Play a game this weekend and honor Greg Stafford

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Great idea! To me Stafford's impact shows how silly the tribalism and narrow-minded barriers that gamers have built between different playstyles really is.

We should do a PbP of one of Greg's games here. Perhaps Prince Valiant would be the fastest and easiest to get up and running? I know we were talking about getting a Pendragon game going too.
 
What’s the best BRP-based game, in your opinion?
 
Voros said:
Great idea! To me Stafford's impact shows how silly the tribalism and narrow-minded barriers that gamers have built between different playstyles really is.

We should do a PbP of one of Greg's games here. Perhaps Prince Valiant would be the fastest and easiest to get up and running? I know we were talking about getting a Pendragon game going too.
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Either of those would be fun. For Prince Valiant all you'd really need is a referee familiar with the conceits of the pseudo-Arthurian setting and players who agree to buy in. For King Arthur Pendragon, pretty much the same but slightly more "realistic" and complicated. I'd volunteer, but while I'm just crazy enough to run three games simultaneously :shock:, I'm not quite crazy enough to try four...

...I think. :goof:
 
Endless Flight said:
What’s the best BRP-based game, in your opinion?
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Quick answer is Call of Cthulhu because it's simple and also completely different from many other games.
Many people like Pendragon as well, it's perfect rules for the setting (although it is not exactly BRP, but a very similar system)

However my personal favourite is RuneQuest - the new edition looks good, but I really wish they had streamlined some of the rules rather than just added to the mechanics from the early 1980s.
Glorantha looks great in the new edition however, very ancient world, heaps of lore and flavour. By all accounts, Greg Stafford was pretty happy with how Glorantha is presented in the current edition.
 
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Are there any BRP games besides the fantasy genre?
 
Current Chaosium BRP games are RuneQuest (Fantasy) and Call Of Cthulhu (Supernatural Investigation /Pulp Adventure).

Previous games way back include SuperWorld (Supers), RingWorld (SciFi), ElfQuest (Fantasy) and Elric/Stormbringer (Fantasy)

Mythras is a non-Chaosium version of BRP that is generic, with more Fantasy leanings. However it has some SciFi supplements as well.
 
Endless Flight said:
Are there any BRP games besides the fantasy genre?
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The latter two support non-"Weird West" as well as fantasy Westerns. Plus you could easily leave out the fantastic elements and use Mythic Iceland and RuneQuest Vikings for a straight-up Viking/Norse game. There are probably lots more.
 
Yeah, I'm set on supers games.

I was hoping for maybe something modern. It seems like Top Secret/SI and BRP share some similarities from what I can see.
 
SuperWorld plays pretty good for stuff like Spiderman, Daredevil or Batman, lower level X-Men. Would not be my choice if going beyond this level, but I reckon playing gritty supers is perfect for a rpg

If you can't find SuperWorld, then a copy of the BRP core rules (the BGB) can do the trick, it has many of the SuperWorld powers in it. It also has Mutation Powers which can double as Super Powers, esp if you are playing X Men.
I think Chaosium still sells the BGB.
 
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Also I forgot to mention that the Aces High monograph is very good, but Dumarest beat me to it (because I'm posting while at work, heh heh)
 
Voros said:
Great idea! To me Stafford's impact shows how silly the tribalism and narrow-minded barriers that gamers have built between different playstyles really is.
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It's funny, as I was just listening to the Ken & Robin podcast on Greg Stafford right before sitting down at my computer. The very last thing Ken was talking about before I hit pause was the controversy around personality traits as mechanics in Pendragon. "The best thing about it [the controversy] was that Greg said 'eh'."

Endless Flight said:
What’s the best BRP-based game, in your opinion?
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The good thing about BRP is that there isn't one. The first BRP games I played were Stormbringer, Call of Cthulhu, and Runequest, and while they all have underlying mechanics in common, they are all very different RPGs at the table. Chaosium never just slapped a coat of paint on top of BRP and called it a day.
 
Mankcam said:
SuperWorld plays pretty good for stuff like Spiderman, Daredevil or Batman, lower level X-Men. Wouldnt be my choice if going beyond this level, but I reckon playing street supers is perfect for an rpg.
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That's about the power level I prefer for RPGs: Bronze Age Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, New Teen Titans, X-Men, Batman and the Outsiders, New Defenders, Champions...
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...which is why I may go with it for our planned superhero campaign.
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If you can't find SuperWorld...
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Chaosium sells PDFs of both Superworld and A Companion to Superworld.
 
Shit I forgot that Chaosium has the pdfs up of some of their earlier publications, I thought it was only their RQ2 back catalogue. Good call Dumarest :thumbsup:
 
Dumarest said:
Well, Pendragon has the advantage of existing. :hehe:
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My real favorite is original Runequest, not just for the system but for the outrageously good boxed set settings (Pavis, Big Rubble, Borderlands, Griffen Mountain, Trollpack)

But, I recognize Call of Cthulhu is the most important to the biggest community of people, and it's at least as well written as a game

And Pendragon is the paragon of the setting specific roleplaying game. There is no other way to play arthurian adventure.

Except for Prince Valiant, which is just as creative as Pendragon, also about arthurian adventure, yet totally different as a game.
 
I put together an impromptu Pendragon game for this Saturday, two players. Going to look for a nice one-shot in one of the adventure books.
 
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I put together an impromptu Pendragon game for this Saturday, two players. Going to look for a nice one-shot in one of the adventure books.
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Nice move mate, like your work. Pendragon is a brilliant work.
I'm considering doing a RQG game at the end of this year myself.
In any case, Greg Stafford's legacy will live on in every dice roll, just like he always wanted :smile:
 
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Mankcam said:
Nice move mate, like your work. Pendragon is a brilliant work.
I'm considering doing a RQG at the end of this year myself.
In any case, Greg Stafford's legacy will live on in every dice roll, just like he always wanted :smile:
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The hobby lost a great imagination, but his creations will last for generations.
 
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