THE TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAME 

INTRODUCTION
JoJo was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1987 to 2004. In 2004, during the run of its seventh
installment, it transferred to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump, where the current story continues
to this day. The series has sold over 80 million copies in Japan, and is one of the overall best-selling
Weekly Shonen Jump series. Numbering over 100 volumes (for a total of ~20,000 pages); it holds the
record for Shueisha's second longest-running manga series. English publication of the earlier parts of the
series is ongoing. It is perhaps most popularly known for its Stand phenomenon; the Stardust Crusaders
arc and its characters Dio and Jotaro Kujo; the expressive rendition of its proud, glamorous personalities;
and its hundreds of nominal references to Western popular music.

Chapters and arcs in JoJo are diverse in tone, contributing to a span of genres including Action,
Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, Mystery, Horror and Supernatural fiction. The thrust of the plot is met by
precarious, melodramatic interactions between individuals defined by supernatural power and conflicting
ambitions, attitudes or moral standards, along with a race among the emergent heroes of a given arc to
intercept a powerful central antagonist. The signature mechanic of the series is the supernatural,
increasingly abstract Stand powers that permeate most the series. Recurrent subjects in the text of the
manga may be condensed under themes of Fate, Fortunity, Justice and Redemption.
 In the words of the man himself; ​“I believe that people are able to grow by overcoming obstacles
through the power of the human spirit and strength, and that, I believe is “an affirmation that humanity is
wonderful”. Within ‘JoJo's Bizarre Adventure’, there are fights and stories that involve various elements.
However, in the end, people pull through without relying on machines and divine beings to determine fate
themselves.”

What do I need?
Jojo’s Bizarre Tabletop is best played with a couple of six-sided dice, some pen-and-paper,
notecards, friends and a whole lot of imagination.

SECTION I: CHARACTER CREATION

Characters in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure come in many forms: Japanese high-school delinquents,
Italian mobsters, and even the President of the United States, are all characters you could encounter on
your adventure. The following rules are here to help you to create the characters that will populate this
bizarre world.

Character Creation is split into two parts: Character Creation and Stand Creation. You’ll have 5
points to spend to increase certain aspects of your character and stand while designing, but there are
options you can take throughout to get you more points for a cost.

CHARACTER CREATION
Characters have three statistics that are important to them: Brains, Brawns, and Bravery.
Brains determines your character’s ability to recall information and think fast in combat. It’s
primary importance is for allowing your character to come up with intense and dangerous plots in combat
(as described later on Pg. 24-25 in the ​Secret Actions​ section of the rules), and also to discover the plots
of your enemies.
Brawns determines your general athletics; your strength, agility and toughness are all determined
by your Brawns. If you plan to throw punches and take hits with your character, this is the skill you’ll
need. All physical rolls, whether being fast, throwing a punch, or powering through a painful blow, will
require a good Brawns score to succeed.
Finally, Bravery determines your mental willpower and ability to keep fighting past your
physical limits. If your character is attempting to resist an urge caused by some character flaw or trait, or
trying to continue fighting while every fibre their body is screaming out to stop, they’ll need a high
bravery score.
These three stats are scored from 1 to 5. To generate these stats, characters start out scored 3 in
their Brains, Brawns and Bravery, and you can choose to distribute some of your 5 points to increase
them. It costs one point to increase a skill up to 4, and it costs two more points to increase a skill up to 5.
If a player chooses, they can decrease one of their stats down to 2 to get an extra point, and even further
down to 1 to get two more extra points.
Any points you do not use in character created are saved for the Stand Creation process described
later.

HEALTH
Health is based around two of the three stats your Stand User has: Brawns and Bravery.

Brawns determines the user’s “Real Health.” The Real Health of a Stand User represents how
many blows they can take before being pushed to their physical limits; you could think of it as your
character’s HP. ​To calculate your HP, you will use 1d6 for each point you have in your Brawn score​.
This value will be temporarily decreased whenever a character takes damage (defined later in this
rulebook), only being restored after a character seeks healing or the session ends. If a stand user is
brought down to 0 Real Health, then they move to a secondary health pool, their “Resolve.”

Bravery is what helps to determine a Stand User’s Resolve. Resolve represents the will for a
fighter to continue pushing forward powered only by their ideals and bravado. Because of that, the system
for Resolve works slightly differently. A player’s Resolve health pool starts at 0 and increases
proportionally to how much damage is taken. At the beginning of their turn, the player rolls a number of
D6s equal to their Bravery with the aim of rolling higher than all the damage they’ve accrued since
entering the phase.

If a player is about to take damage from an attack to either their Real Health or Resolve Health
pools, they can choose to take 0 damage from the attack in return for taking a critical injury. A critical
injury is some kind of narrative injury that hinders or prevents a character from doing certain actions. For
example, a character can take a critical injury when hit by a powerful stand attack, and instead of taking
that damage, they may break their arm or get their finger cut off. The severity of the critical injury should
change depending on the severity of the attack used against the character at the time. A Critical injury
from a punch would reasonably be a broken arm, while a critical injury from a sharp weapon could be
anything from a deep gash that causes bleeding, or something more gruesome like losing a finger or an
arm. The GM should look at the situation to decide what is to be done to the player. Mechanically,
attempting to use a part of the body that has taken a critical would means that the character does not
benefit from their Brawns modifier when making the roll.

STAND CREATION
Now that you have the basic statline for your character, you can move on to begin making your
stand.

Before you get started on stand generation, you should first think about what you want from your
stand. Stand’s are ghostly projections of your soul with fantastic abilities capable of doing just about
anything. The possibilities are endless, and so it’s good to narrow down what kind of vague ability or
special power you want your stand to possess. This way you can work towards building your stand in a
way that best supports the ability you had in mind.

If you only have a vague idea of what you want to do, then that’s fine. Hopefully, by the end of
Stand Creation, you’ll be able to look at your stand’s parameters and be able to see a direction to take
your ability.

MAKING YOUR STAND

Stands are made with a point-buy system similar to the one used in character creation. Stands,
however, use more complicated “Parameters” instead of the simplified character stats.

These parameters are presented below, just like you see them in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure:

POWER: How strong you can ORA. Also, how potent a Stand’s abilities are.
SPEED: How quickly you can ORA. Also, movement speed, dodging, agility, etc.
RANGE: How far you can ORA. Also, the effective range of abilities.
DURABILITY: How well you can stand other ORA. Also, how long a Stand’s ability can act.
PRECISION: How accurately you can ORA. Also, how precise the Stand’s abilities are.
LEARNING: How well you can learn new ORA. Also, how well a Stand can adapt.

PARAMETERS
The parameters for stands differ slightly from a character’s stats in that they are placed as letter
“Ranks” that represent different power levels as follows:

A: Excellent

B: Good

C: Same level as peak health human.

D: Weak

E: Very Weak

These Ranks, unlike the simple scores used to represent characters, represent much broader levels
of strength and ability. As such, the effect they have on rolling dice and granting modifiers is different
than the simple boosts given by a character score.
 The Stand’s Rank changes the amount of dice you use, and keep, when making a roll using a
Stand’s parameters:

E: 1d6 D: 2d6 keep 1 C: 2d6

B: 3d6 keep 2 A: 3d6

Table 1.1

When a situation calls for a “Parameter Modifier,” Stands’ Rank also helps to determine the
modifier that is given for that situation:

E: -5 D: -3 C: +1

B: +3 A: +5
Table 1.2

The process of making Stands is similar to character creation. When generating parameters,
Stands start out Ranked C in all their stats. You can choose to increase them with any leftover points from
character creation. It costs one point to increase a Rank up to B, and it costs two more points to increase a
Rank up to A. If a player chooses, they can decrease one of their Ranks down to D to get an extra point,
and even further down to E to get two extra points.

WHAT DO STAND’S PARAMETERS DO?

All Stand parameters have their own niche roll to perform during combat, but they're uniform in
that they both affect your Stand or their ability in some way. Listed below are all the parameters in more
detail and for what purposes they’d be used.

