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Friday, January 22, 2010

FRUP! 

Long-long-longtime gamers may remember talk throughout the 1990s of a forthcoming comedy-fantasy RPG called FRUP. A brainstorm from British gentleman game designer James Wallis (The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen) and his company Hogshead Publishing (which published many licensed Warhammer FRP books), FRUP made you laugh from the moment you heard the premise:
Come with us into a strangely familiar world of warriors and wizards, elves and dwarves, character sheets and combat rounds, dungeons and… what do you call those big lizard things? This is the land of Frup, where three enormous RPG rulebooks fell from the sky and were proclaimed as a Message from the Gods. Two thousand years later the holy rules contained in the Great Books have become the foundation for Frup’s entire religion and law. Breaking the rules is heresy. Heretics get burned at the stake.

So you’re in a world where everybody absolutely believes that they’re characters in a huge campaign of a certain market-leading RPG, being played by the Gods of Frup. Everyone has a character chart with their attributes (Brawn, Agility, Stamina, Influence, Cunning and Sagacity and morality (from Evenly Nice to Oddly Naughty) on it, plus their Career and Stage if they’re a PC. Anyone found without a character chart is clearly a monster, and will be butchered for career points. The same treatment is usually given to NPCs, and PCs a few stages lower than yourself. Stay alert. Keep your longsword handy.
Though long forthcoming, FRUP never came forth. But now James Wallis's FRUP may be rising! He has started a What is Frup blog, where he reprints the original 1995 FRUP preview article distributed as a handout at Hogshead convention tables.

Let's hope some sort of Frupping is imminent!
Posted by: Allen Varney / 2:04 PM

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