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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Spot Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Adventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

T his is the quick start version of Basic

Roleplaying ; Chaosium, Inc’s D100 roleplay-

ing game system. The Basic Roleplaying sys-

tem (BRP for short) has been utilized in some of

the most influential roleplaying games published

in the past thirty years (among them Call of

Cthulhu , RuneQuest , Stormbringer , and others). This

streamlined set of BRP rules is usable in a variety

of settings. Presented here is basic character cre-

ation; the system; combat; equipment; and a sam-

ple combat.

Though the Basic Roleplaying core rulebook is

recommended for the variety of options and

details it provides, these fast play rules contain

enough information for enterprising players and

gamemasters to run game sessions and even cam-

paigns without further reference. Only imagina-

tion and some “homework” are required to turn

these quick start rules into a BRP campaign.

Despite the size of the core rulebook, the

beauty of the BRP system is its brevity. The fun-

damentals of the game rules can be described in a

few pages, which is the mission of this quick start

version.

What is a Roleplaying Game?

The book you hold in your hands is a roleplaying

game, a rules framework that allows players to

enact stories of adventure, acting out the parts of

the main characters. The game rules provide

guidelines for what can or can’t be done, and dice

rolls determine 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 players

assume the roles of player characters (PCs). The

GM also acts out the roles of characters not guid-

ed by players: these are called non-player charac-

ters (NPCs).

Roleplaying is a social game, like improvising

a story for a play, television show, or movie.

Player characters are the primary roles: PCs are

the protagonists the stories revolve around. A PC

might be a swaggering gunfighter, depressed pri-

Players create PCs by defining them with rules that

help measure capabilities in quantifiable terms. This

information is written down on the character sheet.

Information on a character sheet includes things like

strength, intelligence, speed, education, skills, and

other abstract elements that make up a person – though

‘personality’ is evoked by how the PC is played by the

player. For example, though there is no numerical value for ‘irri-

table’, the player may speak in such a manner and give that per-

sonality to the PC . The PC’s character sheet is a cross

between a résumé and a report card: it defines what he

or she can do, and how good he or she is at it.

Roleplaying is what brings the character to life.

There is a major difference between what the play-

er knows and what the PC knows. At the gaming table

players are privy to “behind the scenes” information

that PCs don’t have, and they must be careful not to

take advantage of this knowledge. Dice rolls are used to

determine if a PC will know something, even when the

player may already know the answer. Similarly, there is

no reason a PC’s expertise is limited to things the play-

er knows—a PC can be an expert in fields the player has

no idea about.

The purpose of roleplaying is to have a good time.

It’s fun to deal with dangers that are not truly danger-

ous, threats that vanish when everyone rises from the

table, and monsters that evaporate when the lights go

on. If play goes well, the players feel that they’ve been

to an exciting new world for a while, find strength in

coping with it, and may even know victory.

The Basic Roleplaying

Core Rulebook

F or 30 years Chaosium, Inc. has published games

using the Basic Roleplaying system. These cover a

range of settings, from period horror ( Call of

Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark Ages ), heroic fantasy ( Rune -

Quest and ElfQuest ), super heroics ( Superworld ), sci-

ence fiction ( Ringworld ), sword-and-sorcery ( Storm -

bringer, Hawkmoon, and Elric! ), and others (including

Worlds of Wonder , which contained fantasy, super

heroics, and science fiction in one box). All of these

games used the BRP system, though variants called

for additional or different rules required for the set-

ting.

Because of its flexible and near-transparent

design, the BRP system was highly influential in

games to come, introducing new concepts and

mechanics as well as new paradigms for game play

and character development. It was even more suc-

cessful among players themselves, and many GMs

used a variety of BRP games to cobble together

“dream” rules sets, utilizing rules from one BRP

game to augment play in another.

In summer 2008, Chaosium, Inc. published Basic

Roleplaying , a weighty 400-page core rulebook com-

piling all of the variant rules and systems, unifying

the system into a comprehensive set of core rules,

including a wide variety of optional rules to allow

each GM to customize his or her individual game as

desired.

Length of Play

How long does role playing take? There are three ways

to measure time spent role playing. First is the session .

This is the actual amount required to play a game.

Game sessions usually last from three to five hours,

though some are shorter and sometimes they go for

much longer. The second measure of game time is the

scenario . This is a chapter of the story. There is usually a

beginning, middle, and an ending to a scenario, con-

sisting of some roleplaying, some action, and a dramat-

ic resolution. The longest measure of game time is the

campaign , a series of scenarios linked together to form an

epic or engrossing longer story. For an easy way to wrap

your head around it, liken it to reading a novel. The ses-

sion is the amount of time to read a chapter. The sce-

nario is one or more chapters. The campaign is the

whole novel itself. ‘One–shot’ games are scenarios that

do not have a place in a campaign—they’re like short

stories. They may take longer than one sitting to read,

but they do not continue beyond the end of the story.

vate eye, mighty sorcerer, brightly–clad super hero, or a

humble spacefarer trying to make ends meet. The GM

devises and presents the situations that the players

adventure through, describing the world where they

roam and how that world is affected by the PCs’ actions.

While each player plays only one PC, the GM presents

the entire game setting—representing all of its people,

places, monsters, and even gods.

The GM has a story to present, an interactive sce-

nario in which the PCs are challenged to interact with

NPCs that the GM personifies. Play is mostly conversa-

tion: the GM outlines some situation or encounter and

the players say what the PCs say or attempt to do. Rules

provide impartial guidelines for successes and failures of

actions attempted. Using the game rules, players

announce what the PCs will do, and roll dice to deter-

mine what happens. If needed, the GM interprets how

the PCs’ actions affect the game world (NPCs, etc.).

The PCs will use skills and abilities to face these chal-

lenges, oppose other PCs and NPCs, and to explore the

setting the GM has created.

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