Take5 Base System Rules
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Take5 is a highly customizable tabletop system in which the possibilities for characters, settings, fighting styles, and player interactions are limitless. Take5 utilizes a d100 base. Check it out today!
The Take5 Base System Rules has everything you need and more to get started with all of Take5's boundless adventures and stories.
Includes over 150 pages of well-described rules for any situation, tips on how to make your game more fun, and nigh-limitless customization options that are expanded upon more in each of its related addons available for purchase. The Base System is required for all subsequent addons of Take5's systems.
Take5 Base System
- Includes every ruling possible, even rules that are utilized in other addons for ease of understanding. The boons (character and creature skills) available here touch lightly on content within every other addon.
- D100 Base gameplay
- Unlimited number of character skills and combinations, or ‘builds’. Addons that include heritages also include the ability to hybrid them quite easily, which makes for some very interesting characters.
- Easy optional mechanics that can increase difficulty or bring new flavor to the table
What does Take5 offer over other systems?
- Freeform, flexible, and detailed character creation lets you express character concepts not possible in other games.
- Combat encourages teamwork and cooperation more than other systems might, with integrated mechanics for all types of fighting styles and groups. It’s equally easy to show off, push your character to their limit, or risk death if you aren’t careful, depending on your GM.
- The system is incredibly easy to learn. While it’s relatively bulky to account for all possibilities, most people know the basic ins and outs within a week. Any other rules can be referenced on the fly.
- We have closely playtested every new expansion that comes out for over 5 years, both by our own team members and volunteer gameplay testers from outside the management circle.
- A much more immersive character growth-by-level. You don’t suddenly wake up and become powerful unless you are given that power!
What inspired Take5?
I’d been creating my own systems since I was 13, each one a little more ambitious than the last. I had friends who played them with me, from a Fallout style system that included a ‘character build’ based on the various tests you take in fallout games to a spacefaring D&D-esque platform. We bounced around some official games too, such as Call of Cthulu, Shadowrun, and even looked over older versions of Dungeons & Dragons.
My friends and I eventually settled on DND, but we got tired of the rigidity, restrictions to certain aspects, inability to create non-fantasy settings without massive amounts of resources or time put into them, and the fact that you couldn’t really start as a true, genuine, level 0 character. We wanted something we grew with, and that offered more combat mechanics besides just wacking enemies. Strategy and cooperation. So, I started Take5. A true, one-and-done system that would work for anything while not trying to be ‘too much’ or overcomplicated beyond belief.
Currently and forever Free!
Upon payment, you'll receive the entirety of the Take5 Base System Rules and an invite to our official community discord for your own personal use. We in the server welcome all flags and colors, and we love hearing new ideas from the community! You can also see active updates to the base system and addons before release through our hotfix channel!