METTLE Core Launch!

 METTLE Core is a compact set of powerful and adaptable rules to help you run or make your own Role-Playing Game (RPG). This core set is geared towards heroic tales of courage, mystery, and intrigue. Detective stories, crime dramas, B-movie mayhem, daring rescues, tense exploration, gritty post-apocalyptic survival, wild-west gunfights, Nazi-clobbering, low fantasy, and grounded science fiction. This focus on so-called “mundane” heroics caters to an underserved style of play and provides a general base to the system. Upcoming games may indulge settings reliant on magic, superpowers, or miracles of science.

• Adaptable Toolkit: flexible enough to suit a wide variety of genres and power levels.
• Easy to Learn and Play: The basic rules are all you need to know. Mastery is a matter of using those basic moves in clever ways.
• Engaging Combat: Move? Attack? Block? Rally back into action? Grapple? Guard an ally? Your call!
• Freeform Experience: decide for yourself what your own character did to earn their advance in power.
• Funky Dice Pool: a new hybrid dice pool system keeps the number of dice low, counting to a minimum, allows for direct contests between scores, and supports collaborative Twists, Raises, and other fun stunts.
• Rich Narrative: players can explicitly alter events using Twists. These add dramatic surprises and give players bargaining power in the story.
• Room to Grow: the intentional “hackability” of this ruleset leaves plenty of space for your own creative additions.
• Scalable: combat fits all sizes of creatures or vehicles with no tweaks or extra rules.
• Vivid Characters: Characters start out with history, goals, and personalities of their own. No need to ask, “but what’s my motivation” – it’s built right in.
• Volleyball Initiative: combatants pass their next turns to each other or their target, so your chance to shine can come at any time.

METTLE Core is on a CC-by 4.0 license and we are excited to hear what you do with it!

Get it here at DrivethruRPG (Digital and Softcover POD) or Itch.io (Digital only).

Half off for launch!