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BRP is my old school.  Back in 1980 when my pals were playing AD&D1, I was being my own little brand of swine - "this game doesn't need alignments, anyone can use weapons, anyone can use spells, there are no character classes!" I ran for my fellow teens the Borderlands campaign under Chaosium RQ2 and we had a blast.

I've been very pleased lately with both the pro-published BRP iterations (Mongoose RQ, RQ6, BRP Gold Book, Magic World) as well as fan clones (OpenQuest).  I want to both generate interest, find out and support fan projects, worlds and adventures, and otherwise do what I can to support one of my favorite strains of trad gaming.

Who here is either playing or writing BRP related stuff?

I'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.

I'm seriously considering running Masks of Nyarlathotep this year, or failing this, a pulpy CoC game centered around the ill-fated Fawcett expedition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Fawcett#Final_expedition) which sought a lost city in the wetlands of central Brazil.

I'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.

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Fawcett#Final_expedition) which sought a lost city in the wetlands of central Brazil.

I'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.

Various iterations of BRP do great at variouskinds of spirit magic and have actually attempted to tackle stone age people as PCs, so this looks awesome.  I'd game it in a heartbeat.

We wrapped up our CoC by Gaslight-campaign a few months ago.
Now I run RQ6 with the die-hards in a Borderlands-hack. I'm more than a bit excited about the mythic Greece and Byzantine-books TDM has in the works.

Middle of last year, I finished up a long campaign in MRQII. The setting concept was: what happens when you're on a neolithic or paleolithic continent with very sporadic contact with early bronze age traders? Then what should arrive crashing into the neolithic world? The fallout of a religious conflict between bronze age necromancers and a new messianic after-life religion that, for obvious reasons, sees necromancy as the worst of offences. And these new religionists has some very powerful spirit magic and start attacking the paleolithic realm of myth and... and...

Anyway, the background campaign was inspired from just reading the MRQII rulebook. What RQ gives you is a way to combine the macroworld of legend, myth, history, etc. but focuses on the microworld lives of common people - people who were thrust into the big picture and became heroic because of it.

It's a really powerful game, and RQ6 is better yet.

Any news on Magic World?  I want to pick up that and the BRP gold book in one fell swoop when it finally comes out.

I have played Vikings with MRQII in 2012 and I am planning a major RQ6 game set in our shared world of Gwenthia in 2013.

I'll soon be running an in-house mini campaign for my Swedish group using the forthcoming Monster Island. I haven't decided yet whether to have them roll up 1930's pulp characters or the more traditional S&S types... but after washing ashore they should have a lot of fun running from huge beasts, looting ancient tombs, and being horrified by the local native traditions.

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

I run BRP/RQ/CoC campaigns all the time, but I'm currently in a lull since I'm not involved in a gaming group. I could rattle off some of the  campaigns I've run using d100 systems over the past few years...

• 2012 - Masks of Nyarlathotep using Call of Cthulhu.
• 2011 - a short Old West/Cthulhu campaign using a houseruled CoC system.
• 2010 - a S&S campaign using MRQ2 and Xoth Publishing's Spider God's Bride.
• 2009 - a fantasy homebrewed setting that used a mish-mash of BRP Gold Book and RQ3.
• 2008 - I ran Pagan Publishing's Coming Full Circle using CoC.
  

As for writing, I contributed an adventure to the RQ6 Book of Quests which is due out in another month or two.

Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;618419Any news on Magic World?  I want to pick up that and the BRP gold book in one fell swoop when it finally comes out.

This post (http://basicroleplaying.com/magic-world/any-news-magic-world-advanced-sorcery-3182/#post48018), on BRP Central, is the latest word I've seen on Magic World.

In addition to what people are saying here, some other places to talk BRP related games are:

http://basicroleplaying.com/forum.php
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/forum.php
http://www.thedesignmechanism.com/forum.php
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114627856101233542605  (general BRP discussion, other links hopefully obvious)

I've been running a fantasy campaign using BRP/Stormbringer. We're on hiatus though until the end of the month.

