Dime Adventures
Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc) Cards (Standard French-suited deck) Point Based (allocate points to get skills, powers, etc) Progression Tree (Skills, professions, magic abilities, etc.) Skill Based (buy or gain skills) Trait / Aspect Based (personality affects gameplay)
Pulp Alternate History Roleplaying!
Dime Adventures is a pulp alternate history roleplaying game of weirdness and high adventure. It is set on Arth, an alternate Earth at the dawn of the modern age. It is a world of wonder and excitement, and draws on many different historical and fictional sources for inspiration.
Players in Dime Adventures take on the role of cinematic heroes: bold explorers, brilliant scientists, dashing fencers, ineffable mystics, wealthy dilettantes, hardboiled investigators, masked crime fighters and more!
Dime Adventures combines the excitement of pulp adventure with rich creativity of the alternate history genre. The core system, Saga Machine, has been in use for almost ten years, including publication in our other roleplaying games, Against the Dark Yogi and Shadows Over Sol.