What is CCARPS?

Community Codex Adaptive RolePlay System, often referred to as its acronym, “CCARPS”, is an open source ruleset licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. This system has been developed to promote storytelling within a minimal ruleset. We believe that the game should be about the characters so the rules shouldn’t get in the way of the story.

This is a Community Codex; players and developers alike can actively participate in the shaping and refinement of this rule system. It is adaptive; the base rules are meant to be a generic starting point that can support any style of gameplay and world. While the main goal is roleplay, the system is built in a character-centric way that can be used to power any type of gameplay that involves tracking player statistics.

While the rules here are complete and you can play as-is, this is just the Base Ruleset. It is meant to be used alongside an existing game world and/or campaign. This means that we have not included any game content within these pages. In many ways this harkens back to the early days of table top RPGs when what you did and where you went was all up to your imagination, yet in other ways this system is equipped with a number of modern gaming features that will help you in adapting it to any world you wish.

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