Okay so this entry is more of a note to myself than for any to read but, feel free to comment.
Through Ken Hite's column, Out of the Box, I was reminded of the BRP system. It's basically the "universal" system that Chaosium used for all their RPG's, most famously Call of Cthulhu and Runequest.
I had bought a preview copy of the rules a few years back and tried to run Runequest with them. They were terrible though. I hadn't really bothered with the new version when it came out last year. On the strengths of Ken's review I picked them up the other day. They are actually pretty good. They basically took the best parts of all the Chaosium games and put them in one place. I think its a better rule set for both my Steampunk and post holocost games that I want to run. It also has the advantage of being similar enough to Call of Cthulhu and Runequest that my players don't have to learn a completely new ruleset.
On a related note, I think I may build a site on Obsidian for the Steampunk and Post Holocost games. Right now they are both contained in a few unrelated word docs an web links and it would be nice to have it all on one place that I can access from anywhere.
BRP resource site: http://basicroleplaying.com/
Through Ken Hite's column, Out of the Box, I was reminded of the BRP system. It's basically the "universal" system that Chaosium used for all their RPG's, most famously Call of Cthulhu and Runequest.
I had bought a preview copy of the rules a few years back and tried to run Runequest with them. They were terrible though. I hadn't really bothered with the new version when it came out last year. On the strengths of Ken's review I picked them up the other day. They are actually pretty good. They basically took the best parts of all the Chaosium games and put them in one place. I think its a better rule set for both my Steampunk and post holocost games that I want to run. It also has the advantage of being similar enough to Call of Cthulhu and Runequest that my players don't have to learn a completely new ruleset.
On a related note, I think I may build a site on Obsidian for the Steampunk and Post Holocost games. Right now they are both contained in a few unrelated word docs an web links and it would be nice to have it all on one place that I can access from anywhere.
BRP resource site: http://basicroleplaying.com/
Leave a comment