Lore: Core Rules

Lore keeps gamers coming back for more. With over 450 pages of game mechanics and background information, here’s what makes Lore new, simple, and most of all—fun!

• Custom Combat - Lore’s customizable combat mechanics let you to decide how much power to pack into your attack or spell for truly epic game play.
• Layered Armor - Suit-up with cloth, leather, chain mail, and/or scale mail, one upon the other…you decide how much.
• Renown - If folk flee when you enter a village or bartenders keep your flagons filled with ale it’s probably your Renown score at work.
• Simple Gameplay - Lore focuses more on roleplaying and less rule clarification so you spend more time playing and less time flipping through pages.
• Over 400 Potential Character Builds - With new races and nineteen class specializations, knowledge-based and crafting skills, you can build the character you’ve always wanted!
• Navigation Enhanced - with the digital edition, you are never more than a click away from where you want to be in the book.

Lore is a d20-based system—play-tested and refined at cons and by players around the world—and brings a new approach to the RPG experience with easier mechanics for GMs and players. 

Lore plays like other RPGs at the highest level with storylines punctuated by melee. Where it excels is, it allows you to customize combat actions. Make basic attacks with melee or range weapons plus, based on your class, use incantations or combat maneuvers. 

Encounters: Martial attacks or magical spells, you can access encounter points for specialized attacks. Investing encounter points during melee, you increase the range, area of effect, duration, damage—or all of the above. A fire ball, for instance, with an area of effect of one space can be increased to five spaces with enough encounter points. 

Armor: You can layer your armor. Chain mail can be worn on top of leather, which can be worn on top of padded armor (there are limitations, however). Armor is divided into seven zones: head, shoulders, hands, chest, waist, legs, and feet to truly customized your character’s defense. Or just select a full set of armor (leather, chain mail, or other) and you’re ready to go.

Crafting: in Lore characters can craft items to use or to sell at market. Some items you craft may be common while others might be of superior...fetching much coin to fill your bags.

There are seven distinct races in Lore—some familiar...some new—for added dimensions in your roleplaying experience, along with 19 classes to help you design the perfect alter-ego. You can even roll phobias and and more to make your character that much more interesting.