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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 4912126" data-attributes="member: 2673">BRP is Basic Role Playing.  Its a simple percentile system that the non-d20 Call of Cthulhu uses.  I've never used the d20 version, so its hard for me to say.If you're talking about books I highly recommend the Malleus Monstrorum, a book fully of Mythos creatures and gods.  Rather than illustrations, they use pictures from art, old pottery, weird fossils, turn of the century sideshow ads, and other things to represent what someone might see one of them as.  Its my favorite monster type book for any game ever.I've heard it argued that d20 is more defaulted to modern games and BRP is more for 20s/30s games.  I personally think the supposed advantage of already knowing d20 is vastly overrated.  BRP is so simple you can understand it in just a few minutes, and make characters no time flat.</blockquote>