Introduction

There are literally thousands of role-playing games on the market today, each with its own combat system. The complexity of these systems range up and down on even scale imaginable. From the simple and vague, “He’s hurt bad ... very bad”, to the precise but cumbersome, “the target has sustained forty-one points of damage to the left lower leg, has severe muscle and tendon damage, a transverse fracture of the tibia and will go into shock in three rounds if not treated”. When designing this system, it was understood that some people would play this game for the combat so the concise but complex system would have to be included. However, others would rather play for the story and wouldn’t be bothered by the long drawn-out precision of a complex system.