So,
I have been experiencing something of a productive spell of late - I finished and ran the Sci-Horror scenario I had been kicking around for ages and it went down well with the group. I've pretty much got all the material to run a nice long Gaslight Cthulhu campaign and on top of that, I've thrashed out enough detail to cobble together a whole introductory adventure for the fantasy setting I have been plodding away on for some time, AND I can even run some Clockwork and Chivalry! I can't wait til it's my turn to GM again!
I am a staunch BRP supporter when it comes to tabletop roleplaying. I will play (and have) many other systems but I am a BRP guy by and large (and you can't argue with a system that is so modular and scalable with so many plugins to evoke the flavour of basically anything you can envisage).
As such it comes as no surprise that the BRP based Rune Quest 6th edition is a gem of a book. I have ported a lot of the work I had done in terms of setting and mechanics over to RQ 6. Basically, RQ 6 is now my go to for Fantasy based gaming mechanics along with select bits from the main BRP book. I don't think RQ 6 is better than BRP, but I do think it is better for the type of fantasy I want to run (though fantasy is something of a love/hate relationship for me - I usually feel much more comfortable working with Scifi/horror/reality based settings if it's me GM'ing) RQ 6 proves how good BRP is, and I recommend it to anyone with BRP if only for the excellent magic systems which account for nearly a third of the book as a rough guess. I feel like RQ 6 has allowed me to create the sort of fantasy game I wanted to - fairly gritty detailed and with dangerous, consequential combat, and a robust and effective magic system, kept in check by limited use due to slow refreshment of Magic points.
My only gripe is I could not find a soft cover option - I am one of those weird people who actively dislikes hardback books if it's something I plan to be working from regularly. That said there is no arguing with the fact that it's a very handsome product and the binding is perfect.
I am glad that it did not include the Glorantha material - I have no gripe with the setting but it's something that can be added as supplements and leaving it out has allowed for loads of more useful content that maintains the "toolbox" nature of BRP.
Big thumbs up to The Design Mechanism (see linky) for a cool product.
