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Contagion Second Edition $12.95
Publisher: Aegis Studios
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by David V. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 01/26/2014 17:00:55

I was very happy with the 2nd edition of Contagion.

I am going to go over what makes this different. The game clocks in around 600 pages. It is a point buy system without levels.

The book starts with doing point buy based on campaign type street 200 to cosmic 500. Once the point total is decided you go on to buy Callings which are similar to classes. Callings range from martial soldier, slayer, hunter ect to more magical magus/soberer, arcanis/magic user, clergy/cleric ect. Each of the callings have point cost. There are 36 callings. The next is occupations that add benefits like extra skill ranks based on the occupations 30 occupations. These also have point cost. The next thing is race 22 races. Each of these have point cost also based on the power of the race. Some races such as Angels and demons may cost 60, but have allot of extra like immunities and access to some magic through supernatural abilities. There is allot of variety in callings, occupations, and races that can do a variety of things like Supernatural, World of Darkness, and Sleepy Hallow just name few.

Next you buy abilities, skills, and feats. The abilities are strength, agility, stamina, intelligence, awareness, and presence. Although some abilities are slightly different than traditional d20 they are familiar enough. Stamina is similar to con ect. The ability point buy is two per rank=ability score. There is a wide variety of skills to buy 3 per discipline group one point per individual skill. Skill check is d20 plus rank (8=8 ranks) plus ability modifier. This needs to equal or exceed target number. This is how combat works also. There are archery, firearms, hand to hand, thrown, and wrestling these are the combat skills. So roll d20 + appropriate skill rank + stat bonus. Feats tweak your skills such as having the archaic and simple weapon feat allow you to add your hand to hand combat ranks to melee checks.

In the combat section there are several things that are tweaks. defense is Agility + Awareness/2 . Armor adds to defense. The attack roll most equal or exceed defense. Hit points are Stamina+Srength. This does give you a bit more starting hit points, but since there is no level you have to raise either you strength or stamina to raise you hit points. There is no d10 level. This does make things more gritty. There is also bruised -1 to rolls when take hit point damage. Also there is shaken threshold that is based on stamina modifier. once the character drops to the shaken the character suffers an additional minus -2. There is also a massive damage threshold which is your stamina score. Take damage equal or greater than massive damage threshold make fort save DC 15 be reduced to -1 damage. The fort save is strength and stamina modifier. Reflex is the agility and awareness modifiers. The will save is the intelligence and presence modifiers. The death and dying is -1 to -9 one hit point around -10 dead.

There is contagion which is the sum of all of your stats which is energy that fuels magic when used by casters activates certain character abilities and allows things like an extra d10 to rolls and ignore conditions for around.

Magic has affinity which is linked to a stat based on calling magus is stamina and arcanist is intelligence. Magnitude is the strength of the spell. Affinity determines how many spells and the magnitude of the spell that can be cast. There is also psychics who use abilities similar to psionics this works same way as magic.

Overall this was a good game. 5 stars for content. 4 for editing there was some errata issues there is free PDF on the drivethru site. There is also a 80 page free content PDF.

I will also give some props to drivethru they delivered a nice hardback.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Thanks so much for the detailed breakdown and review! I\'m glad to hear you enjoyed the book and hope to hear your thoughts on more of the supplements!

Thanks,
Travis Legge
Aegis Studios
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