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Old 08-02-2008, 10:56 AM
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Re: [RPG]: Basic RolePlaying: The Chaosium Roleplaying System, reviewed by Lev Lafaye

Interesting, thanks for the review. When I saw the size of the BRP book I have to admit I wondered "what the heck could be in there!" since the core system's pretty lean.

What's your take on the utility of this though? I wonder if there's really "enough" supers, magic, etc. to really use, and whether the core system book should have been leaner and just put the other in the "real" games. It seems like it's trying to be like GURPS but stuff even more into the core game. I like CoC and RQ but I'm not sure why I'd buy this - if I wanted to make a game that wasn't one of the BRP derivative games, but use the mechanics, but that game clove pretty tightly to one of the existing power setup bundle flavors? Or is it supposed to be a less-expensive way to "mix them together" - but frankly I haven't seen a lot of demand for "more games like Multiverser!"
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