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the book of law

the book of law

Author, Editor & Designer - John Caliber

Cover Art - Mike McMahon Interior Art - Chris Blythe, Carlos Ezquerra,

Henry Flint, Ian Gibson, Paul Marshall and Ron Smith

Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra .

sectors

1. character creation ........ 3

2. the basics ........................ 5

3. combat ............................. 6

4. psi-powers .................... 11

5. vehicles .......................... 14

6. drokk city ....................... 16

Judge Dredd - DROKK CITY - THE BOOK OF LAW [v1.b] - is published on a strictly unofficial, non-profit basis by John Caliber,

1 Masefield Avenue, Radcliffe, Manchester M26 3GZ, United Kingdom. ‘Drokk’, ‘Judge Dredd’ and all related characters and

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sector 1

character

creation

introduction

You can’t roleplay unless you have a character to play

through, a conduit allowing you to act out your fanta-

sies as a law enforcer on the streets of Mega-City One.

This chapter instructs you how to create a Drokk City

character.

Maximum human ability.

8-9

Genetically-modified ability.

11+

Superhuman.

Psi ranks:

No psi-talent.

Marginal psi-power.

Minor psi-power.

facets

In Drokk City, all characters - whether they be human,

robot, animal or alien - have a number of statistics to

represent their abilities known as facets . Each facet is

measured by a rank , a number denoting the ability the

character has with that facet relative to other charac-

ters. You use facets to try to overcome enemies and

obstacles.

Grade 4 psi [Justice Department scale].

Grade 3 psi.

Grade 2 psi.

Grade 1 psi [Dark judge, judge anderson].

7-8

Superhuman psyker, psi-warlord.

Murd the Oppressor, Sabbat, Sisters

Of Death.

Spd ranks:

This is a complete list of facets and what they mean:

0 Incapable of movement.

1 Partial movement.

2 Impaired movement.

3 Average walking/running rate, mild exercise.

4 Naturally fit, moderate exercise.

5 Highly-trained.

6 Human maximum, small earth mammal.

7 Enhanced human, mid-sized earth herbivore.

8+ Super human, human-scale earth predator.

• Dex [Dexterity] - Physical agility, used to dodge

bullets and perform acrobatics.

• Headstrong [Hed] - Willpower, used to resist

fatigue and the pain of injury [including torture], and

psychic attacks aimed at confusing the brain.

• Intellect [IQ] - Natural intelligence and the

capacity to learn new skills.

• Psi-Power [Psi] - Ability to use psychic

powers. Most human characters will have no or

insignificant psychic ability.

• Speed [Spd] - Running speed.

• Strength [Str] - Physical strength.

• Technical [Tek] - Ability to use, design, repair or

maintain technological devices.

Note - Though Drokk City allows players to take

on the roles of any character they choose, for

purposes of simplicity, we will refer to the Mega-

City One street judge, a character like the leg-

endary Judge Dredd, when describing the char-

acter creation rules further.

This is how all the facets except for psi and spd are

ranked:

No ability [Otto Sump RIP].

Outlines - All players refer to a set of guidelines de-

scribing their character, called an outline . The outline

functions to give a detailed profile of a character type

such as a judge, scrawler, citi-def officer or psyker. As

such, an outline forms the basis of a character, the bare

bones. The player must then place the figurative flesh

and muscle upon the outline, with the end result a liv-

Marginal ability.

Below average ability.

Average ability [Joe Meg].

Above average or professional grade ability.

Impressive ability.

Exceptional ability.

non-human

characters

The Judge Dredd comics are littered with creatures, ma-

chines and aliens of all descriptions. Alien races use

facets and skills in exactly the same way as humans;

robots and animals use some but not all of the facets

available.

ing, breathing character with a unique personality, am-

bitions and history of his own.

This is the outline of a street judge:

street judge

Dex [5/7] Hed [5/7] IQ [4/6] Psi [0/1] Spd [4/6] Str [4/6] Tek [3/5]

Gun [pistol/rifle] 5/7, Hand-To-Hand [blunt/edged/unarmed] 5/7, Ve-

hicle [ground/hover] 4/6, Vehicle [Lawmaster] 5/7.

Skills : Basic repair/maintenance, broad combat, broad survival,

basic psychology, first aid, Mega-City One law.

Weapons : Lawgiver, bootknife, daystick.

Equipment : Street judge armour, utility belt.

The street judge is the most commonly encountered judge on the

Mega-City One streets, his role to maintain law and order and crush

crime where he finds it. After surviving fifteen years of gruelling mental

and physical conditioning in the Academy Of Law, the street judge is

prepared to tackle any situation, from a bank heist to an alien inva-

sion. The archetypal street judge is Judge Dredd, blazing into battle

atop his Lawmaster, dealing death to criminal scum. However, street

judges can expect to spend some of their time resolving domestic

disputes and lecturing juves on the dangers of lawbreaking as they

might be engaged in firefights. A small number of street judges are

made up of clones, replicates of famous judges gone by. Judge clones

are schooled with a view to their eventually taking up command po-

sitions in the Justice Department and repeating the successes of

their forefathers at tackling crime.

robots

Robots are common in Mega-City One, the slaves of

Mankind and also Man’s enslavers because the prolif-

eration of robots has put most of Mega-City One’s pop-

ulation out of work! Robots’ facets are restricted by the

robot’s function. Roboticists can build robots with the

following facets: Dex, IQ, Spd, Str, Tek . Robots have

skills just like organic characters, but can only acquire

them from an outside source, requiring another agent

to enter the knowledge into their systems. on rare occa-

sions, high-grade robots have learning programs and

can acquire skills available to humans at speeds far

greater than the time a human needs to learn them. Ro-

bots cannot ordinarily use psi-powers because they lack

organic components, but it is not beyond the realms of

Twenty-second Century technology for a crackpot ro-

boticist to engineer a ‘psi-bot!’

