Mano a Mano Role-Playing System

The Mano a Mano Role-Playing System (RPS) is a set of generic role-playing game rules with emphasis on hand to hand combat. (In Spanish, "mano a mano" means "hand to hand".) The Squawk Role-Playing Game (RPG) uses the Mano a Mano rules for combat, abilities, character creation, and so on.

The Mano a Mano RPS is free and "Open Source", meaning that anyone may download the Mano a Mano rules, modify them, and even use Mano a Mano to create their own Role-Playing Games. (The Squawk RPG is not Open Source.)

Permanent version from September 2007: The latest "live" version of the rules are being developed at wiki.RPG.net:

Mano a Mano is copyright © 2007 by Seth Galbraith and Benjamin Galbraith. This open source role-playing system can be copied, modified and distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.