From the introduction:
Roleplaying games (RPGs) can be some of the most rewarding games to play. If you have the right mix of people, playing a RPG game can be a rich experience. Ideally, players will learn that teamwork pays and treachery leads to disaster (unless you are playing Paranoia). If you do not have this experience, find a new game.
A RPG has two key sets of people: a game master (GM) who makes up the world and runs the session, and players who play characters in that world.
The Freestyle Role Playing Game is “skill based.” With the GM’s approval, the players can develop any skill they want. A player’s attributes affect the players ability to perform a task. The rules are used determine the success and failure of a players actions.
The Freestyle RPG rules cover a number of different areas. Many are included to give the ability to have worlds that are mixed genre. For example, they employ magic and technology. The Game Master (GM) should pick and choose what they need.
The rules are broken up into sections. The first sections describe character creation, skill development, action resolution and combat resolution. The rest of the document provides rules and source material to cover fantasy campaigns through science fiction campaigns.
Within the combat sections the rules allows for a variety of levels of detail. This was done to allow the GM to conduct the game in a more flexible fashion.