bastardized basic rpg rules v1.0

the understanding of the rules require prior experience with roleplaying

CHARACTER GENERATION

Statistics

The statistics are:

Strenght (str) – describes character's physical power.

Constitution (con) – describes character's stamina and health.

Dexterity (dex) – describes character's litheness, quickness and agility.

Intelligence (int) – describes character's logical reasoning.

Wisdom (wis) – describes character's intution, insight and common sense.

Charisma (wis) – describes character's charm and attractiveness.

The player character races are:

Human – the general race of men.

Elf – gracious fairy race.

Half-Elf – fair crossbreed of human and elf.

Dwarf – coarse short underground race.

Gnome – related to dwarves, small underground race.

Pygmie – tiny wild humonoid race.

Ungling – primitive race of neanderthals.

Ogre – brutal race of huge humanoids.

Half-Orc – cruel crossbreed of humans and orcs.

Orc – evil crossbreeds of pigs and elves.

Troll – monstrous underground creature.

Stat modifiers

Stat modifiers are added in various values.

With Strength of 0 the character is unable to do anything.

With Constitution of 0 the character is dead.

With Dexterity of 0 the character is rigid, unable to move.

With Intelligence of 0 the character character is in coma.

With Wisdom of 0 the character is withdrawn into a deep sleep filled with nightmares.

With Charisma of 0 the character is withdrawn into catatonia.

Resistance Values

Resistance values are tested (or when you'll see ”RR vs a [value]”) by rolling d20. If the roll is less than or equal to the value, the test is successful.

Sometimes the test roll has also exceed some value in order to be successful, e.g. poison potency. If a resistance value exceeds 20, the points exceeding it are added to the roll increasing the outcome, thus increasing the chance to exceed the given value.

E.g. Character A drinks potion with potecy of 15. The character has Poison Resistance Value of 22 (due his high CON and level advancements). He rolls d20, getting 14. That makes the test to succeed, as the Poison Resistance Value gives +2 bonus being 2 points over 20, raising the score to 16. If he wouldn't have the modifier, he would have failed the test even thought the roll would've been less than his Poison Resistance Value.

Modifiers to Resistance Values

Poison: add Constitution modifier to the value.

Disease: add Constitution modifier to the value.

Magic: add Intelligence modifier to the value.

Elements: add Constitution modifier to the value.

Morale: add Wisdom modifier to the value.

Special abilities

Immunity to [condition]: character is not affected by the specified condition.

Darkvision: character can see in dark, although only in black&white.

Regeneration: character regenerates 1 hp/round.

Acute sense: +5 to perception tests.

Hates sunlight: -1 to tests in direct daylight

Allergy to daylight: character gets 1hp damage in round in direct daylight.

PLAYER CLASSES

Player classes may have alignment restrictions. Classes define hit dice and mana dice (the dice used in rolling hit points and magic points in each level). Class also indicates how many development points characters can spend each level in specified categories and what spells characters can learn.

Warrior

Warriors are professional fighters.

Alignment: any

HD: 1d10

MD: 1d4

Armor Skills: 3

Weapon Skills: 4

Outdoor Skills: 2

Subterfuge Skills: 1

Lore Skills: 1

Social Skills: 1

Magical Skills: 0 (spells: elementalism)

Ranger

Rangers are wilderness survival specialists.

Alignment: good or neutral

HD: 1d8

MD: 1d6

Armor Skills: 1

Weapon Skills: 2

Outdoor Skills: 5

Subterfuge Skills: 1

Lore Skills: 2

Social Skills: 1

Magical Skills: 0 (spells: spirit magic)

Rogue

Rogues are professional thieves.

Alignment: neutral or evil

HD: 1d6

MD: 1d6

Armor Skills: 1

Weapon Skills: 1

Outdoor Skills: 3

Subterfuge Skills: 4

Lore Skills: 1

Social Skills: 2

Magical Skills: 0 (spells: illusionism)

Bard

Rogues are professional entertainers.

Alignment: good, neutral or evil

HD: 1d6

MD: 1d6

Armor Skills: 1

Weapon Skills: 1

Outdoor Skills: 2

Subterfuge Skills: 2

Lore Skills: 2

Social Skills: 4

Magical Skills: 0 (spells: illusionism)

Templar

Templars are fanatic clerics.

