Setting:
I have no setting, this is an offshoot of Stellar Sanctums - a project that I've been involved with for several years now. This is an "alternative rules set" for that game, as Mr. Bubar wants to use percentile dice to resolve things. So, rather than let the idea hang out in my noggin until it dies, I wrote it out here, for those of you that enjoy using/owning lots of dice.

• Strength - How strong you are
• Agility - How agile you are
• Health - In general, how resistant you are to damage from bullets, Bacteria, and bashing....
• Intelligence - Your general abilty to process information
• Will - How well you stick to a course, or keep at a difficult task
• Virtue - A general measure of your tendency to be "good"
• Vice - A general measure of your tendency to be "evil"
• Perception - Your ability to see things, material and physical

• Roll 8d10, for the Pool size
• Use various levels for various types of characters - modify this as you see fit:
• 25 points for commoners, NPC's
• 50 Points for average to good characters
• 100 points for Heroic haracters
• 200 points for minor Superheroes
• 300 points for average Superheroes and Superhumans
• 400 points for Legendary Superheroes and Major Superhuman Races
• These points are also used to acquire SKILLS as outlined later.

Hit Points:
Hit points is the average of the Strength and Health Stats.

Skills:
I believe at this writing that the skills in Stellar Sanctums is going to be a real "laundry list" type of thing, something that I try to avoid - as (at least) it makes rules muchkins domminate, and the referee's job harder with more to keep track of. In a certain game system, they have what were once called "classes" - which in all actuality turn out to be skill sets. While I'm not using this idea, mine is similiar - I believe that several other RPG's use rather broadly defined skills instead of very narrow ones to preclude the "laundry list problem" I described above.

This means that (on average) you won't have more than a few skills, making the "laundry list" easier to manage. Here's where "Variable Dice" start to come into play:

Each skill is given a Die to roll to attempt performance of the skill, and each task is given a number to roll (or over it) to succeed at the task. An easy task might be a 2, an average task given a 3 and so on.

Depending on the level of your skill, your dice type (and eventually number of them) go up.

Skills Listing:
This is pretty much self-explanatory, and very general.

Raising your Characters Skill Level:

Your Character earns Experience Points, but not like in some old TSR product. If you succesfully complete a skill, you get a number of XP's based on your level and how hard it was to do. You record each XP on your Character Sheet, and  once you've gotten enough XP's to get to the next level, you're at the next level - the number of XP's needed is seen on the "Skill Level Chart" shown previously. Once you've reached the next Skill Level, your XP resets to "0", for ascension to the next level of Skill. One last thing - you get only one chance to roll for XP's in an adventure or 1 week period.

Combat and Weapon's Rules:

• Penetration is modeled by Dice Type - d4,d6, d8 - etc.
• The amount of damage is by the Number of dice - 4d6, 3D8, etc...
• If it's a Vehicle Scale weapon, it does 100X as much damage to a human, Starship Scale does 10,000X as much to a Human. Starship Weapons do 100X as much to Vehicles.
• Average Human is assumed to have about 4-8 Hit Points.

Armor:

• Unlike a skill, Armor is not variable most of the time - it's the target you roll against to determine penetration.
• All armor at the low energy end of things is reflective - like modern steel armor vs an explosive shell.
• At the top of the energy scale, Armor becomes Ablative - Steel doesn't stand up well vs a Laser.
• Armor has a base Value - Battleships would be about 12, MBT's at 10, APC's at 6 (on average - YMMV)
• The material has a max value - thisis based on the energy it can absorb, not on it's thickness.
• The thickness can increase, but this adds HULL/STRUCTURE not armor - at a certain point, the armor ceases to be actually protective, and simply starts to absorb damage.

• Step 1 - roll your skill, to determine if you hit.
• Step 2 - Depending on circumstances, you just might have some modifiers:
• If your skill/hit roll is lower than 10 pips under your target number, raise your dice type by one type, IE:
• 10 under - d4 becomes d6, d6 becomes d8, d8 becomes d10, etc...
• 20 under - d4 decomes d8, d6 becomes d10, etc....
• 30 under - d4 becomes d10, etc...
• Ad Infinitum....
• If you have already maxxed out your dice type, drop armor by two for each "step"
• For Ranged Weapons, for each range band away a target is , drop die type by one, drop a die (ie 4d6 becomes 3d4).
• Missile type weapons with warheads don't drop dice, and don't drop dice type, If they hit, they hit.
• Step 3 - Once you've established that a hit occurred and determined dice type and number - roll them.
• Step 4 - Each die that's equal to or greater than the armor value is a damage point. Determine hit location if it's important to you.  Hit results as follows:
• damage > armor is hull damage
• If damage is > 2X Armor Value, then you do a critical hit - some system(s) get knocked out - one per point over 2X Armor.
• If damage is > 3X Armor Value, then the target suffers overkill and is rendered inoperative, starts singing Klingon Opera, blows up, etc....