Organic Rule Components

Coming Soon: ORC-L
The Organic Rules Components rules-light and live action rules, which will be compatible with all of our games.
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ORC is a Role Playing Game rules system.

  • ORC character creation is fairly crunchy, but its crunchy for a reason.
            The rules are primarily meant to model physics and biology.
  • ORC gameplay is easy to learn and quick to use.
            All rules work from the same basic mechanic.
            The most complicated part is combat, because the combat system allows for people to use real-life strategies and to employ every resource available to help them win.
  • ORC is not a generic system designed to be able to be instantly dropped into any setting.
            ORC is designed for realistic, low-powered gameplay (as opposed to legendary, superheroic, comedic, etc. games).
            ORC character creation must be specifically tailored to each game setting.
  • ORC does character classes in a realistic and flexible way.
            They say what the character's pace in society is, not what the character can become.

    Games that use ORC:

  • Fates Worse Than Death the RPG (has Hacking, Vehicle and Psychic Skill components)
  • Tibet the RPG (has Karma, Magic and Enlightenment components)
  • In Dark Alleys (has Chasing, Psychodynamics, Psychological Shock and Day Job components)

    Game Publishers: Use ORC in your next game.
    How to Develop Character Classes for ORC.
    • RPG Design Dials for ORC

    RPG Dials is public domain (free to use).
    Download the RPG Dials PDF (6 MB zip file)


    The full ORC ruleset plus a complete set of mundane modern day skills, jobs, equipment, advantages and disads.
    Download Now (1 MB pdf)
    Creative Commons License
    Modern ORC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
    Vanilla ORC (1 MB pdf)
    The plain character creation and play rules stripped of any setting-specific stuff.
    Creative Commons License
    Vanila ORC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
    Vanilla ORC en Espanol
    Part 1: Character Creation - Part 2: Basic Mechanics
    Part 3: Health Attributes - Part 4: Drugs, Disease and Poisons
    Part 5: Combat - Part 6: Skills
    (thanks to Víctor Jiménez Merino and Daniel Fernandez for the translation)
    ORC Combat Cards: Street Combat Set (pdf)
    Do ORC combat in card-game format with cards for common FWTD street skills and weapons.