POWER
Power measures the Stand's strength and ability to cause destruction (physical injury or collateral
environmental damage) in a given period of time. Whenever a Stand is used to cause physical damage or
destruction, Power will always be the main dice in the roll. Other parameters can be used to assist in
making physical attacks under certain circumstances (as detailed in Contested Rolls for Stands in the
Mechanics chapter later in the book), but a good Power ranking will still be necessary to do the maximum
amount of damage possible.

For an example, a Stand with Weak Power but Excellent Speed wants to make an attack that
consists of hundreds of quick punches. Even though that's a lot of punches, if there's no force behind
them, then they won't do much damage. As such, they’d have to roll the dice for their Weak Power, and
then add on the speed’s Parameter modifier (Table 2.2) to try and get an edge on the roll.

Power also helps to dictate the strength of your stand’s abilities. If your ability is going to harm
your opponent in any way, your power score will determine the roll that you make to affect them. Note
that this is only true for Stand Abilities that are not direct target projectiles and don’t require any complex
manipulation as those two categories are covered under Precision.

SPEED
Speed measures the Stand's agility, quickness and reflexes. Speed can be used to dodge incoming
attacks, make a flurry of punches and to move quickly across the battlefield. Stands are generally
considered to move with their users, but if sent off on their own, they’ll move at the following speeds per
turn depending on their rank:

A: 50 meters (164 feet)

B: 30 meters (100 feet)

C: 20 meters (65 feet)

D: 10 meters (32 feet)

E: 2 meters (6 feet)

Speed also plays a role in who goes first in the turn order of combats. Those Stand’s with higher
speeds will move before Stands with lower speeds, and Stands with equal speed will contest each other
for the privilege of going first during that phase.

RANGE
Range measures the Stand's range of manifestation*, range of ability influence, and spatial
mobility. When a Stand has high range, they’ll be able to appear, fight and use their abilities within the
range that is provided by their Rank.

For stand and ability range, rankings are defined as follows:

A: 100+ meters (328+ feet)**

B: 50 meters (164 feet)

C: 20 meters (65 feet)

D: 10 meters (32 feet)

E: 2 meters (6.5 feet)

*Please note that although it is possible to manifest your stand suddenly at any distance away from your user, it is not recommended. Although
there may be strategically sound reasons for doing so, that is significantly less Cool™ than manifesting your stand right in front of or behind you
to pose with before sending it into combat.

**A-ranked Range is normally 100 ft, but can be any amount higher if the Stand is a Long-Distance Type Stand.
DURABILITY
Durability measures the Stand's endurance and level of susceptibility to damage and attacks.
Stand’s are normally not their own entities with their own health values as they are just manifestations of
the user’s inner spirit. As such, any damage given to them will be considered an attack towards the user.
Durability exists to act as a shield against that damage.

Whenever damage is dealt to a stand, the stand will reduce the damage dealt equal to the
parameter modifier associated with its Durability rank before sending the damage over to the User. Keep
in mind that a stand with weak durability will actually ADD to the overall damage received when its hit,
so it’s wise to keep weaker, defenseless stands out of harm's way.

Another important use for Durability is in its effect on an abilities staying power. Whenever an
ability is trying to be disabled or removed from a target, durability will be used to oppose the attempt.

PRECISION
Precision measures the Stand's accuracy and the influence and effect of their abilities on specific
targets. Precision is the primary parameter when rolling to make ranged attacks. It also defines how much
control a Stand has over their ability.

For example, a Stand that makes flames appear on the battlefield could get by on having a low
precision, but a stand that wants to bend fire to form unnatural shapes around their opponent, like a gate
or cage of fire, they would apply their precision modifier to help in that roll. Furthermore, if the player
wanted to do something complex with their ability that doesn’t involve directly damaging anyone, they’d
use precision as their primary dice roll.

Besides affecting your accuracy and stand ability, precision also affects how well your Stand’s
control over their senses is. An excellent precision means that your stand’s senses of sight, touch and
hearing are superhuman, while very weak senses means that your stand probably doesn’t even have
senses at all.

LEARNING
Learning is different from the other five parameters in that it has no real effect on your stands
physical stats. Instead, Learning is important in allowing your stand to learn new techniques and abilities
on the spot. There are two ways that learning can be used: To expand on an ability, or to gain a new one.

When a player decides to expand on an ability, they can permanently reduce their learning score
by one rank and gain a new power based off their original ability. As long as the new application makes
some vague bit of sense to everyone at the table, then the new ability is instantly added to your arsenal
and can be used on the spot to solve a problem.

For example, a player decides they want their stand to have the ability to read minds.
Unfortunately, they end up being less than useful in combat, and he needs to act quickly in order to save a
party member. So, in order to counter that, the player decreases their learning to make a new ability
called Mind Blast, which allows them to directly assault the targets brain, stunning them. Since his
original power had something to do with the mind, it’s not a far stretch to imagine this ability as being a
latent talent, and so the GM allows the ability. With his new powers, he stuns his opponent long enough
for an ally to get to safety.

If a player wants, they can also develop an entirely new ability that is not related at all to their
original power, but this costs two ranks in learning to do. So, in order to maximize the usage of your
learning parameter, it is suggested to use as much pseudo-science as possible to link something you want
to do with your original power. Whenever a player gains a new ability through learning, it’s up to them to
explain if it came to them on the spot, it was something they were training to do, or just a secret technique
that they were waiting to pull out for just such an occasion.

STAND TYPES
Another way of improving your stand is giving it a​ Stand Type. A Stand Type is a special
condition that you can give your stand that will change it in someway in return for giving you bonuses or
better stats. You can pick multiple Stand Types, but there are limitations. Some Stand Types have
prerequisites that require you to have certain stats or to pay a point cost before you select them.
Furthermore, if you take a stand type that is listed under a category, then you are locked out from taking
any other Stand Types from that category. Listed below are different kinds of Stand Types that you can
apply to your stands:

Close-Distance Power Type:

Minimum Prerequisites: ​Range (D)
Category: ​Distance.

Close-Range Power Type Stands are known for being able to inflict powerful and swift attacks
upon opponents. However, they are only able to move 2-3 meters away from their user, despite what their
range score is. They also generally have closer ranged abilities due to their decreased range.
If you select this type, your stand goes up a rank in both Power and Speed, but goes down in
Range one rank and is limited to using E ranked Range for movement purposes.

Long-Distance Manipulation Type:

Minimum Prerequisites:​ Range (A), Power (D), Durability (D)
Category:​ Distance.

Long-Distance Manipulation Type Stands are capable of movement beyond that of a normal
stand. They can go distances away from their users that stretches into the kilometers, and often prefer
using ranged attacks due to their less than average destructive power.
If you select this type, your Stand gets mechanically infinite Range (As long as the stand user can
see the battle to command their stand) with equally long ranged abilities and projectiles, but goes down a
Rank in Power and Durability.
Far-Distance Autopilot Type:
Minimum Prerequisites: ​Range (A), Precision (D).
Category:​ Distance.

Far-Distance Autopilot Type stands are stands that act on their own. They follow a simple
objective without being directly ordered by their Users, though they can be preset to follow orders before
they are activated. Users do not have to be present for the Stand to do anything, as these Stands have a
range that is close to infinite, with no diminish in power relative to the distance from the user. As an
offset, since they are remotely controlled, automated Stands often lack Precision and Complex Cognitive
ability, and are clumsy compared to normal Stands.
If you select this type, your Stand gets Mechanically infinite Range, but goes down a rank in
Precision. Your Stand also becomes a remote controlled Stand that follows a simple objective: You do not
need to actively be involved in the fight for your stand to function, but your stand is unable to make any
cognitive decision making, and will be rather predictable because of it.
You can spend 1 character creation point to not have any damage transfer over when your stand is
hit. If you do this, roll a 4d6+Durability Modifier; this is how much damage your stand can take before
being dispelled.

Substance Assimilation Type:

Minimum Prerequisites: ​Learning (D).
Category: ​Form.

