Nuclear Beasts

Barbarians of Lemuria

A fairly nifty freebie RPG I downloaded. A few cute ideas:

• Skills are described as careers, so rather than Boating 3 and Swimming 1, you'd take Sailor 3.
• Combat stats are kept entirely separate from your careers and stats and are even purchased with different points, so that all PCs end up being decent fighter types... or having a really good Defense rating.
• Magic points spent on level 1 magic come back in a day, level 2-3 in a month, and level 3 always costs you 1 attribute point permanently (this could come from your magic attribute, or from some other stat).
• Spells generally have at least one Restriction. The examples for minor spells are Special Item, Line of Sight, Extra-long casting time, Intimate Materials (requires some personal item from the target), Special Knowledge (requires researching the target), Obvious (the spell is very obvious when you cast it), Hour of Power (can only be cast at a particular time of day) and Ritual Cleansing. If you take 2 restrictions on your spell, it costs 1/2 as much.
• Higher end spells have much nastier restrictions to choose from, such as requiring permanent scars/tattoos, human sacrifice, only cast during a specific moon phase, etc.
• Priest magic is somewhat similar, but you have to go back to your temple and perform specific rites to get your magic back. But they can only cast a number of spells equal to their priest skill, which I don't care for.