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SQUAD is a tactical Tabletop Roleplaying Game for one to six players and one GM. The players control an elite team of two to six Special Forces Operators engaging in Tactical Espionage Action. or comparable Black Ops special forces, engaging in dangerous and deniable missions against high priority targets all around the globe. The GM controls the rest of the world and everyone in it, chiefly a rotating cast of fascists, Ultranationalists, terrorists, drug cartels, human traffickers, and wackjob fundamentalists that exist mainly to be shot in the face. In the event of two or less players, each player can control two or more Operators, but the more players, the merrier! SQUAD is designed for fast-paced, tactical, mission-focused gameplay, with simple and clean mechanics still designed to provide a maximum of tactical opportunities and options.

SQUAD is designed to generate operators quickly, to play quickly, and to be very easy to learn but tricky to master, with a wealth of crunchy tactical options, Perks, loadouts, grenades and gadgets available to PCs. While it's an apples to oranges comparison as D&D is high fantasy and SQUAD is military stealth action, combat in SQUAD is still designed to be simpler and faster than D&D combat while providing comparable tactical depth. 

SQUAD features seven Primary Skills, seven Weapon Classes, 25 Perks, and a whole catalogue of MilSpec hardware for Operators to kit up with. The core resolution mechanic is a d6 dice pool system where you roll 3d6 plus your relevant Skill(s)--squad features a unique skill stacking mechanic--and Weapon Class versus 12. Every two points over 12 on the roll is a 'Raise', with every Raise representing an increasing Degree of Success on the action, more damage from gunshots, more bullets hitting the target with automatic fire, and so on.

The SQUAD Core Download consists of the following files:

1. SQUAD Operator Handbook (Complete): Everything you need to generate operators and all of the game's core rules can be found herein.
2. SQUAD GM Dossier (Still In Development): Everything the GM needs to outfit and field OPFOR (the Opposing Forces that the Operators will be up against in their missions. It also contains everything the GM will need to design missions chock full of a variety of tactical challenges, cinematic set piece moments and dramatic roleplaying opportunities for the PC Operators to tackle, and an assortment of optional advanced rules to customize the game experience. It also contains a small selection of ready-to-play sample Missions which can be played as is, altered, or used as templates and examples for designing your own.
3. SQUAD Operator Sheets: Character sheets for PC Operators.

 SQUAD's default millieu/setting is "modern day special forces", with modern day loosely defined as having started some time around 2014 and extending up until the moment you are reading this. It is designed to be easily configured into other "modes" such as futuristic bughunts in space, cyberpunk scifi missions (think Shadowrun, with very high-level runners), historical Special Forces action (especially Cold War era), or adding a splash of Weird fiction/supernatural horror. That last option will be the subject of the first planned Setting/Expansion pack for SQUAD, "BAD SCIENCE".