FOR EXPERIENCED PLAYERS
You've Mastered Your Systems. Now Build the One You've Always Wanted.
You know what a well-designed system feels like — and you know exactly where the seams show. Abraxas takes the mechanical rigor of point-buy and pairs it with the speed of a dice pool, so you never have to choose between depth and playability again.
Sound Familiar?
The frustrations you've learned to work around — addressed by design.
Class Restrictions Are a Design Compromise You've Outgrown
You've been multiclassing around class restrictions since 3rd edition. In Abraxas, there are no classes — period. Every ability has a point cost. You buy what your character concept demands. A battle-hardened mercenary who picks locks and reads ancient runes isn't a rules edge case. It's just a character.
Tactical Combat Shouldn't Require a Lookup Table
GURPS gives you granularity. So does Rolemaster. But the moment you're thumbing through a hit location chart mid-initiative, the fiction has already died. Abraxas resolves actions with a d6 dice pool — roll, count successes, move on. The crunch lives in character creation, not in the middle of a fight.
Power Systems That Describe Anything, Not Just Spell Lists
Superhero systems bolt on power lists. Fantasy systems bolt on spell lists. Neither handles the character who controls probability fields. Abraxas uses generic power frameworks shaped by Special Effects, Enhancements, and Limitations — the mechanics stay constant, the fiction wraps around them however you need.
Genre Mismatch Is a Balance Problem Nobody Talks About
Street-level detectives and dimension-hopping demigods shouldn't share a power budget. Campaign Bands — Heroic, Galactic, Cosmic — aren't just flavor. They're calibrated point ranges and mechanical expectations that keep the table playing the same genre.
What Makes Abraxas Different
The Depth of Hero System. The Speed of OpenD6. No Compromise.
Hero System is the gold standard for point-buy precision — and famously punishing to learn. OpenD6 is elegant and fast — and runs out of headroom quickly. Abraxas inherits the complete mechanical accountability of point-buy and resolves it through a clean d6 dice pool. You get a character sheet you can interrogate and a resolution system that doesn't slow the table down.
Character Creation Without the Overhead
No PDF. No spreadsheet. No third-party app that stopped being updated in 2019. Abraxas Forge is a free, browser-based character creator that runs on any device with no account required. Point-buy math is handled for you. Power frameworks are built interactively. You walk in with a concept and walk out with a complete character sheet.
A System That Respects How You Already Think
If you've built characters in GURPS, you already understand costed abilities. If you've run Savage Worlds, you already understand dice-pool resolution. Abraxas isn't asking you to unlearn your instincts — it's asking you to apply them in a system where the two halves were designed to work together from the start.
See What Your Next Character Looks Like
Abraxas Forge is free and runs in your browser right now. Build a character, stress-test the point-buy, and see how your concept holds up.
Free. No account required. Works on any device.