Another bundle - Pip System
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https://bundleofholding.com/quick/PipSystem
This Pip System Quick Deal offer presents the genre-bending introductory Pip System from Third Eye Games. Whereas many of the roleplaying hobby's introductory games are designed for young players, the Pip System's specialty is its suitability for groups of all ages. Everyone can enjoy a Pip game, regardless of age or RPG experience. As designer Eloy Lasanta (The Ninja Crusade, Part-Time Gods) wrote, "We've had groups who have played very serious-toned games with the Pip System, full of blood and guts and battles, at the same cons where other groups used the Pip System for more family-styled games, like mermaids, bugs, or magical campers. The core mechanics that make up the Pip System Corebook are easily adaptable, customizable, and more complex than they might appear on the surface."
The Pip System resolves Tasks using a pool of white dice, determined by the character's Skill Ranks, and a number of black dice, representing the Task's Challenge Rating as decided by the Game Guide. The player takes all the dice and makes the roll. A 4, 5, or 6 on a die is a success. Whichever dice pool succeeds the most, white or black, wins the roll. Players can spend Fortune points for die bonuses. A character's Weapon and Armor Ratings, Gear, Hindrances, and special abilities may change the dice.
On this basic framework you can build any kind of RPG. The quarterly Pip System Primer magazine has presented resources that support Pip fantasy, noir, animal adventures, dystopian worlds, time jumpers, ghost hunting, and urban fantasy, among other genres. This new Pip System Quick Deal includes three Primer Annuals that collect the magazine's first 12 issues.
We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$50. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all five titles in our Pip Collection (retail value $50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Pip System Corebook (retail price $15), plus the free Pip System Quickstart; the first three Primer Annuals (retail $10 each) that collect the quarterly Primer zine -- Pip System Primer Annual 1, Pip System Primer Annual 2, and Pip System Primer Annual 3 -- and the handy Pip System Status Effect Cards (retail $5),
My impression on a very quick look is that it's pretty much what it says on the tin - a set of mechanics that can be used for most aspects of RPGs. Whether it is necessarily going to be the best system for any given genre is another matter - most generic RPGs have areas of weakness which a more specialised RPG can handle more effectively. It's cheapish, and if you're in the market for a generic system it may be worth a look. But the usual warning - I don't pay to see this stuff, if I did I might be more critical.
