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<blockquote data-quote="King_Stannis" data-source="post: 986953" data-attributes="member: 324">Chaosium also makes &quot;Pendragon&quot;, an RPG set in Arthurian England. I just started playing this last week, and it is wonderful. It emphasized roleplaying more than combat, which is quick and deadly. The game actually has a mechanic for role playing through a system of &quot;Traits and Passions&quot;. Check it out if you get a chance.As for Stormbringer (or Elric! as I know it), it is quite good as well. The BRP system it percentage based. I know that Chaosium makes a $5 slim booklet of the BRP system, but after flipping through it you really don't need it. The system is so simple, because it's percentage based you already know that if you have 90% in a certain skill, you are pretty darn good. Combat in Stormbringer is fairly simple and well done. In essence you compare your roll with your opponent and judge what you got. A success, a failure, a critical or a fumble. Then you consult a very simple chart and cross index it based on what your opponent got. It actually sounds a lot more complex than it is. ARmor is actually a &quot;die&quot;. So if you have Plate Mail, you would actually roll a D12+2 for each hit your opponent scored.&nbsp; I like this aspect, as it makes combat deadly but a good set of armor can still save your life if you roll good. Your combat skills can also be over 100%, which affords you the chance to split your attacks (2 at 50%, etc) and parry a bit more. All in all, Stormbringer is quite good. Try it. So too is Pendragon, though technically Chaosium doesn't have anything to do with Pendragon anymore. Green Knight Publishing took over the label.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="King_Stannis, post: 986953, member: 324"] Chaosium also makes "Pendragon", an RPG set in Arthurian England. I just started playing this last week, and it is wonderful. It emphasized roleplaying more than combat, which is quick and deadly. The game actually has a mechanic for role playing through a system of "Traits and Passions". Check it out if you get a chance. As for Stormbringer (or Elric! as I know it), it is quite good as well. The BRP system it percentage based. I know that Chaosium makes a $5 slim booklet of the BRP system, but after flipping through it you really don't need it. The system is so simple, because it's percentage based you already know that if you have 90% in a certain skill, you are pretty darn good. Combat in Stormbringer is fairly simple and well done. In essence you compare your roll with your opponent and judge what you got. A success, a failure, a critical or a fumble. Then you consult a very simple chart and cross index it based on what your opponent got. It actually sounds a lot more complex than it is. ARmor is actually a "die". So if you have Plate Mail, you would actually roll a D12+2 for each hit your opponent scored. I like this aspect, as it makes combat deadly but a good set of armor can still save your life if you roll good. Your combat skills can also be over 100%, which affords you the chance to split your attacks (2 at 50%, etc) and parry a bit more. All in all, Stormbringer is quite good. Try it. So too is Pendragon, though technically Chaosium doesn't have anything to do with Pendragon anymore. Green Knight Publishing took over the label. [/QUOTE]

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