Are there any RPG without internal progression? No level/rank up, no gaining XP, no base stats increase, etc

Are there any RPG without internal progression? No level/rank up, no gaining XP, no base stats increase, etc.

Gaining advantage through equipments or item use is fine, because it's external, i.e. not an obligation for every PC.

Dunno mate, just start at maximum level ? Start at medium level and kick the exp rules out of the Window ?

There are tons of rpgs like that. What genre are you looking for?

Unfortunately I don't want to homebrew an already existing game into a level-less one. I'm looking for examples. Thanks for your thoughts, user.

Any genre, user. Thank you. Actually I'm trying to use them as a reference in designing an RPG.

Golden Sky Stories. If I recall correctly your progression is tied to the connections you make during play. While those affect your resource pools your actual stats never really change.

>Any genre
Not that user but Don't Rest Your Head comes to mind for me.

For games without XP you'll usually find most of them are games with the mechanics mostly centered around the story itself. Either that or games with such absurdly powerful PCs that progression would be useless.

Of the top of my head here's a few I know of.

I'm pretty sure Sufficiently Advanced doesn't use a progression system. It's a diceless rpg made for playing characters in the distant future. The setting is kind of like Eclipse Phase only optimistic instead of dystopian.

Dread I don't think has any progression. It's a horror system made to be played with Jenga blocks.

On to the story games you've got:

Fiasco: A GM-less game about playing as Coen Brothers characters

Shock: Social Science Fiction: Another GM-less system. Basically it's about giving rules to the average sci-fi argument.

Though you really don't have to go that far to not have progression. There are plenty of other systems that you can just not hand XP out and your games will run fine.

The cover looks comfy. I'll look into it.

Never heard about this. Unique premise, though.

Thanks a lot, user.

Maybe Call of Chtullhu?

As far as i know only way to increase profeciencies is at the end of the session if you rolled well enough during the day and the DM saw fit.

Apart from that, only thing that varies is sanity. A LOT.

Lots of the beer and pretzels stuff like Risus, Everyone is John, Big Motherfuckin' Crab Truckers, SLURPS, etc, have no progression. Then again the whole idea of them is generally to be simple enough to pick up and normally just played as a one shot when you have nothing better to do.