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: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: JonHook May 18, 2009, 06:14:41 PM
The Chaosium site is currently running two contests. One is just a BRP (Basic Role Playing) adventure, and the other is a horror adventure that can be either Cthulhu or BRP.

I'm entering both contests, and I've completed my BRP adventure.

My adventure is set in WWII, and the players are Special Forces Rangers with psychic powers versus Nazi trying to develope psychic powers.

This would be a fun adventure for 5 to 7 players. Anyone want to play?
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: Tadanori Oyama May 18, 2009, 06:20:11 PM
I will. My gaming itch hasn't been scratched properly for going on two weeks and even in pike session I'm always ready to play another game.

So, how does BRP work? I assume from the name that it involves roleplaying and is somewhat basic in its nature.
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: Dawnsteel May 18, 2009, 06:51:18 PM
: Tadanori Oyama

So, how does BRP work? I assume from the name that it involves roleplaying and is somewhat basic in its nature.

I think our buddy Jon means Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying System...i.e., the core mechanics are identical to CoC, but the ruleset is generalized so that the games need not feature Horrors Which Mankind Was Not Meant To Know.
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: dragonshaos May 18, 2009, 07:06:35 PM
Is this a free system or will the purchase of something be required?
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: JonHook May 18, 2009, 07:25:05 PM
Hey Tad, Dawn is absolutely correct. The Basic Role Playing system (BRP) is Chaosium's generic ruleset. If you can play Call of Cthulhu, you can play a game being run with BRP rules.

Dragon, email me at jonhook@gmail.com
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: Tadanori Oyama May 18, 2009, 07:34:02 PM
Cool. I'll try and get a refresher than, my CoC book is from the mid-eighties I believe. From what I've been told the underlying rules haven't changed much since then, I'll mostly want to refresh on details.

I'm always up for playing a game and if that means buying another book I'm in favor of it. I read roleplaying manuals for games I'll likely never play for the fun of it so more in the pile is great.
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: Setherick May 18, 2009, 07:36:23 PM
I'll play. Give me some specifics. Or link me the recruitment thread.
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: Dawnsteel May 18, 2009, 09:35:05 PM
: Tadanori Oyama
I read roleplaying manuals for games I'll likely never play for the fun of it so more in the pile is great.

Thank the Cathartic Lobster that there is more than just me.
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: Maze May 18, 2009, 10:51:11 PM
So, how does BRP work? I assume from the name that it involves roleplaying and is somewhat basic in its nature.

Hilarious ;D
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: JonHook May 19, 2009, 07:45:08 AM
I'll play. Give me some specifics. Or link me the recruitment thread.

Hey Seth,

Here are the specifics: Using the BRP rules, you will play the role of a Special Forces Ranger with psychic powers in WWII. The US government has learned that the Nazis are trying to develop their own psychic program. Your mission is to infiltrate their research camp and stop their research, capture their scientists, and capture any research materials you can find.
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: JonHook May 19, 2009, 07:49:13 AM
Players list...

Is this correct?

Definite YES:
Tadanori Oyama
Setherick

These are MAYBES:
Dawnsteel
Dragonshaos
Maze
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: Setherick May 19, 2009, 09:17:59 AM
I'll play. Give me some specifics. Or link me the recruitment thread.

Hey Seth,

Here are the specifics: Using the BRP rules, you will play the role of a Special Forces Ranger with psychic powers in WWII. The US government has learned that the Nazis are trying to develop their own psychic program. Your mission is to infiltrate their research camp and stop their research, capture their scientists, and capture any research materials you can find.

Cool. I just have the CoC main book and not the BRP one, but I assume that the characters will be pregens since it is for a contest. Or do I need to make my own?
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: JonHook May 19, 2009, 12:08:27 PM
Cool. I just have the CoC main book and not the BRP one, but I assume that the characters will be pregens since it is for a contest. Or do I need to make my own?

You will need to generate your own character, but it'll be very easy. Once we are ready to begin I'll have info for everyone to build a character.

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: Tadanori Oyama May 19, 2009, 12:29:39 PM
Is there a special source for BRP rules? As I said, my CoC rules are from the 1980s.

