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Block, Dodge, Parry - A Levelless, Classless Expansion of Cairn
BlockDodgeParry (BDDP) is a ruleset designed for tabletop role-playing games featuring combat systems inspired by Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup's Drowzil'Imperium, with focus on tactical decision making during fights while maintaining simplicity and ease of play. It includes several new mechanics such as the "Time" system to handle skill checks without requiring an exhaustive list of skills for characters; a flexible framework called Fantasy Species that allows players to create non-human creatures based upon their background history; Social Conflict, which replaces physical combat with tense negotiations instead using dice rolls and prompts from NPCs in locations. It also has optional rules such as Location-based critical damage system for impactful blows during battles and Weapons mechanic where characters can choose one of three types of weapons to use that have different special properties depending on the character's mastery level, which is acquired through studying or finding trainers rather than randomly rolling dice like other games' skill systems. There are also 16 careers with detailed descriptions related skills such as 97 magic-based abilities and a system for learning new skills by training in various areas of expertise including "Careers," a freeform magic system inspired from GLOG, where players can freely sculpt energy to affect reality or use their powers offensively against enemies using the
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