The Coin Playtest
From the mind of a long time player comes The Coin. A world teetering on the edge or balance and chaos. This contains all you need to play the game. Including the rules¸ characters and a short adventure in the world of The Coin. For the last few years I have been working on a new type of RPG¸ looking at the way people play and interact¸ what they have difficulty with and what they find most meaningful in their characters. Trying to find a way to reward them for being creative with their builds instead of the all too normal penalization for going out of the character tropes. I have come up with this: The Coin. The Coin exists as two parts of a whole¸ the world of balance and the world of chaos and in between is The Cogs¸ the force that channels life energy from one side to the other to make sure the entire thing stays in perfect or nearly perfect harmony. The system runs on a card-based system with each player having a standard deck of cards from which they draw determined fate. The GM has two decks of cards¸ the contested and Fate decks. Players that fail checks under most circumstances can push Fate and attempt to deny what has been put in their destiny. However¸ fate does not like to be pushed and failing a push Fate often leads to catastrophic failure. The world itself exists in balance of six elements Order¸ Earth¸ Fire¸ Water¸ Wind¸ Chaos. In this case Order does not mean good¸ nor Chaos bad. These are the forces that make up all living things. I wanted to step away from traditional fantasy races so the people you will find in the coin are varied and different. Most are humanoid in shape¸ but their function has been changed to represent the elements they are in line with. Characters a built on a point-buy system where race¸ abilities¸ and skills all come from a pool of points. Bought at a discounted price at character creation but the price scales up as players grow showing the issues with learning and advancing. A complete rulebook is in the works but for now this will teach you how to play and give you an idea of how it should be run. Please Enjoy!