Aperture RPG

A fast, grounded microsystem for any world.

Actions: Roll 2d10.

• Under Attribute + Skill to succeed
• Over Difficulty to avoid complications
• When opposed, the highest successful roll wins. Ties add a twist.

Attributes: Distribute 24 points (max 14):

• Physical: body, force, endurance
• Mental: cognition, awareness, knowledge
• Social: influence, empathy, presence

Skills: Distribute 6 points (max +4):

• Freeform specialty: something you’ve done enough to trust yourself doing
• Assigned to one Attribute, adds directly to it for relevant rolls

Initiative: Roll your relevant attribute once at the start of a conflict.
Successful characters act before NPCs each round.

Defense: (The GM doesn’t roll.) When targeted by an NPC:
Roll defensive skill, using attacker’s skill as difficulty.

Equipment:

• Three quality tiers: Minor 1, Medium 2, and Major 3.
• Weapons reduce the relevant attribute by their quality.
• Armor reduces incoming damage by its quality.

Knocked Out: When an attribute hits 0, you can’t act any further in the scene:

• Physical: You fall unconscious.
• Mental: You’re incapable of acting sanely.
• Social: You panic and act out anxiously.

Recovery: Any zeroed attributes recover to 1 at the end of a scene.

• With appropriate equipment, successful action restores its quality in points.
• Attributes fully recover after full scene spent resting.