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System Reference Document

The Strikermechanica is the system for playing Striker featured in the published core rulebook. It makes use of the d20 as the tasking die (under a methodology called opposed modified linear tasking).

To some, the use of the d20 will be a clear sign that Striker is a d20 game, but Striker is not a d20 game in any useful sense.

While there is the occasional feature in the Strikermechanica that might be reminiscent of d20 Modern, a whole slew of mechanical features, that would also be expected, are simply missing.

As was stated in the home page:

The Strikermechanica is a pragmatic approach to sci fi gaming. It leverages a small part of the familiarity of d20 systems, but ruthlessly removes all the baggage, and vastly empowers skills, so that they are now primary.

Summary​

Skills and Traits​

A Striker character, whether they be a person, cyborg, AI, vehicle or even a striker is a collection of traits. A trait can be:

  • a simple statistic, like the number of health points, or your weight
  • something that can be used to do something, like your eyesight
  • something that you can perform an action with

All of these can come from your sophont (which is the equivalent of a race)

The last item here is called a skill, for most player characters: skills can come from your sophont, but they are more likely to come from your background, profession and vocation. As you will see, the skill is the most significant part of Striker.