Publisher's blurb:
This is a mini skill resolution system for 10 broad skill type.
Kongor the barbarian master skilled at intimidating others, tries to intimidate the pit demon.
“The target fully reacts as planned and can be influenced more.” The intimidated pit demon also falls to the ground.
This is a minimalist system that does the following broad categories: 1) acrobatics, running, dodging, climbing; 2) athletics, lifting, pushing, pulling; 3) knowing, informing, remembering; 4) investigating, searching, perceiving, spotting; 5) persuading, intimidating, deceiving, influencing; 6) evaluating, appraising, trading, assessing; 7) sneaking, hiding, disguising, forging; 8) pick lock, pick pocket, sleight of hand, disarm trap; 9) driving, riding, boating, sailing, piloting; and 10) crafting, repairing, building, fixing, assembling 11) medicine, surgery, herbalism, healing. It can be used with the Minimalist Martial Arts Strikes; Minimalist Martial Arts Grappling; Minimalist Descriptive Combat, Minimalist: Fear, Disgust, & Madness; and/or Minimalist Elemental Effects systems. Or it may be used on its own.
One-page, easy, d6 system with a phrase-based result. No specific stat (uses words). It's skill-based, and it might be able to be used with several core systems.
It uses standard d6 dice.
It is small, only this cover page and one page system.
It is uses a small amount of words to describe the skill results.
This uses up to two rolls of 1d6.
Roll once to see if you begin the skill successfully.
Roll for the degree of skill progress success to see if you finish successfully.
Either creating your own or interpreting a current systems is based on interpreting a phrase or sentence fragment.