This is a general page of notes and links for the Action System (sometimes marked with an exclamation point after Action). This is an open-source universal role-playing system created by Mark Arsenault, Patrick Sweeney, and Ross Winn of Gold Rush Games in 2002. Mark and Patrick had worked on HERO Games products, while Ross had worked with R Talsorian Games. At the time, the Fuzion system support was dying down, and the HERO Games company was re-created and releasing 5th edition HERO. 5th edition was an expansion and elaboration of classic 4th edition. The Action system was instead a simplified branch of the HERO System similar to Fuzion. The Action System content was later released under the Wizards of the Coast Open Gaming License.