TabletopHero is a simple ruleset for playing tabletop roleplaying or tactics games.

I designed the Core rules in 2014 when my kids were too young to play more complicated games. I wanted to balance a formal set of rules for playing games that was simple enough for children but interesting enough to engage adults.

While this ruleset may evolve over time, and include a collection of optional and household rules, its vision is to stay simple enough to quickly teach new people and be easy and cheap to play.

To play TabletopHero you need:

• The Core ruleset
• Paper and pencil
• Some six-sided dice (individually referred to as die)
• Some minifigures such as
  • D&D, Pathfinder or other RPG miniatures
  • Plastic army men
  • Lego minis
  • Cardboard cutouts
  • Chess or other placeholders with vertical dimension
• Some random items to use as battlefield obstacles
• Your imagination and a tabletop!

TabletopHero is free to play but the rules and other content are Copyright 2022 Justin Johnson.

I am copyrighting the rules primarily to reserve the right to publish them but my goal is for this game to be free and simple to play. If you would like to publish the rules or use them in your game, it's highly likely that I will license them to you for free.

Please contact @profexorgeek on Twitter or file an issue on this repository if you would like to use this ruleset for something.