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Chaosium has announced that Basic Roleplaying is about to be sent to the printers for a May 2008 release. Basic Roleplaying now has a new cover by Paul Carrick and I must say it looks pretty good.

BASIC ROLEPLAYING
The Chaosium d100 system

CHA2020
ISBN 1-56882-189-1
$39.95
384 pages
8.5 x 11” paperback

Chaosium’s BASIC ROLEPLAYING is a core rulebook that gathers in one place the rules, modules, and options for one of the original and most influential role playing gaming systems in the world.

You can read the full Basic Roleplaying announcement and Chaosium still has some advanced reader copies available for sale here.

The first publicly usable version of the Chaos Project is available for viewing. There are five different categories available, Chaotic Features, Magic Items, Found Items, NPCs and a Bestiary. Not all features that are planned are implemented and feedback is wanted.

Some of the planned features include:

• Registered users can add new items
• Users can edit the items they entered
• Filter to select items base on different criteria (system type, milieu, etc.)

Instruction for sending feedback through the support forum for the Chaos Project is available on the right sidebar of the Chaos Project pages.

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We’ve completed our move from Drupal to WordPress/MediaWiki and from d100.org to basicroleplaying.net.

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The Basic Roleplaying . Net Team

We are moving from using Drupal to manage our site to a WordPress/MediaWiki combination. The move will take a day or two to complete so please be patient with us. The old site is still available at http://www.d100.org. Once the content has been moved we will point all the URLs to http://www.d100.org. Once the content has been moved we will point all the URLs to Chaosium is in the process of finalizing the 1st Edition of the Basic Roleplaying book. Basic Roleplaying is a complete rules system integrating 30 years of game play and refinement to allow play in any genre, from fantasy to sci-fi, from modern horror to supers and everything in between. From what Chaosium says the final book will released sometime around June 2008 and run somewhere in the range of 390 pages.
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Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons along with Dave Arneson, has passed away on March 4th 2008. Gary has recently been working with Troll Lord Games, a small paper and pencil RPG publisher. Troll Lords forums have up a post noting that he has passed away. That Associated Press has confirmed that the 69 year old game designer has indeed passed away.

Whether you love or hate D&D it must be duly acknowledged that Gary Gygax was the was, along with Dave Arneson, known as the Father of Roleplaying. He co-founded Tactical Studies Rules (now part of Wizards of the Coast) in 1974 with Don Kaye. Gygax was the son of Swiss immigrant Martin Gygax and an American mother. His gaming experiences began at the age of five and six with playing pinochle and chess as well as the usual pretend games of any child that could be likened to live action role-playing. He had been in poor health, suffering multiple strokes and a near-heart attack.

May the gods speed you on your next great adventure, Gary!

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Here’s a preview of the chapters of Basic Role Playing - the Deluxe has been dropped from the title.

As it stands now here are the current chapters. They are almost certainly subject to change before publication.
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Chaosium’s Deluxe Basic Role Playing is still under development and seems to be progressing well. The chapter on powers is undergoing major revision at present and the writer, Jason Durall, has stated that the chapter should be released to testing very soon. The powers chapter is the only one that required major revision. The other chapters are undergoing minor revision and will be posted along with the powers chapter.
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So I haven’t been able to actually to any testing of the rules - heck I haven’t even had the time to read through all of them. I really need to print them out and well it’s like 348 pages so even if I double up the number of page per sheet and print them double sided I’m still looking at a good 87 pages.

The formatting of the play test rules is, as expected, pretty plain. Which can make for some dense reading - ultimately I’m sure they will look good as Chaosium has historically been quite good with production quality.
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