NUGGET is a trimmed-down version of the LODE system found in Silver Branch products, cramming a basic set of RPG rules into just 2 pages. It's a tool for introducing people to roleplaying games, putting a game together in a hurry, or those times when you just can't be bothered with long, complicated rules.

Obviously there's not enough room to cover a particular style/genre really well, but it's enough to play simple games where characters are basically normal people, perhaps with special skills - horror, crime, low fantasy, science fiction, monster collecting or whatever.

Many roleplaying games and other speculative fiction cast characters as "Chosen Ones", singled out for a heroic destiny and/or supernatural powers. What if you turned it around? What if a world much like our own contained people who were special because power had been taken away from them in some supernatural manner? The universe has turned round and rejected the characters, and they tend to fall through the cracks of everyday life, but still play key roles as agents in the development of certain stories, for instance as wandering righters of wrongs.

NUGGETS is an occasional line of self-contained mini-games based around the stripped down NUGGET system.

Now updated to v3 of the basic NUGGET rules.