Alignment: lawful

HD: 1d8

MD: 1d8

Armor Skills: 3

Weapon Skills: 3

Outdoor Skills: 1

Subterfuge Skills: 0

Lore Skills: 2

Social Skills: 2

Magical Skills: 1 (spells: divine magic)

Monk

Monks are clerics brought up in monasteries.

Alignment: any

HD: 1d6

MD: 1d10

Armor Skills: 0

Weapon Skills: 0

Outdoor Skills: 1

Subterfuge Skills: 0

Lore Skills: 4

Social Skills: 3

Magical Skills: 4 (spells: divine magic, demonology, necromancy)

Mage

Mages are wizards and sorcerors.

Alignment: any

HD: 1d4

MD: 1d10

Armor Skills: 0

Weapon Skills: 0

Outdoor Skills: 0

Subterfuge Skills: 0

Lore Skills: 5

Social Skills: 1

Magical Skills: 6 (spells: illusionism, elementalism, demonology, necromancy)

Druid

Druids serve nature's powers, trying to uphold the balance of things.

Alignment: neutral

HD: 1d4

MD: 1d10

Armor Skills: 0

Weapon Skills: 0

Outdoor Skills: 1

Subterfuge Skills: 0

Lore Skills: 4

Social Skills: 1

Magical Skills: 6 (spells: spirit magic)

OTHER CHARACTER DETAILS

Starting Equipment

Characters start with 2d20 gold coins to spend in his initial equipment. From this amount initial spells study costs are deducted (spell level x 1gc).

Alignments

Players have to define what alignment their character is.

Initiative

Character get their DEX modifier to initiative (d10) rolls. Also, weapon initiative is added to the roll. Highest initiative roll result can act first.

Movement

Character can walk their CON meters in one round (10 seconds). Running speed is that times 5.

Carrying Capacity

Characters can carry their STR times 10 pounds (1 pound is around 0.5kgs).

If total enc that the character carries is more than STR x3, character's movement speed falls to 2/3.

If total enc that the character carries is more than STR x6, character's movement speed falls to 1/2.

If total enc that the character carries is more than STR x9, character's movement speed falls to 1/3.

Defense Value

The value indicates how hard is it to attack the character. Attack rolls are made with d20 + attacker's DEX modifier + attacker's weapon skill rank + weapon tohit modifier. If the result is equal or higher to target's DV the attack is successful.

Base Defense Value is character's Dexterity. Armors may lower this score, and shields or additional armor pieces may rise it.

Armor Value

Armor value is reduced directly from the damage received.

Defense & Armor Values By Armor, Shields and Armor Pieces

SKILLS

Players can use their class Development Points to develop skills. They gain the amounts listed in the character classes used in each level. +1 rank to skill can be bought with 1 development point but +2 rank costs 3 development points if taken at a single level.

Players can also transfer points from other categories. If the category where the points are transferred has the initial development point total of more than zero, the transfer is done with 2-to-1 basis, with two transferred points from other categories they get 1 development point to use in any category, but if it is zero, the cost is 3-to-1.

Armor Skills

When an armor is worn the armor skill reduces the penalty that is reduced from Defense Value (DV).

The skill level can never grant any bonuses, but only lowers the penalty up to zero.

leather (dex) -2 penalty

ring (dex) -4 penalty

chain (dex) -6 penalty

scale (dex) -8 penalty

plate (dex) -10 penalty

Weapon Skills

knives (dex)

swords (dex)

clubs (dex)

axes (dex)

pole-arms (dex)

brawling (dex)

bows (dex)

thrown (dex)

shields (dex)

Outdoor Skills

riding (dex)

swimming (dex)

climbing (dex)

fire-building (int)

tracking (int)

boating (int)

find traps (int)

navigation (wis)

perception (int)

Subterfuge Skills

sneak&hide (dex)

pick pockets (dex)

pick locks (dex)

forgery (dex)

interrogation (wis)

Lore Skills

linguistics* (int)

plant lore (int)

animal lore (int)

ancient lore (int)

mineral lore (int)

theology (int)

herb lore (int)

law (wis)

Social Skills

gambling (int)

bargaining (wis)

acting (cha)

play instrument* (cha)

persuasion (cha)

Magical Skills

spells* (int)

* the type of a skill must be specified (e.g. Language in Linguistics)

TEST MECHANICS

This section explains how to test if characters actions and manouvers are successful.

