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Welcome to In Media Res version 2.6. These html files contain rules for a universal roleplaying system that has been in the makings for six years. This e-manual is completely cross-referenced with html links and a complete index. Please remember that these files are shareware, but they are NOT public domain. These files may be freely distributed provided that they are not added to, taken from or altered in any way.

Contents

Introduction
Using This Book
Dice
Cast and Crew
Time and Time Again

How To Play
Playing A Role

On the Stage
Behind the Scenes

Optional and House Rules
Skill Rolls

Action Modifiers
Relational Modifiers {1T}
Cooperative Skills {1}
Victories, Fumbles and Overkill {1-2}

Designing Characters

Karma
Passion & Disposition
Stance, Bulk and Scale
Skills
Gifts and Perks
Handicaps and Flaws
Options

Defining Abilities

Type
Difficulty
Time
Duration (DTN)
Range
Area of Effect (AREA)

Playing Without Dice

Amazing Feats of Skill
Pools and Reserves
Timing is Everything

Live Roleplaying

Fight Scenes
Split Seconds
Actions
Rounds
Ambush

Movement and The Map
Surveillance
Aggression

Difficulty
Mass Effect Weapons
Movement
Pinpoints {2T}

Injury

Objects and Props
Charging {2}
Bleeding {1}
Knockback {3}

Defense
Scale
Falling and Impact
Extras {1}
Rioting {2}

State of Health
Natural Healing
Medical Skills
Hospitalization
Degenerative Conditions

Starvation and Dehydration
Asphyxiation
Sleep Deprivation

Karma
Karma Awards
Group Awards
Individual Awards and Penalties {2}
Experience: the Best Teacher {2}

Out With the Old; In With The New
Heroic Feats {2}
Retirement, Death and Reincarnation {1}
Villains and Extras

A Cast of Thousands
Karma
Character Capsules

Disposition {1}
Passion {1}
Physical Traits

Stance
Bulk
Scale
Mass

Quirks
Trick of the Trade

The Necessary Evils
Skill Groups {1-2T}
Skill List
Skill Descriptions

Gifts
Gifts List
Gift Descriptions
Abilities, Banes and Flaws

Perks
Allies
Stronghold
Vehicles

Flaws

Flaw Descriptions

Banes

Codes and Secrets
Dependants
Enemies

Options

Option Descriptions

Props

Food, Shelter and Clothing
Money
Skill Kits
Encumbrance
Armor
Weapons
Vehicles
Computers
Chemicals

About In Media Res
This book is dedicated to my wife and daughter, without whom, this entire effort would have been wasted.

Special thanks to all those who believed in me and told me I could succeed, as well as all those who did not and insisted I would fail.

Written and Illustrated by S. Isaac Dealey

In Media Res is produced by S. Isaac Dealey Enterprises and DarkSIDE Press. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, you can reach us at the following address.

DarkSIDE Press
1719 Nueces Trail
Arlington, TX 76012
or contact us via;
Phone: (817) 265-9332
Email: sid@rpg.net

Copyright: In Media Res is property of S. Isaac Dealey, S. Isaac Dealey Enterprises and DarkSIDE Press, copyright 1993, all rights reserved. Permission to reproduce is granted for personal use only.

Disclaimer: All characters and events herein are purely fictional. Accept where quoted, any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or real events is strictly unintentional. S. Isaac Dealey Enterprises and DarkSIDE Press do not promote or condone the use of weapons or violence, or practice of the occult.



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