Cortex has existed in one form or another for over twenty years, powering multiple licensed roleplaying games. Flagship evergreen product with full digital support.Build your own roleplaying game primed by Cortex using hundreds of mods, traits, and mechanics, using themes and genres you already know and love. Entirely modular and packed with advice, examples, and options.Refined and redesigned for a new, digitally supported generation. An exhaustive, award-winning tabletop roleplaying game system.Session-based play recognizes that both one-shot stories and extended campaigns are made richer by focusing on the immediacy of what happens at the table-either in person or online.“Hitches” (dice results of 1) generate interesting immediate complications and long-term player benefits.

Player-centered choices allow for flaws and limits to manifest when the player feels they’re most effective.Uses polyhedral gaming dice of four, six, eight, ten, and twelve sides. A simple dice-pool-based mechanic in which you add two of your dice results together and compare against an opposing roll.Narrative-focused traits and abilities that quickly bring your character and stories to life in ways that make sense for the genres you prefer.Includes three sample Spotlight settings ready to go: Eidolon Alpha, Hammerheads, and TRACE 2.0.

Orc revolutionaries in love! Giant-sized mythic mecha! Swashbuckling cats in the far future! Hard-boiled and haunted police detectives! Whether you’re a fan of genres and genre mash-ups covering the full spectrum of RPG worlds and settings, or you’re just looking for a tabletop game system you can customize to your own specifications, Cortex Prime is primed for you.

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