Call of Cthulhu, Basic Roleplaying :- The free GORE rules you can get here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/28521/GORE?it=1 or here :- http://basicroleplaying.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=479
To begin :-
BASIC SKILLS
Strength
Constitution
Size
Intelligence
Power
Dexterity
Appearance
Education
Resources
Sanity
They begin at +1, except for Sanity, which beings at the same level as Power. See the end of this section for the ladder.
For each of STR, CON, POW, DEX, APP, RES roll 8dF. That is 4dF twice, added together.
Having reread Super Squadron again recently, one interesting part near the end of that game involves the conversion of existing experienced heroes to the system, which does have an experience level statistic.
The ballparks used are comics the hero is currently starring in. If you are comic geeky enough you could certainly do that, or find out all the series that people are in. It gave fractional experience level awards if part of a team…e.g. X-Men, etc.
If you like more granular standard four-colour superheroics with respect to established heroes and your newbie Fate characters this an idea that I have been considering.
A simple way to look at it for Fate and its standard Milestone experience system would be to award a Major Milestone for each year of existence of the character. Perhaps lowered if only part of a team in a comic sense, as per Super Squadron. Divide by two or by four or something along those lines.
So, for example :
Superman
Starting Character, Fate Core
High Concept: Last Son of Krypton
Trouble: Kryptonite does bad things, whatever the colour
Aspect 1: Secret Identity, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent
Aspect 2: Just a smalltown farmboy at heart
Aspect 3: Truth, Justice and the American Way
Super Leaping
Super Strength
Super Speed
Invulnerability
Archetypal Current Character, 75 years later
High Concept: Last Son of Krypton
Trouble: Kryptonite does bad things, whatever the colour
Trouble: Not a magic fan
Trouble: Responsibility for all
Aspect 1: Secret Identity, mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent
Aspect 2: I finally married the persistent reporter Lois Lane
Aspect 3: I have a Super Dog!
Super Leaping
Super Strength
Super Speed
Invulnerability
Flight
Heat Vision
–Heat Vision Attack Bonus
Super Hearing
Microscopic Vision
X-Ray Vision
Super Breath
Telescopic Vision
Leadership
Lore [Krypton]
Lore [Farming]
Life Support
–Immunity, no need to breathe
Extra
Fortress of Solitude Headquarters
–Communications
–Computing
–Defenses
–Storage
The Angel threat has been defeated in a surreal apotheostic haze. Or so we thought. An independent astronomy station saw it first. A much, much bigger threat. Titan Angels.
Draft 1.1 April 22, 2013 - Blue Tyson
SETTING
The near Evangelion future. The humans have fought off the Angel threat. Or so they thought. Pragmatic reality intrudes on psychedelic reverie. A not-quite finished project is scrambled into action to try and stop the threat. The only defense that can possibly work is a MegaTitan and this weapon can only be piloted by a Titan. Three senior Titan pilots draw lots to fly the prototype and Ayanami wins.
A cataclysmic conflict leads to a victory of a sort after a 17 second confrontation. Along with the loss of North Korea (which no-one ever noticed in anime anyway) and most of the MegaTitan. A recovery team finds what is left of the pilot inside the scrap, in a coma, short a couple of limbs. At the same time, some sort of backlash effect leaves the other two pilots curled into foetal balls, gibbering about horrors from beyond space and time. Nothing can bring them out of it, and only an abundance of stuffed penguins seems to calm their ravings.
With their only hope of operating MegaTitans about as competent for combat as fluffy pet rabbits the military and civilian heads agree that the time has come. The authorisation of the reactivation of a secret Antarctic base.
Roll out: Stasis Project Cybertron.
Containing the only known beings capable of piloting a MegaTitan unaided.
Optimus Prime.
Megatron.
ISSUES
Test the MegaTitans
Build a new MegaTitan Green
Don't get shafted by Megatron
Mediate Autobot-Decepticon Conflict
Finish hybrid crewed MegaTitan Pink
Politics and spy games
Restore The Korea Zone
Rumours ask: Is there a God Machine?
Deal with tougher Titan Angels
THE PLAYERS
TRANSFORMERS
Note, statistics are given for Autobots and Deceptions on Transformers scale.
Optimus Prime
Autobots, Roll Out!
We Must Live Together With the Humans
Freedom Is the Right of All Sentient Beings
Unearthly (+7) Blaster
Monstrous (+6) Body Armour
Amazing (+5) Speed
ADVENTURING
The Titan Angels will keep coming. Probably getting worse. The third MegaTitan is to be a hybrid that requires one of the other Autobots [or Decepticons if that is how you fly] to pilot it, along with a team of humans. Eventually the Project wants them to be human only for obvious reasons. Any humans trying to operate the Green or Orange MegaTitans will be brainfried after a few minutes. As in out of Fate Points.
So player characters could be Autobots etc. or the team of humans working on the new MegaTitan - pilots, scientists, engineers, etc. It will require a crew of several to fly it. One robot, several small people.
Are the rumours about the God Machine true? Is there another level of Titan? How big is it? How does it work? Joining? A three level Matrioshka? Other?
SCALE
There are three :-
Human
Titan/Autobot/Decepticon
MegaTitan/Titan Angel
THE LADDER
Being a big Marvel Super Heroes fan from way back, this is how I like to think:
Physique is split compared to Core, into a Strength component and an Endurance component, the latter of which should be used for the Stress track. Reason is native intelligence.
Popularity is a measure of charisma, reputation and public influence. If you like, bad people can have a negative popularity ladder equivalent. Supervillains, mass murderers, ruthless thugs in The Ball, etc.
Popularity
Resources
REFERENCES
Neon Geneis Evangelion : Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion
Transformers: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers
Ron Frazier’s FATE Transformers - http://evilhat.wikidot.com/community-fate-core-extensions
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