GAME SYSTEMSGame system: BRP
BRP
Percentile skills, deadly and grounded. Characters grow by using what they know.
- Rules
- Basic Roleplaying rules under the ORC License
- Dice
- D100 for skills, other dice for damage
How it plays
Roll D100 under your skill. Very low is a special or a critical; very high can fumble.
- 1Everyone acts in order of DEX rank
- 2A full move is MOV × 3 meters a round
- 3Move more than 5 m and you act at half your DEX rank
- 4The defense is only rolled if the attack succeeds
- 5Bleeding wounds keep costing hit points each round
- 6A stunned fighter can only defend
- 7Missiles lose accuracy beyond their base range
- 8Situation modifiers: Easy, Average, Difficult
- 9A fighting withdrawal: back away, no attacks that round
- 10Criticals, specials and fumbles scale with the skill
What Elrune runs at the table
- Characteristics, derived values, professions and skill points, worked out at every step
- The percentile roll with criticals, specials and fumbles, situation modifiers and the resistance table
- Combat in DEX rank order: attacks, parries and dodges on the attack and defense table, damage, armor, major wounds
- Spells in fights, power points, creatures, weapons, armor and shields from the rules content
- Skill experience checks and improvement between sessions
- An NPC autopilot that moves and fights through the same checks a player turn goes through
Ready adventures
Fantasy mysteryThe Clockmaker's Door
Game system: BRPAt noon the bells of Larkhollow did not ring. By tomorrow noon, nothing in the town will move at all.
3–5 players2–4 h4 mapsby Elrune
Fantasy dungeonThe Astral Tower
Game system: BRPAn abandoned wizard’s tower on an asteroid adrift among the stars.
3–5 players4–10 h8 mapsby Elrune
Fantasy dungeonThe Lost Tomb of Queen Rhawen
Game system: BRPA queen’s tomb in the sea cliffs, a cult in its flooded depths, and thirty-one days.
3–5 players3–8 h6 mapsby Elrune
Fantasy sandboxThe Terror of Dunmoor
Game system: BRPA region under strain, a bounty on the Beast, and three hungry things in the dark.
3–5 players6–20 h16 mapsby Elrune
Gothic horror investigationThe Old Blood
Game system: BRPA dying city, a killer behind a vampire’s legend, and something older beneath the keep.
3–5 players12–30 h26 mapsby Elrune
Fantasy horrorBeneath Stillroot
Game system: BRPA quiet hamlet, a warm hearth, and a room of your own for the night.
2–5 players2–5 h4 mapsby Elrune
Fantasy dungeonThe Corpseless Coffin
Game system: BRPA stone coffin rises from the dungeon wall. Climb in, and a day passes outside for every hour.
2–5 players2–4 h5 mapsby Elrune
Fantasy wilderness mysteryThe Mist Beyond Manerton
Game system: BRPA lost parish register, a town of one, and a Mist that will not let you go.
3–5 players4–10 h11 mapsby Elrune
Investigation horrorThe Wrenhallow Papers
Game system: BRPA historian vanished, a town without floods, and a society that keeps its minutes very carefully.
2–5 players5–10 h4 mapsby Elrune
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Find a BRP gameGame rules from Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine by Chaosium Inc., used under the ORC License.