Gamebooks & Goonies

Gamebooks & Goonies is an RPG rule system for gamebooks, CYOA and similar. It's mainly designed for single-player computer games, but still described in terms of real dice and the like. It's also a very small game of only 1000 words.

• See as print-ready PDF (85K),
• Org Mode and Markdown file (plain text)
• or simply as web page.

The rules belong in the 2d6 family, meaning all rolls use just a pair of six-sided dice, with modifiers.

Contents

1. Game structure
2. Success and failure
3. Abilities
4. Character creation
   • Archetypes
5. Combat
6. Magic
   • Spell examples
7. Rest and healing
8. Character advancement

To do

• overhaul magic system
  • roll to prepare spells in advance like in Battles & Balances
  • add ability to prepare the same spell multiple times
  • replace spell level system with easy / medium / hard difficulty
• add advantage system for rolls, to allow for buffs and debuffs
• make Grace actively useful in combat (see above)
• add rule for when a tie is rolled in combat
• add median roll system for long-running tasks

Credits and license

Gamebooks & Goonies is a hack of Tunnel Goons, by Nate Treme, and offered under a similar Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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