ADVANCED GRAVEBOUND

Version 1.1

A slightly-advanced supplement for GRAVEBOUND — character builds, advancement, skills, and spells, still on a single D6.

GRAVEBOUND gets you gaming in five minutes. This supplement is for tables that want a little more to chew on once they’ve played a few rounds, without giving up that speed.

It adds a thin layer of depth on top of Roy Riggs’ GRAVEBOUND and keeps what makes the core fast: a single six-sided die, one roll per attack. What’s new is that your character now has a build, and the outcome of that roll depends on who they are.

The one change at the heart of it: instead of rolling a plain die, you weigh your Attack against your foe’s Defense, and your Power against their Steadiness. Stronger attacker? Roll two dice and keep the higher. Outmatched? Keep the lower. That’s the whole trick. No extra dice, no math, just the same fast turn with a bit more meaning behind it.

What it adds

• Specializations: nine ways to improve over time (Attack, Defense, HP, Power, Range, Skill, Magic, Balance, Steadiness). You raise them as you level, so two characters of the same level can play very differently.
• Opposed rolls: Attack vs. Defense decides whether you roll high or low; Power vs. Steadiness decides damage and stagger. Still one D6.
• Zones: a simple 3×3 grid for melee, ranged, and getting out of the way, with cluttered ground that can cost you your balance.
• Skills: acrobatics, locks, traps, tracking, treating wounds, and more, rolled just like attacks.
• Spells: a short spellbook (heal, armor, push, silence, warding runes…) for characters who invest in Magic.

What you need

The free GRAVEBOUND core rules by Furroy, one six-sided die, a pencil, and a few tokens for stagger. Works solo or with a group, in any setting.

In the download

• The Advanced GRAVEBOUND mini-zine: one landscape sheet that folds and cuts into a tiny 8-page booklet (print single-sided, landscape, 100% scale).
• A readable web/PDF version for screens.

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Changes

• v1.1: updated magic points to refresh with a full rest, like hit points do

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A fan supplement, built with love for Roy Riggs’ GRAVEBOUND. Grab his core rules first: https://furroy.itch.io/gravebound. Pay what you want.