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Steve Perrin’s Quest Rules (SPQR)

Dan Zappone — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:07:53 +0000

Just saw this in the RuneQuest mailing list. Thought I would let everyone know about it. I realize that this is a sign of the Apocalypse, but I am actually working on SPQR. I haven’t updated the chapter available on my website because it is still being worked on, but soon. If you are a subscriber to [...]

D&D 4th Edition Game System License and System Reference Document are Available!

Dan Zappone — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:02:33 +0000

Wizards of the Coast has release the 4th Edition SRD and Game System License. It’s not as liberal as the 3.5e version. You are required to register the with them and actually own a copy of Dungeon & Dragons 4th Edition if you want to use it. The Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Game [...]

The 20-Sided Die

Dan Zappone — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:31:53 +0000

There’s a brief piece on the Wired website about the 20-sided die. Apparently the icosahedron’s usage as a die in games dates back at least two millenia to the Romans. Related posts RPG Campaign and World Design for RuneQuest, Basic Roleplaying and d20 Dungeons and Dragons (0) Basic Roleplaying Advanced Readers’ Copy a.k.a. BRP Edition Zero (0)

Basic Roleplaying Release Date and Cover

Dan Zappone — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:19:12 +0000

Basic Roleplaying Chaosium has announced that Basic Roleplaying is about to be sent to the printers for a May 2008 release. Basic Roleplaying now has a new cover by Paul Carrick and I must say it looks pretty good. BASIC ROLEPLAYING The Chaosium d100 system CHA2020 ISBN 1-56882-189-1 $39.95 384 pages 8.5 x 11” paperback Chaosium’s BASIC ROLEPLAYING is a core rulebook that gathers [...]

PCGen Beta (5.13.11)

Dan Zappone — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:13:31 +0000

PCGen is an open source character generator for role-playing games. It currently is aimed at supporting as many RPGs as is humanly possible. The project’s current focus is on OGL games (OGL is Wizards of the Coast’s Open Gaming License). PCGen runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Unix/Linux using Java 1.4/1.5. PCGen has released its [...]

My Life With Master

Dan Zappone — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:20:49 +0000

I just heard about this My Life with Master and it has been described on Play This Thing blog “as seminal a work in the history of tabletop role-playing games as Frankenstein was for literature.” It a game about playing the henchmen of an evil Master as in Igor or Renfield. Interesting no? [...]

Basic Roleplaying Advanced Readers’ Copy a.k.a. BRP Edition Zero

Dan Zappone — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:41:55 +0000

I’ve been meaning to post about this for some time. Had to get the site back in order to do so. In any event Chaosium is finalizing the 1st Edition of the Basic Roleplaying book. It is a complete rules system integrating 30 years of game play and refinement to allow play [...]

Gary Gygax Co-Creator of Dungeons and Dragons Passes Away

Dan Zappone — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:52:05 +0000

Gary Gygax the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons along with Dave Arneson has passed away on March 4th 2008. Gary has recently been working with Troll Lord Games, a small paper and pencil RPG publisher. Troll Lords forums have up a post noting that he has passed away. That Associated Press has confirmed [...]

Posting Issues

Dan Zappone — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:45:17 +0000

I moved to a new server and seem to be having some posting issues. This is a test post to see if I have fixed the problem. Related posts RPG Campaign and World Design for RuneQuest, Basic Roleplaying and d20 Dungeons and Dragons (0)

Jerks of the Industry

Dan Zappone — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0000

I’ve been in contact with various members of the computer and role-playing game industries over the past few years and with some before that and it’s become my opinion that for the most part they are real jerks. They mostly seem to suffer from Comic Book Guy syndrome. Noted for doing things like but not limited [...]

Sub-Cult of Humakt Truthseeker (RQ3)

Dan Zappone — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:40:16 +0000

Humakt is known primarily as the god of Death and War but he was not always known as such. Humakt also possesses the rune of truth. Truthseekers are virtually unknown outside of the Humakt Temple. Truthseekers often act as judges and mitigators though outsiders believe them to be Humakti. The value [...]

Societal Domains (d20)

Dan Zappone — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:16:08 +0000

Presented here are two new domains for clerics in the d0 system. These domains add the ideas of city and state deities and flesh them out with domain powers and spells. City and state deities were historically common and are often missing from d20 campaign settings. Civic Domain (in the portfolio of city gods) (rescued from Spells [...]

New Legendary Abilities for RuneQuest (MRQ)

Erasmus — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:32:29 +0000

After they have become bored with the core set of character types players turn to more unusual ones. There are only so many permeations on the fighter and priest, sooner or later everyone starts looking further a field for characters to play. In order to encourage this kind of rut breaking and stereotype flying in the [...]

Basic Roleplaying Chapter Preview

Dan Zappone — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:33:27 +0000

Here’s a preview of the chapters of Basic Role Playing - the Deluxe has been dropped from the title. As it stands now here are the current chapters. They are almost certainly subject to change before publication. Chapter 1: Introduction - this chapter primarily serves as an introduction to role playing games. It discusses what a role [...]

New RuneQuest Released by Mongoose Publishing!

Dan Zappone — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:12:09 +0000

Well Mongoose Publishing has released the new version of RuneQuest. I have yet to see a copy of it. I doubt it’s available in my local hobby stores (King’s Hobby or Dragon’s Lair) as yet. The discussion on the RQ-Rules list has been pretty fractious at this point. Some folks say it diverges too much from [...]

RuneQuest Available for Pre-Order

Dan Zappone — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:33:20 +0000

I just noticed on Mongoose Publishing’s Website that the new version of RuneQuest is available for pre-ordering. They now have an actual catalog page specifically for the soon to be release RuneQuest - Main Rulebook. But that’s not the only item they have coming out. Mongoose claims that new RuneQuest is designed to bring it up [...]

Deluxe Basic Roleplaying Status

Dan Zappone — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:00:50 +0000

Chaosium’s Deluxe Basic Role Playing is still under development and seems to be progressing well. The chapter on powers is undergoing major revision at present and the writer, Jason Durall, has stated that the chapter should be released to testing very soon. The powers chapter is the only one that required major revision. The other [...]

Mongoose Schedules Four RuneQuest Publications for July

Dan Zappone — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:09:00 +0000

Mongoose Publishing has scheduled the release of its first four RuneQuest products for July. The RuneQuest core rulebook will be a 100-page full color hardcover priced at $19.95, which will give gamers the core rules they need to begin playing along with enough creatures to make games interesting. In addition to the core rulebook Mongoose [...]

More Deluxe Basic Role-Playing

Dan Zappone — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:33:38 +0000

Basic RolePlaying So I haven’t been able to actually to any testing of the rules - heck I haven’t even had the time to read through all of them. I really need to print them out and well it’s like 348 pages so even if I double up the number of page per sheet and print [...]

Deluxe Basic Role-Playing

Dan Zappone — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:25:27 +0000

Basic RolePlaying I just started play testing Deluxe Basic Role-Playing which is to be published by Chaosium sometime this year. So far it looks very good and very flexible - able to work with a variety of genres and milieus. So far we have received perhaps half of the test and it comes in at a [...]