sladethesniper

This is a scalable wargame designed to be added to BRP when/if the game progresses beyond 1 v 1 combat up to having PCs decide starship combat or divisions, or gangs or whatever.

VHRAEDEN: BLOOD, STEEL AND IRON WILL, is a dark science fantasy setting created by Shane Aguera (aka sladethesniper) for BRP. The book is almost 600 pages long, comes with full colour art and includes 62 races, over 50 NPC's, 42 nations, 11 continents and subcontinents, 6 regions and 8 extraterrestrial/extraplanar locations, over 15 complete organizations and 15 types of magic and technology. This massive tome clocks in at clost to 60 Mb, so be patient when downloading.

Shane has been kind enough to release Vhraeden is a free product. No profit will be generated by this product for the author, the artists, BRP Central, Chaosium or Realms of Evil Games.

Enjoy! :thumb:


Eleven hundred years after the God’s War, the world is still in chaos, trying to claw its way towards some semblance of normality. That goal remains a distant dream. Nations war with each other for dwindling resources, increased power and for revenge. Cultures clash over ideals and the right to exist. Meanwhile, the Cults of Darkness, long thought destroyed, slowly drag the world ever closer to the Abyss. Vhraeden is a place of stark contrasts where there are no limits for those cunning or violent enough to make their own rules and carve their own destiny.

Vhraeden is in turmoil and each aspect of this setting presents its own unique challenges and rewards. From swords, sorcery and guns for hire, to espionage, criminal and military operations, the world of Vhraeden is dangerous and multi-faceted. Characters are forces of order; professional spies, mercenaries, soldiers or police officers expected to keep the forces of chaos from spilling over into their nation. It is their job to keep their country and their people safe against those who would do it harm. Those enemies run the gamut from warlords to cultists. Do you have the strength to save yourself, much less your people?

This a complex and dark world where billions of sentient beings live and interact with each other as well as gods, devils and other unique beings. Within this milieu, conflict is inevitable. There is violence inherent in a world with over three billion beings spread over scores of nations, tens of races, hundreds of cultures and countless loyalties.

Strife is what happens when your PCs are in over their head. Are your PCs running from cybernetic assassins in a blacked out urban warzone? Do you need to simulate boarding actions for piracy in the Age of Sail? Do you need a narrative combat system as background for competing organized crime families? Recreating the Battle of the Bulge? Fleet actions in off the Shoulder of Orion? All of these are battles for you to fight and win with Strife, the Roleplaying Wargame.
Occupying the space between traditional roleplaying games and wargames, Strife allows your PCs to become the commanders of their troops and become responsible for every aspect of the war. No longer do PCs have to be content with a small corner of the battlefield when Strife allows PCs to master the entire war. Designed to be flexible in both scale and detail, Strife is made to simulate dungeon crawls, platoon battles in triple canopy jungle, campaigns between hundreds of thousands of troops lasting months and fleet actions over light seconds of space.
System agnostic, Strife can be used with any RPG or used as an alternative ruleset for any skirmish or wargame. This complementary game system is accomplished by having each layer of the game build upon previous layers. The simulation builds on the wargame, which builds on the narrative tool. There are also multiple options that are available to expand upon the gameplay for more detail or alternative mechanics. This array of tools is provided allow the GM to have as much, or as little detail as desired.
Highlights:
A setting agnostic rule set to simulate units from prehistory, fantasy, modern or science fiction
Scale agnostic and able to use almost miniatures or any scale of units or counters
A scale-based system for units, time and distance
3D combat using range, altitude and depth Unit skills determine how effective they are at battlefield tasks, not just their combat power
Tactical, Operational or Strategic scale
Hidden movement
Tactical Advantages
Morale and gaining a Moral Victory
NBC warfare
Fire Support
Weather and Terrain
Unit construction rules
A solo mode
Deliberately asymmetrical
Designed to be combined with the Platinum RPG
 
What this is not:
Balanced for tournament play

Platinum is a set of D100 rules that was designed to be easily hacked with bits and pieces of other games. If you like something from another game, add it in or replace it. Take parts from Champions/Hero, Palladium, D20 and others. There is no reason to be limited in your creativity by being shackled to arbitrary rules. These rules are a guideline, but this is not a narrative game, rules light or a story first system and has rules for many situations and campaign types. Extensive rules for skills, combat, experience, free-form magic and tools for various settings and worldbuilding are given in this book.  
Combined with its companion wargame Strife, you can play at any scale from individual to fleets of ships in the age of sail or prowling the vastness of space. Platinum is made to inspire you and guide you into creating the campaign that you and your players want.
 
Highlights:
Fast character creation with as much or as little customization as you want
Percentile based skill system
Classless system
Fast and lethal combat for characters and vehicles
Modular rules, use what you want, ignore what you don’t without changing the core gameplay
Easily conversion from and to other systems including Basic Roleplaying, Storyteller, D20, etc.
If you can describe it, you can build it
Designed to be combined with Strife, the Scalable Wargame

Take the ease of BRP and add much better combat rules distilled from Cyberpunk, Palladium and other systems. That's what this is, a combat heavy, generic D100 roll under  game rules.