The CODA System is a role-playing game system designed by Decipher, Inc.
Description
After Last Unicorn Games was purchased by Wizards of the Coast, some of the staff left and started working for Decipher, Inc. where they created Star Trek Roleplaying Game, which used the CODA System. The CODA System was also used, in an altered form, in their Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game. It was published in two 256-page hardcover books.
In Issue 2 of the Russian game magazine Навигатор игрового мира (Game World Navigator), Petr Tyulenev (Петр Тюленев) also commented on the new Lord of the Rings game, noting that the CODA System used in it was not new, having previously been used in Decipher's Star Trek game, "but for The Lord of the Rings it was seriously reworked and supplemented. Looking ahead, I will note that the updated Coda System took a lot of good from most of the game systems known to me, including D&D, Star Wars, Alternity, Ars Magica — and the result was no worse than any of these games." Because of this, Tyulenev concluded, "Lord of the Rings RPG deserves, in my opinion, the closest attention of players and gamemasters."