WHAT IS PASSKEY?

Use The Passkey System SRD (System Reference Document) to create cooperative, solo and guided table-top role-playing games. You can use it for any genre or setting.

Like the item it is named after, Passkey opens as many creative doors as possible for Players, GMs and TTRPG designers. It does so by focusing on Player Agency, Customisation, and Narrative Role-Play.

PLAYER AGENCY

With Passkey’s core rule mechanic, Players can choose when they want their Character to put in the effort to succeed, or leave it up to chance. Whenever a Character wishes to perform an Action – something that would have consequences – the Player has two options:

• spend a number of points in exchange for varying degrees of success,
• or test their luck by rolling 1 six-sided die.

CUSTOMISATION

The Passkey System also provides tools to afford a large amount of customisation, whether that is during character creation, world-building, or game mechanic design. The SRD contains plenty of prompts, suggestions, examples and roll tables to help you create the right Passkey System game for you.

NARRATIVE ROLE-PLAY

The Passkey System is intended for role-play and narrative centric games.  As such, it is designed to prioritise engaging shared story-telling instead of rules crunch.
There is little math involved in a Passkey System game. The only dice you need to play are the classic six-sided ones (d6). While combat can be a part of a Passkey System game, the rules are not built around it, nor do they present it as the go-to solution for in-game conflict. This allows for greater flexibility and creative thinking.

The Passkey System aims to be a compact, easy-to-understand and adapt rule-set, for creating a wide variety of TTRPGs.

UNLOCKED WITH PASSKEY

Links lead to itch.io

• Stravagante! – a pocket-sized game of whimsical fantasy.
• Stravagante: Gigante! – an updated expansion of Stravagante!
• Greenjackers! – a game of solarpunks  in a cyberpunk dystopia.
• Fuorimondo! – a game of out-of-this-world space adventures.
• Squish! – a solo/co-op dungeon crawl journaling game.
• Passkey Solo Expansion – an SRD expansion by JimmyShelter.
• My Time to Turn – a post-apocalyptic solo journaling game about your last 4 weeks before turning into a zombie by birdgarlic.
• Fatebreakers – a one-page RPG about intertwined fates by Taewyth.
• Through the Four Realms – an adventure about escorting a useless prince through Fairyland by bittybee123.
• Siren Silk – a map-building RPG by DOCTOR_dev.
• Origin: Robot Wars – a game of robots saving the world by americanspaceprince.
• Bolted On! – a game of robots mixing and matching their parts to solve problems by Sam Bell.
• 59 – a one-shot game about agents racing to stop a deadly threat, by RollForThings.

 

LICENSE & DISCLAIMER

The Passkey System is a modified and streamlined version of the Four Points System (also by Penflower Ink). It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CCBY 4.0) License.
That means you can create games, expansions and hacks based on the Passkey System, for both personal and commercial use. But if you do, you must include proper attribution:

“This work is based on the Passkey System, created by Penflower Ink (www.penflowerink.com) and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).”

You may NOT create games based on the Passkey System if you also intend it to promote any forms of bigotry, including discrimination based on colour, appearance, disability, species, faith, sex or gender.
The SRD also contains a section with advice on playing safely, as well as a link to a curated list of safety tools.

CONTENTS OVERVIEW

Passkey SRD: a traditionally hand-illustrated PDF, with page hyperlinks, bookmarks and table of contents, colour-blind friendly (black & white).

Passkey SRD (Text Only): a printer and colour-blind friendly text only version of the SRD, with page hyperlinks, bookmarks and tagged for screen-readers.

Unlocked with Passkey Logos: some transparent PNG logos for you to include in your Passkey System TTRPGs.

 

Important Information

Please note that the Passkey System SRD is a digital product only. There are no shipping costs, and you will not receive a physical product. After completing your purchase, you will receive a download link for your chosen product. You will get 3 download attempts, so make sure you store your file somewhere safe.

NOT FOR RESALE.