For creation, would you prefer rolls on the boards or use of the honor system and RL dice rolls?
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: JonHook May 19, 2009, 02:03:57 PM
Once we lock-in the players, I want to organize via the boards a group character creation. This way everyone is aware of the kind of character everyone else is playing. There is a reason for this, and it is mainly due to the fact that you are all military people. So each of you will have a rank.

Only one player will get to be an officer, one player will get to be a sargent, and everyone else will be corporal or below.

So we'll either have a group concensus of who's gonna be what rank, or we can have roll-offs for certain ranks.

There is also the need to balance the squad, so one guy might be the demolitions dude, and another may be the sniper, etc, etc, etc.

So, I'm not concerned about people rolling their characters in secret or not, it just due to the fact that I want you guys to design a well-balanced team that I want the group creation session.
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: Tadanori Oyama May 19, 2009, 02:13:33 PM
Awesome. I'll go for either officier or point man.
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: Setherick May 19, 2009, 07:37:11 PM
Dips on sniper or machine gunner, whichever is more applicable.
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: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2009, 01:40:35 PM
Wow, not getting much enthusiastic support from the RPPR fans.

He's gonna have to ask other fourms to players at this rate. Is that what everybody here wants? Play-by-post outsourcing?! You should be ashamed of yourselves!
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: dragonshaos May 21, 2009, 01:48:53 PM
Im trying t get my hands on a copy of the rules and will hopefully be able to join eventually.  What about the other PbP's?
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: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2009, 01:59:52 PM
I'm saying that we have nearly seventy members on the forums and there's been little responce. You showed interest, I was directing my comment towards the many who haven't.

For other games: most everybody have stopped with Ross's because he hasn't updated it; mine is dead ending because I'm having writing block and lack of emotional connection to the game; my other PbPs never took off; Setherick's only had two people show interest in his thread; and here we have JonHook, who RPPR listens literally know can run a good game because he was on the show, and he's largely gotten alot of nothing.
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: Setherick May 21, 2009, 02:08:36 PM
I'm saying that we have nearly seventy members on the forums and there's been little responce. You showed interest, I was directing my comment towards the many who haven't.

For other games: most everybody have stopped with Ross's because he hasn't updated it; mine is dead ending because I'm having writing block and lack of emotional connection to the game; my other PbPs never took off; Setherick's only had two people show interest in his thread; and here we have JonHook, who RPPR listens literally know can run a good game because he was on the show, and he's largely gotten alot of nothing.

Well, there is one thing tho Tad, most of our board members right now only come on to post on the thread periodically. Even on the SA forums the only reason they have a good PbP section is because they have hundreds of thousands of board members total. Once we develop more members, the PbP section will develop.
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: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2009, 02:14:43 PM
I know and I know that our ratio of actual members to posting members is quite good. But til we get more I have to try and guilt and/or outrage the ones we have into joinning. I'd go with physical intimidation but the whole internet thing makes that alot harder.
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: Setherick May 21, 2009, 02:17:27 PM
I know and I know that our ratio of actual members to posting members is quite good. But til we get more I have to try and guilt and/or outrage the ones we have into joinning. I'd go with physical intimidation but the whole internet thing makes that alot harder.

I find that physical intimidation works well with my freshman students. It helps when you're 6'3", 220.
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: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2009, 02:24:05 PM
I find that physical intimidation works well with my freshman students. It helps when you're 6'3", 220.

My tenured instructors used to inform us that they could use their tenure award statuette to kill a student once per term.
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: Setherick May 21, 2009, 02:27:29 PM
I find that physical intimidation works well with my freshman students. It helps when you're 6'3", 220.

My tenured instructors used to inform us that they could use their tenure award statuette to kill a student once per term.

In the English Department, we use books...or our fists.
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2009, 02:33:50 PM
In the English Department, we use books...or our fists.

I like the book method. One of my IT instructors informed me that the cable braids he'd run along the ceiling in the testing room was so thick and well supported that they could hold up a body, like that of, say, an uppity freshman.

On an unrelated note, our math instructor taught us how to cheat on ScanTron tests, thus justifying his refusal to use them for his testing.


Also I've decided to go for office first, point man second. I love handing out order is RP situations.
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: JonHook May 21, 2009, 04:18:21 PM
Players list...

