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Mook Rule
A thought just struck me, while considering the street level heroes.
Let a superhero fight as many ordinary people at once as the number of ranks of Fighting above Poor they have. So 5 for Daredevil, 6 for Captain America etc., assuming they are all adjacent enough.
To make that harder or more appropriate to fighter-heroes, a bonus part of Martial Arts.
So Daredevil could roll to hit 5 thugs that had piled on at once and punch/kick/elbow or whatever all 5 of them at once on a green.
I did this a few years ago, but thought I would post it and do some updates.
Draft 6.4 May 4, 2018 – Blue Tyson
* means I have never seen it
discussion thread :- https://plus.google.com/u/0/113465628858922236741/posts/7keSjMB6sL4
*3D&T [Brazil]
Aberrant
Adventure! – Pulp
AMP
BASH
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*Blood and Vigilance
*Brains and Brawn
Brave New World
Bulletproof Blues – http://ogc.rpglibrary.org/index.php?title=Bulletproof_Blues
*Capes
*Capes Cowls and Villains Foul
*Captain Superguy Must Die!
*Cartoon Action Hour
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Cold Steel Wardens
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Deeds Not Words
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–4 Colour System (4CS) – http://www.rpgnow.com/product/50837/Four-Color-System-(Core-Rules)
–Marvelous Superheroes (FUDGE) – http://eddyfate.com/2009/11/17/marvelous-superheroes/
–G-Core
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Superbabes
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Super Squadron
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Superhero 2044
Supers!
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Supervillains!
Superworld
Thrilling Tales
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Truth & Justice
Two-Fisted Tales
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Valiant Universe
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The Vigilante Hack
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–Living Legends
–Mighty Protectors
Vindicators
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Wild Talents (1-2)
–Godlike
Worlds in Peril
Other Suggested
Exalted
http://rpggeek.com/rpggenre/171/action-adventure-superheroes?
See all the way to the right for navigation – and dropdown has core rules….way to right of that has forward and back pagination. Plenty of works in progress, drafts, etc.
One of the problems with FASERIP as great a system as it is, is the lack of opposition to attacks. This can mean that enough average guys and girls with guns or fists can turn your street level hero into an unconscious bleeding mess. This is not particularly comics emulation appropriate, so here are some varying suggestions.
Came across this on facebook yesterday, a javascript calculator for going from MPH to inches per turn.
http://www.planetx.org/~ghost/champions/personal/quants.html
If you’d like some variety in character ability scores, roll on this table for each rank needed :
Villains and NPCs and mooks are not the stars, so a suggestion is to adjust the rank numbers when creating them to be inferior. This gives some numeric variety, too.
Feeble (1)
Poor (3)
Typical (5)
Good (8)
Excellent (18)
Remarkable (28)
Incredible (38)
Amazing (45)
Monstrous (70)
Unearthly (90)
For normal people and mooks you could take that further and actually go the minimum starting route:
Feeble (1)
Poor (3)
Typical (5)
Good (8)
Excellent (16)
Remarkable (26)
Incredible (36)
Amazing (46)
Monstrous (63)
Unearthly (88)
Rank Numbers and Character Creation
One way character creation is done in 4CS and predecessors is to assign the lowest of the numeric range to starting characters. Here’s an option:
The game should be about the characters, so have them start on par with their predecessors with regards to abilities and powers.
So that you have:
Feeble (2)
Poor (4)
Typical (6)
Good (10)
Excellent (20)
Remarkable (30)
Incredible (40)
Amazing (50)
Monstrous (75)
Unearthly (100)
for starting characters, to put them on par with Shellheads and Women Without Fear.
http://cosmicheroes.space/cgi-bin/superherohexcrawl.pl
Sample resultI have finally got a beta version of the Superhero Random Encounter Generator :-