Complete Minimalist Descriptive Combat

William, using his machine gun like a staff with both hands, pushes the demon back enough away from his body to aim for a shot, hitting the demon. William pissed off even more shoots the demon's abdomen, blowing away the demon’s midsection.

The demon struggles several seconds until it goes limp, unconscious.

This is a quick and deadly, descriptive combat system designed for games that have more expendable characters, such as army or large group combat. There is a high probability of instant death each round by both fighting parties, so it might work better for miniature army campaigns. It has melee, martial arts, and gun tables.

This is a minimalist descriptive combat system that includes the three prior one-page books Minimalist Descriptive Combat, Minimalist Martial Arts Strikes, and Minimalist Martial Arts Grappling. In addition, this book has a new section for Minimalist Guns. This book can be used with the other titles such as the setting, fear, powers, and/or skills one-page books.

9 pages, easy, d6 system, no hitpoint, skill-based, and that might be able to be used with several core systems.

Although written as a stand alone tool, this product is solo rpg compatible ready—though not written for solo gaming, it takes zero conversion to use as a solo gaming combat tool to help generate combat description that a GM might otherwise provide. It is part of the Clawed SRC Compatible ™ brand.

It uses standard d6 dice.

It is small, only a nine page system.

This book includes:

• Minimalist Descriptive Combat
• Minimalist Martial Arts Strikes
• Minimalist Martial Arts Grappling
• new Minimalist Guns
• 2 pages of introductory, advice, and system explanatory text
• PDF bookmarks for easy menu navigation and a hyperlink Table of Contents

It can however be expanded by using the 12x12 descriptive Slashing, Crushing, and Piercing Critical chart

It is uses a small amount of words to describe the type of attack, if the attack hits an enemy, the target location of the hit, sometimes direction of attack, and the intensity of the damage to the specific body area. Critical blows that result in death is soon or instant death are also included for vital body parts.

This uses from three up to six rolls of 1d6 depending on the attack type, the most being for grappling. All the the attack types have these three steps.

1. Roll once to see if you hit.
2. Roll for target location of hit.
3. Roll for intensity of damage.

• This takes into account skill using the words for proficiency of unskilled, basic skilled, skilled, or master skilled.
• It has attack several types of melee & ranged (slashing, crushing, piercing),MA strikes (hand, leg, and other strikes), grappling attacks (lock, leg sweep, take down, throwing, twist limb, and choke), and gun attacks (ballistics).
• It uses 3 damage modifiers are based on either weapon used or attackers MA  skill levels: unskilled, basic skill, skilled, or master skilled.
• It uses 4 types of armor that damage must surpass: no armor, light, medium, and heavy armor [or MA skill defense].
• It has six types of attack damage: slashing; crushing; piercing; asphyxia; muscle, tendon, ligament, joint, & bone (MTLJB); and shooting.

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