TIER The Enhanced Role-Playing Game 2nd Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780692151396)

TIER The Enhanced Role-Playing Game 2nd Edition is a revolutionary tabletop RPG game that offers D&D style gameplay, but there are NO CLASSES TIER uses a system of Masteries, similar to Feats but much stronger. You start at level 1 with 3 or 4 Masteries, depending on your starting race. As you gain level-ups, you select new Masteries to empower your character. There are 100+ Masteries to choose from, allowing you to make an infinite number of unique characters. These Masteries allow you to perform anything you'd expect in a D&D style game, such as melee combat, ranged attacks, bardic music, spellcasting, turning undead, stunning/blinding enemies, disabling limbs, sneak attack, power attack, and etc.

The game also features special Transformations at levels 16 and 36. Transformations significantly alter your character, providing additional statistics, powers, spells, and etc. There are about 30 different Transformations, some of which include an Alien, Half-Dragon, Half-Demon, Half-Angel, Half-Beast, Surrealist, Elementals, Undead, and etc.

Most importantly, TIER only utilizes the 1D20 die, which reduces the number of dice rolls and number-crunching. Using less dice speeds up combat and allows more time for role-playing and decision-making.

This purchase gives you everything needed to play the game, including game rules, monsters, magic items, pre-made campaigns/worlds materials, sample characters, and etc.