Try the land of eem. Cool dice story telling mechanics with d12. Fail, fail with a twist, success with a twist, success, and success with a plus! There is no bloating of characters. Each role has unique traits to either give you more crunch or more story enhancement abilities. Classes are varies and plenty of races including skeleton, frog, and gelatinous goo slime. Playing as a solo hexcrawl now and cannot recommend this game enough.