Substance Assimilation Type stands, also known as Bound Stands, manifest by binding to
material objects. These can materialize as vehicles, elements, weapons and many more things. Unlike
other stands, these stands are able to take a solid enough form to be seen by normal humans. These stands
usually have a lower Learning score due to them only being able to manipulate the object they are bound
to.
If you select this type, your Stand will gain Durability (A), but go down a rank in Learning. Your
Stand will be bound to an object and cannot directly take damage, only the object it inhabits, so no
damage will transfer over to you if your Stand is hit.

Integrated Type:
Prerequisites: ​N/A
Category: ​Form.

Integrated Type Stands lack any physical form of their own, but instead give abilities to their user. This
ability usually either manifests on it’s opponents or on the user’s body.
If you select this type, your Stand will gain Durability (A), but it will lack a physical form.

Wearable Type:
Prerequisites: ​Range (C)
Category: ​Form.

Wearable Type stands cover their user like armour, protecting them along with granting the use of
their abilities. Because they are bound to the user, their range is often short.
 If you select this type, your Stand will increase two Ranks in Durability, but go down two Ranks
in Range. Furthermore, your stand will manifest over your body like clothing or armour, making all
attacks against you count as attacks against a Stand.

Colony Type:
Prerequisites: ​Spend 3 Character points.
Category:​ Form.

Colony Type Stands are stands that appear as multiple, smaller stands instead of a single form.
These Stands are well coordinated, and work together to use the Stand’s ability. The loss of an individual
stand in the colony is insignificant, and damage doesn’t transfer from losing any parts of the colony.
If you select this type, your Stand goes up a rank in Durability and Range, and your stand takes
the form of multiple small, unified stands (the exact number is decided by the player and the DM). When
picking the Colony type, the player rolls 10d6+Durability to decide the colony’s overall health. The
player then divides the total equally amongst all the stands in the colony rounded up (e.g. a total health
pool of 36 with 6 stands in the colony would equal 6 stands with 6 health each). If the number of stands is
higher than the total health pool, then all the stands still get 1 hp minimum.
When an attack targets a group stands in a colony, the damage will be divided out amongst all the
colony stands included in the attack.
A stand punches the ground where a bunch of Colony Stands are standing, doing 7 damage. This
colony has 2 health per stand, so within this group, 3 stands are killed with 1 being injured. If this square
only had 1 stand within it, the two damage would be used to kill that stand, and the rest of the damage
would become null.
Kept spread out, these stands can move around effectively and be hard to remove from combat,
but they are at their most effective at dealing damage when they’re all assembled together in one spot.
Colony stand’s act with the full Stand Stats when they are all assembled together. Every time their
numbers are cut in half (Whether they’re killed or split up), they act as if they had one less in Power,
Durability and Precision.
For example, a full colony could act using their stand’s full destructive Power of A. They split in
half to chase two opponents, however, and must act using a Power of B. If one group where to split in half
again, then those two new groups would be forced to use a Power of C.
It falls down to the Stand User to decide whether having multiple instances of weaker groups or
having a strong group together in a full bundle will be more effective.

ACT Type:
Minimum prerequisites: ​5 Character creation points, D or higher in two parameters other than learning.
Category:​ N/A

ACT type stands are different from other stands in that they have multiple forms. These Stands
will start out in their ACT 1 form, and grow into new evolutions over time. Although they start out
weaker than other stands, over time they’ll continue to grow and get stronger along with developing new
abilities every ACT.
If you select this type, your Stand gains Learning (A), but you choose two Parameters (Except
learning) to decrease by one Rank. From this point on, every time you use a Learning Rank to gain a new
sub-ability or brand new ability all together, your Stand “Levels up,” to the next ACT in its evolution.
Whenever a new ACT is achieved, you receive two points to spend on increasing the Stand’s stats for that
ACT’s improved statistics like in character creation. You may also choose to have one of the Stand’s
parameters decrease in the transformation to the new ACT for an extra point. The new ACT is the only
one able to cast the new ability that you just learned, though you can switch between ACTs in combat at
will.

Universal Range Type:

Prerequisites: ​Range (A), Durability (A); costs 2 points.
Category: ​N/A

This type allows a Stand to project it’s ability over a universal range.
If you select this type, you effectively give your Stand Infinite Range concerning the usage of it’s
ability. Abilities that affect the world as a whole, like stopping time, would only be possible if this type
was selected

No Stand:
Prerequisites: ​N/A
Category: ​N/A

If you have the ​No Stand​ Stand type, you don’t have a Stand. You can’t see stands or interact with stands
through normal means. This is the real Hard Mode.
As a reward for being gutsy enough to bring a “normal person” to a Stand fight, you get one free
Bizarre Point every time you’re hit or affected by a new Stand, and you can spend a bizarre point to gain
up to 1 extra main action per turn. Furthermore, you only have to pay half the point cost to level up in a
Character Type.

STAND ABILITY
At the beginning of Stand Creation, it was mentioned that you should try to think about what kind
of ability you wanted your Stand to have. Now that all your stats are down, it’s time to implement your
ability.

Stand abilities can take the any form. Stands that change the way people feel, Stands that affect
gravity in certain areas, and Stands that make people unable to perceive doors or windows could all be
present in a Bizarre adventure. By using the the descriptions of Stand Parameters above, you’ll hopefully
be able to add some reason to any fantastical abilities you or your group comes up with. The following
examples help to show how the process of adding sense to stand abilities goes:

A player doesn’t know exactly what kind of Stand they want to make, but like the idea of being
able to manipulate air. While developing their Stand, they bypass Stand Types and their parameters end
up looking like such: Power: B, Speed: C, Range: D, Precision: A, Durability: B, Learning potential: B.
Looking at their stats, they notice their best skill is Precision, which denotes excellent control over their
ability and being good at ranged attacks. Their Stand’s range is only D, however, so ranged attacks seem
like a poor idea. They do, however, have good Power and Durability, so they decide they would excel as a
close range fighter. With all this in mind, the player decides that their stand ability creates a vortex of
rapid wind around them with small blades of air that slice anyone that gets within range. The GM decides
this is acceptable, and rules that any attacks made against people that go within range will be dealt with
a Power+Precision roll.

In another example, a player goes in knowing that they want to make that aforementioned Stand
that makes people unable to perceive exits, like windows and doors. The GM decides that this ability isn’t
particularly damaging on it’s own, and so the ability “Just works,” without requiring a parameter like
Power or Precision to make it work; Speed also seems irrelevant for this ability. So, going in, the player
Ranks Power, Speed and Precision all E, and puts all points in Durability, Range, and Learning. They
also take the Integrated Stand Type because they don’t particularly need a stand manifestation to begin
with. The GM rules that the player needs to see the opponent to activate the ability on them, but only
needs to stay in range to keep it active. In this case, their Stand’s Parameters end up reflecting the ability
going into generation, instead of the parameters deciding the ability.

FLESHING OUT YOUR CHARACTER

At this point, you’ll have just finished setting up the most important aspects for your character
and Stand. This section is dedicated to fleshing out your character, and also for using up any points
leftover from the Character and Stand Creation processes.

CHARACTER TYPES
If you have points left over from Stand Creation, you may wish to beef up your character more by
giving them a Character Types.
Character Types are essentially character classes from other TTRPGs that your character can
class into to grant them abilities to supplement their stand. The ones listed below are all different from
one another, and display different kinds of character types that are encountered in the Jojo’s Bizarre
Adventure manga.
Although they grant different boons, all character types share a few things in common:
First, they are separated into three Ranks. These three ranks represent a low level member of the
Type at Rank 1, a member whose begun to tap into the power of the Type at Rank 2, and a member whose
fully embraced the true power of the Type at Rank 3.
Second, all Character Types have the same point cost system. Rank 1 costs ​one ​point to buy, then
it costs ​three ​more points to get Rank 2, and ​six​ additional points to reach Rank 3. By the time your
character would reached Rank 3, you would have spent​ ten​ points.
The third and final similarity is that Character Types can be bought with Bizarre Points during the
course of the game. The rules for buying Character Types with Bizarre Points are the same as if buying
them with Character Points (except Bizarre Points from replenishable sources, such as accepted Flaws,
cannot be used to buy a Character Type). The ranks you buy in a Character Type during character creation
are for how your character ​starts​ the game. If you wanted to make a character a fully functioning Android
at the start of the game, you could shell out the points to make that. Alternatively, you could start with a
single Cybernetic Enhancement for only one point, and slowly turn cybernetic as the game progresses and
you gain more Bizarre Points. The choice is up to the players.

