Personally I think the RPG Mythras ( ) is currently fulfilling the role of the best BRP/RuneQuest-derived system which is actively supported.
The other thing to note about the BRP rulebook is that it is a collection of rules from the different settings that have been published, this means that the rules as a whole can not be easily used as a coherent whole, some parts will overlap or sometimes contradict each other, so you have to be selective about what you use. For example, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay can be described as a 'd100' rpg, but the system does not work like BRP.Ĭhaosium does still sell the Basic Roleplaying rulebook but their latest games are diverging from the system, the latest Call of Cthulhu is still essentially BRP but with some important differences which are not represented in the BRP rulebook. Not all "D100" games are the same, it is used as a catch-all but you can't really use that description for games sharing the same system, the only thing you can say is that somewhere in the system percentages and d100 rolls are used. GURPS has a lot more detail, BRP tends to be easier to run. GURPS has a much more comprehensive history of published settings and expansions for itself, but both BRP and GURPS can be used to run games in different genres and settings. The core of the system has been used in the original Swedish Mutant RPGs and the Spanish Aquelarre, amongst others. Since Chaosium focused almost exclusively on Call of Cthulhu, most players associate BRP with CoC only, and many have not heard of its origins in RuneQuest and the other games which use BRP. Stormbringer/Elric was successful enough to justify a decent number of supplements, got restarted by Mongoose, but is now out of print. This Basic Roleplaying pamphlet was released in 1980 and served as the foundation for Chaosium's own RPGs of different genres - Stormbringer, Ringworld, Superworld and most successfully Call of Cthulhu.īRP was never as successful as GURPS as a generic system, partly because apart from Call of Cthulhu its other games either got sold off and died in the 1980s (RuneQuest) or did not catch on and didn't sell that well (ElfQuest, Superworld). The similarities between BRP (the Basic Roleplaying rpg from Chaosium) stem from GURPS and BRP being 'generic' RPG systems which can be used in different settings.īRP started as a simplified and very small pamphlet which served to introduce the RuneQuest fantasy RPG system published by Chaosium in 1978. There is no SRD for BRP - but I don't think there's a SRD for GURPS either.
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