Basic Role-Playing

A very simple, universal set of role-playing rules that form the basis of many of Chaosium's games. The system uses percentile dice with all actions being checked against a relevant (1-100) skill or ability value.

Basic Role-Playing, 1st Edition

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Chaosium 1980
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Basic Role-Playing, UK Edition

title Basic Role-Playing publisher Games Workshop date 1980 game Basic Role-Playing author Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis cover artist not known format Staple-bound booklet pages 16pp product code n/a

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This version is believed to have been included in Games Workshop's 1980 RuneQuest boxed set.

Note that the text from page 14 (which is essentially identical to the 1981 Chaosium versions of BRP) does not smoothly flow into page 15, and how some of the similar passages on the two pages use different wording. This implies that Games Workshop rewrote and/or re-layed out some of the booklet, but apparently not all of that work was part of the finished product.

Although this version of BRP has a copyright date of 1980, it was probably published between Chaosium's 1981 2nd and 3rd editions of the rules. It contains some of the changes/errata that were incorporated into the 3rd edition, but still has some of the errors present in the 2nd edition.

Basic Role-Playing, 2nd Edition

title Basic Role-Playing publisher Chaosium date 1981 game Basic Role-Playing author Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis cover artist not known format Staple-bound softcover book pages 16pp product code 2005

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contents:

• Staple-bound booklet, 16pp
  
• A4 Cardstock Sheet (centre-stapled)
  

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Basic Role-Playing, 3rd Edition

title Basic Role-Playing publisher Chaosium date 1981 game Basic Role-Playing author Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis cover artist not known format Staple-bound booklet pages 16pp product code n/a

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Basic Role-Playing, Special Fantasy Paths Edition

title Basic Role-Playing publisher Chaosium date 1981 game Basic Role-Playing author Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis cover artist not known format Staple-bound booklet pages 16pp product code n/a

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This version was included with the Fantasy Paths boxed set from BCS Inc.

It is labeled as "Third Edition" on the cover, but it is missing a few errata fixes that the true Third Edition contains. (The Fantasy Paths edition still shows Fist starting percentage of 45% on p 7 and on the back cover in the vertical box.)

Basic Roleplaying, 3rd Edition

title Basic Roleplaying subtitle The Chaosium System publisher Chaosium date 2002 game Basic Role-Playing author Greg Stafford, Lynn Willis cover artist Chris Appel format Staple-bound softcover book pages 16pp product code 2006

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This version no longer hyphenates "Role-Playing" in the title.

Although this version calls itself "Third Edition" on the title page, Chaosium had already released a different "Third Edition" of BRP in 1981. The 2002 version's rules content is somewhat of a hybrid between the 1981 Second Edition and the 1981 Third Edition of the rules.