House Rules
This page will have links to multiple articles regarding the rules of the game and are in .pdf format. Information posted here is based on what was published in the TS game as well as house rules that we use in our group. As our group has now begun trying out the new Top Secret: New World Order™ rules, I am breaking this page up in two sections. The top part will be with the articles and house rules from the original Top Secret game. The section below will have house rules from the new TS:NWO game.
Original Top Secret Section
House Rules – Document details our groups house rules from character creation, use of AOK’s, Bureaus, XP, etc. as well as rules on bulletproofing for vests, clothes, boots & helmets. Also explains how we handle Cosmetic Surgery based on the original rules.
Table DES-1 – Rockets. UPDATED!! This is a document that thoroughly discusses our house rules on rockets.
Table DES-2 – Mortars
Table DES-3 – Anti Air Rockets
Table DES-5 – Penetration Factor for Machine Guns
Special Weapons Rules – UPDATED!! This document details how to deal with certain types of military weapons. It also has some pictures of these weapons.
Special Weapons Rules – PDW’s – This document details how to deal with this new category of Personal Defense Weapons or PDW’s.
Various TS Charts – This document has the following charts: Bullet Damage Modifiers, Bullet Cost, Shotgun Damage modifiers, Scopes, Suppressors, and Grenade Damage.
Tools of the Trade – This document has a short listing of some of the tools of the trade for TS as well as a few other tidbits of information. Includes info on the MedKit from Operation Rapidstrike module.
Tools of the Trade: Operation Rendezvous Oasis – This document will detail information on a host of items from the newly published Operation Rendezvous Oasis mission developed by the Administrator himself, Merle Rasmussen. This info was first published using the original rules in 2014 in Gygax Magazine™ Issue #4. The mission was later published in 2022 in updated format using the new Top Secret: NWO rules that included many new weapons and other items. [Coming soon!]
Injury Determination – This document has the chart from the TS Companion book that has a complete breakdown of how to determine injury location and severity. I did up this chart so it will appear on one page, however the type is very small so I may need to go to two pages like in the book.
Gun List – This document is a cover sheet and a fully formatted Gun List.
S.W.A.T. Van – This document has information about weapons available for new agents that play in our campaign.
Top Secret: New World Order Section
HTH rules – Admin Roger spent considerable time coming up with a more clarified version of the HTH combat rules in the new TSNWO game. Our group also had a considerable discussion over the rules as presented in the game and Roger went to the TS:NWO Facebook group and interacted with various other Admins that run other games to arrive at the rules presented here.