Endless Gaming Options Corebook.pdf

PLAYTEST VERSION 1.2

By Tom Doolan

by Tom Doolan

This system is not Open Source. All content within this publication is copyrighted and may not

be reproduced without the express permission of the author. Such permission only extends to

free distribution of these playtest rules for personal use. You may not publish your own

materials for profit using these rules.

Playtesters

If you would like to see your name here, please use these rules for any

genre or game you like. And then send me an email and let me know

what you thought of them. Tell me what you found lacking, what you

added, what you changed, and what kind of game you played.

Be sure to include the names of all of the people in your playtest group.

All names will be listed here in the final version, and those persons will

receive a large discount on a printed copy, should they wish one.

-Tom Doolan

mighty_fighter@yahoo.com

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: Character Creation

Chapter 2: Skills

Chapter 3: Special Effects

Chapter 4: Combat

Chapter 5: Equipment & Vehicles

Chapter 6: The Adventure

Chapter 7: Settings

Sample Characters

Character Sheet

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INTRODUCTION

Dice: EGO uses one kind of die, the standard

6-sided die (d6). You can pick up a pack of

these at just about any game store, drugstore, or

anyplace that might sell standard playing cards,

for about a buck (as of this writing). You will

need at least 4, although a handful of about 10

or so is better. In the game you will be asked to

roll certain number of these dice, represented

by a "#d6" where the "#" represents how many

dice you need to roll, such as 2d6, 6d6, etc.

What EGO is…

EGO is a generic role-playing system that can

be used to simulate just about any role-playing

setting, from Fantasy to Science Fiction to

Superheroes.

What EGO isn’t…

EGO is not a simulationist game. The level of

realism is very low. It is intended to be a way

to resolve combat and other actions quickly so

as not to impair the pace of a story.

Abilities : These are represented by numbers

which measure the character’s natural physical

and mental capabilities.

Getting Started

First, some key concepts should be introduced,

so that when they are referenced later on, there

will be no question as to the meaning of each.

Skills : As the name implies, these are the

things that the character knows how to do.

Player: You. The person pretending to be

someone else for a short time.

Adventure: The "story" that the GM takes the

players through. It is the narrative that the GM

and Players cooperatively tell, with the

characters as the stars.

Game Master: Also called the "GM", this

person leads the Players and their characters

through the world of their adventure. He plays

the parts of those met by the characters, and

mediates the use of the rules and dice.

Other terms will fall in as they are needed.

Suffice it to say that this game involves the

creation and evolution of a fictitious person,

and making that character live and breathe in a

fictitious world.

A note on Gender: This game uses the

masculine pronouns of he/him/his for

reference. This is not meant as a bias

towards the male of the human (or any)

species. Rather, it is used as a generic term

to avoid any complications.

Character : The person that each player

"pretends to be" in the game. Represented by a

few numbers and descriptions.

NPC (Non-Player Character): These are the

people the characters meet and sometimes

oppose in the game. They are controlled by the

GM.

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CHAPTER 1: CHARACTER CREATION

The first thing that you, as a player, need to do

is create a character. This is the persona you

will take on in the game your Game Master

(GM) will take you through. Creating a

character is a simple step-by-step process.

However, depending on the game and the

experience level of your playing group, as well

as the preferences of the GM, this process may

vary from group to group, and game to game.

Presented below is the standard method of

creating a character. Later in this book, there

will be some ideas for how to modify this

system to fit your own tastes and those of your

GM.

The upper limit to Abilities is 16. However,

some settings may allow ranges beyond that,

based on non-human races and such.

Below are the four Abilities and what

they mean:

Muscle : The character’s overall physical

strength and health. You can consider this the

amount of muscle the character has, and how

good of shape those muscles are in. Muscle

effects the amount of damage you do in hand to

hand combat, as well as how much a character

can lift or carry.

Agility : This is a general ability that measures

the character’s agility, manual dexterity,

reflexes, and hand-eye coordination. This

ability effects how well you fight, as well as

how well you perform actions that require a

certain amount of finesse and acute ability.

Intellect : This is your character’s mental

powers of reason, intuition, learning ability,

and memorization capacity. In some settings it

will also effect certain abilities such as the use

of Magic or Psionics. Players will often be

called upon to test their character’s Intellect

ability to determine if the character knows

something that the player doesn’t.

Vitality : This is your character’s overall

resistance to pain and injury. In some game

systems, this could be considered the same as

"hit points." In EGO this represents how much

damage a character can take before they

succumb to death (at 0 Vitality).

Vitality is also used to determine the

character’s Stun points. This is the amount of

non-lethal damage a character can withstand

before falling unconscious (at 0). To determine

a character’s Stun points, multiply his Vitality

times 2. The effects of Vitality and Stun

damage are explained under COMBAT .

Step 1: Abilities

Each Character starts with a certain number of

Character Build Points (CBPs) to use for

Abilities and Skills (the default is 100). Each

point put into an Ability Score costs 3 CBPs.

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