The Rad Hack

[Astromancer]

The Rad Hack is a thirty-two page RPG. It's super simple but meaty. Think Gama World striped to the bare bones.

It has interesting twists. Take rolling up a character, humans roll 4D6 discard the lowest. Mutants roll a D20. Robots get a points build. Psychics roll 4D6 for mental stats and 2D6+2 for physical stats. For a simple set up it's got lots of flavor.

Anyone here played this game?

[Varyon]

Something about those numbers seems off. Humans average a 12.24 for each stat, psychics average an 11.5 for each stat (average 14 for mental stats, average 9 for physical stats; assuming there are the same number of each, that's an overall average of 11.5), and mutants average a 10.5 for each stat. I hope the psychics and mutants get some good abilities in the exchange, or humans (and possibly robots) are going to dominate on average.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Varyon

Something about those numbers seems off. Humans average a 12.24 for each stat, psychics average an 11.5 for each stat (average 14 for mental stats, average 9 for physical stats; assuming there are the same number of each, that's an overall average of 11.5), and mutants average a 10.5 for each stat. I hope the psychics and mutants get some good abilities in the exchange, or humans (and possibly robots) are going to dominate on average.

They do. Psis get powers and more as they level up and mutants get cool mutant powers and radiation resistance. It a very striped down game but we'll designed for it goals.