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Codex of…: A Modular Tabletop RPG Engine

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A setting-neutral tabletop roleplaying engine divided into three editions: Mortals, Heroes, and Dust.

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The homepage offers a compact rules system with 12 listed chapters, expandable mini-rules, a revision changelog, and a dice calculator that factors in skill and stress. Its three-part progression—from “overcoming and developing” to “the edge of possibility”—gives this small project an unusually clear identity.

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August 7’s newborn domains include editable orchestral scores with up to 33 staves, 15 years of Valencia council interventions, a dementia-friendly frame with one optional button, and a memorial golf tournament whose winner wears the Meatball Jacket.

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