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Magic Window Studios presents

A Tabletop Roleplaying Game by AlienOvan

Metaforce is a genre-agnostic, modular tabletop roleplaying system designed to allow a wide variety of game settings and scenarios while enabling players to build and customise their character’s powers, skills and abilities with numerically-backed scores known as Metaphors. Fate-altering Meta Powers give players the power to survive even the most dangerous situations, allowing Game-Masters to run more intense scenarios without high risk of TPK. Metaforce uses d12s as the key die.

The current build for Metaforce is BETA 2.22, expected to finalise major systems within the year 2026.

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Written by AlienOvan

12th March 2026 - Saves and oh there's headlines now
A few updates to Metaforce after preliminary playtesting has vastly improved the Character Sheet, with fixed logic on character defence stats (Deflection/Evasion, Status Defences). Core Values and HP scaling have been shifted around and now start at 6 and increase with level. Now attackers will need to work on their combat Metaphors even further to land hits.

Status Defence is now ToHit based, meaning Status magnitudes rolled target a character's Body, Reflex, or Mind Defence and if they meet or beat the score, the target is affected with the same magnitude. Saves can trigger which gives the character a chance to half or negate the condition based on their result.

My primary focus aside from setting up playtest scenarios is to get the odds and numbers right. So that the chances to hit or affect things isn't too high or too low for a given level. Giving characters additional defence based on their level will give them an easier time surviving but it might also make some character too difficult to hit without rolling criticals. If I could solve the Save mechanic then I can solve this too.

Master Categories

For a full list of game mechanics, see Mechanics

Getting Started

Before you start playing Metaforce, best to read up on the basic terms and concepts.

• Character Creation A section to help new players start creating their first character.
• Character Sheet Explains the Character sheet used to play Metaforce.
• Race Explains the Race/Species articles and provides a list of them.
• Attributes A section explaining the six essential aspects of a characters capabilities.
• Core Value A section explaining the three core stats that affect everything else, including resistances.
• Meta Dice A section that covers the unique dice used in Metaphors, Attributes and more.
• Metaphor A section that covers what Metaphors are used for and how values are assigned and used.
• Recommended Metaphors A list containing Metaphors players would find helpful in most Metaforce games.
• Level A section that goes over the importance of a character level, level-ups and progression.
• Arc A section that explains the special features a character gains as they level up.
• Experience A describing how Experience points (XP) are gained and used to progress a character.
• How To Play An explanation how games are run and what to do and when to do checks.
• Debt Explains the concept of Experience Debt and Boosting (to modify progression).

Playing Metaforce

These concepts make more sense after understanding the basics, or might only be relevant after starting your first session.

• Meta Point An important section that goes over Meta-Points (MP), a resource used in Meta Powers.
  • Meta Power Narrative interventions that enable players to influence the outcomes of their character's fate.
• Equipment A section that covers how equippable and usable (consumable) items work, and how they can be modified or enhanced.
• Inventory A section that details the carry capacity and Inventory rules for characters.
• Encounter An in-depth look on how combat and special scenarios work in a Metaforce game.
• Action Frames A break-down of what Action Frames are, how to use them in Encounters.
• Magnitude An explanation to how Status Conditions and Magnitude work, and how they can be used to measure stamina and action costs.
• Complication Describes the circumstances in which a character may lose advantage or suffer disadvantage during checks.
• Resistance Explains how the difference Resistance (and Anti-Resistance) properties function.
• Size A section that goes over the effects of Size and various considerations to take involving gigantic or tiny creatures.

Features

Modular Skills and Powers Metaphors are skills, powers and abilities a character can use to defend themselves or gain an advantage within their environment throughout various campaigns and settings. The Game Master and Player should communicate to each other to create and design Metaphors that are appropriate to the campaign.	Exploding Dice Dice with 12 sides (and sometimes other forms of die) can ‘explode’, allowing an additional die with the same number of sides to be rolled and added to the result upon rolling its highest value. Typically, Skill, ToHit, and Damage Dice can explode in this way.
Meta Dice Meta Dice appear in Attributes and Metaphors with a value of +1 or greater. Starting at d4 and working up to d6, d8, d10 and d12. Meta-dice have a minimum number relative to the initial value of the Attribute/Metaphor, at its strongest, the d12 can't roll lower than a 5.	Attributes / Core Values There are 6 Attributes (Strength, Endurance, Agility, Perception, Intellect, Charisma) that can be added to various checks, these Attributes contribute towards 3 Core Values (Body, Reflex, Mind) which govern a number of other stats including Health-Points (HP), Meta-Points (MP), Deflection and Evasion.
Status Conditions and Magnitude Status Conditions affect characters in different ways, and even keep track of various resources they may have. Magnitude is used to track conditions and if it exceeds a character's relevant Core Value, they may become affected by a condition.	Size and Size-Rating Size Rating determines the physical size of a character or creature, scaling its statistics such as Max Health, Damage dealt, Reach, Move Speed and more. The rules and adjustments for size work the same for player characters and NPCs.