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AWESOME D.P.S.
There's just something about picking up a handful of dice that makes you feel awesome. This game was written to celebrate that feeling! Awesome D.P.S. (Dice Pool System) is a fast playing, narrative-driven pamphlet RPG. When the situation calls for it :  describe your action, build your dice pool,  and roll against the Judge -- score the most successes to narrate the results!  A fast, simple framework -- read and run in minutes. Uses six-sided dice that you can find almost anywhere.Special rules for Helping your friends and Pushing Your Luck.Pamphlet design -- cheap to print at home, easy to carry and share with friends.Released under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 -- hack it & make your own game. This is a generic framework built off Lost in the Fantasy World by Diogo Nogueira.  Also draws inspiration from Fate, Ironsworn, OpenD6 and popular dice-pool based systems. Features artwork by JEShields. 
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