Charlie D
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I’ve made a few posts about Free League RPGs here and there seems to be some confusion about who they are and about the RPG system they offer. So here’s a quick run down because this company really puts out great games and the rule system is one of my favorites.
Fria Ligan is a Swedish RPG company which has been producing RPGs for years. They go by Free League in English speaking countries and produced their first English RPG in 2014, Mutant Year Zero, with Modiphius distributing.
Fast forward to 2018 and several kickstarters later. Fria Ligan has updated their website and offers one version in Swedish and the other in English. They sell their English language RPGs directly from their website while Modiphius continues to also distribute the English version RPGs.
http://frialigan.se/en/startpage/
Their game system is called Year Zero and due to the success of their last kickstarter will soon be OGL. You don't need propriertary dice.
Regular six-sided dice (also called D6) are required to, preferably 10-15 in three different colors. In the RPG Forbidden Lands you will also need at least one four–sided (D4) die, one eight-sided (D8) die, one ten-sided (D10) die, and one twelve-sided (D12) die.
When you perform an action, you first describe what your player character does or says. Then you grab a number of six-sided dice equal to your skill level plus your current score in the attribute that is connected to that skill. If you have some sort of gear that may be helpful, you will get extra dice from that as well. Then you roll all the dice at once.
SIXES MEAN SUCCESS
To succeed with your action, you must roll at least one six. A six is called a success. If you roll more than one 6 you can perform stunts.
If you are desperate to succeed with a dice roll, you can choose to push it. This means that you grab all the dice that did not come up as a six or a one and roll them again. You get a new chance to roll a six.
Ones can be bad for you – they can mean that you suffer damage, exhaustion, or fear, or that your weapon has been damaged. Ones have no effect on your first roll, only if you choose to push your roll (see below). A one is called a bane.
Coriolis and Tales from the Loop have slightly different ways of pushing rolls, but the base system remains the same.
Fria Ligan is a Swedish RPG company which has been producing RPGs for years. They go by Free League in English speaking countries and produced their first English RPG in 2014, Mutant Year Zero, with Modiphius distributing.
Fast forward to 2018 and several kickstarters later. Fria Ligan has updated their website and offers one version in Swedish and the other in English. They sell their English language RPGs directly from their website while Modiphius continues to also distribute the English version RPGs.
http://frialigan.se/en/startpage/
Their game system is called Year Zero and due to the success of their last kickstarter will soon be OGL. You don't need propriertary dice.
Regular six-sided dice (also called D6) are required to, preferably 10-15 in three different colors. In the RPG Forbidden Lands you will also need at least one four–sided (D4) die, one eight-sided (D8) die, one ten-sided (D10) die, and one twelve-sided (D12) die.
When you perform an action, you first describe what your player character does or says. Then you grab a number of six-sided dice equal to your skill level plus your current score in the attribute that is connected to that skill. If you have some sort of gear that may be helpful, you will get extra dice from that as well. Then you roll all the dice at once.
SIXES MEAN SUCCESS
To succeed with your action, you must roll at least one six. A six is called a success. If you roll more than one 6 you can perform stunts.
If you are desperate to succeed with a dice roll, you can choose to push it. This means that you grab all the dice that did not come up as a six or a one and roll them again. You get a new chance to roll a six.
Ones can be bad for you – they can mean that you suffer damage, exhaustion, or fear, or that your weapon has been damaged. Ones have no effect on your first roll, only if you choose to push your roll (see below). A one is called a bane.
Coriolis and Tales from the Loop have slightly different ways of pushing rolls, but the base system remains the same.