The GUTS+ System is a role-playing game system in the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, but simplified to focus more on collaborative storytelling and free-form play.
Rather than having set skills, GUTS+ focuses on individual stats giving your character the ability to do things, and if they don't have a specific stat, their success at performing tasks is dependent upon their base stats: Gumption, Utility, Thought, and Slyness.
A little while ago, I learned about “conditions” in the Mouse Guard Role-Playing Game, and I fell in love with the concept. In addition to me loving them and how they are implemented, status effects are a pretty standard feature of many role-playing games that help players know how to...
Read PostI’m working on adding a new feature to the game, and I got hung up on the name, which led me to re-think some other elements of the GUTS+ System’s naming convention. From the get-go, the GUTS+ System has aimed to have a somewhat unique naming scheme, from using “Gumption” as...
Read PostAfter thinking about what to include and how to structure it, I finally spent some time writing the Game Master’s Handbook. Right now, it’s not fully featured, but it has at least the basic information, much like the Player’s Handbook. If you want to get started as a Game Master,...
Read PostOver the weekend, I spent time updating the character sheet to a much nicer, editable version. Originally, I had just built the sheet in HTML, but that came with a lot of limitations and made it difficult to output into a nice, printable format. This time, I created the sheet pages with a vector...
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