I bought a copy of this based purely on my liking of the author's YouTube channel. I intended to put it on the shelf with all my Runehammer books. I tend to play OSE and kind of stick with that but I wanted to support both Scotty and Hankerin. Then I watched Dave Thaumavore's review of it and decided to give it a try with an old RPG buddy and run a solo game. I don't think I could have had a better time! It worked splendidly! Super fast, minimal rules breaks and a game that is able to adapt on the fly! I absolutely love this game. It works extremely well for a more narratively driven game with minimal rules interference. I printed a really rudimentary copy of the bare minimum rules needed to run. Gave it to my friend and just used the PDF to run it. I CANNOT wait for my physical copies. Highly recommend.

Simple to the point system with a supprising amount of depth. Extremely refreshing in comparison with 5e / Pathfinder. Im a relatively new dm (7 months experience) and find this much easier to run then other systems. The dm section is also very handy.

I often struggle with teaching new players 5e / Pathfinder and find that they get so hung up on the rules, the story/gameplay gets slowed down. Have run this at the table once and has sped things up significantly. Players are loving it and are suggesting switching over for our main campaign.

I have seen some concerns about long term campaign play and i personally think it would work fine for me as story trumps mechanical progression at my table everytime. The system still has enough meat to it to keep people interested in my opinion.

Great buy, i have the hardback on the way so cannot comment on that yet.

D6 pool systems and aspect and free form magic systems are in fashion right now. EZD6 has the typical issues of those.

The difficulty of a roll can be both regulated by changing the target number or by adding boon/banes (extra rolls). Even if the former is favored it is not always clear which one to use and sometimes it is advised one or the other, without considering probabilities. In a section, the author even suggests using the critical exploding system.

When creating a character, Aspects may easily overlap with inclinations or even classes. Magic also requires tuning spell effects, number of dice, etc. It is not a system for new players, much less new DMs. There are two meta-currencies to track, karma and hero dice. Each with its own particular rules and a magic variant, spellburn.

Finally combat is not simpler or faster than basic d&d. Both the attacker and receiver have to do one roll (with numbers that vary depending on class and monster) so we are at the same or more complexity. The author even acknowledges this by making combat asymmetrical, monsters don't roll for defense/armor. Instead the DM just adds strike/wounds for harder foes. This is quite a mental overhead for a system promoted as simple.

Playing this game requires extensive experience with d&d and even narrative systems. Something the author does not see probably because of his own expertise, but the book fails to explain many things clearly.

I have played in several games over the years at conventions with Scotty while he was developing the EZD6 System. I have played a nonverbal alien in a sci-fi setting, a vampire hunter in a near future setting, a nun with a gun in a Lost World type setting, a ex con in a horror setting, and a lowly fighter in a dungeon crawl. I had a blast in every one and the system was easily learned and highly adaptable. If I were start a new campaign or run a quick one shot at a con, I would use this system regardless of the setting.

I have 42 years in the hobby. I bought this on the reccomendation of PDM. I am so happy I did. Already played it with my kids, we all love it. Lovely stuff. Well done.

Awesome system to teach beginners and children- Thank You GM Scotty!

Great game that's highly adaptable to any genre of play. Physically the book looks great, Hankerin's design skills and Sean Bova's art are evocative and on point, making picking up the book a pleasure.

The truly great thing about the system, though, is that it allows Scotty's personality to shine through. Scotty understands the importance of being his player's greatest "cheerleader" and this is reflected in a game system that, while not overly easy on players, let's them have meaningful moments in the spotlight. The game emphasizes thrilling combat, role-play, puzzle solving. Its an accessible system that can be readily picked up for the aspiring DM and taught to new players. It also works well for groups ranging from 2-8 players (something more technical systems struggle with).

Really high quality hardcover, and an awesome system. DM Scotty + Runehammer is a dream team, and the system obviously reflects years of experience at the table! An easy recommendation!

