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Basic Roleplaying: The Chaosium System

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Please take a look here: Basic Roleplaying: The Chaosium d100 system (Basic Roleplaying) (Basic Roleplaying)

The product on this page is simply a 16 page introduction (basically a pamphlet) to the game. If you are a collector, and must round out your horde of tomes by all means purchase this, but if you intend to try, and run a serious game, or play in one look elsewhere. People are asking way too much for this book. You can get a copy of the expanded edition for a just a bit more, and have many times more information to work with.

This is a great system, but look for the book with the Vitruvian Man (the DaVinci guy)on the cover instead of this one unless you are simply trying to round out your collection of RPG books.

Chaosium, since 1978, has been such a radical leap ahead in the evolutionary depuration of RPGs that it is comparable to having been able to use submarines and computers in the victorian age, while the rest of the world used, well, whatever they used in that age. Amongst one of the many revolutionary concepts developed by Chaosium since then, was a universal game system for all of their products. This book is the synthesized version of that system. It includes all you need to understand, play and adapt one of the best game systems ever devised to any world you may ever create, in barely 16 pages of text (plus the 2 covers). Well described and thoroughly exemplified this book is more than worth it's price.
UPDATE ON THE PRICE TAG: The cost of this item has gone up considerably since my review was first written. At the time of my purchase it was in the vicinity of 5 USD for a new copy, but I fail to remember if I purchased it via Amazon.

This book does not contain however a fully described world nor bestiary. This book is mainly for those who would like to build upon a set of outstanding rules framework.

System overview: Uses 7 characteristics (ranging 3-18). Skill based (percentages), so actions are resolved rolling d100. Uses all dice (d4 to d20). Uses backgrounds during PC generation. No artificial restrictions for equipment or occupations.