Build Your World, Create Your Protagonist, Tell Your Story

System Vivo is a rules system for running horror, near future, historical fiction, and low fantasy campaigns that feature human (or near human) protagonists.  Use Vivo when you want to focus on building your story, not on learning a new set of rules for every campaign.  Vivo keeps the action moving, while maintaining tactical depth in conflicts.  Includes expert advice on designing your own campaign, including expanding upon the modular rules system and building your setting.

  • Modular rules built around a core mechanic; easy to modify to your table’s taste.
  • Social Conflict system based around building advantages, such as research, deception, and backstabbing rivals before making the roll to succeed in your attempt to negotiate, persuade, or intimidate.
  • Fast moving physical conflict system, built around matching your defense to your opponent’s offense.
  • A d6 dice pool system, this means it scales well whether your protagonists are facing off against regular people or cosmic horrors.  It keeps the probability simple so a player can always eyeball their likelihood of success.
  • Morality system based off Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
  • Copious examples included so you know how to use the rules.
  • Works through building an example horror campaign so that you can build your own campaign even if you are a first timer.  (Alternatively, you can Or run the example campaign if you are pressed for time.)
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