Very nice hardcover. This is an extremely simple yet elegant system designed to keep the story flowing. It's written with fun in mind but still allows for strategic decision-making, specifically with the magic and karma systems. It feels outrageously easy to adapt any other system modules in a matter of minutes and get on to the business of role-playing. Can't wait to "Rabble Rouse" my first game.

As a DM with attention deficit disorder, the simple monster stats are great. It allows me to quickly choose a template and then "stat it out" using boons, resistances and tactics that fits. I will minion the shit out of my players: Guerilla shoot/n/scoot minions? Check! 15 minions stacked as a mecha with a lieutenant acting as the head? Check!

This is maybe the best rpg system I've ever read! I feel like DM Scotty looked into my soul and gave me everything I ever wanted, all in one book! 10/10 I love it!

EZD6 abstracts a lot of the typical rpg stats, skills and modifier mechanics, to give players more creative freedom, character creation is quick with some interesting choices, a free-form magick system and the action resolution is fast, easy and fun without the heavy reliance on rule books.

DM Scotty has somehow made a rules-light system that still has meaningful mechanical choices for character generation - I adore rules-light systems, but usually they (by design) don't have much by way of mechanics for character building. I haven't even read the monsters or the spells yet, but if they follow the rest of the book, they're going to be great!

Also, I really appreciate the author's "make this book your own" attutide - he very clearly intends primarily for this system to enable fun at the game table, whatever that may look like for each individual table.

Cutting out all the lame math has been awesome. My players turns have gone from "I attack, I rolled a 17, does that hit? Shucks." "I jump into the fray crashing my Axe down on the group of goblins. Sweet I got a crit, let me confirm it. (rolls dice) I use 2 karma and strike again, kicking the goblin king in the Face!!"

Thanks for all the great work.

ICRPG was a blast. It plays like a lot of other RPGs, but it's so simple. We made it through three large combats in less than three hours. Each encounter or room has a target number, and everyone knows what it is. That target number is what you must roll to succeed on any check. Want to find some loot? Roll the target number with a wisdom check. Want to hit an elf with a warhammer? Roll the target number with a strength check. Each player immediately knows if they fail or succeed, and that makes it very fast.

Another awesome concept of ICRPG is the easy/hard mechanic. You can make some rolls easier, which makes the target number decrease by 3. Let's say you attack and miss one turn. On your next turn, if you try that again, it's an easy roll now. That makes combat more enjoyable for both fighters and mages. It also gives a great opportunity cost: do you retry what you were doing, or are you out of time? Then there are hard rolls, that add 3 to the target number. You might make something harder for an enemy, or maybe the environment makes your checks harder.

Some other easy-to-learn mechanics make ICRPG a joy to play. The hit points system is sublime and so concise. The best part is, you can apply that system of "effort" to other rolls as well. Perhaps climbing a cliff requires a certain amount of effort, so as you make checks you add to your total effort until you reach it. Another one is the dice pools for effort. For example, a dwarf with his warhammer would roll a six-sided dice whenever he hit. That's the dice for Weapons & Tools. If that dwarf was instead trying to craft something, he would also roll a six-sided dice to see how much effort he applied to that craft. Magic weapons, tools, and effects roll ten-sided dice, which represents how they are more powerful. The basic effort, such as with your hands, is a four-sided dice, guns are an eight-sided dice, and finally, the twelve-sided dice is for your ultimate, which you get when you roll a natural twenty or with certain abilities.

I could go on and on about ICRPG. I haven't even mentioned how abilities and equipment work. Everyone has ten equipment slots and ten carried slots. That inventory space represents a good chunk of your abilities. Spells are equipment! So if you want to carry a lightning bolt spell, you'll have to have the tome for it in your inventory. It's a great tradeoff system that is so easy. There is nothing cumbersome about ICRPG. I can't recommend it enough. It offers such flexibility and hackability that you can get such depth out of every game. On top of that, the rules are so light and easy to digest that it's a no-brainer for someone new to tabletop RPGs.