can only be spent during combat. An AP can be used to…

▶ Reroll a save or check.
▶ Make another melee attack. This can happen only on your turn, and never during a surprise round.
▶ Gain an extra action that is not an attack: This may be one of the advanced/extra combat options, a minor action, moving (spatially) again, etc.
▶ Add +1 to hit for one turn.
▶ Regain HP equivalent to rolling 1 HD.
AP are consumed regardless of the success of the action. AP are earned each time you earn XP. You cannot have more than 3 AP at any given time.

0 HP = KO. Dropping below zero requires a save vs Death. Failure = death/retirement. Otherwise, you are injured. While injured, a PC cannot regain more than 1 HP until treated by another character.

Impasse || Once per combat, Fighter can completely negate a successful attack roll against themselves. They can choose to wait until after damage is rolled to use this ability.

Giant Killer || When fighting big opponents, use your action to cling onto and even climb them with a successful DEX roll, gaining +3 damage in the next and any subsequent round as long as they hang on. New DEX rolls may be required at the GM’s discretion, but do not require separate actions.

Rage || Work up a frenzy that grants +3 damage, but also −3 AC. This requires 1 round of concentration but lasts the entire combat, blocking any other talents.

Tactician || Your tactical skill lets you bestow a +3 AC OR +3 damage bonus on an ally, once per battle and for a single attack made at any point in the same fight. This requires a related small verbal action, such as “strike when it raises its wings!”

Pugilist || Attacks made using your fists or improvised weapons do d8 before bonuses are applied. Additionally, you are granted a +2 any time you attempt to put the opposition at a disadvantage via a “called shot”, such as grappling, tripping, disarming, feinting, pushing, “I want to aim for the eye” etc.

Riposte || Respond to an opponent’s missed melee attack against you with a melee action of your own. You must be aware of the attack and completely unimpeded to be able to respond. Any condition that affects your movement rate such as being over-encumbered, prone, etc., or negatively affects their mental state (e.g. a mind-affecting spell) impedes riposting. Reaction: The riposte can be either an attack with a melee weapon or a called shot. The first riposte in a round carries a –2 penalty to the attack roll. Further ripostes double the penalty (e.g. –4 for the second, –8 for the third, etc.). You cannot parry and riposte in the same round.

XP bonuses are now given for having at least one low stat (5% for 8-6, 10% for 5 or lower), but not high prime requisites.

Also, rather than me trying to figure out how much XP punching 5 kobolds was worth, you instead earn a fixed [current level*200] XP (adjusted for difficulty) per character for any of the following:

▶ Surviving a deadly situation (ex. lifting a curse, conquering or escaping a combat encounter, outsmarting a trap)
▶ Defeating a powerful enemy (ex. ‘boss’ monster, faction leader)
▶ Recovering a priceless artefact
▶ Taking out or taking over a faction
▶ Fully exploring a dungeon
▶ Completing a quest for an NPC
▶ Completing a major personal quest
▶ Discovering a major secret
▶ Spending 1k+ gold in a session
▶ Making connections in high places

…and potentially other situations.

Any unspent experience may be used on your next character in the event of character death.

Any character that can wield plate armour may be protected from a crit by a helmet, by forcing the opposition to re-roll. This works only once. Then the helmet breaks.

Spellcasters begin with a number of mana points equal the number of spell slots for their current level listed on their class table. Casting a spell depletes MP by a number of points equal to the spell’s level. All MP are regained after a full night’s sleep.

When running low on MP, a spellcaster may attempt to cast a known spell by subtracting the MP deficit from their HP. They may also attempt to cast an unknown spell (of any level, provided it is on their spell list) using only HP. (This still observes the rule that Clerics know all spells on their list up to their current level while M-Us only know what's in their spellbook).

Unknown spells cast in this manner promptly disappear from the caster’s memory after usage (they often don’t know how they did it), thus they cannot be scribed as scrolls or added to their spellbook until actually committed to memory. If the player is not willing to pay the HP cost or the spell would reduce their HP below zero, the spell cannot be cast.

The Cleric, M-U, Mage, and Druid may circumvent MP costs using a ritual. Rituals instead consume 50gp worth of reagents and one hour of time.

Some consumable items (esp: ammo, rations, animal feed) don't count against encumbrance. Write “d10” after any of these objects. After each day of depleted rations/feed or after each encounter where ammunition is fired, the d10 is rolled. On a 1-3, the amount available is reduced to the next smallest die type (d8 > d6 > d4). If the d4 comes up on 1-3, you are out of stock and more needs to be purchased.

You may purchase additional stock before it runs out. However, each successive unit weighs one encumbrance slot and begins with a progressively lower countdown (d8 > d6 > etc). This also applies to the number of charges on wands. This does not apply to potions or scrolls.

Tags are a bit like feats except, rather than choosing them from a menu, they are given to you after fufilling certain narrative requirements. All characters start with a tag granted by their career and have an additional number of tag slots equal to their character level. Tags can be replaced for better ones as they become irrelevant.

Available to 1st level characters:

• (Classic) Human, Halfling*
• (Advanced) Half-Elf, Orc**
• (Homebrew) Grimalkin, Kobold

Unlockable through gameplay:

• (Classic) Dwarf, Elf
• (Homebrew) Leshy, Tiefling, Vodyanoi

Race is separate from class (see Adv p44). Racial level restrictions remain in place. Class restrictions can be lifted if you run the race/class combo by the GM first. Ignore stat requirements.

Available to 1st level characters:

• (Classic) Fighter, Cleric, Magic-User, Thief
• (Advanced) Acrobat, Assassin, Barbarian, Bard, Druid, Illusionist, Knight, Paladin, Ranger
• (Carcass) Warden
• (Homebrew) Specialist

Unlockable through gameplay:

• (Carcass) Acolyte, Beastmaster, Kineticist, Mage
• (Homebrew) Dark Priest, Variant Cleric, Variant M-U

Multi-classing is not allowed. However, class features may be swapped from another class via XP debts. Ignore stat requirements.

The race-classes are locked to their respective races except Elf, Half-Elf, and Dwarf. These lose any race-specific characteristics that are not congruent with actual character race (i.e. a human using the Elf class does not have infravision).

Magic-Users magicians may begin with a number of known spells modified by their INT score (Advanced p50, right column). Read Magic and Find Familiar considered innate to Magic-Users and Mages.

Fighters, Barbarians, Knights, and Dwarves (as in the class) have access to combat talents (Carcass Crawler-1 p28, and House Rules: A Few More Combat Talents). These classes also each get +1 to to-hit/damage every 4 levels.

Thieves use the alternate skill probabilities presented on Carcass Crawler-1 p29.

• a. This also applies to CS/FA/HS/MS/TW for the Acrobat and CS/HN/HS/MS for the Assassin. These classes instead get 2 points to allocate at first level, then one point per level gained going forward.
• b. Minor adjustment: You may raise skills to 6 in 6. Use 2d6 to roll; if both faces end up being 6, only then does the skill fail.

Bards may choose the Illusionist spell list instead of Druid. They also get Bard Songs (ask GM).

Halflings' Hiding ability has been improved to 3 in 6 in all non-wilderness environments as long as there is cover and they have not already been noticed.