tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post5753424121976669051..comments2024-03-08T00:18:23.881-08:00Comments on Coffee swillin' analog gamer: B is for Basic RoleplayingWill Douglashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379173017869751088noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post-49224677879763933382011-04-28T09:37:41.060-07:002011-04-28T09:37:41.060-07:00Sorry; didn't quite get it there.
Yes, it has...Sorry; didn't quite get it there.<br /><br />Yes, it has a blue dragon on the cover, as seen in this image on RPG Geek: http://rpggeek.com/image/566740/basic-role-playing<br /><br />But the third printing is monochrome, in green ink on an off-white background (or possibly faded). So that was what threw me about your question.<br /><br />(And the other one, the first printing, doesn't have a cover on it at all -- but it does have the notation "Not for Resale". This was the one that came with the boxed set.)Will Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379173017869751088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post-72129930862042831642011-04-28T09:02:09.734-07:002011-04-28T09:02:09.734-07:00So it has a blue dragon on the cover. Or does it h...So it has a blue dragon on the cover. Or does it have a Kraken on the cover?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post-62657043208973630792011-04-27T23:27:39.307-07:002011-04-27T23:27:39.307-07:00Gratuitous:
Not sure I understand your question.
...Gratuitous:<br /><br />Not sure I understand your question.<br /><br />I'm using the original (1981) version of BRP, as presented in Worlds of Wonder. (I have the first three printings of it.)Will Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379173017869751088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post-32599677876107924202011-04-27T23:06:07.337-07:002011-04-27T23:06:07.337-07:00So which non BYB version?
Blue Dragon or Kraken?So which non BYB version?<br /><br />Blue Dragon or Kraken?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post-39255112299275049772011-04-23T11:41:39.633-07:002011-04-23T11:41:39.633-07:00(Damn thing ate my comment!)
Doc Rotwang said:
A...(Damn thing ate my comment!)<br /><br />Doc Rotwang said:<br /><br /><b>All of which means...not much, really. Just that the two games do things differently.</b><br /><br />Exactly. <br /><br />But for this game, I prefer the way BRP does things.<br /><br />Other games use game mechanics (such as D&D's levelling up and T&T's stat increases) to simulate increasing in <i>skill</i>. BRP just lets the skill level go up, and there you go.<br /><br />Plus it's easier for me to see a world like this using BRP; I've never successfully been able to use D&D for anything other than D&D. Sure, it's a failing of imagination on my part, but I'm cool with that.<br /><br />Besides, since BRP (81) has so many fewer rules, I should have correspondingly fewer rules lawyers in my game!<br /><br />Also, Doc, I have to thank you for a post you did a couple of years ago that brought BRP up in my mind. You wanted to do a game in a certain style, so you grabbed your BRP stuff and just did it. That reminded me that I had a copy of BRP from the early 80's (which I couldn't find and had to replace), and which leads me to now.<br /><br />So, thanks for that! (a couple of years too late). And thanks also for your comment here; it helped me clarify (in my own mind at least) why I want to do things the way I want.Will Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379173017869751088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post-43652697631426335292011-04-23T08:22:19.819-07:002011-04-23T08:22:19.819-07:00I, too, less-than-three me some BRP. Totally. Bu...I, too, less-than-three me some BRP. Totally. But I feel that I must, in the spirit of brotherhood and homey-ness, wonder out loud about a misunderstanding on your part:<br /><br />Hit Points in D&D aren't the same thing as Hit Points in BRP. They measure different things. <br /><br />In BRP, Hit Points measure how much physical damage a character's body can sustain before it, you know, breaks. It's the average of CON+SIZ, after all -- clearly physical stats. Run out of those and it's curtains. This is one of the ways in which BRP is elegant and intuitive.<br /><br />In D&D, though, they are much more of an abstraction. They don't measure how much punching, kicking, swording or arrowing a PC can sustain; they measure how much <i>attacking</i> a character can take and keep fighting. It's one of those things that, I think, has been lost somewhere along the line and misinterpreted by many -- myself included. <br /><br />A high-level D&D fighter has tons of hit points to model the fact that you can whack at him all day and he's going to dodge, parry, block, swerve, grimace, grunt and roll with the punches...until you wear him down, at which point he's got <i>no fight left in him</i> and he's yours. SWORDED! <br /><br />A BRP fighter with lots of experience, conversely, is (probably) going to have the same amount of HP as he did when he was first rolled up, so that sword to the gut is gonna kill him now as it would've killed him then. But his Dodge, Block and Parry skills are going to be pretty high -- he's going to turn away those blows with relative ease, and protect his precious few HPs a lot longer. <br /><br />All of which means...not much, really. Just that the two games do things differently. For the record, like like 'em both a lot, and your post about BRP freedom In The Galaxy has planted a seed in my mind and my own BYB lying on the floor by the couch because I was goofing around with it the other night...so, yeah.<br /><br />Okay. Pedantic lesson over.Dr Rotwanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16750632906878388570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518248131189980128.post-4246651360574912402011-04-23T06:06:09.791-07:002011-04-23T06:06:09.791-07:00Coffee perhaps? The drink, not you. I hope. :-)Coffee perhaps? The drink, not you. I hope. :-)Sham aka Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14329116400656617173noreply@blogger.com