The Simple Game System Copyright © 2008 Chris Gonnerman
The Simple Game System by Chris Gonnerman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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This is The Simple Game System, a role-playing game of supreme simplicity, ease of play, and fast action. This game is distributed for free (see the Creative Commons license, above, for details).

These rules have been written without a lot of RPG jargon, but honestly they are still probably not terribly easy to read for a non RPG gamer. If you are just starting out playing traditional paper, pencil, and dice RPG games, I recommend you visit the Dragonsfoot.org forums where you can meet (virtually, of course) and interact with fans of truly classic role-playing games. Design and discussion of this game takes place in the Workshop, Dragonsfoot's game development forum.

I am using OpenOffice.org to create these rules. Below are links to the rules in OpenOffice.org format and in Adobe Acrobat format. Take the Adobe Acrobat PDF file if you don't have OpenOffice.org installed.

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The Simple Game System Core Rules, Release 2 (December 11, 2008)
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TSGS Dead Cities Release 2 (October 9, 2009) by Omer Golan-Joel and Contributors