Badassitude
(A Ridiculous OGL Hack for Roleplaying Badass Mofos)
Create a Badass:
Characters have six Abilities as follow.
Strength – Physical strength.
Grit – Physical health and endurance.
Agility – Reflexes and coordination.
Guile – Left-brain functions, such as reasoning and
the ability to express oneself verbally.
Intuition – Right-brain functions, such spatial
awareness and general perception.
Ego – Mental toughness and willpower.
All abilities begin with a rating of zero. You
have six points to distribute amongst your badass’s
ability ratings, but you may assign no more than five
points to any single ability rating. So, for instance,
you may assign a rating of +3 to one ability, ratings
of +1 to three additional abilities, and ratings of 0 to
the remaining abilities.
You may gain additional points to assign to
ability score ratings by taking negative ratings in an
ability, on a one for one basis. For example, if you
take a -1 rating in a given ability score, you gain a
single point that you may allocate to another ability
rating. An ability rating may not be reduced to less
than -5 in this manner and ratings of less than -2 are
discouraged, as they are not badass.
Additionally, characters also have a stat
known as Badassitude, which represents their
relative amount of power compared to the typical
denizen of the world (who has no Badassitude at all).
Most player characters begin at play with a single
rank of Badassitude.
Finally, all characters begin play with a
Damage Capacity (DC) rating equal to 8 + Grit +
Ego + Badassitude, multiplied by 2.
Challenge Resolution:
A player who wishes their badass to
overcome a challenge, the outcome of which isn’t
immediately obvious (challenges with obvious
outcomes are not rolled for, merely narrated as
appropriate), rolls some dice. The basic roll is:
1d20 + Most Relevant Ability Rating + Badassittude
So, for example, if a badass with a Strength
rating of +2 and Badassitude 3 was attempting to
kick down a door, their player would roll 1d20 and
add five to the result. This die roll result is then
compared to an assigned difficulty.
Base Difficulty: 10
Difficult: +5
Very Difficult: +10
Formidable: +15
Heroic: +20 (or more)
If the roll result (modified) is equal to or
above the difficulty assigned to the challenge by the
referee, then the badass has succeeded in
overcoming the challenge.
Sometimes, challenge resolution is resisted
by another character or creature. For example, a
badass may be trying to convince another character
to do a certain thing or, perhaps, two badasses are
competing against each other in a race.
In such instances, the players of both
characters roll their dice as above but, rather than
comparing the results to a pre-assigned difficulty, the
results are compared to each other and the character
with the highest roll result prevails (ties are re-rolled
until a clear winner is determined).
Saving Throws:
A Saving Throw is a special kind of
challenge resolution roll made whenever a badass is
actively trying to avoid or mitigate the effects of an
outside force or condition.
A saving throw is made per the rules for
regular challenge resolution, with a successful saving
throw indicating either no damage taken or partial
damage taken as the referee deems fit.
Only certain forces trigger the opportunity
for a saving throw. Most attacks in combat, for
example, do not trigger a saving throw (however,
there may be exceptions as the referee sees fit).

Combat and Injury:
To resolve an attack in combat, the player
of the attacking badass makes a challenge resolution
roll as normal. Typically, Strength is used as the most
relevant ability when resolving melee attack and
Agility for resolving ranged attacks, and Intuition for
resolving spell attacks.
Weapons come in Light, Medium, and
Heavy varieties.
When successfully striking with a Light
weapon (e.g., Dagger, Short Bow, .22 caliber
firearm) in combat, roll 2d6 to determine damage
and take the lowest result.
When successfully striking with a Medium
weapon (e.g., Mace, Long Bow, Sword, 9mm semi-
automatic firearm) in combat, roll 1d6 to determine
the amount of damage dealt.
Finally, when successfully striking with a
Heavy weapon (e.g., Composite Bow, Halberd,
Two-Handed Sword,.45 caliber firearm) in combat,
roll 2d6 to determine the amount of damage dealt
and take the highest result.
Like weapons, armor comes in Light,
Medium, and Heavy varieties, as well.
Light armor (e.g., leather armor, stab vest)
can sustain 3 damage before it needs to be repaired
and no longer provides protection against injury.
Each piece of Medium armor (e.g., chain
mail, shield, ballistic vest) worn can sustain 5 blows
before it needs to be repaired and no longer
provides protection against injury.
Each piece of Heavy armor (e.g., full plate,
futuristic combat armor) worn can sustain 8 blows
before it needs to be repaired and no longer
provides protection against injury.
Any damage rolled in combat that is not
protected against by armor is applied to the
character’s Damage Capacity. When a badass (or
lesser character or creature) takes more damage than
they have Damage Capacity, they die.
Environmental Injury:
If falling from a height of ten feet or more, a
character takes 1d6 points of damage per 10 feet
fallen, to a maximum of 20d6. Armor does not
protect against such falling damage.
Badasses at risk of catching fire are allowed
a DC 15 Agility save to avoid this fate. If a badass’s
clothes or hair catch fire, he takes 1d6 points of
damage immediately. In each subsequent round, the
burning badass must make another Agility saving
throw. Failure means he takes another 1d6 points of
damage that round. Success means that the fire has
gone out. Armor does not protect against fire
damage. A badass who is on fire may immediately
extinguish the fire, if they are submerged in water.
A badass who inhales any unbreathable
substance (such as heavy smoke or water) must
make a Grit saving throw each round (DC 15) or
spend that round choking and coughing. A badass
who chokes for 2 consecutive rounds takes 1d6
points of damage for every round thereafter that they
fail this saving throw. Armor does not protect against
such suffocation damage.
Healing Injury:
After resting uninterrupted for eight hours, a
badass can reset any injury applied to their Damage
Capacity to zero. Badass.
Becoming More Badass:
Badasses gain Badassitude by surviving
game sessions as shown on the table below.
Badassitude Sessions Survived
2 3
3 5
4 9
5 14
6 20
etc etc
As a character gains Badassitude, their
Damage Capacity increases by an amount equal to
the new amount of Badassitude they have attained,
plus the combined total of their Ego and Grit.
For example, a Badassitude 1 character with
a Grit rating of -1 and an Ego rating of +3, would
start play with a Damage Capacity of 22 and, upon
attaining Badassitude 2, would gain four additional
points of DC (raising their DC total to 26).
Why Does This Exist?
This is pretty much Snake (yes, that Snake)
the Roleplaying Game. This is heroes of mighty
thews and iron will, embodying Pure Badassitude.
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