Definite YES:
Tadanori Oyama
Setherick
Dragonshaos

These are MAYBES:
Dawnsteel
Maze


Thanks for the rally-call Tad! And thanks for the props.  ;D

Dawnsteel... Maze... you guys interested enough to play? I think five would be an good enough number. At least I hope so.  ;)
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: Setherick May 21, 2009, 04:30:07 PM
Players list...

Definite YES:
Tadanori Oyama
Setherick
Dragonshaos

These are MAYBES:
Dawnsteel
Maze


Thanks for the rally-call Tad! And thanks for the props.  ;D

Dawnsteel... Maze... you guys interested enough to play? I think five would be an good enough number. At least I hope so.  ;)

If we need more bodies I can convince, er force, Karee to play.
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: Dawnsteel May 21, 2009, 07:21:18 PM
: Setherick
In the English Department, we use books...or our fists.

I like that Novelist cliche in Risus. :)


Yar, I'll give it a shot, Jon.  Don't make me be the ell tee, please.  I'd be happy to round out the squad as (in no particular order here) a demo specialist, grenadier, SAW gunner, rifleman, redshirt meatshield, or whatever.
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: Setherick May 21, 2009, 07:30:17 PM
: Setherick
In the English Department, we use books...or our fists.

I like that Novelist cliche in Risus. :)


Yar, I'll give it a shot, Jon.  Don't make me be the ell tee, please.  I'd be happy to round out the squad as (in no particular order here) a demo specialist, grenadier, SAW gunner, rifleman, redshirt meatshield, or whatever.

In the WW2 game, I think that would be BAR gunner. If you want to be the BAR gunner, I'll be the sniper.

EDIT: Jon, I would like my psychic ability to be able to see a split second into the future as a way of making very accurate shots.
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: Dawnsteel May 21, 2009, 07:32:13 PM
: Setherick

In the WW2 game, I think that would be BAR gunner. If you want to be the BAR gunner, I'll be the sniper.

Oh, yeah.  Right.  I missed the WWII part.  Even though it's in that first post, clear as day.  Do you happen to teach a reading comprehension course I could enroll in?
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: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2009, 07:36:17 PM
Yeah, the WWII thing is gonna mean some research for me. Want to do it half way right at least.

By the way, wouldn't the sniper and the rifleman be the same guy in a fire team like this?
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: Setherick May 21, 2009, 07:38:09 PM
Yeah, the WWII thing is gonna mean some research for me. Want to do it half way right at least.

By the way, wouldn't the sniper and the rifleman be the same guy in a fire team like this?

Not really. Snipers in WW2 were basically avid hunter / crackshots that had little or no formal training other than sitting still and shooting people. Riflemen were boys fresh off the farm for snipers to shoot as they sat there shooting people. At least, that's how I interpret it.
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: Tadanori Oyama May 21, 2009, 07:54:02 PM
I just assumed they used their snipers for fixed positioning rather than assigning them to mobil units. I assumed the best rifle shot in the group would become the defacto sniper, unless we'd specifically been assigned a sniper.

Addition-
According to the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper) doesn't even look like we'd have a sniper as we think of them today, just a guy who's good with a rifle. Apparently American sharpshooters didn't hide in wait or anything, they just tried to shot guys a long way off.
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: JonHook May 21, 2009, 09:47:08 PM
Players list...
 
Tadanori Oyama
Setherick
Dragonshaos
Dawnsteel

Awesome. The squad is coming together nicely. Seth, if Karee wouldn't mind playing, then she is more than welcome.

I'm about to go see if there is any interest from some of my players in a CoC pbp game I'm running currently. It's basically the same system, and they already play via pbp, so I think a couple of them might want to play too.

Excellent!

I've already talked to Dragon via email, so Tad, Seth, and Dawn, can each of you please send me an email to jonhook@gmail.com

FALL IN!!!
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: Setherick May 22, 2009, 11:09:03 PM
FALL IN!!!

Emailed, now just got to rewatch some inspirational films over the weekend. Namely, Enemy at the Gates.
: Re: Anyone want to play a Chaosium BRP adventure I wrote?
: JonHook June 09, 2009, 05:51:16 PM
Anyone else interested in playing? We need one more player!!