Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Dominion Rules (D12 System)

Over the last week, Azezel directed me to www.dominiongames.com

Here he showed me a set of RPG rules that are free, and I must say that they are rather well designed. While not nearly as extensive as d20, GURPS, or Palladium, these rules offer a good balance of easy solid rules with enough flexibility to allow anything to happen with very little modification.

In fact the rules are just a bare bones set designed to be used with a fantasy genre, but I am going to try and build some modern and sci-fi rules to add to them.

I hope those few who do stop by check this system out. It offers wide open possibilties, it is a classless/level-less system that a d12 die...1 die for 1 person is all that is needed.

The magic system for both magic-users and priests is very flexible and open ended, and the system encourages you to make up new spells, and gives alot of power to the GM. It brings back a very old school style play.

As for my rules, I plan to add new skills to give a modern feel, make up rules for various guns along for rules of firing them, and add in a Psychic Powers ability and cybernetic augmentation aspect.

I will also attempt eventually to design Vehicle rules for the system but that is much further down the road. Well hope this plug draws enough interest I would like to set up a couple of play tests to see the entire system in action...if you are interest please leave a comment. We will conduct the game on OpenRPG...server/days/times TBD.