Unisystem Starting Types

Unisystm is one of those 2nd-tier systems now basically forgotten but could have been a major contender alongside Savage Worlds and BRP for cotrol of the generic RPG genre, which GURPS has reigned supreme over for decades and likely will continue to do so.

It startd out as powering the deadly and comprehensive Zombie Survival RPG, All Flesh Must Be Eaten and the very 90s Witchcraft. Then went on to power some more cinematic games like the Licensed Buffy/Angel RPGs back during their heyday.

It could do what GURPS could do (in fact a conversion will feature on the blog someday) and it could do it without gtting trapped in the minutea. Backing this claim up were comprehensive sourcebooks about playing Zombies in ajacent genres like pirates, space and dungeon-fantasy.

The only thing letting it down was Eden Studios never managed to get the generic book off the ground which would explain how to use the rules as a toolkit like how GURPS could be. Without that book or continual interest from Eden Studios, the whole system basically faded out of the hobby's conciousness.

It still was a great game system and if a generic system cannot be produced, then maybe encapsualting the different ways the systemw as used can be a rough facsimile.

What will follow is the starting point distrabutions for all the Non-Cinematic gamelines, as a platform to build off on.

These were divided into point totals which further were split by  how they could spend their points.

Norms wer 50 points (49 in AFMBE for a quirk of the early rules)

Survivors were 70 (the people you expect to see in stories not just the people caught up)

80 was high powered, which is why Witchcraft and some others started here when other lines didn't, but some had options to boast starting points to this level.

Beyond that it was more the taste of the gameline that detrmined how many extra points were needed to deal with situations and threats.

Some of thes are weaker than they seem just ebcuase those cool Metaphysical/Power points had to be spent on something to start with. I am personally not clear on how Eldritch Skies's Drama Poitns work. Cinematic Unisystem games had Drama Points but otherwise they seem to functional as a "power" sopurce like the other game lines.

NAME	Attributes	Qualities/Drawbacks	Skills	Other
Witchcraft
Gifted/80p	15	10/10	25	30 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Lesser Gifted/80p	20	15/10	30	15 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Mundanes/80p	25	20/10	35	-
Bast/80p	15	10/10	30	25 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Greater Gifted/110p	20	15/15	35	50 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Spirits 80p	20	20/10	20	20 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Undead/80p	15	15/10	25	25 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Lesser Supernatural/80p	15	15/10	25	25 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Armageddon
Potential Hero/50p	15	5/10	30
Beginning Gifted	15	5/10	25	5 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Gifted/80p	15	10/10	25	30 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Lesser Gifted/80p	20	15/10	30	15 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Mundanes/80p	25	20/10	35	-
Lesser Supernatural/80p	15	15/10	25	25 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Supernatural/120p	30	20/15	40	30 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Greater Gifted/110p	20	15/15	35	50 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Greater Supernatural/200p	30	20/15	60	90 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Gifted Master/200p	25	20/15	55	100 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
AFMBE
Norms/49p	14	5/10	30	-
Survivors/70p	20	15/10	35	-
Inspired/70p	20	10/10	25	15 Metaphysics
Martial Artists/70p	25	10/10	15	20 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Shooters/70p	20	15/10	20	15 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Adept Heroes/70p	15	15/10	20	20 Metaphysics, mandatory costs
Talented Heroes/70p	20	20/10	30	-
Professional Wrestlers/75p	20	10/10	35	10 Metaphysics
Pulp Heroes/70p	20	10/10	25	15 Powers
Legendary Heroes/110p	30	20/10	30	30 Powers, Does not make fear checks
Alt Survivors 80p	20	20/10	40	-
Alt Inspired 80p	20	15/10	25	20 Metaphysics
Alt Alt Inspired 80p	20	15/10	30	15 Metaphysics
Terra Primate
Pre-Heroic/50p	15	5/10	30	-
Heroic/70p	20	15/10	35	-
Powered/70p	20	10/10	25	15
Conspiracy X
Pre-Heroic/50p	15	5/10	30	-
Neo-Talented/50p	15	5/10	25	5 Power
Heroic/70p	20	15/10	35	-
Talented/70p	20	10/10	25	15 Power
Veteran/95p	25	25/10	45
Talented Veteran/95p	20	20/15	30	25 Power
Eldritch Skies
Operatives/80p	20	20/10	30	10, Drama Points
Civilian/75p	15	10/10	25	25, Drama Points
Veterans/105p	25	30/10	40	10, Drama Points