The Company by Rik Kershaw-Moore

[Newt]

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The Company by Rik Kershaw-Moore is now available!

Ever wondered what it is like to jump out of an aircraft 50,000 feet above a stricken oil tanker? Or how you’d handle defusing an IED? Or what it is like standing between a visiting VIP and that sniper’s bullet? Well now you can because The Company will put you right at the centre of the action.

In The Company you play an employee of The Company – an elite independent Private Military Service Provider, a global security concern capable of dealing with any situation from a high octane firefight to the tracking down of serial killers. If you can think of it, The Company can handle it.

The Company uses D101 games’ OpenQuest rules engine; a sleek and streamlined D100 rule set that enables you to maintain the tempo of your stories whilst keeping the rules simple and in the background. Here is the complete first fifteen pages of the book, the contents pages + introductory chapter.

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The Company $15 pdf / $40 Hardcover/ $30 Softcover

Contents

The Field Operatives Manual contains:

The OpenQuest rules engine – tailored to a modern day setting, and including combat rules covering all aspects of modern warfare.

Simple Character generation – enabling you to go from concept to fully finished character as quickly as possible.

Equipment – a comprehensive list of vehicles and equipment, providing your character with everything you will need to prosecute a successful mission; be that the latest in covert surveillance or the most accurate of rifles.

The world – in which The Company operates within, the global flashpoint locations that Company Operatives may visit, competitors to The Company, Company customers and organizations that Company customers may come into conflict with.

Story seeds – covering a wide range of possible genre, from the classic war-story,adventures with corporate espionage, helping with disaster relief and close protection work.

Two example scenarios – ‘Operation Bluebeard’ and ‘F.I.S.H & C.H.I.P.S’ which will introduce you not only to The Company but to the workings of the OpenQuest rules engine.

Broadly compatible with other D100 systems. Written by Rik Kershaw Moore.

More info

http://d101games.co.uk/the-company

[ZEE]

I just purchased the PDF on DriveThruRPG.com

Will tell you later, what I think of it. At first glance it looks good!

[Noble]

I have played the game, run by the man himself! Good system and a must for any gun-bunnies, I will be picking it up!

[ZEE]

the man himself!

Is that Newt ?

[GBSteve]

No it's Rik K-M. I wondered what he'd been doing with himself post KoK.

[PaulFricker]

"a must for any gun-bunnies"

There's a quote for the poster!

[Noble]

Is that Newt ?

Not in this case, though Newt did DM a game of his own most excellent creation 'Monkey' which I was in once!

[ZEE]

No it's Rik K-M. I wondered what he'd been doing with himself post KoK.

Not in this case, though Newt did DM a game of his own most excellent creation 'Monkey' which I was in once!

Okay, thanks. I must say I would be much interested in having a talk with the author, because:
1/I love this game
2/I would have some questions to ask...

[Mysterioso]

Hearing more about this game would be great, especially as BRP Central is down.
What can be done with it beyond mercenaries? Could it be used for say something like 24/MI-5?
How much more complicated does the play go beyond CoC?

[Gerall]

BRP Central is back up. Trif has done an awesome job of retaining the previous content and scouring the malware from the infection.

The Company looks delicious!

[Mysterioso]

Good news about BRP Central.

There does not seem to be much information there on this either. I also have to confess that I'd rather hear from CoC players about it as CoC is the form of BRP that interests me more than say Runequest of which BRP Central focuses upon more.

[tsiolkovsky]

Hi,

So what questions do you want to.ask me?

Rik K-M

[tsiolkovsky]

Hearing more about this game would be great, especially as BRP Central is down.
What can be done with it beyond mercenaries? Could it be used for say something like 24/MI-5?
How much more complicated does the play go beyond CoC?

Whilst the game is set up for Private Military Service Providers there is nothing to stop you from using this for more traditional umm national security providers.

Hope this helps.

Rik

[ZEE]

Hi,

So what questions do you want to.ask me?

Rik K-M

Many!

But, at first, I'd like to adress you my best congratulations for your game. In fact, since Advanced Deluxe Recon, I'd been looking for a real military style game! And the fact it uses a system like the BRP is simply delightful!

Now a few questions:

1-Since I'm French, are there some chances to have a French edition of this game ? Even so if my english is good enough to read your book...

2-Are there any planned suplements/sourceboks ? I'd like to see one about more "civilian" security tasks, like Bodygards duties, SWAT techniques, Eavesdropping/conter-Eavesdropping methods... and so on.

3-A few minor nitpicks: Why are the weapons damages different (and more important) from those of other BRP games ? And aren't the Armor protection rating insufficient when compared to those weapons' damages ? The idea of Armor penetration is a good one, though...

4-Have you any kind of military background yourself ? Note that, myself, I have none...


For now, that's all I can think about. But if I have more questions, be sure I'll post them here...

[tsiolkovsky]

There's a quote for the poster!

Yeah... might use that at Continuum... or even on the back of a t-shirt