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Message: [QUOTE="Mr. Daddy, post: 180600, member: 250953"] [CENTER]I'll bite, I've got one I'd like to point to too. This is Cartoon Action Hour Season 3: [IMG width="460px" size="720x931"]https://d1vzi28wh99zvq.cloudfront.net/images/2340/121604.jpg[/IMG] It's definitely a theme-focused ttrpg, where the rules are kept fairly light and a bulk of the book is about discussing common tropes, recommended cartoons to watch, and full of tv-themed language, beginner-friendly explanations about ttrpg basics, and "legally distinct" characters like a robot pharaoh that looks really similar to Optimus Prime, samurai Skeletor, asian amphibians of possibly young age and mutant status, and whatever the hell this thing is: [ATTACH type="full" width="474px" size="1032x618"]61037[/ATTACH] Mechanically speaking, the game's pretty simple. I'm pretty sure it's intended to be kid-friendly, or at the very least meant to be easy to learn and fast to play. The book even says you pretty much just need pen and paper, some 12 sided dice, and at least one copy of the book itself, as well as some tokens to keep track of Oomph (which functions like a weird mix of inspiration from D&D5e, dark side/light side dice from FFG Star Wars, and experience), and setback tokens representing any kind of significant impediment to the character. Games in Cartoon Action Hour are broken up into Scenes (individual story beats and challenges), Episodes (full sessions) and Seasons (after 6 episodes, characters are allowed to be improved or changed altogether, so it sort of acts like experience and narrative story arcs.) All characters have Star Power, a literal mechanic to determine how important a character is to the narrative. Star Power 1 is for your typical goons and nameless allies, 2 is for supporting characters such as recurring NPCs that will assist the player characters and the main villains and named henchmen players will interact with, 3 is for main characters such as the players and the most trusted allies of the main villain, and 4 is reserved for the master villain mostly, though a central protagonist hero or a powerful faction leader could theoretically also fit in here. When a character has a number of setback tokens equal to their star power, they are defeated, removing them from the current scene in some way up to the player or GM. Setback tokens don't carry over from scene to scene though, and are removed at the start of the next scene. For character abilities, this game is very open and lets players write in their traits, making the assumption that if it is not listed, they are average at a trait. It is largely up to GM interpretation whether something would apply to a given situation or not. The system has many stock trait names, but actually encourages players to come up with their own, so that their characters are better defined and personalized. There are also many special rules that function similar to power modifiers from M&M3e that can be applied to traits to define them better. Trait ratings are defined in simple tiers, where 1-4 is Human Tier, 5-8 is Superhuman, and 9 or more is Cosmic. Characters also have Qualities, which are essentially basic descriptors of their character and personality. You get three, one of which has to be a Signature Quality, which you would think of as their major descriptor (think like Orc Barbarian, Master of Weapons, Mighty Alien Warrior, etc.), and the other two are Standard Qualities, which are typically things like personality traits, background, quirks, and the like. They pretty much serve to give you a +2 on checks once or twice per session and define your character a bit better. Checks are made with a d12 and function pretty standardly based on what you'd expect from any other rpg in that regard. There's also other rules for equipment, making a "gestalt character" (think like Voltron), transforming between two states, and other neat little unique features. One of my favorite examples is the rules for "The Movie", where you declare the next one to three sessions to be "The Movie" which changes the game in a variety of ways, like giving players more Oomph, making it so only one Setback Token is removed between scenes, and actually allowing for permanent character death. I haven't run this system yet, but it has a lot of unique little features and tons of creative freedom that make the idea very appealing, and I think the rules can be pretty broadly applied to lots of 90s action cartoons and even some 2000s ones too, when it comes to having more inspiration.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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