The ’Verses RPG System

’Verses is a streamlined, open, & extensible Table-top Role-Playing Game system created by humanist science-fiction & fantasy author K. N. Brindle.

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Learn the core rules & features of ’Verses, and explore a library of skills, abilities, & gameplay elements that can apply to any setting.

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Adventure in an original fantasy world created by K. N. Brindle for the ’Verses RPG System.

Designed from the ground-up to work for any game setting in any genre.

A single set of easy to learn Core rules applicable to any setting capture most basic character actions and abilities
Made to be expanded into different universes, technology levels, & systems of magic as desired
Supports any genre of play, from fantasy to sci-fi; horror, steam-punk, & contemporary settings
An open rules system & technology scaling can model even the adventures of your favorite space-time hopping bohemian professor

Dynamic & Fast-paced gameplay focusing on narrative and functional agency for players.

No rigid classes; Skill- and ability-focused character building for well-rounded & unique characters
Players manage their own characters' action economy through Action Dice
Advanced features like active defenses, action chaining, damage conversion, exhaustion binding, and others
Success margins allow a single roll to determine success & effects for fast moving play

Published under a Creative Commons CC BY license for maximum freedom to play, share, & extend.

’Verses Core is Free and open-source.
The ’Verses Core rules are published under CC BY 4.0, allowing anyone to read, use, extend, & play
Game Designers are free to build on top of ’Verses Core to share, publish, & sell their own Universes, supplementary Rules, & Adventures—the only requirement is attribution
No sign-ins, accounts, subscriptions, or monetization

About the

’Verses is a d6 dice-pool system with advanced features like a player-managed action economy, active defenses, action chaining, and social interaction modeling.

The idea for the ’Verses RPG System came indirectly from a reader of Common Accord. What would an "open world" exploration of the Common Accord universe be like?

From that spark came a set of simple rules which gradually expanded to encompass a variety of gameplay styles. Along the way, the rules evolved into the generic and universal system that is presented here.

About K. N. Brindle

K. N. Brindle played their first table-top roleplaying game in 1982 and was immediately hooked. They've played many, many, many different RPG systems across many different editions since.

They wrote A Memory of Blood and Magic, their first novel, while in grad school after leaving a 20+ year career in the software industry. They've since published three novels, including Common Accord, a "blue-collar space opera found-family heist."

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