ROBOTIC
A character who replaces their body with mechanical parts is going down the path of Robotics.
Whether or not the means are experimental science or common for the setting doesn’t matter, this
character has access to it. This character type can also be used to represent anyone whose body is
“Different” in some way that makes them more durable or gives them replaceable parts.

RANK 1: CYBERNETIC ENHANCEMENT

Cybernetic Body Part:​ The player can replace one part of their body with a Cybernetic
Enhancement. The player can then choose if they want to do anything special with this part of
their body, like adding in any secret cavities or built in weapons. Weapons roll with a normal,
unmodified 2d6.

Danger Prone:​ Cybernetics are like a magnet. Whenever something awful happens to your body,
it always seems to start with the cybernetics getting damaged. Like a magnet, all the gruesome
body horror seems to be attracted to the most replaceable part of your body.
Whenever you declare that you’re going to take a critical injury instead of taking damage,
you can choose for the critical damage to be dealt to a cybernetic part instead of another part of
your body. When this occurs, the cybernetic will be damaged. If the amount of damage you
negated by taking the critical injury was less than 5, then the cybernetic is still operable and you
can continue to use the arm functionally and take critical injuries to it. If the damage is 5 or more,
then the cybernetic part will be damaged and inoperable until it's repaired, and it ceases to be able
to take critical injuries.
Your cybernetic is automatically repaired if there's any downtime between stand fights,
unless the GM decides otherwise.

Bizarre Points​: You can spend a bizarre point to reduce damage done to you by 1d6 if the attack
was done against a cybernetic part of your body.

RANK 2: CYBORG
Solid as Steel​: As a Cyborg, you are much more durable than a normal person. You roll an extra
1d6 for every point of Brawns you have when deciding your Real Health value. Furthermore,
your whole body counts as Cybernetic for the purposes of your robotic abilities, and you can take
a second weapon that can be attached to your body and used as an extra attack action (2d6 roll).

More Machine than Man​: Though converting most of your body to metal has given you great
power, it also means that without their metallic body parts, the cyborg has little choice in
continuing to fight when their mechanical parts fail. When a Cyborg falls into resolve health, they
 may not benefit from any source that would heal, or red their resolve health,
such as their own bizarre points or a Hype Man’s ​You Did It!!​ ability.

RANK 3: ANDROID
Flesh is Weak​: As an Android, the player has reached the pinnacle of robotics, and has removed
all weaknesses of the flesh from their body. They add an additional 1d6 hp for every point of
Brawns they have, and whenever an Android uses a bizarre point to reduce damage done to them,
they add their Brawns score to the roll.

Mechanical Failure​: A body of steel has very few limitations, but it still has a definable limit.
Even if you’re a character that still has a human soul somewhere in their robotic form, that soul’s
resolve is of little use when it’s metallic shell is malfunctioning.
An Android has no Resolve Health. When they run out of Real Health, they are removed
from the fight. They cannot benefit from the effects of the Hype Man’s Resolve Shield.

HYPE MAN
Every good team needs this guy. He’s the coolest non fighter you’ll ever meet, and incredibly
helpful giving exposition. Whether it's obvious or not, this is the guy that calls it all out, a narrator of
sorts. By calling out things that happen, they can bend the very fabric of narrative and give their friends a
hand in combat at the expense to their own coolness.

RANK 1: HYPE MAN

Hold Actions:​ A hype man can hold his main action and his stand action to use his Hype Man
Abilities as reactions at any point of the combat. If he doesn’t have a stand, you get a total of
three reactions for holding your single main action.

Call Out:​ As a reaction, the Hype Man calls out an action being put upon, or made by, an ally.
This allows the ally to receive a bonus 1d6 to the contested roll caused by the action.

Bizarre Points:​ Whenever the Hype man uses his Bizarre Points to try and reveal a Secret Action,
if he succeeds in revealing it, then he gives a bonus 1d6 die to contested roles against the action.
This stacks with ​Call Out​.

RANK 2: HYPE MAN!

You Did It!:​ Whenever a Hype Man helps someone succeed in an action, the person they
helped heals 1d6 of their Resolve health. If the person who receives healing hasn’t run out of
Real Health, they receive a “Resolve Shield.” The first damage that would be done to your
Resolve health pool, instead destroys the shield. The Resolve Shield has no value, and will just
automatically block any amount of damage. These shields do not stock.

What a blow!:​ Whenever an ally makes a successful attack you can spend a held action to add
1d6 to the damage they made.
 RANK 3: HYPE MAN!!
What a Reversal!!:​ When an ally’s Secret action fails, the hype man may use a reaction to
allow the player to rewrite their Secret Action. This rewritten Secret action is a “follow up” to the
previous one, in the way that the first secret action was actually a lead into the rewritten one. As
such, the rewritten action should reasonably be able to lead into the follow up like the first action
was a trap or a trick.

Keep Fighting!!:​ Whenever a hype man uses any of their hype man abilities to assist an ally, the
ally gets 1d6 of their Resolve health back regardless of if they succeed or not. This healing works
the same as in ​You Did It!​.

HAMON
Defenders from the dark, Hamon Users are masters of the ancient martial arts technique of
breathing and channeling the powers of life and the sun. By using special breathing techniques, they can
channel their inner energies to make powerful energy attacks that are especially effective at destroying the
minions of the dark (i.e. Vampires). Although they’re best at fighting their millennia old foe, they are no
slouch fighting other people too, and can use their immense power to wreak havoc on the battlefield or
even heal their allies.

RANK 1: HAMON USER

Exploding Dice:​ Whenever a Hamon user rolls a 6 in a physical attack that involves Hamon, you
reroll that die and add the new value to the previous result.

Example: A Player rolls a 2d6, getting a 3 and a 6. They then reroll the 6 and get a 4;
adding the four to the six, they get 10, which they then add to the 3 for a total of 13. If the
reroll where to have landed on a 6 as well, the process would have continued until
something other than a six was rolled​.

Bizarre Points:​ A Hamon user can use their Bizarre Points to reroll one of their dice results in
hopes of getting a better result. They must use any rerolled results unless they spend another
Bizarre Point to reroll again.

Strong against the Undead:​ Whenever Hamon damage is dealt to the undead, it is doubled.

RANK 2: SKILLED HAMON USER

Hamon Weapon:​ Skilled hamon users can get a specific weapon that they can channel Hamon
through. This can take any form of weapon; a sword, a scarf made of hamon conductive
materials, metal clackers, etc. Hamon weapons work the same as using an Object as a weapon
(check the OBJECT category in the Damage Section) except you double the Brawns bonus the
 object would’ve given you. Alternatively, a Hamon user can make their Stand a Hamon
Weapon, allowing them to add their Brawns score to direct attacks made by the Stand.

Signature Move:​ Trained Hamon users can begin to channel their hamon in special ways to
create deadly techniques to combat their foes. These special techniques are called Signature
Moves. When a Hamon user uses a signature move, they roll 3d6k keep 2, instead
of rolling a human's normal 1d6. They still add their Brawns to this score. How exactly this
ability looks and what it does is up to the player decide, though generally, the player can only
have a number of techniques equal to their Brains score, unless there's a narrative reason they’d
have more or less. They get usage equal to their Brawns score per fight of their signature powers.

Healing Hamon:​ You can control your hamon well enough to use it as a healing force. You can
use your character's main action to heal an adjacent target (or yourself) by 2d6 Real Health.

