Characteristics, skills, and hit points form the basis for a PC.īoth the campaign and the PC are then shaped and molded by those three dials. Like D&D ability scores, characteristics range from 3 to 18 and characters have hit points as well. If you have Dodge 55% then you can dodge attacks 55% of the time. Player characters in BRP are built using characteristics and skills. Three dials allow a wide range of customization: power level, powers, and options.īefore diving into those three dials, let’s take a look at the basics. BRP is a toolkit for GMs to use to build worlds of their choosing. Since it hasn’t changed much in this version (although there are wonderful additions), the rest of this review assumes only a passing knowledge of d100 games.īRP powers Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and Pendragon and a variety of RPGs that have followed including Mythras, Delta Green, and M-Space.
Overview of the RulesIf you are a big fan of d100 games already you likely already know what is in this book. Full disclosure: I wrote Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea an adventure for Chaosium’s upcoming Lords of the Middle Sea but I did not contribute in any way to this book.
I want to thank Michael O’Brien at Chaosium for providing me with a copy of the PDF to review.
