LUCK & ACCIDENTS


Luck: Your number of Brownie Points applied to the Table should give you the state of your luck. The Lo ‘ est it is, the Hi ’ est the probability of bad luck-based events happening to you… and the Lo ‘ est for good events, etc.

Basically, a lot of Brownie Points makes you a lucky buzzard while low on them you’re down on your luck…
GhostMasters should refrain from pure-luck adventures!



Acciddents: will hurt you no matter how big your Muscles are so the GM will roll against your Muscles UNANSWERED (GM's roll only) resulting on the normal scale of Damage. Again, GhostMasters should refrain from an excess accidents.

The GhostMaster will roll

1 die if the player steps on a mouse trap;

12 dice if Godzilla steps on the player;

…And all that's in between.








Well that's it, the main parts. This is mostly the way *I* play the game. My apologies if I strayed from the source.
And remember, you can always keep it simple with the How-Much System - it can do it all!

– END OF RULES –

That's a lot of work Doc. Thanks for posting it!

My pleasure.

Ray's Goal taking over, maybe…?

Just a couple of weeks over four years ago (back when I had more time on my hands) I posted what I hoped would be the first overview on the rules for the RPG. Sadly, I never found the time to follow up.

But if it provides some additional info or a helpful introduction to the people who aren't familar with the GB RPG, here are those features;

Overview of published game materials.
Introduction to the basic rules and character creation.

Visit the above page for the best guide on how to make a new character. Among other things, it features a list of Talents and the way to reasonably assign your Trait points.
Another resource page I found is that of Fudge Ghostbusters, an adaptation of GBI into a game called “Fudge”. It differs from the original but it still can be of help - their ASCII Character Sheet for instance - easy to copy and print! Too different sadly, like they have Fudge instead of Brownie. :O
But I'll try to create something like that to post here in the future, more like the original Sheet.



* I would also like to apply for a Sticky. This is a guide to the board's very subject. Besides some people have asked for something like this without even noticing *

Here's a simplified Character's Sheet.
Partly inspired by the page above, easy to copy and print (and fill). Certainly it looks better in the “Ghostbusting” font.



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GHOSTBUSTER'S SHEET
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Name :
Sex : M F
Age (optional):
GOAL:

TRAITS_______________________________________________________

Brains
0 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 Talent (+3):

Muscles
0 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 Talent (+3):

Moves
0 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 Talent (+3):

Cool
0 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 Talent (+3):

Bracket the starting Trait value like the below, then use markers or a pencil to indicate decrease.


BROWNIE_POINTS________________________________________________

30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 19 18 17
16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

DAMAGE________________________________________________________

(none)
Scratch —–> total Traits down by 1
Hurt —–> total Traits total down by 2
Very Hurt —–> Traits down by 3
Pretty Whacked —–> Traits down by 4
Out of the fight (for now) —–> down by 5
TO THE HOSPITAL!

EQUIPMENT______________________________________________________

> Head (x0.5):
> Back (x2):
> Left hand (x0.5):
> Right hand (x0.5):
> Belt, left (x0.5):
> Belt, right (x0.5):

If the number of objects you carry (times the value on the right) is greater than your Muscles, your Moves & Cool will go down by 1. You cannot carry twice your Muscles.

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*The Unofficial Ghostbusters Download Center
is the place to find the Ghostbusting font.

Sound confussing to me. I think I'll stick with playing the RPG in the chat room. It's less confussing