electricgalahad
electricgalahad
Teen (13+)
Maelstrom of Worlds is positioned as a universal system built for solo and GM-less play, though it's comfort zone is solidly pulp fiction, and the author admits this.
The game achieves relative universality by being modular—there are rules for procedures and events common to all adventure fiction and then there are genre-specific rules.
The game is very lightweight—your characters have 3 stats and 3 foci, and this doesn't change. Instead your characters advance by raising their limit of Adventurer Points, which allow them to re-roll dice. As a result, the character sheet can be easily memorized and doesn't need frequent updating.
The game is built on the foundation of World of Dungeons, which is the progenitor of what can be best described as PbtA-lite. Though Maelstrom of Worlds has more procedures than most PbtA-lite games.