RANK 3: HAMON MASTER

Improved Bizarre Points:​ You can spend a bizarre point to count any roll as an exploding dice
roll, even if the result wasn’t a six.

Hamon Strength:​ Your Hamon power is beyond normal levels. Whenever you use Hamon to
attack, you’re Brawns counts as six.

VAMPIRE
NOTE:​ Vampires are considered evil beings in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and are almost exclusively used
as villains. As such, this Character Type is made with the intention of making Villainous characters for
the party to fight. It is not suggested a player make one, but as this is Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, it’s not
out of the question to allow it. Their abilities and powers may mess with game balance, but if a player
really wants to play one, feel free to allow them to do so.

Immensely popular being of the dark, vampires need no explanation. Normally. But things are
different here: Vampires is more of a pocket term for all of the being related to the “Stone Mask,” an
ancient Aztec object said to unleash ultimate power. This object was created by a Pillar Man, a race of
ancients that feast off of humans and are near invulnerable to all but the sun itself. Vampires and their
spawn are can tap into this awesome power of their progenitors to use special attacks and rejuvenate their
bodies. With this great power comes the great weakness to sunlight that even their progenitors could not
escape.

RANK 1: SPAWN
Undead Vitality​: By rejecting their humanity, Spawns obtain incredible bonuses to their
survivability. Spawns automatically maximize their dice rolls for their health value.

Exsanguination​: The spawn can directly suck the blood of their opponent to restore their health.
Whenever the Spawn does damage to an opponent directly with a physical attack, they regain the
damage done to the opponent as health.
Weakness to Sunlight​: Vampires have a fatal vulnerability to the sun. Whenever they are in
Sunlight, they take 1/5th of their total health for every round they are exposed. Hamon attacks,
being energy channeled directly from the sun, do double damage on the spawn. If a spawn uses
Exsanguination​ on an Hamon user, the Hamon user is instantly allowed to make a Hamon attack
Against them.

RANK 2: VAMPIRE
Body Mastery​: A Vampire has mastered their body’s processes completely. At will, they can do
multiple techniques, like making their internal temperature reach freezing or boiling
temperatures, or turning the liquid in their eyes into powerful beam attacks. Anything that can be
remotely justifiable from the standpoint of managing the body’s processes can be a Vampire
attack.
Generally, a vampire should be able to learn a number of body techniques equal to their Brains
Score. These abilities roll with a 2d6+brawns for attacking purposes.

Reassembly​: Vampires are deadly beings that can survive some of the most fatal of injuries.
Whenever a Vampire takes a critical injury that damages or removes a body part, they may spend
an action attaching it to their body. Similarly, once per combat they can come back from any
of injury that would outright kill them (e.g. being blown up by grenades, or bisected by a sword).

RANK 3: PILLAR MAN

High Level Body Manipulation​: While a vampire can manage the processes of their body to their
Will, a Pillar Man can entirely change the functions of their bodies to match their will. They can
relocated bones, make their flesh bend in impossible ways, and modify their bodies for combat.
Instead of the Vampire’s Body Mastery abilities, the Pillar man gets a number of Superior Body
Technique equal to their Brains score. These abilities can achieve be the same as a Vampire’s, or
use even more improbable explanations for certain techniques (e.g. turning your blood veins into
jutting tubes that launch flaming blood from your body, creating retractable bone blades, or
making wind jets out of your bones). They roll 3d6, keep 2+Brawns for their techniques.
High Level Body Manipulation also allows the Pillar Man to regenerate from any injury,
allowing them to restore 1d6 Real Health every round.

Absorption​: Whenever a Pillar man succeeds on an attack roll against an opponent that is not
channeling Hamon, they force the opponent to take a critical injury on top of damage. Killing an
opponent in this way counts as feasting for the purposes of ​Exsanguination​.

Advanced Intelligence​: The Pillar Men's most dangerous trait is their superior intelligence. They
are capable of perfect recall and are able to instantly analyze and understand the mechanics
behind anything, even complicated things such as languages, machinery, tactics, systems, and
people's minds and actions, within a matter of seconds.
Whenever a Pillar man makes a Brain's test, they can add double their Brains modifier to
the roll’s result.
TRAITS
One usage of your leftover points is to buy character traits. Character traits are motivations and
quirks about your character that can give you a modifier bonus when triggered during situations. These
traits can vary in intensity and seriousness depending on how many points you wish to spend on them:

Weak Traits (+1):​ These traits are the cheapest traits to purchase, only requiring ​one point​. They
are the most general, easily triggered traits, and will often be some small simple motivating factor
activated when taking actions against or for certain things.
For example, your character could dislike blonde people for some reason, and would get a +1
modifier whenever taking actions against them. They could also be a big fan of fine dining, and would get
a +1 modifier after they’ve just sat down and had a nice dinner at a five star restaurant. These traits can be
broad or specific, but they should always be flavorful and tell something about your character.

Strong Traits (+3):​ These traits are slightly more expensive to purchase than Weak traits,
requiring ​two points​. Strong traits encompass things that are more serious to the character than passing
motivations and interests, they are the things that drive the character forward, their goals, beliefs and
aspirations.
A strong trait could be a desire to exact revenge on someone who harmed or killed a loved one, or
a desire to protect those who are too weak to defend themselves. Strong traits can also be weak traits that
border on the lines of obsession. You don’t just dislike blonde people, you LOATHE blonde people to
your very bone.

Traits may not always be good things. If you have to perform an action that has you go against
your trait, you will have take the opposite modifier to the one you’d usually take (Weak traits give -1,
strong traits give -3). Keep in mind that this only takes effect when you’re doing the opposite of the trait,
not when you’re simply not doing what you're trait desires (someone who likes fine dining wouldn’t get a
-1 for not eating at a 5 star restaurant, only for eating at a dive bar).
You can attempt to resist activating your trait to avoid the negative bonus by rolling a Contested
Bravery roll. Beating a weak trait requires beating a simple Contested Bravery Roll opposing 2d6, but
trying to resist a Strong Trait requires beating a Contested Bravery Roll opposing 3d6, keep 2.

FLAWS
Traits help to flesh out characters give them a few other passive abilities, besides their Stand, to
rely on in combat. Buying multiple traits may prove to be expensive, however, or you may find yourself
low on points having to distribute them all around your character. So, if you want more points to spend in
character creation, you can choose to take a Flaw.
Flaws, like Traits, exist to give characters more depth. The difference lies in that Flaws only seek
to point out negative things about a character. While Traits can be an assortment of personality types or
goals that can be good or bad in different situations, Flaws are almost always going to be bad in most
situations. Being a coward, paranoid, or socially awkward are all possible Flaws that your character could
take. The decision between what kind of Flaws a character has should be made by the GM and the Player
in concert.
When a Flaw is taken, the player can choose between whether the flaw is a Weak Flaw or a
Strong Flaw. The rules and circumstances for taking Flaws are exactly the same as for those in the Trait
section; and the cost value of the equivalent trait is how many extra points a character gets for taking
these Flaws. The big difference is that flaws will always grant a negative penalty to a roll where the Flaw
is evoked.
For example, if a character has a Weak Trait where they loathe people taller than them, then
they’d get a +1 to roles to act against them, and a -1 to roles to act with them. If this was a Weak Flaw,
however, then it would better be represented as the character being afraid of people that were taller than
them. In this case, they’d always get a -1 to roles involving taller people as they just generally intimidate
them.
Attempting to resist your flaw is much more difficult than attempt to resist a trait. Trying to resist
a Weak Flaw means beating a Contested Bravery Roll of 3d6 keep 2, while a Strong Flaw means beating
a Contested Bravery Roll of 3d6.
There is one other way in which a character’s Flaws differ from their traits: Flaws can be
addressed. Although a Flaw can be a painful boon on a character (the GM should make sure that it most
certainly is), it is also possible to overcome your flaw throughout your bizarre adventure.

