Working on super hero RPG gaming

 This time it might really work!

I have decided to try FATE as the game system with Venture City providing most of the framework for powers. I may also make use of some of the ideas in Daring comics and also the origins, and playbooks from Worlds in Peril.

I really like the simplicity of Venture City, very quick and easy to build a character. The playbooks in WiP offer a path to explore the nature of the hero character to avoid the game just becoming a very long fight sequence.

 

Superhero 2021-2022

Skills [22]	Summary	Overcome	Create advantage	Attack	Defend
Athletics	General level of physical fitness, whether through training, natural gifts, or genre-specific means	X	X		X
Bureaucracy	Dealing with red tape. Laws etc	X	X	X	X
Burglary	Aptitude for stealing things and getting into places that are off-limits.	X	X
Contacts	Networking, making, maintaining connections	X	X		X
Deceive	Lying to and misdirecting people.	X	X		X
Drive	Operating vehicles and things that go fast	X	X	X	X
Empathy	Knowing/being able to spot changes in a person’s mood or bearing. The emotional Notice skill	X	X		X
Fists	Unarmed combat, including natural weapons, claws teeth, improvised items.	X	X	X	X
Investigate	To find things out through concentrated effort and in-depth scrutiny.	X	X
Knowledge	Knowledge and education	X	X
Notice	Ability to pick out details at a glance, and other powers of observation.	X	X		X
Physique	Natural physical aptitudes, such as raw strength and endurance	X	X		X
Pilot	Navigate vehicles through 3 dimensional environment, air, water, space	X	X	X	X
Provoke	Getting someone’s dander up eliciting a negative emotional response fear, anger, shame, etc.	X	X	X
Rapport	Making positive connections to people and eliciting positive emotion.	X	X		X
Resources	General level of material wealth in the game world and ability to apply it.	X	X	X	X
Science	Understanding & competence with the scientific method	X	X
Shoot	Ranged weaponry, either in a conflict or on targets that don’t actively resist your attempts to shoot	X	X	X	X
Stealth	To avoid detection, both when hiding in place and when trying to move about unseen	X	X		X
Technical	Practical ability to create, maintain & repair things	X	X	X	X
Weapons	Fight in close quarters with weapons	X	X	X	X
Will	General level of mental fortitude, the same way that Physique represents your physical fortitude.	X	X	X	X

The Basic Game Actions

Overcome:

• True to its name, you tackle some kind of challenge, engaging task, or hindrance related to your skill.

Create an Advantage:

• Whether you’re discovering something that already exists about an opponent or creating a situation that helps you succeed, creating advantages allows you to discover and create aspects, and lets you get free invocations of them.

Attack:

• You try to harm someone in a conflict. That harm may be physical, mental, emotional, or social in nature.

Defend:

• You try to keep someone from harming you, getting past

Starting skill levels, powers etc

All players start with 15 skills rated from +1 to +5. (A total of 35 points)

1 skill at +5

2 skills at +4

3 skills at +3

4 skills at +2

5 skills at +1

The remainder are at 0