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A new Ask Me Anything coming – Basic Roleplaying: Creatures
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 11th Nov 2025
Get ready for another Ask Me Anything!Submit your burning questions about Basic Roleplaying: Creatures now! Due out on November 12.Join host Bridgett with creators Neil Robinson and Jason Durall on YouTube in the coming weeks!Submit your questions now: https://buff.ly/G6kdsLw
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Coming soon! Basic Roleplaying: Creatures
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Aug 2025
Basic Roleplaying: Creatures collects animals, monsters, nonhumans, and nonplayer characters drawn from history, science fiction, fantasy, prehistory, mythology, and the modern world, allowing for any gamemaster to use them in any D100-based game. Coming soon!
Create. Explore. Play.
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Download your free copy of the Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine - Quickstart
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 23rd Jun 2025
Available as a free download from Chaosium.com and DriveThruRPG:
Powering some of the most influential and celebrated roleplaying games of all time, Basic Roleplaying is presented here in an easy-to-use, intuitive, and accessible quickstart. The system is at the heart of Call of Cthulhu,
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Announcing the $10,000 BRP Design Challenge Winners and People's Choice
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 28th Sep 2024
Chaosium is pleased to announce the final results of our $10,000 BRP Design Challenge!Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien said, "We were amazed to receive 195 entries - this far exceeded our expectations. It was a difficult process whittling them down to just ten, and then pick a final
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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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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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