FIXING YOUR FLAW

Whenever a character succeeds in making a roll that their Flaw was negatively affecting, a player
can choose to take that opportunity to overcome their character’s flaw. At that point, the character gains a
BIZARRE token and the Flaw is removed from the character. A player doesn’t have to overcome their
flaw the first moment they succeed in an affected roll, though, and can instead choose to keep their Flaw
around.
Why would a character delay getting rid of their Flaw? Every time a player delays overcoming
their Flaw, they increase the amount of BIZARRE token’s they receive when the Flaw is finally overcome
by one. In this way, a character can continue to deal with their Flaw throughout the adventure, finally
deciding to overcome it at a point and cash in on all the points they’ve been building up. In story terms, a
Flaw that sticks around longer is one that affects the character on a deeper level, making the eventual
overcoming of that flaw more impressive (hence the increased BIZARRE tokens).

ACCEPTING YOUR FLAW

Not all people are able to overcome their flaws and fix them. But, it is possible for a character to
accept their Flaws as a part of them, and try to work around them.
Whenever a character fails in making a roll that their Flaw was negatively affecting, a player can
choose to take that opportunity to accept their character’s flaw. Once the flaw is accepted by the
character, they can no longer go on the path to get rid of it. Instead, a character gains a number of
BIZARRE tokens equal to the severity of the Flaw they have (One BIZARRE token for a Weak Trait, two
BIZARRE tokens for a Strong Trait). The difference between these BIZARRE tokens and others is that
the ones given by an accepted Flaw return after the end of each session. So, even if you used up all of
your BIZARRE tokens, you would still have a small number at the beginning of every session.
BIZARRE TOKENS
You may still have leftover points after making your character’s traits. These can be used to
purchase BIZARRE tokens (BTs). BTs are a one​time purchase which can be used at any time during the
bizarre adventure; However, once you burn them, they never come back. You can burn a BT to do a
number of actions:

● Re-roll a failed dice roll.

● Place some object, item, non-player character or event in an area.
● Insert your character into a situation they are not included in.
● Ask another player or the GM for a piece of important meta knowledge.
● Discovering what is under a Secret Action card.

BTs only cost a single point to purchase, and can be hoarded by a player, if they so choose. If you
don’t want to buy BIZARRE tokens, then you can always save those extra character creation points for
later in case you want develop a new trait in your character on the spot by spending them as you would at
character generation.

BIZARRE tokens can be earned in more ways than just character creation. Whenever a player
stands out in some way, the GM should consider giving them a BIZARRE token. Things that help a
player stand out, beyond completing objectives and the adventure itself, include:

● ​Being particularly brave, smart or badass.

● Good Roleplaying.
● Taking charge and pushing the story along.
● ​Possessing and using the “right skills in the right place at the right time.”
● ​Impressing the group with humor or drama.
● ​Particularly clever usage of abilities or traits given the circumstances (a “play of the day,” as it
is).
● Just being plain bizarre.

It's perfectly fine for players to suggest someone get a BT for an action, and the GM should
reward someone that impressed the whole table with their actions. The GM should be careful in not being
too lenient in giving out BIZARRE tokens, though, unless the players amass a large horde of these fate
changing points or players are too focused on getting more points instead of having fun.

DETAILS
After all your points are spent, it’s time to put into stone all the smaller details about you and your
stand.

First, think of a name for you and your stand. Names in jojo are often a mix of normal names
combined with references to musicians and musical acts, so feel free to name your character or stand after
your favorite band or song. You could also incorporate other kind of name theming for your adventure.
Maybe everything is referencing famous authors and books instead of music? Part 3 based a lot of it’s
stands off of the Tarot cards, and later, Egyptian gods. Feel free to go whatever direction you want, be
creative.

You should also think about how your character and stand look. Notable characters in Jojo often
have ridiculous hairstyles and wear clothing from far out fashion trends. Stands are the most notable in
appearance, sporting random mechanical and doll like aspects with jutting shapes and patterns across
them. Feel free to go wild with the descriptions for stand users and their stands.

See if you can fill out all the questions below to set up a small profile for your character:

Stand User: Stand:

Age: Birthday:
Zodiac Sign: Gender:
Height: Weight:
Blood Type: Nationality:
Eye Color: Favorite Movie:
Favorite Food: Favorite Actor:
Favorite Musician: Favorite Athlete:
Occupation:

SECTION II: THE MECHANICS

JoJo’s Bizarre Tabletop is a relatively combat focused game on its own. Primarily, rolling occurs
whenever an action is opposed by an object or entity. Any actions players make that are not discussed
anywhere else in the book should be decided by roleplaying, or, when necessary, by rolling a 2d6+the
character’s most applicable modifier (or your stands dice when applicable), and using the default table
below:

1-6: Failure.
7-9: Partial Success.
10+: Absolute Success.

To succeed in a non-combat focused roll, a player must enter the absolute success role. If a
character fails to enter that range, there are a few possibilities. They either roll a failure, and fail the
action, or they roll a partial success and succeed with a catch (decided by the GM, depending on the
situation).

From this point on, all discussion on mechanics will be relating to the conflicts and trials you’ll
face on your own bizarre adventure.
COMBAT:
This section contain the rules for conducting fights that will occur during your bizarre adventure.

THE FIELD OF BATTLE

When characters inevitably break out into a fight, their combat will need to be represented in
some way. This can be achieved by using two techniques: Narrative or Grid based combat

NARRATIVE
In the narrative approach, you would describe the field of battle that the combatants, taking care
to describe pieces of the environment that the combatants can interact with. A good combat will have
multiple aspects to it that can be exploited by the users or their stands. It’s up to the GM to have a general
idea in their mind of how far everyone is from each other so the players know who they can and can’t
attack.
The narrative method is quicker than drawing out a map and moving pieces individually, but
requires a little more work from the GM to manage and describe hectic fights.

GRID
In the grid based approach, you keep track of the combat using a battlemat or a piece of graphing
paper to create a square grid. You can then place down some tokens to represent the combatants and have
them navigate the squares to fight. This approach allows you to mark the location of important objects
and obstacles that will affect the fight.
Each square on the grid represents 2 meters (simplified to 5 for the imperial system of
measurement). When designing your map, keep in mind the scale of the map fits the size of the battlefield
you placed the combat in.

MOVEMENT
Characters can move up to 20 meters (60 feet) per turn. A character can move 1/4th their total
distance for free. If they want to move more, they’ll either have to expend their secondary action to move
1/2th their distance, or their main action to move their full distance. Stands, however, can always move
their full distance listed in their Speed Parameter. Stands cannot bypass attacking to move double their
Parameters listed distance, but can attack after moving their full distance as normal.
Although Stands can move the full distance given by their Speed without any penalties, they
cannot go any further from their user than specified by their Range. So, if you have a A speed but C
range, you’d still only be able to go as far as 20 meters (60 feet) from your user. Any stands with Types
that limited their range are also affected by this. Stands that have a low Speed parameter can choose to
“hover” near their user to move with them (to avoid getting left behind when a player moves), but if they
attempt to move away from their user, they’ll be forced to move their own speed again. If Stands with
high speed chooses to hover with it’s user, the distance the user moved counts against that Stands total
movement speed in case the want to break off and move again after the user stops.
THE TURN ORDER
Combat in Jojo uses a turn-based system to avoid unnecessary confusion and to allow every
combatant to get an action. In these turns, the order of who goes first (known as the initiative) is decided
based on the Speed Parameters.
When a battle starts, the first people to act are the ones with Stands that have the highest Speed
Parameter descending from A down to E, with Standless individuals acting at C. If more than one person
has a stand with Speed in a certain rank, they resolve who goes first by rolling against each other using
the dice amount given by their Speed parameters. The highest roll goes first, with the next highest going
second, etc. This initiative is reset at the end of the turn, so that the combatants in the same Speed
category can have a chance of going first next round.

