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Forthright Open Roleplay Creative Commons Edition

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Blend genres effortlessly with these easy-to-use rules, building the world you want to play. Be a barbarian starship pilot in the wild west, a magic-wielding crimebuster in the far future, a mastermind with an undead army of followers, and more! Will you be remembered as the hero of your story ... or its villain?

This is the 2018 ENnie-Nominated Creative Commons Edition of Forthright Open Roleplay. If you would like the Full-Color, Full-Art Edition, follow this link: Forthright Open Roleplay Core Rulebook

Features:

  • Fast play and light preparation
    • Collaborative game creation and campaign rules
    • Focus on motivations and stories, not numbers
    • The Cosmetic Rule: What matters is the effect, not how you get it
  • Know the consequences before you roll
  • On-the-die results for fast action resolution
    • Less math, more dice-rolling
  • Build your own playbook / class by assembling Fighting Styles, Personas and Skillsets
  • Assemble minions to do your bidding
  • Rewards completing goals, not just killing monsters
    • Players define their own rewards based on their unique story
  • Quick, intense combat
    • Stunt system for tactical use of your environment
    • Seamlessly integrate personal and vehicle combat
    • Easy masss combat rules
  • Accept death on your terms
  • Invent new rituals and devices
  • Create your own sanctuary
  • Control your own faction and domain
  • Make friends of enemies and enemies of friends
  • Manage your fame to become a legend

This game is designed for:

  • 2-6 Players
  • 1 or more Sessions
  • 1-4 Hours per Session
  • Action and Adventure
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April 1st, 2018
Very nice work, well done! I found the writing to be precise and it brings across the abstract (not genre-specific) mechanics and ideas well. Took me about 10 minutes to read through the character creation and set up my first character. T [...]
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January 13th, 2018
I'm a huge fan of universal rulesets and after reading Forthright, it may be my new favorite over FATE, Cypher, and even Savage Worlds. Lots of interesting and elegant mechanics. Huge kudos to these guys for releasing a free version; that takes class [...]
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November 2nd, 2017
Merges the ideas from Fate and the usual number-dice mechanics, low crunch. However the writing is quite bland, reads more like a college thesis than a game book. On the other hand it has a lot of good advice on plot building, it could be a good resour [...]
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This title was added to our catalog on October 19, 2017.