Hi! My name is Chuck and I'm a compulsive rules carpenter.

I have a shelf full of role-playing game books, none of which I am completely content with. I have a second shelf of just GURPS books. I ran that system for years, convinced it was the best there was to be had. But my tastes - and those of my players - have changed over the years. Plus there's alot of exciting new stuff, chock full of cool ideas.

So I've used this site to build my own system. I'm working towards a best-of-breed ideal here. Not only stealing the best ideas from 30 years of rulebooks, but remaining compatible with them on some level. I hope to be able to pick up a DnD, or GURPS, or WoD book and bring elements of it into my game with a minimal transform.

Site Conventions

Superscripts¹ indicate footnotes.
Text in blue is hungry for collaborator input. That means YOU!
The green block indicates a link to another web site.

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T O D O and L T R and pink text are things I'm working on.
R C R is Rapid Combat Resolution, which is my current project.
Q Q highlights pages with questions for the reader.
E X X points out pages with extended example text.
G L S highlights terms that belong in the Glossary.
N F L N C accentuates the games that iNFLueNCed mine.

How You Can Help

Follow the Guided Tour to read the pages in some kind of sensical order (or not).
If you want only the absolute essentials, read Dice Mechanic and Character Creation.
Please ask me questions about anything that isn't immediately clear to you, and tell me about the bits you think are especially cool. If you ask, I am more than happy set you up to add Comments at the bottom of any page. This is a wiki after all.
Google has forced me to migrate to their new format, which less less flexible. Please help me find stuff they knocked over.
Check out (or even subscribe to) the What's New page. That will spam you a lot less than subscribing to the whole site.
Let me know what kind of game you want to play. What kind of story do you want to tell? Tell me about your would-be character, or the movie you want to re-enact.
Who would you like to be for a few hours out of every month?
What kind of obstacle -- what kind of villain -- do you want to overcome? How do you want to best it?
What are you willing to risk to do so (don't say "Everything!"), and what will you never sacrifice?
What themes (Exploration of Unknown Lands, Byzantine Intrigue, Vengeance for the Powerless, etc.) and genres (Urban Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Space Opera, etc.) you would like to explore?