Versus RPG Core

Features

• Fast and lethal combat focusing on wounds and anatomy rather than hitpoints. 
• One roll tells you everything about your attack (hit, missed or blocked, location, damage and if you can add bonus effects for a great roll). 
• Armor is extremely important as it can reduce a lethal injury into something more manageable, but also there are always gaps in a character's armor. 
• Weapons are tools with specific uses and attributes. Heavy weapons are hard to block. Long weapons let you steal initiative from your attacker. Balanced and fast weapons can strike more than once in a round. 
• Only two types of rolls: opposed and set difficulty tests (aka double rolls). Opposed rolls involve two characters trying to best each other by rolling dice and a difference of 5 or more usually means something special happened. Difficulty tests usually involve rolling two dice and failing, partially succeeding or fully succeeding depending on the results. 
• Simple trickle down character creation system where any point not used to buy attributes or powers can be used to buy two points of skills. 
• Optional rules for grappling and martial arts, treating negotiations and arguments like tactical combat, reacting to frightening events and super specific anatomy for medical drama or body horror. Use optional rules when they can add something to the scene, ignore them when they would get in the way.