Gamebooks & Goonies

A rule system for choice-based adventures.

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Gamebooks & Goonies is an RPG rule system for gamebooks, CYOA and similar. It's mainly designed for single-player computer games, but still described in terms of real dice and the like. It's also a very small game of only 1000 words.

Game rules

The rules belong in the 2d6 family, meaning all rolls use just a pair of six-sided dice, with modifiers. From the contents:

• Game structure
• Success and failure
• Abilities
• Character creation
• Combat
• Magic
• Rest and healing
• Character advancement

To do

• overhaul magic system
• add advantage system for rolls, to allow for buffs and debuffs
• make Grace actively useful in combat (see above)
• add rule for when a tie is rolled in combat
• add median roll system for long-running tasks

Magic system overhaul:

• roll to prepare spells in advance like in Battles & Balances
• add ability to prepare the same spell multiple times
• replace spell level system with easy / medium / hard difficulty

Credits and license

Gamebooks & Goonies is a hack of Tunnel Goons, by Nate Treme, and like it offered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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Last modified: 3 June 2023

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