AN ALTERNATE APPROACH
The above method hand waves the turns of the characters and their stands as one even though
their speeds could be drastically different from each other. This is done for simplicity's sake, but it is not
required. If you want a more complex combat, you can have Stands move based on their own Speed
parameter, and have all the Stand Users be counted as having a Speed of C. This opens up some new
strategic options, but will probably stretch out the combat, so is only advised for groups that are good at
running through combat encounters quickly.
When determining which of the Stand users goes first, it’s suggested to have the Stand users with
higher Brawns scores go first, similar to how the Stand turn order is resolved. Also similar to stands,
whenever two or more Stand users have the same Brawns, they roll a simple 2d6 to decide who goes first.

DESTROY THE TURN ORDER

There are certain reasons to forgo the use of a traditional turn order. Certain Stands throughout
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Such as N’Doul’s Geb and Notorious B.I.G.) don’t act on their own, but
instead off of actions that their opponent’s make. In cases like this, there's no real contiguous fight, but
more of people sitting at a standstill, only acting when they have a plan. A turn order is meant to bring
order to fights and speed them up, so they have no purpose in these kind of Standstill fights. Use your
judgement when deciding if an encounter needs a turn order or not.
Alternatively, if your group is consistent of more free-flowing kind of players, you could simply
play it by ear by having people act when they have an action in mind. When a conflict arises between
players or the GM on who should act first, simply look at which two people are in conflict to see who has
the better speed value and have them move first.

ACTIONS IN COMBAT
Characters and their Stands both get one Normal Action and a shared Secondary Action per turn.
The Normal Action is can be used to perform any action you desire. Attacking, picking up an
item, using an ability, or interacting with the environment are all examples of things done with Normal
Actions. The most important part of Normal Actions is they can be used to make ​Contested Rolls,
discussed later.
Both the Stand User and the Stand get a main action for the each of them, but the can both access
a single Secondary action shared among them. This can only be used once per turn, and cannot be used to
make ​Contested Rolls ​(such as attacks). Due to its limitations, Secondary actions are best used to set up
for your main action, interacting with your environment, or helping to set up a Secret Action.

SECRET ACTIONS
The combat in Jojo’s bizarre adventure is all about outwitting your opponent and maximizing the
effectiveness of your abilities. To represent that, all characters get access to Secret Actions.
Secret actions are hidden actions that you or your stand took during the turn to setup some kind of
attack, trick or trap for your opponents. These actions are marked down on a notecard that lists the turn
the action was taken on the top side, and the action itself on the bottom side, hidden from GM and Players
alike. You then keep this action hidden until the time you wish to reveal it to the group. Secret Actions
exist in an area of semi-canoninity, meaning that they only really exist when they are revealed to the
group and if there are no inconsistencies within the timeframe they are revealed to have occurred.

In an example, A stand tries to throw a knife at an opponent, but notes to their GM that they’re
taking a secret action when they throw. The Player then writes down a secret action and continues with
their action. The attack misses, and the player then reveals their Secret Action to the group: “When my
knife missed the target, it was because my throwing knife was actually aimed at the oil barrel behind the
stand user, flooding the area with oil secretly.” Since in internal logic of the secret action does not clash
with the reality (the attack did not hit the stand user), the group agrees that the the secret action makes
sense and that, as a result, oil had begun to flow onto the ground. With their secret action approved, the
character follows up their Stand’s attack by throwing a lit match at the opponent's feet.

Each character can put down as many secret actions as they want per turn as long as it makes
since they could have laid them all during that turn. They are free to keep their secret actions hidden for as
many turns as they like, and it is encouraged to chain secret actions together across multiple turns to que
up a truly impressive trap on your opponent. There are limits to the number of Secret actions you can
have hidden at once, however. You can only have a number of secret actions between you and your stand
equal to your Brains score per combat. Characters with higher Brains are better able to plan out multiple
actions and plots at once compared to more simple minded characters that are much better at fighting
straightforward with maybe one or two simple plots to back them up.

Players can also use BIZARRE points to figure out what other players (Or the GM’s) notecards
are in order to better plan around the big reveal. After using the Bizarre point, the character and the
opponent roll an opposed Brains test. If the character wins, they see the action; if the opponent wins, the
character doesn’t see the action and still loses the Bizarre point. If the opponent doesn’t have a Brain
score (in the case of an automated stand or other circumstance), the opponent uses a basic 2d6 with no
modifiers. Both allies and opponents can choose to purposefully fail the Brains check to let the Secret
Action be revealed to the person looking. For allies, this allows other players to assure that their friends
can look at their actions and plan strategies. For opponents, this opens up opportunities to play mind
games with their enemies by purposefully allowing a secret action to be revealed, perhaps with another
secret action hidden meant to counter anyone who tries to avoid triggering the first action.
CONTESTED ROLLING
A roll is contested whenever a person, stand or particularly malevolent object is working against
someone or something else. Whenever someone rolls an opposed roll, the target of their action has the
opportunity to negate the attack by making their own roll. If the target rolls higher than the player, the
attack is negated. Alternatively, if the target fails to roll higher than the player, then the player’s action
was a success.
As a rule, inanimate objects will generally roll with a 2d6 if they somehow become opposed
against an entity (a 1d6 if they’re small, a 3d6 if they’re big and heavy, like a car, and a 4d6 if they’re
unwieldy and huge). Objects will automatically oppose anyone who tries to use them as a weapon (either
as a melee weapon or when they're thrown), but will submit to the target’s wishes after a passed check.

CONTESTED ROLLING FOR STANDS

The Parameter required for the contested roll differs depending on the situation. For example, if a
Stand unleashes a torrent of punches on their target, the target can have their stand either use Power to
match the punches, Durability to take the punches, or Speed to dodge the punches. Players should try to
think creatively to use their strong points overcome their obstacles, and the GM should do their part in
making sure the player isn’t abusing a single good Parameter to do every task.

Sometimes, a stand may logically be using two of their Parameters at once. If your stand is trying
to catch a bullet, for example, it would probably require both Speed AND Precision due to the bullet’s
miniscule and fast nature. Similarly, releasing a flurry of punches would make use of Stand’s Power and
Speed. Whenever a player or GM decides that a stand action requires two or more Parameters, roll for the
highest Parameter and add the other Parameter as a modifier to the main roll, unless the roll is a physical
attack, in which case Power will always be the primary Parameter (the same applies to Precision and
ranged attacks).

A +5

B +3

C +1

D -3

E -5

Table 2.1: A smaller version of the table located in Stand Creation.

CONTESTED ROLLING FOR CHARACTERS:

Whenever a character, for whatever reason, cannot use their Stand to do an action, but must
oppose something or someone, they can use their own stats to roll. Rolling for characters is simpler than
rolling for stands due to characters limited statistics. A character rolling a contested roll will roll a 1d6,
adding the most applicable modifier of their three skills (most often Brawns). The modifiers for characters
differ from the ones for stands in that they draw their modifier directly from their skill score.

For example, if a character had to take a blow from a stand, they’d use their brawns. If their
brawns was, say, 3, then they’d roll a 2d6+3 and hope that they could outroll their opponent.

CONTESTED ROLLING FOR SECRET ACTIONS

Secret actions function slightly differently than a normal action. The primary dice a secret action
acts with is decided based off how specific the secret action was. This dice scales by 1d6 for every level
of complexity and forethought put into the action. The list below shows the suggested Dice Values for
Secret actions:

1d6: The Secret action was used as a nonspecific reaction, or as a follow up to something the
character themself initiated; “When he attacks…”, “When I do this…”

2d6: The Secret action was used for a specified reaction, or took into account an unassured result;
“When he uses his stand to melt that pipe…”, “If he walks down the left Hallway…”

3d6: Similar to the 2d6, but predicting multiple stages of actions, or a very flavorful secret action;
“If I fall unconscious, and am then revived by my friend...”, “In response to this action, my Flaw
activates, causing me to react in a way that incidentally causes this to happen…”

4d6+: A reaction that is so obtuse or bizarre, or required so many levels of planning or

meta-knowledge; “I use my stand to start converting the iron in his body into nails slowly,
causing damage and iron deficiency at the same time.”, “I break the supports of the building
throughout our fight, so that the building itself collapses once I ‘miss’ and hit the final pillar
behind my opponent,”

Secret actions can also be “chained” together. The value of each Secret action will be whatever
category it falls under above, plus an additional D6 for every secret action that came before it.

