subtitle: E6: The Game Inside the World's Most Popular Roleplaying Game From the introduction: WHAT IS E6? Earlier this year Ryan Dancey suggested that d20 has four distinct quartiles of play: Levels 1-5: Gritty fantasy Levels 6-10: Heroic fantasy Levels 11-15: Wuxia Levels 16-20: Superheroes There’s been some great discussion about how to define those quartiles, and how each different quartile suited some groups better than others. E6 is a game about those first 2 quartiles, and as a result, it has fewer rules, a low-magic flavor, and it is quick and easy to prepare. I have playtested the system extensively with my crew, and it works as intended. There seems to be a lot of lively debate about E6, and some real interest in how it works, so I’ve revised it here.