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STOCS Lite

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:51 am
by Linden
Generic modern rpg originally published by Wasteland Games back in the mid-90s. Available as freeware from their website. The game system exhibits similarities with both BRP and the GDW house system but has some interesting ideas of its own. Combat is quite dangerous.

The Majii sourcebook provides an alternate take on the Delta Green/Conspiracy X alien invasion scenario. The Vardukar sourcebook is closer to Dark Conspiracy with a war against bodysnatching monsters from another dimension. Both take place in the same game universe so could perhaps be used for deeper background in a DC campaign.

Re: STOCS Lite

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:44 am
by ReHerakhte
Thanks for the info Linden. I was interested in STOCS many moons ago but never bought any of the books.
Then of course, over the years, I completely forgot about it so it's good to be able to get my paws on them (and even better when they're free!)

Re: STOCS Lite

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:43 am
by Linden
I always liked the idea of STOCS Lite - a concise set of rules that seemed to cover most of the situations that would occur in a modern game: Combat, car chases, poisoning and even magic/psi powers. Not sure how easy they would be to run in practice though. The rules for calculating injury and types of wound strike me as quite number heavy and maybe a bit fiddly.