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Independent Journalism 📜 14+ Year Archive 🔍 Primary Sourced

Basic Roleplaying Reports

Geek Native provides an authoritative and independent perspective on Basic Roleplaying, a topic we have followed for more than 14 years. This collection of 17 articles evaluates industry shifts through original reporting and critical analysis. This resource evaluates first-hand data from official industry announcements and crowdfunding mechanics.

QuestXR Interview: Taking Basic Roleplaying outside under the ORC licence

September 22, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

QuestXR blends augmented reality with Chaosium’s d100 rules. Co-founder Adam Lesh discusses the BackerKit launch and outdoor roleplaying games.

Filed Under: Interviews, Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, basic roleplaying, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium

QuestXR blends augmented reality with Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system

September 15, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

QuestXR takes Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system outdoors, launching a BackerKit reservation for its real-world augmented-reality tabletop roleplaying game.

Filed Under: Mobile, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, backerkit, basic roleplaying

Master Chaosium’s D100 Engine: Rivers of London and Age of Vikings join new Humble Bundle

August 4, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dive into Chaosium’s d100 systems with the From Rivers to Fjords bundle. Grab Rivers of London, Age of Vikings, and Basic Roleplaying rulebooks DRM-free.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: age of vikings, basic roleplaying, bundles, Chaosium, humble bundle, Rivers of London

Embers of Humanity: A hope-filled post-apocalyptic TTRPG

July 17, 2026 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Embers of Humanity brings hope to the post-apocalypse. Discover this BRP-inspired tabletop roleplaying game, now funding on Kickstarter for a hardback edition.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, basic roleplaying, kickstarter

Celebrate Chaosium turning 50 this year!

February 26, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium is a heroic stalwart of the tabletop games industry known for Call of Cthulhu, Basic Role-Playing, Pendragon and other games. This year, the company, founded by Greg Stafford, turns 50.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Rivers of London, runequest, Sandy Petersen

Chaosium announce The Basic Roleplaying Gamemaster Pack

August 2, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

BRP is surely one of the most influential game engines we have and it’s now part of the ORC license.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #247

March 9, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not even the start of the month, but there’s Patreon news thanks to the awesome Terry Maranda.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arkham Horror, basic roleplaying, Chaosium, NASA, routinely itemised, Steamforged Games

Free to Download: Rivers of London TTRPG releases its solo “The Domestic” adventure

December 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spring, 2016: the Folly, also known as the Metropolitan Police Service’s “special magic branch,” has received word of repeated domestic disturbances at an address on Prince of Wales Road, London—and very odd ones, at that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, free to download, lynne hardy, paul fricker, Rivers of London

The ORC-licensed Basic Roleplaying: Universe Game Engine is out now

April 7, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Written by Jason Durall and Steve Perrin, the rules offer character growth based on what the PCs do in the game and have a pretty brutal combat system in which every action matters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium, Paizo Publishing

Basic Roleplaying reduced in price as Chaosium welcomes OGL refugees

January 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

The PDF is 400 pages long, making the offer attractive, and the Call of Cthulhu publisher will keep it live as long as the New Year, New Game sale persists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium, sales

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