Editing Mini mam

Mini mam is derived from the [[Mano a Mano]] Role-Playing System by Benjamin Galbraith and Seth Galbraith.  Like Mano a Mano, mini mam is copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Please use these rules and modify them as you see fit under the terms of that license. The name "mini mam" comes from "Mini Mano a Mano Role-Playing System."

===Characters===

Each character has a '''class''' from the following list to show what kind of character it is.

| a sneaky character

|-

! align="right" | Warrior

| a physical fighter

|-

! align="right" | Wizard

| a magic using character

! align="right" | Priest

| a healer character type

! align="right" | Monster

| a weaker type of character

! align="right" | Dragon

| a more powerful character type

Player's characters should be rogues, warriors, wizards or priests unless the game specifically allows them to play monsters or dragons.

Each character has a '''level''' showing how powerful and accomplished they are.  A normal hero starts off at Level 1, but nearly harmless characters, like ordinary villagers and unproven adventurers start off at level 0.  A character can gain a few levels throughout their life span. To gain each level the character needs years of training, a lot of combat experience, and significantly more powerful and rare magical items to become powerful enough to be on the same level as characters on the next level higher.

! Level !! align="left" | Description

! 0

| Weak, unproven in combat

! 1  

| Proven capable of self-defense

! 2

| Can hold his own with most combatants

! 3

| More powerful than most combatants

! 4

| Famously powerful (this level is beyond the reach of most characters)

! 5

| Legendary

! Difficulty !! align="left" | Description

! 0

| relatively easy

! 1

| a little tricky

! 2

| challenging

! 3

| very difficult

! 4

| rarely done before

! 5

| only theoretically possible

Each character can do one action each round. The action is usually an attack. The characters have their turns to do actions in the order their players are seated clockwise, starting with the player sitting to the left of the Game Master. The rogues and dragons always have their turns before the other characters, an then the rest of the characters have their turns to act. (If teams of players are battling each other, the players should be seated so that the members of each team are not grouped together.)  If the Game Master's characters successfully sneak up on the other characters, then the Game Master's characters go first instead of the player to his left.

Characters have three types of '''health''': '''healthy''', '''injured''', and '''incapacitated'''.  If a healthy character is successfully attacked he becomes injured, and if an injured character is successfully attacked he becomes incapacitated.  If an incapacitated character is healed he becomes injured, and if an injured character is healed he becomes healthy.  Injured characters have 1 subtracted from all of their rolls.  Incapacitated characters can't do anything at all.

Fireball is a special type of attack that only wizards and dragons can do. A successful fireball attack makes the target incapacitated regardless of their previous health.

===Class Advantages===

Classes can give characters specific advantages in combat:

  Wizard - can use fireball as an action

  Priest - can heal other characters as an action

Classes can also give characters advantages outside of combat.

  Rogue - add 1 to rolls involving sneaky, underhanded, or illegal deeds

  Dragon - has all of the class advantages of the other classes

===Character Sheet===

Most players should not need to have a character sheet.  However, for players that have never played an RPG before, or for Game Masters who may have to juggle several characters at once, here is a character sheet that should easily fit on the back of a business card:

  Name: _____________________________

  Class: Rog. War. Wiz. Pri. Mon. Dra.

  Level:  0    1   2    3    4    5

Here is a section for adding extra rules besides the absolutely essential "core rules." For example, rules about special one-use items or variations on Fire Ball might go here.

===Customization===

These rules can be customized to fit specific adventures and settings by changing names. You can create a new class which has the same advantages of one of the existing classes, or a new action which has the same effect as an existing action.

Dragons can call their "fireball" anything they want, as long as it sounds like an incapacitating breath weapon, such as "acidic vomit" or "tear gas."

====Creatures====

Specific kinds of monsters can be created from the monster class. More powerful types of monsters should have higher levels. For example:

* The Kraken is a giant sea monster. The Kraken is a match for even famous heroes so it would have a level of 3 or 4. The Kraken's advantages are the same as other monsters of the same level.

If a creature has specialized abilities similar to a rogue, warrior, wizard or priest, don't give the creature the monster class, give it the class that it closely resembles. For example:

Certain creatures have a wide range of abilities similar to dragons (the combined advantages of all the other classes.) These creatures tend to be rare. They may guard ancient treasures of lead armies of monsters. For example:

* A lich is a powerful undead wizard. In addition to throwing fireballs like a living wizard, the lich can raise fallen allies as undead minions (this works like the priests healing ability.) The undead lich is difficult to fight with physical weapons (so add 1 to it's combat rolls like a warrior.) The lich can move silently (it doesn't need to breath) and can impose it's will on weaker minds, giving it rogue-like abilities.

* A unicorn is one of the most dangerous magical animals. It's horn has healing powers like a priest. This is a major reason people hunt unicorns. But the unicorn is hard to catch, like a rogue. The unicorn is so difficult to deceive that the standard strategy to catch the unicorn requires the use of an innocent girl without guile. The few warriors who have engaged unicorns in physical combat have been easily defeated (add 1 to combat rolls like the warrior class) often dispatched in a single blow (like the wizard's fireball spell.)