Century's Edge
A turn-of-the-century RPG that mixes history with popular Victorian novels such as Dracula and Robur the Conqueror. It uses a step-die system where each attribute is assigned a positive die and negative die. Resolution is by rolling both dice¸ taking the higher absolute value¸ with the the result being negative or positive depending on which die is higher. Character creation is by picking an Archetype that determined positive attribute die values¸ and a Background that determines negative attribute die values. The 10 Archetypes are Combatant¸ Outdoorsman¸ Rapscallion¸ Engineer¸ Scholar¸ Aristocrat¸ Believer¸ Illuminatus¸ Gnostic¸ and Jack. The Backgrounds include Militant¸ Affluent¸ Educated¸ Installed¸ Hard-laborer¸ Skilled-Laborer¸ Secretive Past¸ Privation¸ and Unrefined. - A description fromdarkshire.netwith kind permission of John H. Kim