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VIRTUE
Build Your Path. Define Your Legend.
WHAT IS VIRTUE?
VIRTUE is a TTRPG system built around meaningful character customization, tactical gameplay, and modular mechanic systems.
Rather than restricting players to rigid classes or other progression systems, VIRTUE provides a robust framework for creating nearly any character concept and naturally tying progression to gameplay.
WHAT SETS VIRTUE APART?
It’s still the same base d20 system we’ve all grown to love since the 2000s, but with:
• Additional survival mechanics such as item durability and exhaustion
• A versatile spell-crafting and magic item creation system
• Progression systems tied to skill usage, rather than standard XP levelling
• Use of unique attributes, the VIRTUEs
• Classic ideas of “classes,” “feats,” and so on merged & replaced with Talents
• Localized damage and injury system
• Extensive rules for Exploration at all scales
• Modular and craft-able equipment
• Modular race & background generation and other ways to define characters
• Universal rules for any setting and genre
• Mechanical sub-systems that can stand entirely independent, or
• Be used in combination, remaining interconnected and cohesive unto itself
VIRTUE is a game system that encourages player build-crafting like no other.
WHAT ARE THE VIRTUEs?
Whereas virtues are behaviors that display great moral standards,
the VIRTUEs are properties of a person’s being,
and to pursue a greater VIRTUE is quite the noble endeavor.
The VIRTUES are thus:
• Vitality - Measures one’s Health
• Insight - Measures one’s Intuition
• Reflex - Measures one’s Speed
• Toughness - Measures one’s Strength
• Utility - Measures one’s Resourcefulness
• Ego - Measures one’s Mental Presence
VIRTUE PRODUCTS
VIRTUE Core Rulebook - In Development
Mighty Martials Supplement - In Planning
Cunning Casters Supplement - In Planning
Radical Races Supplement - In Planning
Stellar Science Supplement - In Planning
FREE VIRTUE RESOURCES
CURRENT PROJECTS USING VIRTUE
DESOLATE ARCANE
WHY MAKE VIRTUE?
The desire to start the project was born from a desire for a system with not only more difficulty and grounded consequences for failure, but also a return to the plethora of character options available in the systems that came out during the advent of the d20 system and since. While the game started as a homebrewed mess of another system, over time we’ve written VIRTUE to be completely unique in what it has to offer, if not totally original. Other systems of course offer similar things, like spell-crafting or how we’ve overhauled skills, but very few put all those systems together, and none put them together quite like we do.
To help showcase the extent of what VIRTUE can do we’ve created Desolate Arcane, a setting ripe with lore and cruel environments with which to test the system and what it has to offer. You can learn more about that setting here.
Regardless of your skills and abilities, if someone stabs you with a sword through the gut you are almost guaranteed death. But also, being able to wield a giant hunk of iron capable of rending dragons in half is just plain cool. We want VIRTUE to appease both of these sensibilities, and we hope you agree that we’ve done a decent job.
