T.W.O. RPG

Here is a set of rules I came up with in an effort to remove all reference to the OGL 1.0a and any content that falls under it. One way I did that was to remove the d20. Now you use 2d10s.

I have a problem with rules so bloated that no one can figure out what anything means without a ouija board. I also dislike rules that are so ‘lite’ that they leave out important parts that are required to make the game playable. T.W.O. RPG is intended to be a ‘lite’ yet complete set of rules.

What is the 2d10 system you ask? It is intended to replace the 1d20 used commonly in some RPG systems. I think the big advantage of using 2d10 instead of 1d20 is that the roll results in a ‘bell curve’ with most of the results in the center, and fewer at the outliers — in other words it is more likely that you roll a result that will be in the ‘middle’ and less likely to be very high or very low. This does create some changes that should be considered by the GM as noted in this: blog post.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

More importantly I would appreciate you reviewing the rules and the supplements and letting me know what needs to be changed.

PS 18 JULY 2023: I have gotten some feedback about the cover art, and some of these comments/criticism seem to involve a misunderstanding of the purpose of the game system. That is of course my fault. Above, I state the purpose as “remove all reference to the OGL 1.0a and any content that falls under it”. In this regard I think I was successful (but again if you see something that could somehow be attacked under copyright or other basis please let me know). However, my ultimate goal was to create an open source set of rules that can be used to play OSR type games by creative GMs looking for something to build adventures upon, and game designers to use to create their own games. So I did not pay a lot of attention to art or imagery. I just punched a few words into an AI art generator and picked the brightest colors available. The fact that some hate the cover art so much as to reject the content is a head scratcher for me, but since I did not intend it for commercial sale… oh well — I never claimed to be a good judge of art or style. Notwithstanding the cover art which many find offensive, I hope you find the rules useful.



FOR THOSE WHO HATE THE COVERS HERE IS A VERSION WITH NO ART. It is the complete collection in one download :

Here is where you can find the paperback print-on-demand version from Lulu:

Here is where you can find the paperback print-on-demand version from Amazon:

https://amzn.to/3q3z9sU



The PDFs for these rules can be downloaded here at BigGeekEmporium:

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