[1]Chimera is the rule set to meet your RPG needs in any genre and any setting. Designed to overcome the pitfalls and difficulties of other generic roleplaying games, Chimera introduces realistic campaigns and smooth game flow with the most intuitive mechanics available.

The Chimera RPG Core Rules

One Game. Infinite Worlds...

150pp. PDF; $12.95 (Author: Erin D. Smale)

Chimera's core mechanics are easy-to-learn and are used consistently, regardless of what genre you're playing. Chimera's flexibility makes it easy to recreate action in any time or setting. Chimera's simple rules and outcome-based conventions lets you create in the game whatever you want—never let the rules stifle your imagination again!

Chimera handles any setting or genre in a fast and intuitive framework that promotes story over rules and smooth play over unnecessary detail. You can learn how to play in minutes and use its near-infinite expandability to craft your characters, your setting, and your game worlds—in short, Chimera can support any possibility you can imagine, whether you're a player or a game master.

The Chimera RPG Core Rules includes everything you need to learn and play:

Mechanics

• One die mechanic to resolve skills, attacks, saving throws, and ability rolls
• Surprise built into initiative
• The industry's easiest encumbrance system
• Innovative inventory tracking for equipment and ammunition
• Seamless fatigue simulates exhaustion without extra bookkeeping

Characters

• Roll up characters in minutes, not hours
• Combine skill- and class-based characters in the same setting to create any PC or NPC you need
• Customise any character (even classed characters) with traits to make him unique
• Unique point-based advancement system ignores levels and allows unlimited progression
• Determine your character's rate of advancement: Earn points fast to spend on a few skills, or earn points slowly to spend on many skills.

Campaigning

• Select from 10 Tech Levels to create any setting and even mix genres
• Customise your campaign with Chimera's modular Traits and Powers—without "breaking the rules"
• Create your own balanced races and classes in minutes
• Create and customise monsters with Templates and Traits
• Build fully-detailed NPCs in minutes

Released under the Open Gaming License, Chimera includes:

• 148-page, illustrated PDF rulebook
• 1 page character sheet
• 1 page power sheet
• A sampling of fantasy-genre races, all built with the included Race Builder
• 150 traits, representing a variety of skills, abilities, advantages, and flaws
• 260 powers (Arcane, Divine, and Heathen varieties), representing all sorts of supernatural abilities, from magic spells and voodoo to miracles or psionics
• OpenOffice Spreadsheets - electronic rosters of Traits, Equipment, and Powers

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