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3Deep (2nd Edition)

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"I love the way spellcasting works"

Ignacio M.

2023 Update: 3Deep was originally released under the OGL 1.0a. Following the recent disgusting behavior by WotC and Hasbro, I have removed the OGL, and moved to a more permissive license. You are still welcome to create, publish and sell your own updates and adventures for 3Deep.

The Ultimate World Builders Game

3Deep is one of the easiest and most flexible roleplaying system ever created. With just this book, you can adventure in any world you can imagine. Use all types of weapons from clubs to lasers . . . magic and martial arts . . . romance to psionics.

Create exactly the character you want to play . . . your favorite fictional hero, or your own invention. Customize your character with individual ties into the game world and an interactive backstory and you're ready to go. All this, and still 3Deep makes the Game Master's job easy and fun.

3Deep is not a super rule light system like TinyD6, or similar. I would describe it as Medium Crunch and has games like Traveler, Car Wars, and Hero System as its inspiration. If you want a much simpler game than GURPS but with the same flexibility, 3Deep fills that niche.

Unlike many other roleplaying games, the 3Deep provides you with unfettered flexibility, allowing you to exercise your own creativity without hindrance. Build any character, power, gadget, skill, weapon, ability, or vehicle you can think of! The fast and light rules give you the ultimate role-players toolkit, allowing you to do what you do best: create great characters and games.

Whatever you want to do, in any genre, time period, or setting, 3Deep lets you do it!

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Carl H January 17, 2023 6:39 pm UTC
Just so you know, the only thing that shows up under the previews is your new social contract. No preview of the game.
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John K April 21, 2022 8:28 pm UTC
Is there still a print version? It's not showing the option.
Also how compatible is this with Cepheus and Cepheus Light?
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Peter R April 21, 2022 8:40 pm UTC
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The files are in the process of being updated to incorporate feedback.

Not very is the answer. Traveller was one of the inspirations for the game along with Champions and Car Wars.
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John K April 21, 2022 8:44 pm UTC
Thanks for the quick response!
I'm still learning Cepheus right now and saw the 2d6 mechanic was similar.
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John R January 01, 2021 10:55 pm UTC
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The lead in blurb here mentions superpowers, but I don’t recall seeing that addressed anywhere in the document. Not even as a “the magic rules also work for supers”, and definitely not a “here’s how you reskin the magic rules for various superhero ideas.”
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Peter R January 02, 2021 8:48 am UTC
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Two ways to handle this, depending on the hero. Either, as you suggest, reskin magic into powers. The second option is to treat powers as natural weapons, armour and stats, using the small/light 1d6, medium 2d6, big/heavy 3d6 model.

Having 4d6 strength, for example, would not give bigger bonuses, thet are capped at +2, but you would be much more resilient,
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John R January 07, 2021 4:13 pm UTC
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Right... but I expected that to be said somewhere in the rulebook, based on that genre having been "promised" here in the product description.
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Peter R January 07, 2021 4:40 pm UTC
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My apologies. It was always the intention that the mechanics be used as a toolkit to build what you wanted, and to power scale that you want. A superpower built on the magic rules could be massively more powerful than one built using the ideas of attacks and weapons. It is in the GM's gift to decide how they would want them implemented.

But, having said that. In the next refresh of the text, I will take your comments on board and I will include explicit advice on psionics and superpowers.
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Heather M February 23, 2021 8:51 pm UTC
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I second this (John R). Explicit rules on psionics and superpowers would make an already versatile system even more fun. I've been looking into how to meld the resources for Traveller (2d6) that do this, and finding the balance is hard. It would be nice having the rules in one place and merged/balanced how the creator intended.
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Jenna G May 14, 2020 5:04 pm UTC
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I just bought the Doctor's Without Borders bundle and this file isn't downloading correctly. It keeps giving me a weird text file of mumbo jumbo I don't understand. (php file)
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Peter R May 14, 2020 7:56 pm UTC
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I have removed the watermarking from the file, uploaded a fresh copy and removed the quotes from around the title. I don't know what cause was of the problem but I know of one other person who had this issue a while ago.

Please let me know if it is now working for you.
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Jenna G May 14, 2020 11:45 pm UTC
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Worked like a charm! No problems downloading it now! Thanks so much! I'm excited to try this!!!
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Matthew D March 22, 2020 11:47 am UTC
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I purchased the PDF & I'm liking what I'm seeing. Is there any way to get a discount on the softcover book if you purchased the PDF? There quite a bit of typos in the PDF but nothing I couldn't cypher so far. I can't wait to play using these rules & I like the streamlined Mythic engine.
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Peter R March 22, 2020 12:28 pm UTC
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Hi,
Make sure you are receiving emails from me. A discount is heading your way.

Sorry about the typos. The joy of being a dyslexic writer.
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Matthew D March 22, 2020 1:46 pm UTC
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That will be much appreciated. Thank you.
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Matthew D March 29, 2020 3:52 pm UTC
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"The player then interprets that answer in would be the most logical (or entertaining) way so that the story can continue. Of course, the answers given by the dice are more suited to stories and gaming rather than the vagaries of the toy. The dice can take the story in new, unexpected, and interesting directions."

This is in the intro portion. Can you clear up "vagaries of the toy"?
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Peter R March 29, 2020 5:30 pm UTC
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It refers to the Magic 8 Ball references above that.
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Matthew D April 04, 2020 4:39 pm UTC
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Alright. That makes sense.
I found you on the publisher list "PPM" so I think I have that sorted now.
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Peter R April 04, 2020 4:54 pm UTC
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I assume you didn't get the discount email then? Could you send me a message via http://www.ppmgames.co.uk/about/contact-us/ and I will send you a discount code directly. I don't want to bulk send the same message again.
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Matthew D April 04, 2020 6:29 pm UTC
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No I didn't. Just me figuring out the site preferences.
Sure can & I just sent the message.
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Jason D December 03, 2019 7:27 pm UTC
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The download for this one constantly gives me a php file. Not sure what is going on, I can download on laptop and rename to pdf but clearly something not working correctly.
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Peter R December 03, 2019 8:15 pm UTC
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Have you tried using a different browser to do the download? The pdf is downloading OK for me.
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Jason D December 04, 2019 10:23 pm UTC
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Yeah, I did try it on Edge and that worked. On firefox it gives a file called download.php which is the pdf if you rename it. Had the same problem on safari on ipad as I wanted to download it directly to read on there.

Anyway I have a copy now, just obviously something weird going on which I can't work out since it affects multiple browsers I use on several devices.

Cheers
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Peter R December 04, 2019 10:25 pm UTC
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I am glad that you have the file. I hope you enjoy it.
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Jason D December 04, 2019 10:27 pm UTC
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Rules look good though. Mostly interested for solo aspects since I already do that a fair amount with other rules but this looked a little lighter than some of the stuff I mess with.
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