Basic Roleplaying Quickstart Edition (BRP)
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In this BRP Quick-Start booklet¸ Chaosium has collected the essential Basic Roleplaying rules for a quick introduction to one of the most influential roleplaying systems in the world.
Basic Roleplaying was designed to be intuitive and easy to play. Most Basic Roleplaying mechanics are simple and logical.
Virtually all rolls determining success or failure of a task are determined via the roll of percentile dice.
- The system is remarkably friendly to newcomers. It is easy to describe the basics of the game system to non-gamers.
- Players of other game systems find Basic Roleplaying to be much less mechanistic and less of a barrier to the actual act of roleplaying.
- Most of the information players need to know is present on their character sheet.
- Characters evolve based on practicing the skills they use the most¸ and do not arbitrarily gain experience based on ephemeral elements such as levels or experience ranks.
- Combat can be quick and deadly - often the first blow to land is the deciding blow.
- The internal consistency of Basic Roleplaying allows for rules judgements to be made rapidly and with little searching through the rulebook for special cases.
Welcome to Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying Quick-Start Edition¸ a booklet that collects the essential rules for BRP and presents them in abbreviated form.
"This book comprises a basic roleplaying game system¸ a framework of rules aimed at allowing players to enact a sort of improvisational radio theater - only without microphones - and with dice determining whether the characters succeed or fail at what they attempt to do. In roleplaying games¸ one player takes on the role of the gamemaster (GM)¸ while the other player(s) assume the roles of player characters (PCs) in the game. The gamemaster also acts out the roles of characters who aren't being guided by players: these are called non-player characters (NPCs).
"From its origin¸ Basic Roleplaying was designed to be intuitive and easy to play. Character attributes follow a 3D6 curve¸ and the other Basic Roleplaying mechanics are even simpler. Virtually all rolls determining success or failure of a task are determined via the roll of percentile dice. This means that there's less fiddling with dice of different types¸ and the concept of a percentile chance of success is extremely easy for beginners and experienced players to grasp.
"Use this booklet to introduce new players to BRP¸ or hand it out to your established group for quick and dirty character creation.