The book begins with an introductory section that hews closely to the standard established in the late 90s/early 2000s by White Wolf & Wizards. It’s an all-in-one book, containing the fundamental game rules, character creation information, a fairly robust monster/villain/whatever section, a few options for settings flavour, and the ever-important 40+ pages of spells & spell-like powers. But let’s start with the core book!ĭ20 Modern Roleplaying Game - Core Rulebookįirst and foremost, this thing is hefty, clocking in at a beefy 384 pages. It suffers from being tied to the d20 system and its inherent flaws, and also from the volumes of associated mediocre to poor first- and third-party materials produced as part of the OGL strategy (which will be covered in later installments, probably).

The core book is extremely well produced, on par with or better than the D&D core books, a big glossy hardcover with loads of decent art, and some of the stuff it does is strong. Gets a lot of grief as a system (even a few posts up-thread), I feel like a lot of it is undeserved, depending on what you’re discussing. Designed by Bill Slaviscek (one of the Torg co-creators), Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan, the system was meant to allow players to run games featuring anything from psychic X-Files investigators, to mecha-piloting tech savants, to post-apocalyptic paladins.

Was built on the back of the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition ruleset. Hello folks! This is my first FATAL & FRIENDS, but I hope it’ll go over well!ĭ20 Modern Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook - Part 1

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