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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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