HexenRPG System

HexenRPG is a generic party-based dungeon crawler system, inspired by Wizardry, The Bard's Tale, and Wasteland.

It follows a few design guidelines that differentiate it from other classic dungeon crawlers:

• No classes. Characters can learn any skill as long as they meet the requirements and have enough currency to pay for it.
• No experience points. As long as you have currency, you can upgrade and modify your characters.
• No levels. There are no set levels at which characters progress. It is up to you to decide which characters should progress when.
• No base attributes. Everything you do in the game world revolves around your skills. Modifications to your character apply directly to skills, and parameters that are used in combat.
• No inventory. Of course there is an inventory but the system is deliberately designed to reduce inventory management. For instance, you don't carry any weapons or ammo. Instead, you have combat actions and action points.

Scenarios are provided in the form of content PAKs. A content PAK consist of XML files and assets that define the scenario. The download comes with a sandbox content PAK that I use for testing.

Credits

Micro Tileset - Overworld and Dungeon by ThKaspar [OGA-BY 3.0]

The archive comes bundled with a Java 21 Runtime Environment.