Mini Six
Anyone out there looking for some lightweight role-playing rules, but not up for all this newfangled indie hippy gaming stuff, might want to check out Mini Six, a stripped-down version of the Open D6 rules. (Open D6 itself is an open version of the rules behind the old West End Games Ghostbusters and Star Wars games.)
The Mini Six rules are downloadable for free as a 36-page PDF. Only about 20 pages of that is rules; the rest is five sample settings:
- “Perdition”, Firefly with the serial numbers filed off
- “Rust Moons of Castia”, a fantasy setting (probably based on some other setting that I don’t recognize)
- “Farnsley’s Phantasm Investigations”, Victorian steampunk Ghostbusters
- “Precint ’77”, a ’70s cop show
- “Imperium in Revolt”, thinly-disguised Star Wars
Also, the downloads page has a link for another free PDF containing “The Door to Infinity”, a Doctor Who-like setting. And there’s a fan submissions page with a couple more free settings: an old-fashioned radio-style sci-fi setting, and a modern-day zombie game.