Triforged by DiscoSoup is a lightweight, setting agnostic RPG that comes with its own Hack Pack for you to use and a pre-made fantasy setting - Forest of the Moon - to try it our right away. And when I say right away, I mean it. Experienced role-players will pick Triforged up in no time and even novice players will get the hang of it quickly by playing Forest of the Moon.
Triforged uses simple characters with 3 Attributes (Mind, Body, Heart) and 3 Skills the characters excel in. The resolution mechanic is lightweight and easy to use as well: You pick an attribute you use for an action and roll this against a difficulty level between 0-3 - you basically roll your die (a d8 or a d6) and subtract the difficulty level. Then you check in which range your result falls:
- 1-2: failure
- 3-4: partial success with a consequence
- 5-6: success
Easy peasy!
But the best part of this game/system comes next: remember the skills? You get to roll d6s equal to your skill number and every roll above the difficulty level earns you a Perk! Perks mean, that in a success, you get to add additional sentences to your simple success statement. This is a beautiful mechanic that is simple, easy to grasp and most of all transfers a game mechanic into an engaging aspect of the action in the game. I really like this on!
Triforges also gives you guidance on NPCs and how to handle them. Again, this is done in a simple way that makes coming up with an NPC super easy for any GM, so you can quickly adjust your game to the action in case your players wander off the path of your story.
Forest of the Moon gives the whole system a footing in a specific setting with various NPC parties within the world and roll tables for anything from encounters, quests, loot or oracles. The different NPC parties are introduces within the lore of the game and you will get examples of NPCs from various difficulty levels.
The Hack Pack on the other hand puts your creator persona into the driver seat. It lays out the individual parts of the game/system for you to add in lore, NPCs and any other idea you might have.
There is also a Triforged - Supers game available on DriveThruRPG which brings modern day super hero comics in the style of Silver Age comic books to your table. Definitely worth a look!
I give this game 馃専馃専馃専馃専馃専 stars!