Player's Handbook · Chapter 1

Three Actions, Four Outcomes

Two ideas carry this whole game, and you can learn both before the first scene ends.

You get three actions on your turn. Not a move and a standard and a bonus — three interchangeable actions, spent however you like. Strike three times. Stride, Stride, Strike. Cast a spell (that's two) and Raise a Shield with what's left. Every ability in the game is priced in the same currency, so the question on your turn is never what am I allowed to do — it is what are these three worth.

Every roll has four outcomes. Not hit or miss. Beat the DC by 10 and you critically succeed; miss it by 10 and you critically fail. Most of the game's texture lives in that spread — the same spell can stun, or merely shake, or backfire, depending on one die.

What the numbers do

Every check in the game is one formula: d20 + attribute + proficiency + item bonus + circumstance and status bonuses, minus penalties. Proficiency is the part that matters most, because it includes your level — trained is level + 2, expert level + 4, master + 6, legendary + 8. Untrained adds nothing at all, not even your level, which is why a level 12 fighter is still bad at Occultism. The full construction is in @Missing file, the ranks in @Missing file.

You do not have to compute any of it. The sheet does — The GM is told to read your printed totals rather than re-derive them.

What to expect at this table

Tactics are rewarded and legible. Flanking is a flat −2 to your target's AC. @Missing file turns a spare action into a friend's bonus. @Missing file tells you what you're fighting. The math is out in the open so you can play against it.
The multiple attack penalty is the throttle. Your second attack is at −5, your third at −10. Three Strikes is almost never the best turn.
Failure is granular. A failed save against @Missing file still costs you. A critical failure is a story beat, not just a bigger miss.
Death is a track, not a moment. Dropping to 0 starts a clock you can be pulled off of. See @Missing file.

Where the rules live

Nineteen rules pages under Rules/ hold the full text, and each one is short. Read @Missing file and @Missing file tonight; everything else you can look up in the ten seconds before it matters. The complete license and attribution for all of it is in @Missing file.

Manual updated Nov 5, 2026.

PF2e Compatible System

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PF2e Compatible System is an independent Craft adaptation of Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster rules under the ORC License, paired with a Cheliax-focused campaign that references Golarion setting material. It features three-action combat, four degrees of success, proficiency ranks, and a fully computed character sheet. It uses original Craft-generated art and is not an official Paizo product or endorsed by Paizo Inc. See the Attribution & License notice for the distinction between ORC-licensed rules and setting material.

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Complete Rules System

Three actions, four degrees of success, and a character sheet that does all the math.

The Remaster edition of the world's other great d20 game, rebuilt for Craft under the ORC License. Every roll is one formula — level + proficiency + attribute + item bonus — and the sheet computes all of it: AC, saves, sixteen skills, strikes with runes, spell DCs, even how many actions you have left after a slow spell lands.

Inside: the eight Player Core ancestries with 42 heritages, twelve backgrounds, eight classes with full level 1-20 progressions, 90+ Remaster spells across the four traditions with heightening, focus spells, all 42 conditions with their numeric values wired into the sheet, 17 skills and 30+ actions with degrees of success, weapons and armor with the full fundamental-rune system, a starter bestiary, and two ready-to-play level 1 characters in a hamlet with trouble at the ford.

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ATTRIBUTION — This project adapts ORC-licensed rules text from Pathfinder Player Core (© 2023 Paizo Inc.), Pathfinder GM Core (© 2023 Paizo Inc.), and Pathfinder Monster Core (© 2024 Paizo Inc.). The root Attribution file carries the ORC Notice, the complete attribution with author credits, the Reserved Material designation, and the full ORC License text as the license requires. The license covers rules text only: 'Pathfinder' and the Pathfinder logo are Paizo trademarks not granted by ORC, so this project uses no Paizo logos or artwork (all images are original art generated within Craft) and claims no endorsement or official compatibility.

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