Man-sized or larger robots have one additional

Facet - BA [body armour] - the rank of their metal

casing. Larger robots have a Mass facet - the total

amount of damage they can sustain before being to-

tally destroyed.

All outlines are structured in this fashion. The first para-

graph details the character’s facets; the rank numbers

before the ‘/’ are the minimum a fit and healthy charac-

ter of this outline may possess. You may increase any

of the facets to a maximum rank dictated by the number

that comes after the ‘/’. Notice the text immediately fol-

lowing the facets; these measure a character’s combat

and other action skills such as operating vehicles. Again,

minimum and maximum ranks apply.

The next paragraph lists the character’s basic aca-

demic skills. More skills can be added throughout the

course of a character’s life and existing skills can be

improved. There is no game mechanic for this proce-

dure - the Tac Chief and player work together to build a

character’s intellectual arsenal over the course of game

play. The Drokk City rules concentrate on combat-based

skill use and so do not attach ranks to academic skills

which unlike combat are often not a matter of life or death

to resolve. In any instance of academic skill usage, the

Tac Chief will make a judgement call on whether any

intellectual action that character undertakes succeeds

or fails. If impartial adjudication is required, the Tac Chief

has the option to make use of the Opposed Table or

Aggro Table on pages 5 and 6 respectively.

The weapons/equipment paragraphs list the most

common or officially issued items on that outline’s per-

son or close at hand, such as a vehicle.

beasts

Animals such as cats, dogs and birds lack Hed and Tek

facets due to their limited intelligence. Though few ani-

mals on Earth consciously manifest psi-powers, they are

more in touch with Nature than humans and so several

species will have low Psi facets - often on par with the

average human - to reflect their sensitivity; this guide-

line also applies to animal IQ, denoting base cunning

and problem solving abilities.

conclusion

You now know how outlines are constructed. If you are

ready to select your outline, please refer to the Outline

chapter of The Big Meg sourcebook which is packed

with templates for Mega-City One judges, citizens,

perps, robots, mutants and aliens. Future sourcebooks

such as The Cursed Earth will add many more varied

outlines to choose from and exciting locations to use

them in.

sector 2

the

basics

introduction

Any physical action your character undertakes, the out-

come of which is considered uncertain unless that char-

acter puts concentration and energy into it, requires a

dice roll to succeed. The Drokk City rules use a D10

[ten-sided die] to resolve all actions where impartial ad-

judication is required. If the character is trying to best

another living being, we use the Opposed Table to work

out who wins the contest. If the character is operating

against a non-living or inanimate object, or requires on

occasional circumstances to decide the success of an

academic skill, we instead refer to the Aggro Table .

opposed table

5 ranks less

[automatic success]

4 ranks less

[2]

3 ranks less

[3]

2 ranks less

[4]

1 ranks less

[5]

equal ranks

[6]

1 ranks more

[7]

2 ranks more

[8]

3 ranks more

[9]

4 ranks more

[10]

5 ranks more

[automatic failure]

Here are examples of which facets are used for certain

actions:

actions

In real life, it is very hard to perform two or more de-

manding actions at the same time. For example, you

would be hard pressed to play a computer game and

climb Mount Everest in the same instance - at least com-

petently. Drokk City uses exactly the same principle. A

character can attempt to undertake more than one ac-

tion at a time, the maximum number equal to the rank of

his IQ. For each action after his first, deduct 1 rank from

the character’s facet in use until he has tried to perform

those actions. The facet penalty applies to each of the

actions being attempted simultaneously.

• Dex - Acrobatics, dodging, negotiating

uneven ground.

• Hed - Enduring physical pain, mental

suffering or psychic attacks trained on brain

functions.

• IQ - Comprehending languages,

philosophical or intellectual concepts, solving

puzzles or outwitting opponents.

• Psi - The use of psychic powers, or defending

oneself from psychic attacks.

• Spd - Outrunning enemies, chasing criminals.

• Str - Lifting heavy objects, breaking through walls,

resisting physical damage.

• Tek - Designing, building, using or

understanding technology.

opposed rolls

When a character tries to outwit or best another living

being, he uses the Opposed Table to find out if his ac-

tion succeeds or fails.

This is how the table works: decide what facet your

character is going to use to perform his action and Find

out what facet the opposition is going to use. Calculate

how many ranks it is higher or lower to the first charac-

ter’s facet. Once you have figured this out using the first

column in the table, cross-reference with the right col-

umn to discover the number you must roll equal to or

higher than with the D10; if you do so, then your charac-

ter defeats the opposition for that action.

EG 1 - Just as the facets can be pitted afgainst one

another, so can the skills: Two or more characters in-

volved in a vehicle chase pit their Vehicle skills against

each another.

EG 2 - A character attacking another another uses one

of his Gun skills appropriate to the type of weapon be-

ing used, or one of his Hand-to-Hand skills. his oppo-

nent can use either his Spd facet to try to dodge the

attack, or one of his Gun/Hand-to-Hand skills to return

the attack. A character can try to dodge and return fire

at the same time subject to a -1 penalty to his Dex facet

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