Universal Flux Rules (UFR) & Design Guide

Welcome to the official itch.io page for the Universal Flux Rules (UFR) framework! Whether you are a Game Master looking for a lightweight system to generate dynamic, non-linear environments or a creator eager to design compatible flux modules, everything you need is right here.

What is the Universal Flux Rules (UFR)?

The Universal Flux Rules (UFR) is a lightweight, system-neutral, MOSAIC-strict ruleset engineered to run vast, non-linear, and homogeneous spaces seamlessly at your table. It introduces a clean core gameplay loop and robust mechanics for dynamic location discovery without heavy overhead.

• Core Gameplay Loop: Declare Action → Resolve Event → Discover Location.
• Core Actions: Navigate using standard procedures—Chart, Seek, Recover, and Peregrinate.
• Structured Discovery: Utilizes modular event and location tables to explore imagined places.
• Licensing & Compatibility: Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license. You are free to adapt, share, and build upon the UFR core rules for personal or commercial projects. Includes access to the official "Universal Flux Rules" compatibility badge for display on your own releases!

UFR Design Advice (Creating a Flux with UFR)

Planning to create or publish your own Fluxes? The UFR Design Advice guide offers tip[s and tricks for writers, designers, and GMs wanting to construct engaging, compatible Flux environments.

• How to Advice: Get advice on how to prep successful, flavor-filled UFR compatible fluxes.
• Writing Advice: Additional advice on how to come up with and write various kinds of events and locations, as well as overcome common challenges.
• System-Neutral Writing: Offers best practices for designing triggers, general challenge levels, and system-agnostic stat proxies that fit any tabletop RPG.

Need Examples?

• Five Free Starter Fluxes: They are available HERE.
  • Infested Sewers, Crashed Starship, Questing Beast Hunt, Icehorn Caverns, and Gamma City.
  • These fluxes cover all five possible UFR Focuses. No need to guess how things would work!
• UFR Compatible Itch Category: Find it HERE.

  
  

  • As creators use the UFR to publish their own flux spaces, I will ad them to this collection so that everyone's work shines!

About

The Universal Flux Rules are based on and developed from Nick LS Whelan’s (Papers & Pencils) 2023 blog post, Flux Space. The UFR project seeks to make those ideas more readily accessible to busy GMs.

Universal Flux Rules (UFR) text is by Troy Renaux and licensed under CC BY 4.0.

UFR Design Guide text is by Troy Renaux, All Rights Reserved.