Quote from: The Butcher;618510Holy shit! How come I never heard of this?

It reads like BRP Encounter Critical and I mean this in the best possible way (I love me some EC).

It's pretty darn slick. There's a Q&A about it on my blog.

The world is like a mix of Conan, John Carter, and Flash Gordon. With a dash of Star Wars.

I occasionally run episodes of CoC mashed up with Stormbringer called Elric of Rlyeh. Law and Chaos are political forces with Arioch, Arkin et al as their figureheads. Everyone is in denial about the existence of Outer Gods, and PCs are usually a cross between Stormbringer magicians, CoC investigators and special forces investigating arcane contraband and crime. In Europe it's a mark of social standing to have Melnibonean blood. In the States it's the opposite with human government rounding Melniboneans up into ghettos. Pseudo-1920s. Etc.

I know you can run CoC and Stormbringer with other systems, but BRP always seemed their spiritual home and the two mesh together nicely IME.

Quote from: The Butcher;618391I'm seriously considering running Masks of Nyarlathotep this year, or failing this, a pulpy CoC game centered around the ill-fated Fawcett expedition which sought a lost city in the wetlands of central Brazil.

You MUST do both of them You owe it to yourself and the world.

QuoteI'm also toying with the idea of a "prehistoric fantasy" mini-campaign using RQ6, with shamanistic primitives (Old Europeans) and theistic nomads (Proto-Indo-Europeans) warring over the Old World and setting their differences apart when civilized, sorcerous Atlanteans fresh off the boat start waving bronze swords, taking slaves and summoning demons and building pyramids and generally behaving like civilized, sorcerous assholes.

Fucking awesome.

Quote from: smiorgan;618575I occasionally run episodes of CoC mashed up with Stormbringer called Elric of Rlyeh. Law and Chaos are political forces with Arioch, Arkin et al as their figureheads. Everyone is in denial about the existence of Outer Gods, and PCs are usually a cross between Stormbringer magicians, CoC investigators and special forces investigating arcane contraband and crime. In Europe it's a mark of social standing to have Melnibonean blood. In the States it's the opposite with human government rounding Melniboneans up into ghettos. Pseudo-1920s. Etc.

I know you can run CoC and Stormbringer with other systems, but BRP always seemed their spiritual home and the two mesh together nicely IME.

Best idea in all this month.

Quote from: The Butcher;618510Holy shit! How come I never heard of this?

Same here.

Maybe that's the reason:

Quote from: From the product pageTHIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE BOOK. By Christian Conkle. 208 pages. 8.5 x 11" Perfect-bound Paperback.

(Though I don't know how the boldened parts work. They can download printed matter now? Web 3.0?)

Quote from: smiorgan;618575I occasionally run episodes of CoC mashed up with Stormbringer called Elric of Rlyeh.

Whoa!

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;618626(Though I don't know how the boldened parts work. They can download printed matter now? Web 3.0?)

There was a print copy for sale. I don't see it in their catalog now, though.

I'm stepping away from running BRP games for the moment to do other things, but it was a busy year for me.

In the first half of the year I completed our RQ3-Hybrid Arabian Nights meets S&S in the Near Eastern Bronze Age campaign. I wrote a detailed summary of this for those who like to read such things.

I played and playtested the RQ6 rules (my notable contribution being the idea of combat style traits) and some of the forthcoming Book of Quests.

I ran a successful RQ6 one-shot at a gameday in Montreal in the late summer which had the players being emmissaries of a Neo-Sumerian king sent south on a diplomatic mission to the lands of Magan and Dilmun and encountering demons and Elamite pirates along the way.

Although I'm not running anything I've just started playing in a game of OpenQuest in a local group set in a homebrew setting known as The Dawnlands. The players are all members of a clan of horse nomads and my own character is from a sept known for its gnostic wierdos. He can turn into a sparrow, shoot fire arrows, and palsy an enemy's horse and serves his tribe as a scout. The campaign is sandboxy, so I've no idea where it'll go.

Currently playing in an infrequent RQ6 viking game set in Harn.

Play Call of Cthulhu often, but I use my own system (Phaserip based on, natch, FASERIP) and mostly just liberally steal from and heavily modify adventures.

Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;618379Who here is either playing or writing BRP related stuff?

I've got a couple of 16-page BRP books and I use them to introduce Players to a different system from the usual. I like seeing how much I can do with just that and so far it has been a lot.

Quote from: Warthur;618386I'm playing in a Call of Cthulhu campaign currently. Not GMing anything in it at the moment but I don't doubt I will sooner or later.

And no sooner than I say that... it's looking like I might run some RQ6 for old university friends because we want to try out VOIP roleplaying whilst our NWN GM takes some time to work up the next section of his campaign. Not confirmed yet because we're still selecting a system between RQ6 and AD&D 2E (one potential player loudly objects to D&D-based systems but would be up for RQ6 so a certain amount hinges on whether he is able to play). Will update here once I know for sure.

Question, whilst I am on the subject: is there a detailed list anywhere of the differences between RQ6 and MRQII/Legend? I know they are very, very similar in most respects but for a retooled combat manoeuvres section but if I could get a rundown on the exact differences it'd be really useful.

I'll be running part 3 of the epic 'Winter King' campaign for my Petecon group in Sweden next month. Its RQ6, and we usually play through the events of an entire book in Cornwell's Arthurian series over the course of a week. This time, I'm breaking the final chapter, Excalibur, into two parts, such is the scope and scale of the events. Excalibur Pt II will run next year.

I will no doubt run more RQ for my Toronto group - although the precise nature of it remains to be seen. I'd love to get my Elric game going again, if at all possible.

I just purchased Bride of the Spider God, and i plan to run it in a very sandboxy way.  It even addresses the issue in a sidebar in location-based versus story-based gaming.  It seems aimed pretty squarely as a product at the OSR/S&S set.  I'll probably use Legend since it's a cheap rules set I can turn my players onto.  It looks great!

Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;619113I just purchased Bride of the Spider God

Is it out, or did you pre-order?

Quote from: CRKrueger;619122Is it out, or did you pre-order?

It's out.

Quote from: CRKrueger;619122Is it out, or did you pre-order?

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/110168/Legend:-The-Spider-God's-Bride

I bought it.

Booyah, purchased.  I have the original, but want to see what was done to convert.