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BRP Design Challenge: 11 Tips For Starting a New Game Design Project
Posted by Brian Holland on 12th Apr 2024
The Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge is well underway! Given you absolutely do not need to have a completed game or manuscript in order to enter the competition, it’s never too late to start!Beginning a new creative project can be a big hurdle—few things are as intimidating as a white blank p
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BRP Design Challenge: What The Judging Panel Is Excited To See
Posted by Brian Holland on 29th Mar 2024
It has now been a few weeks since we announced the Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge. We have been overjoyed to see discussion both online and at conventions about the competition. We’ve been especially enthused to hear the budding ideas and inspiration that independent creators are bursting with f
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BRP Design Challenge FAQ
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 7th Mar 2024
Our newly-announced BRP Design Challenge has already elicited great interest, with articles in The Wargamer, Dicebreaker, Tabletop Gaming News, EN World, and elsewhere.For questions you might have about the BRP Design Challenge, please see our FAQ here.
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Download the free Basic Roleplaying ORC Content Document – sell the games you create royalty-free!
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Mar 2024
Basic Roleplaying's Universal Game Engine is available royalty-free for personal and commercial use under the Open RPG Creative (ORC) license.
Use these rules, and focus on creating your worlds, scenarios and even books to sell!Download the free BRP ORC Content Documentnb this is essentially
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The Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge!
Posted by Brian Holland on 5th Mar 2024
Chaosium is excited to announce the Basic Roleplaying Design Challenge!The goal of the BRP Design Challenge is to financially assist new and upcoming creators in bringing their games to independent publication (be that digital or print). Chaosium seeks to empower designers from all walks of life, wi
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Out of the Suitcase #48: 'Good old Burly Bob' - a basic history of Basic Role-Playing
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 26th Jan 2024
-- "Good old Burly Bob" - art by William Church --Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.A few weeks ago during a podcast I answered a number of questions about the fabled “lost” manuscript for Chaosium’s Dark Worlds project (the ill-star
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Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine is out now in hardback
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 6th Oct 2023
264 pages, full color hardcover – $49.99*Also available in special leatherette version (a Chaosium.com exclusive) – $90.00**price includes PDF when purchased direct from Chaosium.com and Friendly Local Game Stores that are part of the Bits & Mortar initiative.Create. Explore. Play. Ba
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Chaosium Interviews: Weirdest BRP Settings, with Jeff Richard
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Sep 2023
Physical editions of the Basic Roleplaying Universal Game Engine book* are fast approaching!
Here, Chaosium's Jeff Richard talks about some of the strangest settings that the versatile BRP ruleset has been applied to. Part of our Chaosium Interviews series with James Coquillat.
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