Exemplar Corebook.pdf

By Jeffrey S. Schecter

exemplar

A Role-Playing Game

Jeffrey S. Schecter

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WARNING

THE FOLLOWING GAME IS ABOUT BLOWING THINGS UP. IF THIS IS OFFENSIVE TO YOU,BY YOUR RELIGION

OR PERSONAL VALUES CLOSE THIS DOCUMENT NOW.

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t a b l e o f

contents

Title Page

Resistance

IGAC Personality

Warning

Prerequisites

Ch. 5: Setting 21

The IGAC, In General

Table of Contents

Alphabetical Listing

Intro: Concepts

Avalon Per. Trance

Exemplar Orders

The Universe, Briefly

Balance

Templar/Justicar

Role-Whatting?

Bypass

Navigator

Rules in a Nutshell

Compel

Infiltrator

Stuff You Need

Counterattack

Free Orders

Feel and Sources

Con. of Nonex.

Prime

Ch. 1: Characters

Diff. of Force

Connecting the Dots

Character Concept

Energize

Example Planet, Epsilon

Styles

Empowered Strike

Ch. 6: Wraiths 25

Scenario Summary 25

Named NPCs 25

Citizen Trenton 25

Cmdr. Samuels 26

Infiltrator Hyert 26

Cmdr. Conners 26

Civilian Remey 27

Noted Unnamed NPCs 27

Minor Exemplar 27

Wraiths 27

Fitting the PCs In 27

Scene 1: Lift Off 27

Samuels Explains 28

Conners Explains 28

Scene 2: Epsilon Orbital 28

Remey Explains 28

Scene 3: Boarding Purity 29

Hyert Explains 29

Scene 4: Return to Purity 29

Epilogue

Metaphysics

Force Dam. Field

Combat

Light. War. Stance

Plot Points

Mounting Tension

Statting Out

Omni. Per. Trance

Aims and Connections

Pinpoint Accuracy

A Few Examples

Prism. Per. Trance

Navigator

Psychic Per. Trance

Assassin

Psychic Refocus

Technician

Psychic Refresh

Ch. 2: Action 9

Recap 9

Difficulty Dice 9

Bonuses and Penalties 9

Chance Rolls 10

Combat 10

Effects of Attacks 10

Special Combat Situations 11

Plot Points

Step Without Walk

Strike First Stance

Telekinetic Force

Telepathy

Temperature Toll.

Thought Scanning

Warp Navigation

Ch. 4: Casting

Two Types of NPCs

Advancement

NPC Stat Template

Ch. 3: Metaphysics

Portraying NPCs

Using Willpower

Example Named NPCs

Reference Sheet

Nemesis

IGAC Exemplar

Character Sheet

Techniques

Exemplar Officer

Activation

Navigator

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i n t r o d u c t i o n

concepts

shining white plastic and gleaming metal are the

bread and butter of Man’s universal pallet. White and

chrome are holy colors because they exemplify purity

and imitation of one’s surroundings.

S o picture this. You’re all dressed out in your

shiny white plastic and aero-alluminum body armor,

striding through the main tube of one of the hugest

space faring constructs known to man. You’ve got a

shield across your back, a sword on one hip, rifle on

the other, pistol in a shoulder holster and knives up

your sleeves and in your boots, and you know how to

wield every last one. You’re a badass, pure and simple.

Or so sayeth IGAC, the Intergalactic Government

And Church, and what IGAC says is law. IGAC is

wise and all knowing and looks out for its own. Stay

with the pack, be like the pack, live the pack is their

mantra. Self discipline, suppression of desire, and

perfect control over one’s faculties are the highest

virtues that any man or woman could hope to achieve

in their lifetime. And such are embodied by the

Exemplar Orders Various.

White lights flash, which is okay, because lights flash

all the time and in these parts, everything that’s

anything is either white or chrome, and the techies

haven’t managed to make chrome lighting yet. But

these aren’t your standard flashing white lights.

These are your hey, buddy, wake the hell up because

someone’s shooting a stream of lead and microwave

radiation at your thorax. So you’re alert, you’re ready,

you form up with your buddies, stand in position, and

crack! there they are, grubby browns and greens and

blacks invading your nice pristine corridors.

