Anyone try out Age of Vikings yet? From what I have seen, it is really well done. The bestiary is really limited though, but you can slot in almost anything from CoC or other BRP books. Most of the recent historical stuff for CoC has been pretty bad, but this actually surprised me with how nice everything is presented and how detailed the historical stuff is.

General BRP thread I guess.

>>96043460 (OP)
Generals are cancer

>>96043460 (OP)
I think the basic roleplaying game book is generally enough and nothing else really is needed you’re paying for convenience and interesting reading material to be a springboard to start your imaginations.
>>96043818
Generals are good for tg. They prevent tg from being even more swamped in 40k threads anon.

>>96043835
I'm going to make three different 40K threads to spite you.

>>96043970
I mean you'll only be proving the statement that generals are good for tg by showing what happens when there are no containment generals and wasting your own time, but you do you man.

>>96044001
I'm going to single-handedly bring back "Excuse me commissar" posting. Just you wait.

>>96043835
Some of the BRP books are nice for inspiration like you said. Age of vikings does have some changes to the health and skill system though. There are also some new magic types that are pretty neat. You have runecasting for more traditional spells and a more shaman like magic that is slower and generally has more influential effects. I am a sucker for historical fantasy though. I really recommend cthulhu invictus, the newer golden goblin one, if anyone wants a really well researched splat book.

It's more like RuneQuest than it isn't
Until they put out the RuneQuest "Fantasy Roleplaying" basic edition later, which is going to be more like Vikings from what I've read of the playtest.

They KEPT HIT LOCATIONS from RQ, though. So your fancy D20s you bought from Q-Workshop are still good.

>>96045505
I just went to mythras for my runequest needs. Chaosium keeps fucking up the universe and releases for it.

>>96043460 (OP)
I know some people will crucify my for this but I honestly, legitimately think Chaosium could get great mileage out of a new version of the 2nd ed Worlds of Wonder. Boxed set, good production values (it's back in vogue nowadays, people buy that shit), like 4 genre-specific BRP booklets, maybe 30 pages max each (basic rules, genre rules, maybe a sample adventure?) - fantasy, science fiction, horror, superheroes. Maybe a tiny extra booklet with just the core rules. Lots of ads for other products ("liked the fantasy ruleset? Try Glorantha; liked the horror ruleset? Try Call of Cthulhu"; etc.).

I think it could really help.

>>96043460 (OP)
>a giant mountain-sized demon made of lava
>some Karen grabs a spear and rushes to show the demon who is the boss here angrily yelling at a hubby who doesn't look to keen on "backing her up in public" in the unfolding scenario
kek

>>96045636
I feel like it would need a condensed or paperback version of the BRP rules like you said. A lot of starter box sets really only work to bring people into the hobby rather than get the attention of people already in the hobby.

I think chaosium should branch out a bit. They could easily try a super-spy themed thriller game with a lot of the rules already present in their other stuff. The problem is that modern chaosium seems intent on sanding down any edges or anything that could possibly be controversial. A lot of their writers seem obsessed with subversion or avoiding tropes. It is why so many of their historical books are either bland or just bad. Glorantha keeps getting moved to more traditional fantasy.

>>96045840
That's my point, Worlds of Wonder was designed from the ground up to be a gateway product. It was 3 booklets of 16-32 pages IIRC (I have them shoved somewhere), a very stripped down, generic "fantasy" game, a sci fi game, and a supers game (why they didn't include a horror game when C&C was just lying there is beyond me), and the point was you'd play those then they'd point you to Glorantha/Pendragon/Elric/C&C/Superworld/Ringworld whatever else it was they had going at the time. Since the big problem now is attracting new players rather than preserving old ones, I think this could work really well.

Some of the skill challenges in BRP games get pretty funny. A game I had where everyone was hunting down a vampire lead to an older character with barely any strength full nelsoning a vampire which allowed another person to stab him with a stake. It ruined the whole buildup but was really funny.

BRAP thread?

Has anyone used the open license with the new BRP rulebook yet? How difficult is it working with chaosium for stuff like that.

>>96050922
A new game with that was literally just released.

>>96050922
There's no "working with Chaosium" on making your own BRP based product.
You write it, you include the attribution, and you're good to go.
Chaosium give you the permission to publish whatever the hell you want with their percentile system.

They might have an issue if you made a child sexual abuse simulator, but, that said, they also have no guarantee that any book published under BRP will be good, either.

It's a welcome change to all the sloppy "OSR" content that just re-skins BECMI.

