
Though characters become more competent and skilled over time, they never end up wading through armies of orcs. Not a “universal” system as such, WOIN is designed specifically for medium-low-magic Tolkienesque medieval fantasy, ’80s action, and a Trek-ian to Wars-ian range of sf, with rules systems designed to replicate those genres well.

Hack the system, mold it to your setting, and - because the free WOIN Rules Reference Document is designated Open Game Content - even publish your creations free or for profit. Focus on one genre, or mix-and-match them to create urban fantasy, cyberpunk, or spells-in-space. Using each book’s extensive tools, create your own races, lifepath careers, planets, cybernetics, freeform spell-paths, starships, strongholds, martial arts, and monsters.

Tweak the system dials to handle low or high fantasy, hard or soft sf, spycraft or street-level superheroics, and so on. Designed by ENworld‘s Russ “Morrus” Morrissey and funded in an April 2014 Kickstarter campaign, the WOIN games let you play many kinds of characters. is a system of crunchy, tactical roleplaying toolkits. And we also revived the March 2018 W OIN OLD and NEW Bundle with the fantasy ( O.L.D.) and space opera ( N.E.W.) versions of the flexible WOIN rules.ĮN Publishing’s What’s O.L.D. The all-new Judge Dredd and More Bundle presented EN Publishing’s licensed Judge Dredd & the Worlds of 2000 AD standalone RPG, the N.O.W.

is N.E.W.”) games and supplements from EN Publishing. In February 2020 we presented two offers featuring WOIN (“What’s O.L.D.
