On 3/13/06, alan richards<div><span class="gmail_quote"><b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <<a href="mailto:alanjrichards@googlemail.com">alanjrichards@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mr Maranci wins the prize for understatement of the week.<br><br>At first glance DBRP looks like being what RQIV and MRQ should have been but never were*<br><br>Plus of course being Chaosium there will be a gap** between supplements so I won't bankrupt myself when it comes out.
<br><br>Alan<br><br>* well OK MRQ might come around but given previous nonsense and the very real concerns raised by Tom Zunder, Nick Middleton and Mark Mesek on this very list I wouldn't bet on it.<br>** about 10 years I would guess
<br></blockquote></div><br>The more I read the playtest rules, the more I agree with you. Everything that I found disappointing in the Mongoose rules is made *right* here. Almost every design and editorial choice that I've read so far has been just what I would have done, or is at the least eminently sensible. And they seem to be using all the best RQ rules.
<br><br>When I saw that the most popular homebrew Dodge rule fix mechanism had been expanded to all skills, I actually cheered. So far, DBRP is impressing me a LOT. This really feels like the next step for RQ.<br><br>The only possible objection I see at this point is that it's going to be *huge*. Lots of optional rules (and I like their idea of a campaign checklist to allow the GM to indicate which optional rules are being used). This playtest version isn't complete, and it's already 346 pages.
<br><br>Some sort of ultra-simplified "Lite" version at the beginning of the book (on the order of complexity of the original BRP, perhaps?) might be a good idea.<br><br>-- <br>Peter Maranci - <a href="mailto:pmaranci@gmail.com">
pmaranci@gmail.com</a><br>Pete's RuneQuest & Roleplaying! <a href="http://www.runequest.org/rq.htm">http://www.runequest.org/rq.htm</a>