>>96053445
>They might have an issue if you made a child sexual abuse simulator
DAMN

>>96043460 (OP)
So it’s the dude who was running a post apoc nausicaä and morrowind inspired mythras campaign since last October

A lot of shit has happened since the last time I posted and the PC’s went on a heroquest to drink the spice agony causing waters of life and get raw milk surgery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXjD5ruqJMo
And were tormented by visions and nightmares some shared some, secrets only their characters know coming out of that ordeal rather scarred and fatigued

I assure you that the nausicaa like giantess PC discovering that she had a femboy baron harkonen like figure in her ancestral memory was essential to the plot, and honestly he has been a pretty pretty useful person in subsequent intrigue I’m also decently sure that the only ones out of my players that read here allready know or have some inking with this

>>96060148
I wonder if the japanise could push the line and make a BRP supplement similar to a Ryo kamiya game?
Or one of those edgy RPGmaker games you see in DLsite

Heck with call of chuthulu they allready have and there is fuck tons of shit laying untranslated

>>96062037
If you want to hear about previous shenanigans the group got up to look here >>95075594 in the archives
It’s been months

I seriously love most of my players they have been great, tonight more intrigue in the city of disco pits has been scheduled

>>96062037
I was planning on running an elder scrolls game or a prehistory caveman game using mythras. Any advice on how to run mythras over the regular BRP system?

>>96063257
Just read the mythras ruleset and use their rules for combat instead.
Most other things are the same.
Tbh just the mythras imperative file should be enough for you to get started on a game. Especially if you dont care about using magic

Speaking of mythras. How does a superhero game using BRP or destined go? It seems like it could really only do low power settings.

>>96053445
>They might have an issue if you made a child sexual abuse simulator,
That's reasonable request - I'm willing to give up the sexual part.

>>96063257
There have been a few elder scrolls hacks with mythras that you can borrow shit from,
I like the magic system in glormerskas hack but with how cultures and careers are handled I prefer base mythras

>>96068449
According to friends that have played it honestly it’s an amazing system for comics from the iron age of comics such as the darkness and ghostrider, or even shit like blade and the underworld series
You can also splice magic systems and content in from both base from base mythras and other supplements just fine too

>>96070791
>>96063407
Thanks for the advice. Do you have any names of the other elder scrolls hacks? Glormerskas seems neat, but it is a big jump from the base game. I might just use the base system rules to make it easier and allow everyone in the group to learn the main system first.

>>96071440
NTA but there's this one (https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/48193247/#q48196436) for RQ6 (which is now called Mythras) I used that for inspiration as well as Glömmerska's for my own campaign. Ended up not using the magic system in Glömmerska's though. Just used spells from Classic Fantasy instead.

>>96075175
>Just used spells from Classic Fantasy instead.
As well as Folk Magic, Animism and Theism from the base game.

>>96045522
Chaosium is so fucking bad is hard to believe. The fuckers apart of being slow (than I'm a merciful lad, I understand if you want to wai and deliver quality) are terrible editos, they books are a mess. I was unfortunate enough to still believe in them two years or so ago and bought the prosopedia and man, typos, shitty formating, and the art was terrible...
They have the worst parts of indies and the worst parts of a boomer company.

>>96043460 (OP)
What are the best Mythras Hombrew (settings, house rules, adventures, etc)

>>96075617
Probably just sticking with Chaosium.
The Design Mechanism guys seem to always be halfing trouble when adapting the settings for modern audiences, like that Mythic book that got pee poll upset ofer cultural problematics.
Also that fonts seem way smoller after loosing the loicense for 6e Runequest.
Hopefuly they can fix those prablems if seventh edition ever gets reeleased

>>96075617
Do you mean what are their best products or homebrews seen so far? For design mechanism products; monster island and the classic fantasy books are some of the most useful. Mythic polynesia also has some material that is easy to adapt to other settings. I know that one of the setting guide books has alchemy and enchantment as new magic schools, but I have little experience with them.

Homebrew stuff is hard to say, as everything made for BRP over they ears can also be used for mythras and vice versa. IF you don't mind taking the time, you can even modify some warhammer rpg releases and adapt the content for BRP/mythras.

>>96075617
I liked Thennla, but it never got much support. I think the devs planned to come up with books for the Jekkarene Theocracy and the Assabians but never got around to it.

>>96082539
It looks like they are working on books for their mythic line of stuff from what I have seen.

>>96062071
Chaosium seems to be trying to rebuild the old Runequest playerbase/expand from the big CoC Japanese playerbase they already have, so who knows. Maybe they'd let them to do what they want.

>>96094005
Chaosium are retarded and not a serious people, I talked with Sandy some times about it and its incredible how bad some stuff was. Not bad people but extremely bad at business, it boggles my mind they still are operative.

>>96078858
Are you having a stroke?

Looking to try BRP but my group is not big on fantasy. Are there any supplements for modern day or historical games? Our sweet spot is the 1800s, especially right around industrialization.

