The Forge Engine
When modern soldiers are transported to ancient Rome, law enforcement officers fight inter-dimensional intruders, post-collapse humans scavenge for alien technologies, or heroic warriors and wizards battle monstrous evil, Forge Engine is there to quickly and seamlessly support your stories.
The Forge Engine universal RPG system puts full control of your character and your game into your hands. The system supports fantasy, sci-fi, historical, and modern settings, and delivers tactical play while remaining streamlined and fast.
Forge Engine's innovative energy system lets you channel your combat effort. You can make multiple attacks, hold energy to boost your defenses, move into better position, or make your attacks even stronger.
The Forge Engine - Universal RPG System contains:
And it's free to download!
GURPS
With GURPS, you can be anyone you want - an elf hero fighting for the forces of good, a shadowy femme fatale on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword in his hand and a beautiful woman by his side . . . or literally anything else! GURPS has been the premiere universal roleplaying game for almost two decades. Fourth Edition makes it even better!
GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns combines information from the Third Edition GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Compendium II - plus our new core setting, with infinite possibilities for timeline-hopping adventure! (You don't have to play in the core setting - there isn't some game-altering metaplot - but it's there if you want it.) The 240-page, full-colour PDF contains everything a GM needs to create and run a GURPS Fourth Edition campaign.
GURPS Campaigns is the companion book to GURPS Basic Set: Characters. The two provide everything you need to play or run a GURPS campaign.
When modern soldiers are transported to ancient Rome, law enforcement officers fight inter-dimensional intruders, post-collapse humans scavenge for alien technologies, or heroic warriors and wizards battle monstrous evil, Forge Engine is there to quickly and seamlessly support your stories.
The Forge Engine universal RPG system puts full control of your character and your game into your hands. The system supports fantasy, sci-fi, historical, and modern settings, and delivers tactical play while remaining streamlined and fast.
Forge Engine's innovative energy system lets you channel your combat effort. You can make multiple attacks, hold energy to boost your defenses, move into better position, or make your attacks even stronger.
The Forge Engine - Universal RPG System contains:
- Core Rules: Forge Engine core system rules cover character creation and development, and attribute tests and skills, adventuring, and combat.
- Player Content: Everything players need to create, develop, and run their characters: traits, general skills, martial skills, magic skills, and equipment.
- GM Support: Instruction for game mastering Forge Engine games, advice for creating custom Forge Engine content, and adversary templates.
- Attribute and skill system gives players freedom to build their characters
- Support for medieval fantasy, historical, modern, and sci-fi play
- Opposed d10 dice pools for attacks with degrees of success
- Attribute tests against static difficulty numbers for simplicity
- Energy system gives players control of number and strength of characters’ actions
- Increased power gives larger dice pools with higher chance of multiple successes
- Combat rolls combine attribute, skill, weapon, evasion, and armour in one step
- Tactical combat system with meaningful decisions in critical situations
- Concurrent combat turns allow fluid and dynamic battles
- Players: Forge Engine does one thing really well. Forge Engine gives you, the player, complete control of every aspect of your character and your character’s actions.
- Game Masters: Forge Engine allows you to use the same system and content for historical, fantasy, modern, and sci-fi campaigns, and even those that combine all four.
- Creators: Forge Engine text content is released under a creative commons license, and will have a compatibility license for 'Forge Engine Compatible' branding.
And it's free to download!
GURPS
With GURPS, you can be anyone you want - an elf hero fighting for the forces of good, a shadowy femme fatale on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword in his hand and a beautiful woman by his side . . . or literally anything else! GURPS has been the premiere universal roleplaying game for almost two decades. Fourth Edition makes it even better!
GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns combines information from the Third Edition GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Compendium II - plus our new core setting, with infinite possibilities for timeline-hopping adventure! (You don't have to play in the core setting - there isn't some game-altering metaplot - but it's there if you want it.) The 240-page, full-colour PDF contains everything a GM needs to create and run a GURPS Fourth Edition campaign.
GURPS Campaigns is the companion book to GURPS Basic Set: Characters. The two provide everything you need to play or run a GURPS campaign.