Durst - a minimal, narrative-first dice system

Durst is a compact pen-and-paper roleplaying engine where Attributes and Equipment are dice. As characters push their luck, their equipment and bodies degrade step-by-step, shifting to smaller dice and tougher choices. It’s quick to learn, fast at the table, and built to let your setting do the heavy lifting.

Why you might like Durst

• Narrative-first: the fiction drives the rolls; mechanics stay out of the way.

• Stat-Dice core: attributes and equipment are dice that wear down over time.

• Tension by design: a simple challenge flow keeps pressure on the group.

• GM-light handling: clear procedures so scenes keep moving.

• Setting-agnostic: plug in any tone-grit, hope, horror, or hard sci-fi.

What’s inside

• Core rule zine with cheat sheets for players and GMs.

• Clear round and check diagrams for quick onboarding.

• A glossary, Equipment benefits & flaws

This is the core. Specific rules, roles, gear, and world reactions are expanded in the setting books.

How it plays

• Roll your stat + relevant Equipment.

• Read success points (SP) at the table. (Rolling 4+)

• Convert SP into progress-or ward off stress and complications.

• Gear and bodies wear down into smaller dice when exhausted. (Rolling 1s)

• Familiar, unified Challenges system

• rulings over rules

Settings (not there yet)

Beneath the sand

Berlin, the city is covered beneath the sand of change. The inhabitants minds are trapped in the nexus, their bodies hollowed out, hives for nanites, which roam the streets in sentient, devouring Storm

Beyond the stars

Humanity has expaned into new Solar Systems. But in these new System the basic struggle for survival remained. The Planets in the System range from desert planet without water to snow covered gigantic water planets. Huge Corporation devide the system under themselves and 

Art by Nikolaj Cyon

https://www.cyon.se/