>>96098652
Mythras has a free firearms supplement that adds rules for guns and more modern weaponry. The base BRP book already has quite a bit of a sandbox worth of options to fit whatever setting you want. It is really easy to convert vehicle rules for ships, future tech, etc. Worlds united is a pulp fiction supplement for BRP or mythras, and it alongside mosnter island can be thrown into any campaign you want more fantastical or prehistoric monsters.

I don't know much about m-space, but I heard that is really solid as well. It is built of and compatible with mythras or BRP. I would pick that if you want something less pulp and more hard scifi.

>>96099211
>>96098652
I am sorry. I had a complete brainfart dipshit moment and misread your post as you wanting science fiction for some reason. Some of the points still stand with the standard BRP rulebook, the newest edition, having a lot of variety and support for time periods. You can mix this with some supplements for CoC, the wild west supplement or the investigators handbook, for time periods around the mid to late 1800s. The mythras fireamrs and vehicle book are both free and useful for modern campaigns. There is also destined which is a superhero themed book that could easily be adapted for more mundane or steam/dieselpunk settings, but I have little experience running that to be honest.

>>96099289
Sounds like it's doable, at least. I picked up the quick start guide, but it seems like there's some information missing. What do the numbers in parentheses next to skill names mean?

>>96098652
You could just play Call of Cthulhu (6e or 7e, they're essentially the same) it's BRP with some very minor modifications. in fact you could take a monster from any BRP bestiary, drop it into a CoC encounter and it will work perfectly.

>>96062037
>I assure you that the nausicaa like giantess PC discovering that she had a femboy baron harkonen like figure in her ancestral memory was essential to the plot
wait what?

>>96107544
It is the starting value of the skill before any points are put into it.. If you want a basic free ruleset, there is mythras imperative. The quick start guide is not a full set of rules. You would have to get the BRP universal game engine book. A new edition/print came out for it recently.

>>96098652
>BRP for modern day or historical games
... Call of Cthulhu?

>>96094446
They're just old and out of touch

>>96099289
Mythras Imperative has sci-fi stuff

>>96098652
BRP has plenty of historic spin-offs
apart from which were already mentioned
you might want to take a look at these although the settings are a bit predating your sweet spot of 1800s
but I bet at least the napolionic wars era setting could use these rules pretty much with little to no modifications
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/97899/clockwork-and-chivalry-2nd-edition-core-rulebook
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/103994/renaissance-deluxe

the later one has a free core rulebook PDF as well which is always a plus

>>96118521
But they go all in in shitty politics, I tried to read some of the new RQ books and man, the art is so bad, not in quality, but design, all dumpy.
Read the Shores of glorantha one, gays every two pages one. I'm fatigued about all that shit, they aren't even Old in a good way, in an 80's way.

>>96131375
I love gays and I love shitty politics. Sorry.

>>96134335
Yeah, then don't wonder why no normal person goes for runquest, people are more than fed up with all that shit.

>>96134335
Fucks sake it’s the RQ bumpfag trying to keep the thread on neceomatic life support
Honestly though it’s kinda pathetic

>>96136955
Honestly modern chaosium sucks and is a mess of a company now
It’s got too many different people in house and is becoming one of the bigger RPG publishing houses these days
Heck it even has mike meals here

If you want a company that can actually put out a solid product, check out the design mechanism and mythras instead
Heck a few pepole I know prefer it for glorantha

>>96131375
>>96137446
The quality of their historical works is also suffering tremendously. They focus on the most asinine of topics over things of actual historical value. They tend to avoid anything controversial or just sidestep it. It is why I am surprised that Age of Vikings was so well done when pendragon and most of the CoC supplements have been shit that dedicated huge chunks of a book for stuff like drag. Pendragon does suffer mostly from a lack of any historical text entirely though. It felt like a very piece meal game.

They could have easily done a revamp of cthulhu invictus but instead licensed it out to another studio for whatever reason. I wish sandy gave more insight about the company because what he said so far is already pretty funny.

>>96119208
How are the additions for clockwork and chivalry and that cthulhu supplement? Are the clockwork rules neat or just tacked on?

>>96137506
He is shitposting in twitter half the days, ask him, he has told me some stuff about chaosium and oh boy.
>>96137446
Anon Chaosium has ever sucked donkey balls, its why I'm surprised it still stands, but then I remember they have the chtulu stuff...

>>96137506
Sandy ruined his chance to get back in with running multiple Kickstarters into the ground and insulting backers in interviews for whating to know where their product was.

>>96136955
>>96137446
There wasn't even bait on that pole

>>96137506
You know I’m glad I stuck with the design mechanism after all these years so I don’t have to deal with this shite

>>96043460 (OP)
BRP is the best system out there, by far. It's a shame none of its fantasy variants ever took off. Mythras mogs the everloving fuck out of DND/PF.

