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The Kickstarter campaign for the Action! System™ 2.0 is now live!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neonnecromancergames/action-system-20
The Action! System™ was the second commercially-supported set of tabletop RPG rules ever to be published under the first edition of the Open Game License (OGL). It was originally released by Gold Rush Games in 2001 and used by multiple publishers between the years 2001 and 2005. It is a generic system that was designed to be incredibly similar to a variety of late-90s RPGs, specifically to ones that were used in anime RPGs.
After using it for some home games starting in 2013, Neon Necromancer Games finally bought the rights to it in 2020 intending to publish a second edition for its twentieth anniversary and then, well... gestures broadly to the news events of the past couple years.
Now that a certain company is being evil [censored]holes about the Open Game License, we feel it is necessary to revive this OGL pioneer. The intention is that A!S 2.0 will be released both under the original OGL 1.0a as well as Paizo's new Open RPG Creative License (ORC) once it is ready and released.
The Action! System is a universal, class- and level-less, attribute + skill + 3d6 system. It's a meat-and-potatoes system without any gameplay gimmicks such as special dice, dice pools, etc.
The Action! System does not mimic any single, specific game system. It is not a "clone" or a drop-in replacement for any game. That said... the game systems the Action! System most closely resembles are: Fuzion (Bubblegum Crisis/VOTOMS/DBZ/Sengoku/etc.), Interlock (Cyberpunk/Mekton/etc.), HERO (Champions), and Tri-Stat (Big Eyes, Small Mouth)
Multi-genre, crunchy tactical combat, late-'90s-style!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neonnecromancergames/action-system-20