Hi all,

Gone real silent on the Arcanium Society front, I apologise for this. I do want to continue the Knights of Purity story arc to it's end at least though and probably some specials too (with Gary's blessing). I am, however, unsure of it's future using the BRP rules however, and don't think it works for the setting. I know this'll mean changing the rules again but I think I've found the perfect system for it - HeroQuest.

For those who are not familiar with HeroQuest, the character sheet is literally your character bio and a list of skills that you create (that's right, you make up the skills for your character). It's simple, easy to understand and allows complete freedom concerning abilities etc.

I haven't thought too much on this yet, but I am thinking that characters have a points value that relate to how long they've been around, so the oldest characters (the ones played by Gary, Paul, Dave, Wayne etc.) get a big boost to skill values, the "current gen" characters who have been active recently (the ones played by myself, Max, Troy, Sam, Chris, Alex, James etc.) get a fair boost to their skills and any new characters start off with the basic.

Comments and criticisms, as always, are welcome.

Darren

What I love about the Heroquest system is that your "skills" do not have to be skills, but purely charcter concepts - so while "Sword fighting" is a skill that you can assign points to, so is "Scared of spiders", "Honour-bound", "Desperate to impress his father" and "A bit slow"


So HMS' Mentsguard may well have varying points in "Shieldman", "Book smarts", "I can do magic, me!", "Seeing red", "Politician's tongue" and "Sneaky bastard"

Arcanium Douglas Carvine might have varying points in "Judo grab!", "Doing it with science!", "It goes 'Widdly-wee'" and "Seriously lacking in common sense", among others

sounds good, but then I'd say that the older characters should probably have accumulated more neuroses and character flaws than the newer guys.

It gives some measure of balance in play.

Heroquest is a good choice, the mix of skills and abilities in the characters is so broad that heroquest is probably the only system that can cope with it.

Count me in.