The Templars are the guys who go around and beat

shit up in the name of the church. The Justicars are a

lot like the Templars, but their device is the scale of

justice. The Navigators navigate, charting Jumps and

making sure those great big heaps of shiny white

metal and plastic don’t end up so many atoms strewn

about the universe. Not everyone has what it takes to

be an Exemplar, but these guys, they have it and

more. There are others, but no one really cares about

them, because they’re not nearly as obvious as the

Templars, Justicars, and Navigators. The other guys

don’t do important stuff. Anyway, they wear black,

and if something’s not white and chrome it’s not

worth a second in the spotlight of the public’s eye.

Someone hurls a knife, but that’s okay; you’ve already

got your sword out, and no Justicar worth his salt

wouldn’t be able to knock a sluggish piece of scrap

metal out of the air with that. So the knife’s on the

floor now, but not before you’re on that bastard,

slash-slash and now they’re bleeding, damn--there

goes your shield--out comes your pistol and now the

party’s just got started...

Some folks don’t like IGAC. These poor schmucks

are universally accepted to be barbaric, uneducated,

ugly, undisciplined rabble, even if they go around

calling themselves Exemplars, too. And even if they

do take down a few Warpships, what of it? IGAC has

more! What can a few puny terrorists do in the face of

the majesty that is the Intergalactic Government and

Church

The Universe, Briefly

White and chrome are the colors of the day. From the

city-planet of Prime to the colossal Warpships to the

arms and armor of the Marines Templar and Justicar,

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least as many dice. This process continues, back and

forth, until someone botches and misses a roll. In this

case, their opponent is declared victorious. If you care,

you can interpret each roll or pair of rolls as being a

minor conflict in and of itself, all of which together

lead up to the grand finale.

Role-Whatting?

Justicar is a Role-Playing Game, commonly referred

to as an RPG due to the intrinsic laziness of the

human race. If you’ve never played an RPG before,

you should probably go find one, as the next couple

sentences are this booklet’s only attempt at explaining

the thing.

Stuff You Need

Obviously, you need a couple players. One guy to be

the GM, and a few others to be the Players-with-a-

capitol-P. One Player is enough, but three or four is

preferable. It can get hard on the GM if five or six

other guys are sitting across the table, so more than

that isn’t recommended. Everyone will need a few ten

sided dice (six or seven per person should suffice),

and its useful to have a pencil with which to take

notes. A good eraser is vital. The GM should have a

few note cards or a spiral notepad, and each Player

should have a character sheet. And that’s about it.

In an RPG, one player thinks up an imaginary

situation (here one having to do with the galaxies of

IGAC) which they deem cool. This person is known

as the Game Master or Game Moderator or

Gargoyle Magnificent or just plain old GM. The

other guys, here on out just called the Players with a

capitol P, create characters. Then the fictional

characters of the GM interact with the fictional

characters of the Players, as determined by said real

human beings, to create a story about how the

Player’s Characters (called PCs) triumph over

obstacles. In theory, anyway--usually people just use

Role-Playing as an excuse to blow shit up (which is a

good thing).

The Feel, and Sources of

Inspiration

Rules In A Nutshell

Bright, shiny lights. Gleaming and deadly weapons.

Guys with cool haircuts and neat armor and big, sleek

spaceships that are aerodynamic for the sole purpose

of looking tres badass. The ubiquitous signatures of

Man, White and Chrome, starkly contrasting with

endlessly twinkling regions of Black. Such is the

imagery of Exemplar.

Every character has six Styles--being Prowess,

Stealth, Piloting, Charisma, Technology, and Wits--

that show what they are capable of. When a player

wants their character to do something tricky, a few 10

sided dice (available in any respectable hobby shop)

are rolled and added up, the precise number used

being an arbitrary decision of the GM’s based on the

perceived difficulty of the task. If the total of the roll is

equal to or under the character’s value for the

appropriate Style, the action is considered successful.

Where’s it come from? An amalgam of literary,

cinema, and role-playing sources. Star Wars has the

white and the space, The Matrix has chrome and

kung-fu. Navigators and Warpships are shamelessly

ripped off from Frank Herbert’s Dune. The games

Exalted, Wushu, and Feng Shui are excellent action

movie emulating masterpieces. And, of course, none

of my creativity would ever go anywhere without the

good folks at The Forge and RPG.Net.

Character-against-character conflicts get marginally

more tricky. In these cases, the initiator sets the

number of dice to be rolled, and makes their check. If

they succeed, the other guy makes a check using at

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