Hey!  It looks like the $1000 goal has already been met!  Awesome!

Can anyone give me/point me at a quick lowdown on FASERIP's essentials? I confess to being unfamiliar with it.

Cheers,

- Q

Quote from: QuireCan anyone give me/point me at a quick lowdown on FASERIP's essentials? I confess to being unfamiliar with it.

Cheers,

- Q

Faserip, was Marvel Superheroes RPG that utilized 7 stats (Fighting, Agility, Strength, Endurance, Reason, Intuition, and Psyche).

The stats are represented by words and numbers--the words were very 4 color comic book in nature (Beginning at Shift 0, but most notably Poor, Feeble, Typical, Good, Excellent, Remarkable, Incredible, Amazing, Monstrous, Unearthly. Shift X, Shift Y, and Shift Z) the Advanced set had a few more (Class 1000, Class 3000, and Class Beyond) for representing heroes from the very low end of the Marvel Universe to the very high.

The system was percentile where you roll dice and looked up your rank of attribute (or power) and cross referenced your die roll resulting in a color result: White (Failure), Green (Basic Success), Yellow (Improved Success), Red (Superior Success)--everything worked off a single chart. The chart had notes above it that covered special effects of actions (combat mostly--for example guns and swords could get a Red (kill) result which brought someone to dying status without needing to whittle down their health.

The game worked quite well for Marvel of the era it represented. (80's-early 90s) it was supported for nearly a decade 84-93, and  still has a  considerable following.

You can download the MSH game for free a variety of places ( //www.classicmarvel.com or  //www.marvelrpg.com) appearently legitimately, and check it out.

I'm not sure exactly what the Open Faserip project will produce.

Quote from: SilverlionYou can download the MSH game for free a variety of places ( //www.classicmarvel.com or  //www.marvelrpg.com) appearently legitimately, and check it out.

Nice one. Thanks for the links and for the summary, Silverlion.

- Q

Quote from: SilverlionYou can download the MSH game for free a variety of places ( //www.classicmarvel.com or  //www.marvelrpg.com) appearently legitimately, and check it out.

Wow! Thanks for the link.

BTW, now that I've had a chance to take a look at it after following Silverlion's links...didn't TSR Conan and indeed Star Frontier Wossname's Guide version use something very similar? I'm afraid the books are in storage, so aren't to hand to check.

- Q

Yeah, the success of FASERIP kicked off a bit of a crazy Colorful Resolution Chart revolution at TSR.  Conan, 3rd edition Gamma World and Zebulon's Guide to Frontier Space (which was Star Frontiers 2nd edition marketed as a supplement) all used a color-as-degree-of-success resolution charts.  The charts were not identical and neither were the rest of the various mechanics.