Think Hercules, Achilles, Wonder Woman, or Kratos.
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5E Warlock: The Machine
An awakened artificial entity that endlessly optimizes.
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5E Warlock: The Hive Mind
A mysterious pact where “you” becomes “us.”
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5E Warlock: Urban Ghost Patron
Pact with the subconsciousness of an entire metropolis.
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5E Warlock: Parasite Star Patron
Pact with a celestial object that hungers.
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5E Wizard: Modern Mage
Reality isn’t broken, it’s negotiable.
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5E Fighter: Bodyguard
“Our commitment is keeping you safe…”
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5E Fighter: Soldier
Never accept defeat, never quit, never leave a fallen comrade.
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5E Rogue: Fixer
Problem? No problem, I know a guy…
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5E Rogue: Grifter
Would I lie to you? Trust me.
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5e Monk: Gun-Fu Killer
AKA Gun Kata, or Way of the Gun.
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5E Rogue: Netrunner
Hacker of the cyberpunk world.
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5E Rogue: Investigator
The truth is out there.
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5E Fighter: Space Marine
Have powered exosuit, will travel.
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5E Fighter: Spacefleet Officer
Boldly go where no one has gone before.
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5E Rogue: Gadgeteer
Improvise useful devices from random parts.
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5E Sorcerer: Psionic Mind
Innate telepathy, telekinesis, extra-sensory perceptions, pryokinesis…
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5E Rogue: Agent
Covert operatives, special investigators, infiltration experts.
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5E Rogue: Transporter
Deliver the goods. Get out alive.
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5E Rogue: Hacker
Digital deception and data warfare expert.
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5e Stress Mechanic
House rule for a new condition option and Panic table for D&D5e.
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Fast RPG d20 v.10.2025
The following rules are mostly based on the 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons rules (2014) by Jeremy Crawford and Mike Mearls, a revision of the
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Homebrew Rule: No Dice Failures
Instead of success or failure, attempt always work but player must choose at what cost.
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Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying Rules
Notes on mashing up BRP with some patchwork houserules.
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Another Homebrew RPG Idea
Another homebrew idea, Frankenstein of ideas from D&D5e and BRP (Chaosium’s Basic Role Playing/Call of Cthulhu system), with a few bits borrowed from Marvel Multiverse RPG and GURPS.
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Trait System RPG Idea
Updating my 30-year-old RPG design project notes, started way back in the early 1990s. Uses d20s only, no ability scores, and players roll for all task outcomes.
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Another RPG Ruleset In Progress
Brainstorming a sort of D&D-Cypher hybrid rules idea…
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LARP Character Magical Powers
I found the following character abilities in some mid-1990s LARP rules I made for con events in Wisconsin.
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Otherwhere: Peoples And Places (2021)
A “mythological theme park” of ancient cultures and classic fantasy tropes: the fall of Atlantis, pantheons of mischievous gods, nations of human and non-human peoples, the struggle between order and chaos, and lands conjured out of dreams.
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5e Custom Character Traits
Some ideas on character customization.
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Micro Fast Traveller 2.1
Even shorter version of ttprg rules for Traveller.
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The Outlands (Revised)
What if Planescape was run without Sigil?
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My Cthulhu RPG
My hack of Harper’s “Lasers & Feelings” RPG to experience Lovecraftian horror.
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Benchmarks: DC Heroes APs
A look back at the logarithmic ability score scale Mayfair Games used for their first superhero role-playing game.
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My Star Wars RPG (v.1.0)
My hack at creating a Star Wars role-playing game.
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And Then, Things Got Worse
Adventure details on making the worst out of anyplace the characters might go.
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Espionage LARP
Initial notes about designing a spies-and-terrorists espionage-themed live-action role-playing game.
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Fast Traveller Rules 0.6
Another edit of “quick and dirty” home rules for running introductory Traveller games.
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Magical Levels
A homebrew scale of magical power effects.
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RPG Mini-Handbook
A rough “conversion document” for several RPGs popular in the mid-1990s.
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