# Introduction:

Hi! Longtime lurker, first time poster, with 26 years of being forever-DM across multiple groups, and a solo-player for about 6 months now. Well met, everybody!

# Context:

About a year ago, I was talking some smack about D&D to my current players about how WotC wildly over-complicates what should be a very simple premise of a game. Everyone old enough to remember THAC0 should have a good, hearty chuckle to know that I was talking about 2014-5e, not 3.5e, not 2e, not Chainmail, to these sweet summer-children. And, I agree with you, but my point stands. Unless you want a physics simulator with magic, specifically, maybe there are simpler choices out there for collabo-narrative games.

Anyway, I decided to put my money where my mouth was. I originally meant to handle it in 5 pages, and this is 33 including the ToC and cover page, so I failed the challenge of my shit-talk, but I ended up with a fully baked system for solo players and groups alike. I do plan on sharing with the multiplayer ttrpg subreddits, but I wanna hear from my solo compatriots here first, because that's how I'm playing it right now myself.

# Elevator Pitch:

It's called *Chance of Success*, and it's setting agnostic, fiction-first, and intended to be easy to learn and easier to play.

* Skills and Talents are d100 roll-low, making your character's skill score your literal *Chance of Success* at the task. Yes, that is where the name comes from and it *is* that intuitive to play.

* It's not just pass or fail binary: there's Skill Mastery, and it's as intuitive as Easy (Apprentice) / Medium (Journeyman) / Hard (Master) - and it determine the quality of the output of the Skill Check as well as the difficulty of the attempt.

* **Combat** and **Social Conflict** are handled with the same mechanics and they are intended to be fast - characters only have 5 HP (= 5L of blood), 5 SP (Stamina; non-lethal damage, energy), and 5 RP (Resolve; social damage or standing).

# Relatable Anecdote:

I'm currently playing two solo campaigns in this system to playtest it so I can say affirmatively that it's out-of-the-box compliant with both Mythic GME and the Juice Oracle. I know they're system agnostic themselves, but their being based on d10s and d100s, the game-feel is *very* cohesive, and that's what I mean here. Their game-feel in tandem is really smooth. It feels to me, the author, like it was intentional and it was not.

# Call to Action:

I'd really appreciate it if you took some time to play my game, so here I am passing it around the internet for free. I'd love your feedback, good, bad, and ugly. I intend to publish this, so if you provide your feedback on this post in a reasonable amount of time, of course, I'll include your username as a formal playtester in the credits. Or DM me your feedback with the name you'd prefer to be listed as, whatever you fancy.

Sincerely, I just really appreciate you even reading this post, let alone trying my game out.

And don't hesitate to reach out with questions. I'm not terminally online, I coach rec soccer and have a day job, but I can absolutely answer technical/mechanical questions as I check in.

# Some Timeline Stuff:

Beta window closes 31 August 2026. Obviously feel free to keep playing the beta version, but I'll close the feedback window in August.

It's a Google Drive Link to a pdf file, feel to copy/download it and give it a whirl: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CKvXUUbSuuSouKy7V6w31RV8Z2aocD2m/view?usp=sharing\](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CKvXUUbSuuSouKy7V6w31RV8Z2aocD2m/view?usp=sharing)

PS, if you know any illustrators that might be interested in the project, tell them to DM me. Serious prospects only, please.