by serious-minded folk. Ashes, to Ashes must, if run correctly, continually force the players to face moral dilemmas. Two introductory scenarios have been included in this 180 page monograph.

Released as a PDF June 2008. A dead tree version is also on its way.

Basic Roleplaying is a generic D100 roleplaying games system, capable of handling any setting from fantasy to science fiction. The new core rulebook is an revised edition of the core Chaosium RPG system. It is highly intuitive and therefor also quite easy to learn.

Basic Roleplaying tracks its origin to the rules created by Steve Perrin for RuneQuest - a fantasy roleplaying game published by Chaosium in 1978. In 1981, Chaosium released a 16 page rules booklet called Basic Role-Playing, which contained a generic trim-downed version of the RuneQuest rules. The Basic Role-Playing booklet was used as a basis for most of the games released by Chaosium, including Stormbringer, Call of Cthulhu, Ringworld, Elfquest and many more. Finally, the greatest roleplaying game systems of all times has been resurrected!
 
Released in June 2008.

Basic Roleplaying - Edition Zero, or "BRP Zero" as it has become known as, is a proofreading copy of the new Basic Roleplaying book. As the 1st edition of the core rulebook had been delayed for quite a long time, a "zero" edition was released after numerous request from the customers.

BRP Zero have several typos, errors and some inconsistencies, but that's part of its charm. It was printed in a limited number, with each book being numbered from 1 to 420. This collectors item is still available from Chaosium, but probably not too many left!

Released in December 2007.