Operation Paperclip is a roll low system with the dice value decreasing as your skill level improves. To prevent modifiers from slowing down game play, In Operation Paperclip modifiers are calculated and adjusted between game sessions, not during.
Are the Nazi hunters part of an elite government task force? or do they operate out of their moms garage? Players get to design their own secret group, base of operations and equipment available to them.
In Operation Paperclip, characters roll dice to attack and to defend. The more skilled opponent will have the overall advantage, and with a little luck may prevail.
Some players may prefer a leisurely game where their characters can easily live through an adventure every week, where others may want death to be lurking around each corner. For this, the game can be players in Regular or Brutal mode with lower attributes, less experience and less health.
Operation Paperclip divides social skills between the characters 4 attributes, creating an immersive social system for conversing with NPC's in game or using the skills during down-time for carousal and not all characters will handle social adversity in the same way.
Players get to create their character from childhood, including their family environment, where they grew up, where they went to school, even how they performed and what they did in their spare time. A character may end up as an ex-con or a famous author.
Players also have the option of playing as a holocaust survivor who lived through hell during the war. With age the characters gained skills and wisdom and may be just as formidable in combat as their limber youth counterparts.