Brp?

[Razuur]

Greetings all,

I see that a new version of Chaosium's BRP was recently released.

Has anyone picked it up? How is it?

I have never played any iteration of the game. What is it like? How does it work?

Thanks

Razuur

 

[malraux]

I have never played any iteration of the game. What is it like? How does it work?

I've only played Call of Cthulhu, but its pretty close to BRP from what I understand. It works kinda like this. You have several ability scores (stuff like Dex, Str, Size, Apperance, etc) which are generated by different dice rolls (some are 3d6, some are 6+2d6, some are 3+3d6). Then you purchase skills. Skills work as a percentage roll. So if you have 45 in handgun, to shoot someone with a handgun, you roll d% and need to roll 45 or under. Pretty much everything works as a skill, attacks, dodging, academic study, etc.

Its a relatively simple system, and there's always a few ways to handle doing something, but it makes for fast resolution.

 

[Voadam]

I've got CoC and the old Elric! that use the BRP system and raided them for ideas for my D&D game. A friend of mine played a bunch of CoC and loved it.

It has a neat xp system I always liked. Basically for skills you use successfully in a game make a check at the end of the game. If you fail this special xp check then your skill goes up a little bit (d6 on your percentage rating I believe).

So stuff you actually do can improve but it gets tougher to improve the more skilled you are.

 

[galaga88]

I'll second my love of the skill advancement system in BRP. It's just so clever.

The BRP book basically contains "the core rules" for BRP, and then a huge pile of optional systems culled from the back catalog of BRP games that have been published through the decades. I haven't gotten to dig through my copy too much yet, but it's the leading contender for the system in my homebrew Doctor Who game.