Quote from: J Arcane;452578Yeah, sorry, of course people are making stuff for it, I meant anyone here.  I'd love it if they could offer some perspective as to working with the system at the level of a commercial project.

I wrote the BRP Rome book if that counts. Is there something specific you want to know about?

Quote from: Pete Nash;452574Just to let you know, Monster Island will be going into production very soon and apparently Blood Magic is being edited/laid out right now.

Great news!

For a moment there I was worried about the future of Mongoose in general, and MRQII in particular.

Any chances we'll be seeing previews on the Mongoose website?

Quote from: Pete Nash;452574Well I'm not dead yet (despite best efforts), but I have been absent for a while.

Just to let you know, Monster Island will be going into production very soon and apparently Blood Magic is being edited/laid out right now.

Excellent news!

Quote from: Pete Nash;452574Well I'm not dead yet (despite best efforts), but I have been absent for a while.

Just to let you know, Monster Island will be going into production very soon and apparently Blood Magic is being edited/laid out right now.

What is Monster Island? A kaiju supplement?

Quote from: Dan Davenport;452600What is Monster Island? A kaiju supplement?

Its a combination of micro-setting, epic kaiju and general monster compendium.

Quote from: Pete Nash;452604Its a combination of micro-setting, epic kaiju and general monster compendium.

Sounds awesome.

Let me know if you want it reviewed.

Quote from: The Butcher;452582Any chances we'll be seeing previews on the Mongoose website?

Sorry Butcher, I've no idea if and when any previews may be posted. They are often a bit random about such things...

I received a copy of the BLOOD & BADGES monograph from an old friend who wrote the title adventure.  (it was a compilation of BRP adventure submissions to Chaosium)  While I'm too biased to review directly, I will say that the BRP monographs are the same quality as the original softcover, as opposed to the black & white photocopied ones of old.  So if that's a selling point for anyone, they seem well made.

Quote from: Pete Nash;452574...
Just to let you know, Monster Island will be going into production very soon and apparently Blood Magic is being edited/laid out right now.

What is Blood Magic about, by the way?

Would you perhaps have a link to more information?

Quote from: Akrasia;452845What is Blood Magic about, by the way?

Would you perhaps have a link to more information?

There is no link as Mongoose has not provided a forthcoming product page for it as yet.

In light of this, here's a feeble attempt at some shameless self promotion.

Blood Magic is a collective upgrading of RQ Magic based on various alternative methods of creating or harvesting Magic Points (rather than naturally producing your own) via sacrifice, blood letting, cannibalism and the like. It demonstrates how to use these alternative rules with each of the core magic systems, and also presents the full Spirit Magic system as originally conceived. Each of these chapters has additional spells and spirits of various potencies.

In addition there are some completely new forms of magic: Assimilation – The consumption of the flesh of other creatures to gain their powers; Headhunting – The taking of enemy's heads to enslave their spirits within; Inheritance – The gaining of powers via bloodline and birthright; Totemism – The development of a mystical bond of brotherhood with an animal species; and Soul Sucking – The stealing of life-force by thaumaturgists, supernatural beings or undead creatures to empower their own magical abilities.

Furthermore there are new magical skills and mechanics for Concert (multi participant) Casting, Enchantments and Demonology - but these are a reprisal of the same rules which were presented in SpellCom, for those people with no interest in fantasy special forces.

Last but not least there is a chapter on using the presented material in different styles of campaign, how to maintain game balance, cultural attitudes, inspirational sources and so on.

To ensure its not just a collation of boring rules, I've dropped in dozens of (hopefully) entertaining historical quotes and rules examples, the latter based around three different cultures - historical Aztecs, S&S Stygian sorcerers and a high fantasy group of shaman/mystics.

In essence Blood Magic shows you how to mimick real-world historical practices in your game, permit dark and evil S&S, or produce OTT high fantasy styles of worship and magic.

For those with any interest, here's the opening three quotes from the Introduction, which should set the tone and flavour of the book...

'When I had prayed sufficiently to the dead, I cut the throats of the two sheep and let the blood run into the trench, whereupon the ghosts came trooping up from Erebus – brides, young bachelors, old men worn out with toil, maids who had been crossed in love, and brave men who had been killed in battle, with their armour still smirched with blood; they came from every quarter and flitted round the trench with a strange kind of screaming sound that made me turn pale with fear. When I saw them coming I told the men to be quick and flay the carcasses of the two dead sheep and make burnt offerings of them, and at the same time to repeat prayers to Hades and to Proserpine; but I sat where I was with my sword drawn and would not let the poor feckless ghosts come near the blood till Teiresias should have answered my questions.'
The Odyssey, Book XI

'It was very usual for them to sacrifice to the idols that they found on the roads, anointing the faces of the idol with blood they drew right there from their ears, piercing them, or from their nostrils or tongue, and even from their private parts, according to what others say, so that anyone who passed by an idol and did not offer him any portion of blood drawn there from his own body was not considered devout or good.'
Diego de Landa 16th C

'But the potency of this great fetish apparently soon evaporated. Owners of the Borfima found that their riches did not increase as rapidly as they anticipated, they lost cases in the Courts, expectations were not  realized with respect to adverse witnesses upon  whose hearts and livers and kidneys imprecations had  been showered; all this showed that the Borfima had become weak and needed resuscitation with  fresh human fat and blood and to obtain this human  fat and blood was the primary object of the Human  Leopard Society.'
K. J. Beatty, An Account Of The Trials Of Human Leopards Before The Special Commission Court 1915

Hope that helps.

Are there any good forums for BRP and MRQII, aside from the official Mongoose site?

Thanks for the mini-preview!

I think I'll really, really like this book.

Quote from: two_fishes;452930Are there any good forums for BRP and MRQII, aside from the official Mongoose site?

This one?

Quote from: The Butcher;452933This one?

Yeah, pretty much.

63.5% of everyone who plays MRQ2 posts here. If you wanna talk about anything, might as well do it here.

Blood Magic's looking cool based on Pete's description.