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How Does Any-System Work With the D6 System?

You can match Any-System skill and difficulty descriptors to corresponding values and stats in your favorite roleplaying game. Thanks to Nikola Vrtis for taking the time to develop this adaptation of the D6 System to the Any-System Key with the permission of West End Games. Remember, porting Any-System Key material to your favorite game is just as easy. 

Assume characters have the average rating in most skills, with several rated at the level of a competent professional, a few considered expert in their field, and sometimes one signature skill for which the character is renown. 

Three character levels further describe their abilities. Henchmen do not possess Signature skills and only have one Expert skill. Bosses have the usual complement of skills. Masterminds boost all their skills by one level; their Competent skills have the same value as Expert skills normally possess, Expert skills have values equivalent to the Signature level, and Signature skills increase by one increment beyond their maximum game value. 

Any-System publications use four levels to describe the degree of difficulty for tasks undertaken by a person with professional training and proficiency in relevant skills. These correspond to different difficulty levels in the D6 System.

The same adaptation works for difficulties. Examine the difficulty descriptors and find a corresponding difficulty level or value for your game. A character facing a Hard task as described by the Any-System Key -- an undertaking with a exceptional chance of failure -- would have to overcome a Difficult task with a difficulty number of 16-20 in the D6 System; if the challenge was particularly hard, a character might have to make a Very Difficult roll with a difficulty number of 21-25.

   "This is called a Griffin because it is a winged quadruped. This kind of wild animal is born in Hyperborean parts, or in mountains. All its bodily members are like a lion's, but its wings and mask are like an eagle's. It is vehemently hostile to horses. But it will also tear to pieces any human beings which it happens to come across."