# Fantasy Grounds \- Basic Roleplaying \(BRP\) Ruleset

Summer DB entity ID: 828282e7\-9317\-48d2\-b39c\-3987bd53c36d

Steam App ID: 303331

Basic Roleplaying \(BRP\) Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds Welcome to Chaosium's   Basic Roleplaying  system, a book that collects in one place rules and options for one of the original and most influential role playing game systems in the world\. This book comprises a roleplaying game system, a framework of rules aimed at allowing players to enact a sort of improvisational radio theater\-\-only without microphones\-\-and with dice determining 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 player\(s\) assume the roles of player characters \(PCs\) in the game\. The gamemaster also acts out the roles of characters who aren't being guided by players: these are called non\-player characters \(NPCs\)\. From its origin,   Basic Roleplaying  was designed to be intuitive and easy to play\. Character attributes follow a 3D6 curve, and the other   Basic Roleplaying  mechanics are even simpler\. Virtually all rolls determining success or failure of a task are determined via the roll of percentile dice\. This means that there's less fiddling with dice of different types, and the concept of a percentile chance of success is extremely easy for beginners and experienced players to grasp\. There aren't many easier ways to say a character has a 70% chance of succeeding at an activity\. The core virtues of the system are as evident today as they were when it was first introduced\. Primary characteristics of   Basic Roleplaying  that have emerged from decades of play, across many different varieties of the system are as follows:   The system is remarkably friendly to newcomers\. It is easy to describe the basics of the game system, and the percentile mechanics, to non\-gamers\.   Players of other game systems often find   Basic Roleplaying  to be much less mechanistic and less of a barrier to the actual act of roleplaying\. Less time spent on game systems usually equals more time available for roleplaying and thinking "in character\."   Most of the information players need to know is present on their character sheets\.   Characters tend to evolve based on practicing the skills they use the most\. They do not arbitrarily gain experience in skills and qualities based on ephemeral elements such as levels or experience ranks\.   Combat can be very quick and deadly, and often the deciding blow in a conflict is the one to land first\.     Basic Roleplaying  is remarkably modular: levels of complexity can be added or removed as needed, and the core system works equally well with considerable detail as it does with a minimal amount of rules\.   The internal consistency of   Basic Roleplaying  allows for rules judgments to be made rapidly and with little searching through the rulebook for special cases\.   This book represents a first for   Basic Roleplaying  \-\-a system complete in one book, without a defined setting\. Previously, Basic Roleplaying has been an integral part of standalone games, usually with rich and deep world settings\. Due to differences in these settings, Basic Roleplaying has had many different incarnations\. Variant and sometimes contradictory rules have emerged between versions, to better support one particular setting over another\.  Chaosium's   Basic Roleplaying  system reconciles these different flavors of the system and brings many variant rules together between the covers of one book, something that has never been done before\. Some of these rules are provided as optional extensions, some as alternate systems, and others have been integrated into the core system\. By design, this work is not a reinvention of Basic Roleplaying nor a significant evolution of the system\. It is instead a collected and complete version of it, without setting, provided as a guide to players and gamemasters everywhere and compatible with most   Basic Roleplaying  games\. It also allows the gamemaster the ability to create his or her own game world \(or worlds\), to adapt others from fiction, films, or even translate settings from other roleplaying games into Basic Roleplaying\.  Adapted for Fantasy Grounds by:   Dominic Morta   Requires:  The free Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop \(VTT\) software and a one time purchase of the Basic Roleplaying \(BRP\) ruleset\. Screenshots may differ from what you see in\-game based on the extension and ruleset you have loaded\.

## Game information

- Type: dlc

- Developer: SmiteWorks USA, LLC

- Publisher: Smiteworks USA, LLC

- Release date: May 23, 2014

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: 252690

- Genres: Indie, RPG, Strategy

- Categories: Multi\-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Co\-op, Shared/Split Screen, Cross\-Platform Multiplayer, Downloadable Content, Steam Workshop, Remote Play Together, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac

- Website: Not collected

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- Price: 2499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: Not collected

- Steam review count: 1

- Steam positive reviews: 0

- Steam negative reviews: 1

- Steam positive percentage: 0%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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## Sources and freshness

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- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T00:19:45\.078591\+00:00

- Player count observed: Not collected

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T00:19:47\.075558\+00:00

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