>>96098652
CoC. The Cthulhu shit makes up maybe 5% of the actual rules and is easily dropped for a straight historical/fantasy game.

>>96137545
I read a little about clockwork and chivalry, and it seems the biggest issue is that some later renditions of the ruleset the creators made fix some issues. Is that true? The brp system is usually pretty straight forward and universal. Is the clockwork stuff just re-flavored magic or more based on earlier runequest engineering?

>>96145343
If it makes you feel any better, the golden goblin press cthulhu invictus series, and their other CoC stuff, is really good. Cthulhu dark ages and the wild west supplement are also ok. They are a little light but still are pretty good for reference stuff.

One of the worst and most unnecessary books is probably gaslight. You can just get the investigators handbook instead since it covers the same material or close to it. Chaosium cosntantly gets negative reviews of cthulhu by gaslight taken down.

are there any good Cybernetic Rules for BRP too make combat beast fuck cyborgs?

>>96148626
>One of the worst and most unnecessary books is probably gaslight
Ah yes, the Victorian UK setting book which has more pages talking about gay people than it does the Victorian-era UK. Reminds me of the Georgian era book where the writer's blacked fetish is prominent (literally refers to a black NPC as a quote "animal" and "stud" who fucks all the village's married women).

>>96149532
Is that really in the Regency book for CoC? I heard that one and the french revolution book had some weird fetish shit, but that is out there. The berlin wicked city supplement has some weird stuff as well.

I still want to know why Cthulhu invictus got outsourced. I also want to know why there has never been an ancient Greece or Egypt supplement for CoC as well considering how often those civilizations sprout up in campaigns.

>>96148794
I don't believe there is a cybeprunk supplement. I have seen people discuss reflavoring mutations or powers from the base BRP book and destined/mythras imperative, but not much else besides that. I remember that ther was a third party supplement at one point called machinery and gears or something like that, but I am not sure if it still sold or the quality of it.

>>96148794
M Space

>>96150129
Seconding, particularly the M space companion
The cybernetics rules I’m using for my shitbrew mythras post apoc campaign are mostly lifted from there with some personal modifications

>>96151504
>>96150129
Is m-space pretty solid and complete? I hear mixed things about some sections being half-assed. I wanted to run a worlds united game at some point, but m-space seems to be compatible and might add some interesting rules.

>>96153159
it's closer to a collection of loose junk but boy is a lot of that stuff pretty nice
less a solid and complete game but it has a bunch of nice creation tools along with the rest of mythras

Does BRP have any fan-favorite houserules or hacks?

>>96165879
It's not really a houserule/hack, and it might be common sense to you, but you don't have to have your players roll for everything single fucking thing. Sometimes you can just say "okay you have 60 percent, it takes you six hours to find the clue in the library" or have whoever has the highest science/spot hidden/persuade or whatever get the clue in the scene. A lot of the "your chances or success are too low in percentile games" comes from GMs/Keepers making the PCs roll for fucking everything.

Some of my friends want to really do a shonen anime type game. I was thinking doing a shitbrew with brp since we played CoC before and they know the basics of the system already. Anyone got some ideas on how to make it work?

>>96168507
Its not brp but it is a d100 based game called Art of Wuxia that has kung fu stuff.

>>96165879
Full auto weapons need heavy adjustments. The mythras rules for full auto are a bit better. The mythras firearms rules are free as well. I also recommend letting people dodge gun shots and ranged attacks in some way if you want people to survive longer.

>>96153159
>>96159414
I kind of figured. Does it have power armor rules, or is it just mechs and prosthetics. I had an idea to make an alien race of goop people who use power armor.

>>96172485
Yeah and they are pretty simple, said armour has an armour point rating and they provide a damage mod and a brawn skill, replacing the users own base damage mod
Armour penalty is very high since armour rating is also quite high for the set and if you want you may want to cap the users action points, or impose difficulty grade penalties to certain tests but this is optional

how was the old super world?
how well would a supers game with the big gold book work?

>>96173742
Is it in a separate book besides the companion and base book? I was not able to see it, but I might be blind.

>>96174812
M space is it’s own book
It also has weird as fuck formatting

Anyway for super heavy power armour or exosuit up to 15 AP a -20 armour penalty
Maybe 10 or 12 is much more reasonable, characters wearing such a suit will be night impenetrable to small arms fire unless they are attacked with armour piercing weapons
damage mod provided ranges from 1d6 to 1d12

If you want to be reasonable with the armour rating and not have the wearer be an indestructible tank
Have the suit provide 6 to 9 AP instead and a -10 armour penalty
And have it also provide a damage mod

I’ve mostly been using the M space companion because I run post apoc stuff and it has all the cyber ware but it’s been a while since I’ve looked at regular M space
It’s a bit strange compared with base myhtras but has some good guides on creating alien creatures