Jul 16, 2015 5:31 pm
Hi gang. It is yard sale season here in my neighborhood and my wife made me do some de-cluttering. I found an old box of RPG materials and some notes I made for a Superhero game. It was going to be run using Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Ed. but upon reviewing that system and remembering it was based on 3rd Ed. d20 I decided to change things up and use Fate. Specifically the Venture City Stories rules that I'm told are pay-what-you-want through Drive Through RPG (I haven't looked myself but that seems right) I'm not asking players to download it, I can walk you through the process if you need me to.
The Fate system is much easier for me to run because I am not often at a computer where I can access character sheets and pdfs easily. My phone can do it obviously, but I find navigating d20 rules to be a chore on the smaller screen. Fate is much simpler for me to run "on the go" as it were.
The basic story is that six weeks ago an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded, bathing the globe in a strange radiation. This caused many lifeforms to mutate, but human's were the most affected. Every single human now has some form of mutation and they are very random. Most people got small insignificant changes, but some became truly superhuman.
The PCs are individuals who have gotten the more significant abilities, being classified as Alpha or Beta Level Metahumans. They have also been recruited by the authorities to become Fuller City's first Metahuman Response Task Force. Mostly you will be civilians with very little police training responding to calls that are beyond the abilities of the "normal cops" to deal with. Powers are typically on the scale of the X-Men or lower tier Avengers, as opposed to the Justice League who could threaten the world individually.
So if you've ever wanted to play a superhero come check out the game.
The Fate system is much easier for me to run because I am not often at a computer where I can access character sheets and pdfs easily. My phone can do it obviously, but I find navigating d20 rules to be a chore on the smaller screen. Fate is much simpler for me to run "on the go" as it were.
The basic story is that six weeks ago an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded, bathing the globe in a strange radiation. This caused many lifeforms to mutate, but human's were the most affected. Every single human now has some form of mutation and they are very random. Most people got small insignificant changes, but some became truly superhuman.
The PCs are individuals who have gotten the more significant abilities, being classified as Alpha or Beta Level Metahumans. They have also been recruited by the authorities to become Fuller City's first Metahuman Response Task Force. Mostly you will be civilians with very little police training responding to calls that are beyond the abilities of the "normal cops" to deal with. Powers are typically on the scale of the X-Men or lower tier Avengers, as opposed to the Justice League who could threaten the world individually.
So if you've ever wanted to play a superhero come check out the game.