DAMAGE:
Whenever a character or stand succeeds in attacking with a physical attack or harmful stand
ability, they deal damage to their opponent. The damage dealt to the opponent coincides directly with the
difference between the winner and losers contested rolls. Here's an example to explain:

A player attacks an NPC with their stand. The Stand rolls an 18 and the NPC rolls a 10, so the
stand succeeds. The player would then take their 18, subtract the 10 that the NPC rolled, and do 8
damage.

Contested rolls are dangerous, however; when one combatant attacks another, the contested roll is
showing their ​conflict​, not just the result of an attack. If one combatant attacks another and loses the
contested roll, then they’re at risk of getting counterattacked. If the opponent wins the contested roll, and
can reason out a way to attack the opponent, they can do a ​counterattack​ and do the damage difference
back to an opponent.

For example, say the player above ended up attacking the NPC with their stand, but rolled a 5.
The NPC rolls an 11, and so the dm rules that “when the Player attacked the NPC, their own stand
emerges from them and retaliates by striking the Player’s stand on the arm with great strength!”

This attack/counterattack style of play makes combat a fast and dangerous game, where both
sides are constantly at risk of getting hit. To minimize this, players and DMs should have their fighters
constantly be looking for ways to attack their opponents in positions they can’t counter-attack from. If an
opponent is put into a situation that stops them from being counter-attacked (such as being stuck in mud,
or being held by another person), then they can only roll to reduce damage. Attempting to inhibit your
opponent can be more important than actually doing damage, in most cases.

STANDS AND DAMAGE

Usually, Stands and their users are linked. When a Stand is hit by an attack, all the damage that
would be dealt to them instead gets dealt to the user. A stand, however, has it’s own Durability that an
attacker will have to contend with. Whenever damage is dealt through attacking a stand, they stand will
reduce the damage equal to their durability modifier (See Table 2.1 above).

In this example, a player’s stand is attacked by an opposing stand. The Opposing stand rolls 16,
much higher than the player’s meagre 7. The opponent is set to do 9 damage, but the Player’s stand has a
high durability, a B. This means that the stand will reduce the damage by 3, putting it down to 6.

As seen above, attacking a tough stand that belongs to a tough user is like trying to attack a tank
with sticks and stones. In this situation, it’d be wiser to get behind the stand to try and directly attack the
user. Alternatively, if your opponent’s stand is a weak shrimp with a low durability rank, like an E or D,
they’ll gain a negative to their damage reduction. This means they can actually take more damage if you
attack their Stand directly.

DAMAGE FROM OTHER SOURCES

The world is a dangerous place. No statement can be truer in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Your
enemies wield dangerous powers, but the environment is just as capable as being your downfall if you’re
standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, through competent tactics and ability usage, A
crafty Stand user can take this danger and turn it into a weapon to use against their enemies.
To prepare for the inevitable involvement of the outside world, this section details how to resolve
conflicts when objects and environmental effects come into place.

OBJECTS
Objects include everything inanimate. Normally, they play a minor role in being things that you
and your stand use or interact with to give you an edge in a fight. Whenever an object is receiving damage
or doing damage, the following rules will be used to outline what occurs:
If at any point you need to resolve damage done to an object, go on the assumption that objects
have a brawns score equal to their general size listed below and generate their health like you would a
players:

Small (1) Bottle, pen, rock, knife, phone, plates, silverware, stick etc.

Normal Chair, signpost, computer, sword, guns, guitar, nightstand, shelf, spear, table, manhole, etc.
(2)

Large (5) Cars, street light, dumpster etc.

Huge (7) House, airplane, Elephant, Steamroller applied directly to body, etc.

Table 2.2: Table lists the size of an object, followed by the relative Brawns score in parenthesis, and then some examples of items in that
classification.
Objects have no Resolve as they are inanimate, and will either break apart or crumble to dust
when reduced down to 0 Real Health. Only generate the health for an object if common sense dictates that
your stand couldn’t easily destroy it. All stands (except maybe an E ranked stand) could break a pencil,
and stands with A-ranked power could easily destroy a normal sized object.
The Brawns scores listed above also assist in deciding how much damage an object does if used
as a weapon. If an object of whatever size was thrown at a target by an opponent or is used as a weapon,
have the opponent and the target make a contested roll. If the opponent wins, add the objects Brawns
score as an additional modifier to the resulting damage.
In the case of an object acting violently without the assistance of an opponent's stand, simply roll
for the objects opposed roll (as listed in the ​Contested Rolling​ section). If the object wins then, just as
above, add the objects Brawns score as an additional modifier to the resulting damage.
Finally, users may find items and come up with ways to “improve” them. They could pick up a
stick, and then user their stand to swiftly carve it into a spear. Alternatively, guns like machine guns and
high calibre rifles may be more dangerous than their simple listing of 2 brawns. In cases where an object
is somewhat more dangerous than it normally would be (e.g. Stick to spear, object is on fire,
machine-gun, etc.), consider just adding a simple +1 to the Brawns when calculating rolls. In special cases
where the object has reached a level of danger that is truly rare or unique to the item (e.g. a normal stick
turned into a spear and lit on fire, an Anti-Tank Rifle, etc.), then consider giving it an additional +1.

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
The environment can be just as dangerous as objects depending on the situation. A pit of
quicksand, a raging fire, and a flooding room can all present challenges that risk injury and even death.
Being in an Environmental effect works similar to contesting objects. You represent the effect as
a 2d6 and apply an applicable Brawns bonus. In the case of Environmental Effects, you decide the
brawns score by using the below table.

Light (1) Clothes on fire, drowning in bathtub, small pit of quicksand, etc.

Medium (2) Room on fire, drowning in flooding room, big pit of quicksand, etc.

Large (3) Building on fire, drowning in a lake, quicksand desert, etc.

Table 2.3: Environmental Effects table
The big difference between Objects and Environmental Effects is that the latter gets worse the
more time you stay within it. The Brawns score listed above are what the effects uses for its first turn, but
for every turn an environmental effect is active on you afterwards, it gets a +1 to its Brawn when it makes
a roll on you until you leave the area its affecting. This can keep building until it caps at 10, a state that
would require incredible luck to even attempt to survive in, and probably only done by a Rank A stand.
Environmental effects may not outright damage an opponent, but they will inconvenience them. If
the effect is deadly to a target, resolve a successful attack roll by the effect by doing damage. If it isn’t
directly harmful to a target, have the Effect hamper your character in some other way.

For example, a player caught in a fire will take damage in the normal way, but someone caught
in quicksand may be unable to use their movement until the succeed in a roll against the quicksand effect.

If a player, for some reason, can’t leave an area an Environmental Effect they’re active in, they
can spend actions to attempt to alleviate the Environmental Effect with a contested roll if they can justify
doing it. Any of the players actions can be used to do this (even Secondary Actions), and multiple actions
can be taken per turn to lighten the effect. If they succeed, they decrease the Brawns score by -1. If the
score is reduced to 0, the effect is either dealt with, or simply ceases to affect the player who defeated it.
This considers that the environmental effect is natural. If the effect is being influenced, or directly
caused, by a stand, the rules can change. When a Stand makes an Environmental Effect, decide which
bonus attributes the Effect has based off the Stand’s Power score and the following table:

Rank E The Stand can only make effects at Light size.

Rank D Secondary Actions can no longer be used to make contested rolls against the Effect.

Rank C The Stand can make effects at Medium size.

Rank B The Environmental effect cannot be eliminated until the stand is defeated; it will continue to
grow, and although actions can be taken to check the effect, it cannot go lower than its starting
Brawns value.

Rank A The Stand can make effects at Large size.

Table 2.4: Stand Environmental Effect’s Table (Note: A Higher Rank can do everything a lower rank can do).