Live System

From the publisher's website:

The Live System is designed to be a more free-flowing, fast playing & looser interpretation of the Open Gaming system. It contains systems & rules that present a more flowing, less structured & modern updating of the system, stripping out unnecessary complication & updating with standard innovations, such as the removal of levels.

The Live System is faster & deadlier but is more suited to both cinematic style games & to ‘harder’ settings such as hard science fiction or gritty modern-day adventures.

The Live System may also be used to play standard 3rd & 3.5 edition games with a little conversion work & this SRD should contain enough information for you to be able to do so with little problem.

• System - The Live System is an updated and altered OGL SRD with streamlined and deadlier combat, point based character generation and feat based magic and psionic system. The Live System is designed for those who want to use OGL material but who prefer a more modern take on many aspects of gaming.
  
• Presentation - Aside from the cover The Live System is sparsely illustrated with graphical elements leaving the majority of the book for presentation of the rules.
  
• Keynotes - Streamlined and modernised OGL system. In many ways what I wish d20 had been.
  
• Design Notes - I was disappointed in the OGL rules when they first appeared. What I saw as an opportunity to streamline, update and make more accessable the strongest RPG property in the world seemed - to me - to be too beholden to 'The Old Days' and to have missed a trick and most of the last 30 years of game development. Still, it was immensely frustrating to see so much good material being put out for a system that I simply didn't want to use most of the time. So I cut it to pieces and stitched it back together.

The parent system is: d20.

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