What's GUTS+?We can't all be super-powered demigods on an epic quest to save the universe. Most of us are just normal people dealing with weird challenges or tricky situations. When you don't have access to supernatural abilities, it takes GUTS to work through them!
The GUTS+ System is a role-playing game system that allows you to live out wild adventures without straying too far from your own abilities in the real world while still leaving plenty of room to explore what's possible with tremendous growth! Improve your character's qualities to excel at certain activities and overcome more and more incredible tasks! Work with your Game Master and your fellow players to solve big problems together!
Interaction with the game world and all the characters in it is at the forefront of the GUTS+ System, and its generalized mechanics allow for nearly infinite settings and scenarios. The GM decides what's possible and what's available in the game world, and you can help sway their decisions. There's even a unique magic system to explore if you're looking to add a little bit more of the mystical to spice up your game world!
It's not always gonna be easy, but now you've got the GUTS to do what it takes!
Why GUTS+?The GUTS+ System aims to give you as much freedom as possible:
It lays out a full set of rules without a specific setting or storyline so you can build your own or modify one you like. The goal is to provide easy-to-remember rules that let the Game Master build the world and decide the outcomes so players can focus more on collaborative storytelling, interpersonal relations, and free-form play.
GUTS+ stands apart with its "quality" system:
Rather than having set skills, GUTS+ focuses on individual, customizable qualities giving your character the ability to do things, and if they don't have one specific to the action, their success at performing tasks is dependent upon their base qualities:
Gumption, Utility, Thought, and Slyness.
Plus a unique conflict resolution system using only six-sided dice:
Roll one die for each level your quality has, and each die is interpreted individually to determine the outcome. So if your quality is level 4, roll 4 dice, and the GM interprets the roll rather than taking a total or average.
RPG System?Yep, this is an assembly-required tabletop role-playing game system with no stories or settings built in. Think of it like a game engine, but for tabletop role-playing—you can use it however you want with whatever story you want! Ultimate freedom!
That does mean that you need to provide your own plot and ideas, though. The Game Master chapter covers how you can build your own world, but you can also use existing stories and worlds to play however you want with the simplified rules system.
If that's too much for you, SKATER+ was released as an expansion to the GUTS+ System with special rules for skating like in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games. It's the first official setting for the GUTS+ System, and it's a lot of radical fun! SKATER+ is free, so whether you use the settings and rules itself or simply look at them for inspiration, you'll hopefully be able to find a use for GUTS+!
This core rule book contains all of the information you need to learn how to use the GUTS+ system, how to use its unique optional magic system, and a full one-off adventure scenario to help you get started building your own games. All of the information in this book is freely available on the official GUTS+ website, but this provides a nice, printable format with custom images throughout.
Source: The Developer Website.