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Creating a child theme really isn’t that hard, and you aren’t relying on a 3rd party to maintain a plugin.

First I created a new folder in the usual WP themes location, and named it child theme.
Then I grabbed the header and footer pages from the buddypress/themes folder, and edited them for my page, saving in the new Child theme folder.
Then,I used a basic generic WP framework to get started, and added some buddypress and wordpress php as needed – just cutting and pasting the loop, and BP stuff as needed.
Once the first page was made, I just would add or subtract the items needed for individual pages, blog pages, user pages, etc.

If you know just a little php, html, and CSS it’s not hard.