I have been thinking of running a game, but I am not finding a live group locally. Mostly a matter of schedule conflict. Anyway, I thought I would advertise for a fantasy style game using the Basic Role Playing rules (Chaosium/Call of Cthulhu style). The basic rules are free on the Chaosium website.
Generic fantasy quest in mind using an old scenario from my collection. I am thinking of placing the action in Taltos for a frame of reference. If you are familiar with Call of Cthulhu then you will understand the dynamics of the game. I would plan on posting a minimum of once a week, more if interaction with players supports it.
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Posted 24 July 2012 - 07:34 PM
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Posted 24 July 2012 - 07:56 PM
I just picked up some supplements for the Call of Cthulhu rpg at an auction the other day and just ordered the core players guide. Are you going to run it online?
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Posted 24 July 2012 - 08:25 PM
Good idea. We need to build awareness of Taltos.
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Posted 24 July 2012 - 08:29 PM
I'm interested, though I need to have a look at the rules. Whether I play or not, it will be nice to see a game set in Taltos on this forum again.
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Posted 24 July 2012 - 09:17 PM
I'd be up for some Taltain pbprpg. Need to check out the ruleset first.
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Posted 25 July 2012 - 06:23 PM
I just picked up some supplements for the Call of Cthulhu rpg at an auction the other day and just ordered the core players guide. Are you going to run it online?
Yes, I plan to run this segment online. I'll have to have some more active magic rules, maybe something from Elfquest but the character generation is the same just the skill/knowledge types will change a bit.
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 09:41 PM
I'm interested as well. I'd like to venture into Taltos again. I'll check out the rules if I can get them to download!
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Posted 26 July 2012 - 10:44 PM
Do you have a link to the specific set of Basic Rules we'd be using. Is the $0.00 Quickstart Pdf of Basic Roleplaying Game what you meant on the Chaosium site? Is this sufficient for play?
Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?
- Lord Xykon, OotS #192
Beowulf ll. 1538-1543
... Pay no heed to proud thoughts, famous champion. Now the flowering of your strength is but for a while. After a while, the time will suddenly come that disease or the sword's edge will cut off your power. Either fire's grasp or flood's surge or blade's bite or spear's flight. Or vicious age, or the flash of your eyes will gutter and burn out! It will be all at once, great campaigner, that death will overpower you.
It's terrifying! Without enough caffeine your body undergoes these hours of partial paralysis and hallucinations! :shudder:
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 02:42 PM
Got the rules downloaded. Just wanted to mention that Chaosium also has free character sheet downloads for anybody interested.
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Posted 28 July 2012 - 08:17 PM
Do you have a link to the specific set of Basic Rules we'd be using. Is the $0.00 Quickstart Pdf of Basic Roleplaying Game what you meant on the Chaosium site? Is this sufficient for play?
Yup the Quickstart should be enough for what I am planning. It is what I will base character creation on but, if you have Elfquest, Call of Cthulhu (any version) Elric any of those carry the Basic Role Playing rules and a fantasy character for my game would just require a little tweaking.
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Posted 28 July 2012 - 09:17 PM
Cool. I'll DL the quickstart and take a look. Least it won't add space to the bookshelf to add another system 
Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?
- Lord Xykon, OotS #192
Beowulf ll. 1538-1543
... Pay no heed to proud thoughts, famous champion. Now the flowering of your strength is but for a while. After a while, the time will suddenly come that disease or the sword's edge will cut off your power. Either fire's grasp or flood's surge or blade's bite or spear's flight. Or vicious age, or the flash of your eyes will gutter and burn out! It will be all at once, great campaigner, that death will overpower you.
It's terrifying! Without enough caffeine your body undergoes these hours of partial paralysis and hallucinations! :shudder:
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 08:52 AM
I wouldn't mind joining in if there is still room.
Gwangi32, you might look at the Classic Fantasy supplement for BRP, it's got the old school D&D feel, fantasy magic, et. al.
Gwangi32, you might look at the Classic Fantasy supplement for BRP, it's got the old school D&D feel, fantasy magic, et. al.
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 10:38 AM
I wouldn't mind joining in if there is still room.
Gwangi32, you might look at the Classic Fantasy supplement for BRP, it's got the old school D&D feel, fantasy magic, et. al.
The game is still open, I am waiting to see if there is enough interest to start a thread for the game. I'll look in to that supplement.
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Posted 06 August 2012 - 08:24 AM
I may be interested. I'm relatively familiar (though a little rusty)with CoC rules, as my group played it for almost a decade before breaking up.
Is this going to be straight up fantasy, or were you going to include some occult elements to make use of the sanity points? If you're going to discard SP, it'd be nice to know before character generation.
Is this going to be straight up fantasy, or were you going to include some occult elements to make use of the sanity points? If you're going to discard SP, it'd be nice to know before character generation.
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Posted 06 August 2012 - 09:00 PM
I'll take a look but right now if you've got enough people I can sit this one out.
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