Of Realms Unbounded Is Based on the Online Traveller SRD, Which Is Itself Based on the Original Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game (OSFRPG) Published in the 1970S

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Michael Brown Contents What You’re Reading 1 The Center 2 Doughty Adventurers 3 People of the Realms 9 Divers Items 12 Traveling 14 Combat 15 Beasts Mundane and Wondrous 17 Dire Circumstances 19 The Magical Arts 21 Sample file

What You’re Reading Of Realms Unbounded is based on the online Traveller SRD, which is itself based on The Original Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game (OSFRPG) published in the 1970s. It also uses the Cepheus Engine SRD by Jason “Flynn” Kemp and Samardan Press. These rules are intended to allow Referees and players to emulate their favorite Fantasy tropes from literature and visual media. The Fantasy genre has diversified greatly from their origins as folklore and mythological tales. While it most often invokes images of the worlds created by J.R.R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, among many others, it encompasses a wide variety of flavors and subgenres, from High, or Epic Fantasy to Grimdark. Of Realms Unbounded doesn’t favor one style of fantasy over any other, and in fact is designed to allow the Referee to construct the sort of world (s)he envisions for the individual campaign, rather than force an external view. It’s assumed the reader is familiar with role-playing games (RPGs) and how they work.

The Center To succeed at a task, throw Difficulty Modifiers Haste/Caution Modifiers 2D6, adding any appropriate Simple +6 Instant –4 Die Modifiers (DMs.) If the Easy +4 1 second –2 result is for 8 or more (8+), Routine +2 6 seconds 0 you succeed. [Skill] or [Char] Average 0 1 minute +2 [X]+ simply means “throw Difficult –2 1 hour +4 2D6, add the indicated skill Very Difficult –4 1 day or more +6 level or Characteristic Formidable –6 Modifier (see below), and if the result is the target number or better, it’s a success. (i.e., Recon 8+, STR 10+). The Referee may impose a Difficulty Modifier to the throw, based on the circumstances at the time. The above table shows typical difficulty modifiers. Haste/Caution Modifiers: Determine the base time an action takes and then adjust on the above scale. Note that 6 seconds equals one combat round. Example: To try and draw a sword instantaneously instead of one second imposes Sampleanother –4 DM to the task throw. file Multitasking: To do two or more things at once, like firing a crossbow while also riding a running horse: –2 per action. Opposed Tasks: If two characters are opposing each other directly in a task, then whoever makes their throw by more wins.

Of Realms Unbounded | 1 Aiding Another: Each person aiding the main person performing a task adds +1 to the effort if they make their task throw. Weights and measures are given in metric units for ease of use with the SRD rules. The base Tech Level is assumed to be 1-2 but see differences below.

Doughty Adventurers Throw 2D6 for the following: Strength (STR): physical strength, Characteristic fitness and forcefulness; Dexterity (DEX): physical co- Modifiers ordination, agility, and reflexes; Endurance (END): stamina, 1 –3 determination and sustaining damage; Intelligence (INT): 2 –2 Intellect and quickness of mind; Education (EDU): a measure 3-5 –1 of learning and experience; Social Standing (SOC): one’s 6-8 0 place in society and standing in the community. Maximum 9-11 +1 score for a human is 15. Stats also govern Characteristic 12-14 +2 Modifiers (CharMods; see accompanying table.) 15 +3 Players should choose a race (see Races below) as early in the generation process as possible, to factor in any racial characteristic modifiers and inborn skills.

Career Generation The following career generation process is designed for human characters. See the entries under Races below for adjustments for members of other races. Background: The hero is eligible for an automatic Wilds City skill level based on his or her background and Animals Drive upbringing. Decide whether (s)he was born and Navigation Steward raised in the wilds or the city, and choose one skill in Recon Streetwise the appropriate category: Survival Trade Apprenticeship: Each hero begins his or her career at age 10 with an Apprenticeship. This is just like Enlistment in other 2D6 worlds. Throw to qualify for the career on the desired table below; the Characteristic Modifier for the stat may be used as a positive Die Modifier (DM.) If successful, the hero has been apprenticed to an expert in that profession, gains +1 EDU and may throw for a skill on either the Personal Development or the Service Skill table — other tables aren’t available to the hero until the second SampleSeason (term of service equaling four years) and thereafter. Thefile PC also can’t gain Recognition or Advancement during the first Season. If the Apprenticeship throw is unsuccessful, the hero ages one year (to 11) and must throw 1D6 to be drafted into one of the careers below. Note that (s)he may be drafted into the very career (s)he was previously rejected from.

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