Normal Test

Generally values (skill scores, etc..) are tested by rolling 1d20 and adding skill rank and stat modifier, reducing or adding any bonuses or penalties to find out the result which has to be over or equal to a difficulty rating shown on the table below, in order to be successful.

Difficulty Ratings

Routine (6)

Easy (8)

Moderate (10)

Hard (14)

Very Hard (18)

Value Test

This test is consulted when a specific value is tested (Resistance, Stat, etc..).

Values are tested by rolling d20. If the roll is less than the value the test is successful.

Sometimes the test roll has also exceed some value in order to be successful, e.g. Test Difficulty.

If a value exceeds 20, the points exceeding it are added to the roll increasing the outcome.

Test difficulty ratings in Value Tests (successful test's result must be equal or over to):

Routine (2)

Easy (4)

Moderate (6)

Hard (8)

Very Hard (10)

Opposition Tests

Opposition tests can be Normal Tests or Value Tests where all participants are tested normally, but where the highest successful result wins.

EXPERIENCE AND LEVELS

Characters gain experience (XP) by:

-accomplishing goals

-killing and looting

-succeeding in tests

-decent roleplay

Level Experience Limits

At each level characters can do the following:

-roll for more hit points (HD+Constitution modifier)

-roll for more magic points (MD+Wisdom modifier)

-use development points to increase skills

-at every 6^th level character can rise any stat by 1

-at every 3th level character can rise any Resistance Value by 1.

EQUIPMENT

Money

100 coins weight 1 ENC.

1 gold coin (gc) equals 10 silver coins (sc) and 100 bronze coins (bc).

Type: type of weapon.

Cost: cost in either gold coins (gc), silver coins (sc) or bronze coins (bc).

Enc: Encumbrance, total mass. Also indicates the minimum Strenght character must have to be able to handle the weapon with only one hand.

Ini/tohit/dmg: Initiative modifier, attack modifier and damage dice.

Load: number of rounds required to load the ammo.

Range: under half of the distance attacker get +1 bonus to hit, and from x1 to x2 distance -1 to hit.

*-1 to perception tests

SPELLS

Characters can learn spells by expending their level in development points. When the spell is learned, the character can cast it by expending its level in magic points.

Illusionism

Elementalism

Demonology

Necromancy

Divine Magic

Spirit Magic

CREATURES

Goblins

Goblins are wicked little gremlins that hate elves and dwarves. They have green skin, black eyes and yellow blood. Considered ugly by human standard, and vice versa. Goblins are hostile towards anyone if they outnumber them. They have infravision and don't enjoy direct sunlight.

str 2d6, con 2d6, dex 3d6, int 2d6, wis 2d6, cha 1d6

Resistanses: Poison 11, Disease 14, Magic 8, Elements 11, Morale 7.

Hobgoblins

Hobgoblins are big goblins, exceeding humans in height. They are also more ferocius than goblins. They have grey skin, black eyes and orange blood. Hobgoblins are militant by nature.

str 4d6, con 4d6, dex 3d6, int 2d6, wis 2d6, cha 1d6

Resistanses: Poison 13, Disease 15, Magic 10, Elements 13, Morale 12.

Golem

Golems are earth elementals that crudely resemble humans. They are inactive if not being controlled by someone.

Str 18, con 18, dex 6, int -, wis -, cha -

Resistances: immunity to all resistance tests.

Zombie

Zombies are rotting human corpses brought back to unlife with magic. They are extremenly hostile if not controlled. These undeads hunger for human brains.

Str 16, con -, dex 9, int 2, wis 2, cha 2

Resistanses: Poison immunity, Disease immunity, Magic 8, Elements 20, Morale 13.

Skeleton

Skeletons are animated corpse bone remains brought back to unlife with magic. Arrows and bolts cause only half damage at them.

Str 13, con -, dex 13, int 1, wis 1, cha 2

Resistanses: Poison immunity, Disease immunity, Magic 6, Elements 15, Morale 12.