I sometimes hear Worlds Without Number being mentioned, but it's usually as a world-building tool, since the main book has lots of good tables for that. I rarely hear anyone talking about it as a game.

I only really learned what it is recently. It's a lot like Old School Essentials but with a proper skill system (you can choose which skills to increase when you level up, etc) and a feats system (although they call them "foci") which you can use to customize your character.

It does have a weird class system, though. It's based on three base classes: Mage, Expert, and Warrior. There's also Adventurer, but what that basically means is being multiclassed. So from those three classes you customize your character to become more specialized. Want to be a monk? Sure, pick the Warrior class (or the Expert class if you want more skill points) and then pick the Unarmed Combatant feat. It gives you better unarmored AC, and makes your unarmed attacks basically as good as a sword, etc. There are other foci which basically turns your Mage into a cleric, and so on.

I also find the combat to be better than, say D&D 5+E, with more types of actions to choose from in combat.

So, like the title says - to me, this game is great. And it surprises me that I see so few people talking about it. The basic edition, which has about 90% of the content of the full edition I think, is free on DriveThruRPG (non-affiliate link).

This is a system for keeping track of friendships between NPCs and PCs, which also allows NPCs to fall in love - if there is chemistry. It was written with Solo play in mind, but it would also work for group play. I've written a similar system before, but that one turned out to be too complex and require too much bookkeeping for my taste.

Let's have a look at an overview of how this system works.

1. Bond points are gained or lost by NPCs to keep track of how your relationship with them is going. They apply to both friendly and romantic relationships.
2. Action rolls are how Bond points are gained or lost, and they come in two categories: Friendship Actions and Romance Actions.
3. Friendship Actions are actions which could strengthen your bond with an NPC, such as engaging in conversation, giving gifts, or even going on adventures together.
4. Friendship downtime events can happen during downtime, once a friendship has taken place.
5. Chemistry rolls are necessary before any Romance Actions can take place. There can be no consent to romance without chemistry, and chemistry is outside of your control. Romance can not be forced.
6. Romance Actions become available if chemistry has been established, and allows for various types of courting activities such as dating, kissing, other types of physical intimacy, and even marriage proposals.
7. Romance downtime events are things that happen in romantic relationships during downtime and can involve anything from the NPC revealing a secret or making a suggestion, to relationship conflicts and breakups.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, then feel free to read the full article, and let me know if you have any feedback.

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