Over the years, I've waited and hoped that someone would put together a BRP version of
Fringeworthy. It might be time to do something myself.
The rolling of percentile dice is still well known thanks to the continued success of
Call of Cthulhu and
Runequest. What flavor of D100 though? The last decade has seen a number of percentile-based RPGs released, from quite crunchy to more, uh, basic versions.
To get close to the gritty and deadly original Tri Tac game system, you'd need to go with hit locations, critical hits, and major wound levels. I'd be okay with that for more of a one-shot adventure, but for an actual campaign I'd like to see the characters have better odds of survival. Plus, that kind of combat is the most time consuming. For a D100 game you can have an attack roll, a defense roll, a roll for damage, and even a roll for armor! I'm probably forgetting some other roll too.
OpenQuest is one of the newer flavors of D100 gaming, and is firmly on the side of quicker and streamlined rules. I own a cool sci-fi RPG called,
River of Heaven that uses a variation of
OpenQuest. I recently started to wonder how hard would it be to convert the RoH game system for use with the Fringeworthy setting.
I've spent the last couple days playing with a PDF editor to convert the basic RoH character sheet. It has gone really well so far, and I'm encouraged to keep going with this idea. Once you get your character sheet filled out (and it will be a fully fillable PDF character sheet when I'm done) you don't really need much else to play, as the rules fade into the background.
Anyway, the plan is to finish up the character sheet, then see what else might be needed. Stats for the Mellor and other alien races, some stats for various animal types, but I can pull those from most any version of a D100 RPG. The same thing applies to various types of equipment/vehicles.