Description: Match-, wheel-, or Flint-Lock weapons take too long to load to be reloaded in battle without a hireling to load it, thus they may be fired only once per battle unless the character also carries (potentially explosive) pre-prepared shot, wadding, and powder bundles (called "apostles.")
Find it in: Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Keywords: Exploration, Fast-paced, Gritty, Pulpy, Rules-light, Swashbuckling
Genres: Crime, Dark Fantasy, Pulp
Description: Used primarily in settings where firearms are rare and a new innovation. The sound of a firearm being discharged around creatures that are not part of a firearm-using culture can force a morale check or similar fear effect.
Find it in: Lamentations of the Flame Princess
Keywords: Dangerous, Exploration, Gritty, Tactical, Tense
Genres: Crime, Dark Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic, Pulp
Description: When a character is knocked out of commission (such as at 0hp), their status is unknown unless an ally checks on them to see if they are living or dead. At that time the character makes a single saving throw or Luck Checks to see if they are alive, at which point they can be restored to consciousness.
Find it in: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Low Fantasy Gaming, Troika!
Keywords: Cinematic, Dangerous, Gritty, Pulpy, Rules-light, Tense
Genres: Crime, Low Fantasy, Pulp, Western
Description: When lacking any other tool for decision making as to which character is attacked, targeted, or hit by a trap, choose the character with the lowest current Luck Score.
Find it in: Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
Keywords: Fantastical, Pulpy, Rules-light, Weird
Genres: Crime, High Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Pulp, Sword & Sorcery
Description: Used in TTRPGs that use a Luck Scores. When a party of PCs is attempting to fled a battle they make Luck Checks, if more than half the party succeeds, then the party shakes their attackers and winds up in a relatively safe location that the GM chooses. Alternatively, everyone who succeeds escapes. This removes the need for chase mechanics.
Find it in: Low Fantasy Gaming
Keywords: Cinematic, Fast-paced, Pulpy, Rules-light, Swashbuckling
Genres: Crime, Low Fantasy, Pulp, Sword & Sorcery, Western
Description: Characters may once per day recover from a small amount injury by drinking alcohol.
Found In: Age of Conan, D&D3.5
Keywords: Pulpy, Swashbuckling
Genres: Sword & Sorcery, Western, Martial Arts, Crime, Military
Description: Used in games that use hot points, wound levels, or damage tracks, Armor adds additional damage to the total the character can take that cannot heal unless the armor is repaired.
Find it in: Blades in the Dark, Tiny Dungeon 2e, Pacts and Blades
Keywords: Fast-paced, Tactical, Cinematic
Genres: Crime, Military, Sword and Sorcery, Low Fantasy, Science Fiction
Description: Stands in for a planning session, this roll allows a battle, heist, or similar planning-intensive adventure. The roll establishes the danger level and task difficulty as the adventure begins in media res.
Find it in: Blades in the Dark
Keywords: Fast-Paced
Genres: Crime, Military, Cyberpunk
Description: This system allows PCs to expend resources and risk harm to have an action occur in the past that gives the PC an advantage or potential solution in the present. Allows the PCs to dive directly into action and get the benefits of an extended planning session.
Find it in: Blades in the Dark
Keywords: Fast-Paced
Genres: Crime, Military, Cyberpunk, Western
