So, focusing my attention on things unrelated to Gor and/or Gor accessories, I recently tried my hand at hacking together an RPG system that would work well in PbP. Because I seriously wanted to play some Black Crusade and PbP is how I game. The result of smashing bits of Toon, D6, Fate and Maid together resulted in something that... is actually a lot like Risus, which I shamefully admit I didn't know anything about at the time. That said, there's a couple differences, and I'd like to think they're good and legit differences, and either way I'm pretty pleased with the result.
Here's how it goes:
1. Define Beliefs and Goals (just like you'd do in Toon). Describe your character's looks while you're at it.
2. Take 18D6 (or whatever you think is fair for what you're doing) and just make up some abilities to put them in. Traits, skills, attributes, equipment, spells, whatevs. Just be descriptive about what it is and what it's good for.
3. Roll any remaining dice for your Hits.
Conflict res: for combat, two guys roll whatever ability makes sense in context,
highest number wins, loser takes the difference as damage. Same goes for
all other conflicts or tests, just with a situational DC and the damage
part replaced with successfully fixing the life sustainer or
requisitioning a heavy stubber or learning the Lord Inquisitor's
mother's maiden name or whatever y'got.
That's it.
I've already gotten a bit of positive feedback on this, and I'm planning to use it in a Black Crusade PbP I'm trying to get together on RPGnet. If that pans out, I'll probably post more about how it's worked out and what could be done better.
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