The Tri-Stat Core System Role-Playing game is an expanded version ofthe Big Eyes Small Mouth RPG, modified and made more generic to encompass other genres, other styles of play.
It's a generic system that focuses on effects-based development with a philosophical approach that flaws should hinder the character... and that some flaws (such as, say, laziness, aren't actually flaws so much as character choices.
Published by the now-defunct Guardians of Order (GOO), Tri-Stat was a strong Canadian offering to the RPG community. Sadly, mounting debts and (ironically) a stronger Canadian dollar, did it in.
The final edition of GOO's BESM has recently been picked up by White Wolf publishing under their Arthause Imprint. However, this version of the Tri_Stat system was made widely available for free download when it came out. It's gotten harder and harder to find a download source for it.
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