Boundless RPG

Boundless is the ready-to-hack, old school style dungeon crawl RPG of perilous journeys and desperate delves. It is free, open licensed, and solo friendly. Character creation is quick, play focuses on clever problem solving, and combat is fast and deadly.

If you love Year Zero Engine, Into the Odd, MÖRK BORG and Blades in the Dark, you’ll feel right at home. 

Light on rules, bound to the dark.

For more on Boundless, visit https://farirpgs.com/boundless

Translations

• Français (French)
• Español (Spanish) — Soon 
• Português Brasileiro (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Русский (Russian) — Soon
• 中文简体 (Chinese Simplified) — Soon

Features

Character creation

Assign a few Attribute ratings, calculate your character's Hit Points, roll for starting items, and your character is ready to embark on their journey.

Core system

When your character faces a risky challenge, roll a handful of D6s. Each result of 5 or 6 is a Hit. Two or more Hits means the action is successful, one Hit means the action results in a partial success, and zero Hits means the action fails. 

Advantage and disadvantage shift the character's Position, which as a result shifts which results count as Hits.

Pushing your luck

Every mechanic in the game is about what the character is willing to spend to get what they want. They can reroll failures by taking Conditions, survive deadly threats by risking damage to their Attributes, or rely on their gear and watch its usage Pool shrink through use, wear, and tear.

Dice Pools as clocks

Boundless uses Pools as a "clock" system to to track resources, pressure, and progress. A Pool starts with 2, 4, 6, or 8 dice. 

When a Pool is tested, it is rolled and every die that results in a Miss (1-4) reduces the Pool's size by 1 die, up to a maximum of 2 dice per roll. 

When the Pool runs out, something in the fiction changes. Torches burn out, supplies run dry, enemies lose morale, danger arrives, or a complex challenge resolves.

Solo-friendly

The game’s mechanics are player-facing and include procedure-driven Fortune Rolls to keep things moving when characters are not directly involved. This makes solo, duet, and GMless play a breeze to run.

Ready to hack

This game is 100% free, open-licensed, and designed with hackability in mind. You can use the core rules as written, reskin them for a new setting, or build a complete game from the same fast, flexible foundation.

Open Licensed

Attribution Text: To make your own Boundless game, please credit us as follows:

This product is based on Boundless published by Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas, and is licensed for use under the Open RPG Creative License. This product is licensed under the ORC License held in the Library of Congress at TX 9-307-067 and available online at various locations including www.azoralaw.com/orclicense and others. All warranties are disclaimed as set forth therein.

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