Basic Roleplaying . Net

Basic Roleplaying has been loaded onto a truck and is on it’s way to Chaosium.  It’s expected to arrive Tuesday June 24th.  After which I imagine the pre-orders and playtester copies will be shipped out.  That ought to keep the Shipping Shoggoth busy.

Chaosium has also posted the final table of contents which I am re-posting below.

1. Introduction 5
2. Characters 15
3. Skills 46
4. Powers 85
   1. Magic 89
   2. Mutations 102
   3. Psychic Abilities 111
   4. Sorcery 122
   5. Super Powers 141
5. System 169
6. Combat 187
7. Spot Rules 211
8. Equipment 237
9. Gamemastering 278
10. Settings 297
11. Creatures 329
12. Appendices 372
    Index 376
    Character Sheets & Important Tables 381

The core BRP rule book is at the printers, on schedule for a late June release, but Chaosium have announced that copies can be purchased now in PDF format – see here!

And the new BRP isn’t the only PDF available – see here – and they have indicate that more PDF titles are likely to follow.

Basic Roleplaying - The Chaosium d100 System

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.

Basic Roleplaying Advanced Readers Copy

I’ve been meaning to post about this for some time. Many of you are probably already away of this information but I’m going to post about it anyway. In any event 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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Basic Roleplaying

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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Basic Roleplaying

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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Basic Roleplaying

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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Basic Roleplaying

I just started play testing Deluxe Basic Role-Playing which is to be published by Chaosium sometime this year in 2008. So far it looks very good and very flexible – able to work with a variety of genres and milieus. So far we have received perhaps half of the test and it comes in at a whopping 340+ pages. Of course once formatted for publication it will probably not be so voluminous – the font will be smaller I am sure and laid out in multiple column format.
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