Generic
Nuts and Bolts SRD
A designer’s toolkit for games where risky actions spend a scarce resource and consequences matter.
Directory entry · Mitchell Daily
Third-party modules welcome- Entry type
- Rules engine
- Rules family
- Generic
- Edition
- 1.0
- Rules licence
- CC BY 4.0
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What is it about?
Mitchell Daily’s Nuts & Bolts SRD v1.0 builds on No Nut November. The complete official twelve-page document explains adaptable mechanics for survival, adventure and other genres; its dice size is a design choice.
02
At the table
Roll a pool of same-sized dice and count hits: zero fails, one succeeds with a cost, two succeeds, and three or more adds benefits. Spend the chosen resource before significant actions; exhaustion and named injuries impose consequences.
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The SRD declares CC BY 4.0 International and explicitly permits commercial and noncommercial games with attribution.
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Credit Mitchell Daily, preserve notices, link the licence and indicate changes. The suggested attribution is an example. The author also states a separate restriction against fascist or bigoted content; that wording is additional to standard CC terms. A logo is encouraged, not required: size and colour may change, with no other material alteration, and its use is barred for fascist or bigoted works. The creator’s no-generative-AI label describes production, not a downstream AI prohibition.