I'd like to start up a COC campaign again, but probably won't get to that till Spring.

I'm getting ready to run Swords of Cydoria (http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=6719) (swords-and-planet-and-sorcery, sort of).

Quote from: Dan Davenport;618494I'm getting ready to run Swords of Cydoria (http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=6719) (swords-and-planet-and-sorcery, sort of).

Holy 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).

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Fawcett#Final_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. (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/110168/Legend%3A-The-Spider-God%27s-Bride)

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.

Quote from: CRKrueger;619208Booyah, purchased.  I have the original, but want to see what was done to convert.

Not quite enough.  Its usable, but a bit ropey in a lot of places, especially concerning magic.

Still running a Gloranthan/Praxian RQ3ish campaign (6 years and going strong).

Trying to write some Legend stuff, when I get the time and inclination.

Reading far too many RPG forums ...

Mainly running OpenQuest in the variety of settings that I've published via D101, since about 2006 :)

Currently putting the polish on OQ2, with plans to run a few sessions with my home group/G++ to test.

OpenQuest has its own website if you want to keep up with what's going on

http://openquestrpg.com

At some point I want to run/play some RQ6 and Clockwork and Chivalry.

I do play other games, but D100 in its various forms is a big past of my gaming past, present and future :)

Quote from: Loz;619038I'd love to get my Elric game going again, if at all possible.

Yeah, that would be awesome!  Perhaps something online, given that the gang's been scattered to the four corners of the earth?

(This reminds me that I should finally write up the last installments of the campaign log...)

I ran a couple of CoC adventures last summer (one for OSRCon, the other for some friends).  

Played in a RQ6 adventure at OSRCon.

Nothing since then, alas.  

I hope to form/join a RPG group in Chicago in the spring/summer.  If that works out, I'd be keen to try my hand at GM'ing RQ6, most likely using The Book of Quests.

I'd also love to run Dark Streets (Cthulhu investigations in 18th C London) using the Renaissance system (which is based upon OpenQuest).

Up until around October 2012 I had been running Elric using MRQ2/Legend for a couple of years.
Ever since 1st edition Stormbringer I've been running pretty much every incarnation of it on and off over the years.

I'm not running it atm, but now I'm settled in in Australia I've got some players interested in Elric again, I'll be using the MRQ2/Legend rules set again, so will be starting that up at some stage in the nearish future.

I'm currently playing in CoC Masks of Nyarlothotep.

Writing a scenario for The Company (Open Quest based) as Rik is in my gaming group (name dropping there). Maybe Newt will be interested in publishing it.

Writing a scenario for Dark Streets (Renaissance system which is based on OQ) to be published by Cakebread & Walton.

The last thing I ran related to this was CoC, over a year ago, a one-shot.  But, I'm about to get some of the Cakebread & Walton stuff for review, apparently!

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPundit;626223The last thing I ran related to this was CoC, over a year ago, a one-shot.  But, I'm about to get some of the Cakebread & Walton stuff for review, apparently!

RPGPundit

Cool. What stuff will you be reviewing?

C&W produce some of my favourite gaming material these days ... that I don't seem to get to run...  (It will change with Dark Streets!)

Quote from: Akrasia;626230Cool. What stuff will you be reviewing?

C&W produce some of my favourite gaming material these days ... that I don't seem to get to run...  (It will change with Dark Streets!)

Don't remember what they said; I'll have to wait and find out.

RPGPundit

I'm running a short campaign of CoC at the moment and about to start up a second one with a new group of players.

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

I've been doing a diluted D&D game (based loosely on my fond memories of playing AD&D long ago) using the Elric system and the spells from the Classic Fantasy monograph with a generic fantasy background. Its nothing innovative but it is fun to run and the players are enjoying it.