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Expectations & Setting Rules

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PG-13
  • Much like Pinnacle Games I like to keep the games generally PG-13

Bennies - Spend Them as You Like
  • All characters have Common Bond for free. This includes the bad guys.

Command Edges
Command Edges work as normal, but also gain the following.
  • If you have effective communication and observation, you can use Command Edges on Spirit/2 people.
    If you have Command Presence this increases to Spirit in people.

Golden Bennies
  • Golden Bennies are something I learned about from Sean Patrick Fannon and latter when reading Shaintar. While not exactly the same as a Shaintar Golden Benny, I will have them in this game. Here is how they work.
    A Golden Benny May
    • The golden Benny belongs to the player, not the character. So if you are in more than one of my games it goes with you.
    • Do anything a Benny can do with an additional +2 to the roll.
    • Allow you to reroll a Critical Failure.
    • Allow you to add +4 to any roll (after making the roll!).
    • Allow you to soak all of the damage from a single attack.
    • Be Exchanged for 2 regular bennies.
    • Gain up to 10 Power Points
    • Allow some other narrative awesomeness you can talk the GM into.
    • Can be traded one for one for a Dark Benny or two Light Bennies in Nightbane.
    Wow Rob, that sounds so awesome. How can I get one?
    • You get a Golden Benny on Christmas, on your birthday, on your wedding day, loss of a loved one, or other unique days worth noting such as your mother in laws funeral.
    The Catch: Well there is always a Catch, and with the Golden Benny the catch is you can only ever have 1. Special Exceptions may be made if events fall within a month of each other. For example if you are lucky enough to get married on Dec 23rd, have you mother in law die the day before christmas and your birthday is on Boxing Day I will not be a jerk, and will likely let you have two for up to 1 month. AND YOU HAVE TO TELL ME! I cannot give you a golden Benny if I do not know about the qualifying event.

Limited - Heroes Never Die
  • The following setting rule applies to certain named wild cards of other ships. Explicitly it applies to the crew of the Pursuit. Others may be added as needed.
    Heroes in movies very rarely die. When they do, they go down fighting or perform one last, epic act of heroism.
    With this rule in play, Wild Cards who are Incapacitated from a damage roll make a Vigor roll as usual but treat Critical Failures as regular failures and ignore the rules for Bleeding Out.
    How a hero might survive what should be certain death is a chance to get creative. An adventurer who falls from a towering cliff, for example, might land in a pool of water or crash through the branches of a forest far below.
    If the situation is particularly heroic or if it serves as a major story point, the GM and player can decide the character perishes. A hero who confronts a massive demon on a crumbling bridge, for example, might take the fiend with him with his final blow.
    Villains: The reverse is also true—villains rarely die either! Heroes should play this in the spirit it’s intended—they shouldn’t attempt to cause some sort of gruesome and undeniable death to a villain who falls into their hands, for example. They should instead turn the captive over to the authorities—even though they know full well he will eventually escape to plague them once again.

Sidekicks
  • Side Kicks will have 1/2 (round down) of the earned advances of their Patron and no HJ rolls.

Size Isn't Everything, But its Still Something
  • Characters with appropriate trappings may use powers on Power Armor, Robots, and Vehicles. Doing so requires spending an additional amount of PPE equal to the Size of the target to activate and maintain the power. Example; Trying to turn a Size 3 power armor invisible can be done by paying an additional +3 Power Points to activate, then when maintenance comes up paying 1+3 = 4 Power Points to maintain. Generally (but not in all cases) Size will be applied as a bonus to the defenders roll to resist power as well.

Updated: August 14th, 2019.
  • 2D6 EFFECT
    2 Catastrophe: Something goes terribly wrong. The GM must decide what, but some ideas are a new and permanent Minor Hindrance, the inability to use powers for several days, or an explosion of some sort. The backlash should be thematic if possible. If the hero tampers with dark forces for his abilities, for example, he might become corrupted or summon something sinister into the world. If he’s a weird scientist the device might explode for 3d6 damage in a Medium Blast Template, or he might develop a Quirk, Phobia, or other “madness.”

    3 Backfire: The power succeeds as with a raise but affects a different target with the worst possible results. A bolt hits a random friend, boost Trait increases an enemy’s skill or attribute, etc. If there’s no likely target, he’s Stunned instead. If the power has a Duration other than Instant, it lasts its full term and can only be negated by dispel (the caster can’t voluntarily end it herself).

    4–5 Short Circuit: The power fails but the Power Points allocated to it are spent, along with an additional 1d6 Power Points.

    6–8 Stunned: The caster is Stunned (see page 106). She subtracts 2 from arcane skill rolls for the rest of the encounter (the penalty remains –2 even if she gets this result again).

    9–10 Overload: The character’s synapses crackle and overload with power. He takes 2d6 damage plus the cost of the power in Power Points, including any Power Modifiers the player declared.

    11 Fatigue: The character suffers Fatigue.

    12 Overcharge: The power draws ambient energy from the air, automatically succeeding against the target with a raise and costing the caster no Power Points!

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1 = 2 of Clubs
2 = 2 of Diamonds
3 = 2 of Hearts
4 = 2 of Spades
5 = 3 of Clubs
6 = 3 of Diamonds
7 = 3 of Hearts
8 = 3 of Spades
9 = 4 of Clubs
10 = 4 of Diamonds
11 = 4 of Hearts
12 = 4 of Spades
13 = 5 of Clubs
14 = 5 of Diamonds
15 = 5 of Hearts
16 = 5 of Spades
- reroll line for quickness & activation for Calculating -
17 = 6 of Clubs
18 = 6 of Diamonds
19 = 6 of Hearts
20 = 6 of Spades
21 = 7 of Clubs
22 = 7 of Diamonds
23 = 7 of Hearts
24 = 7 of Spades
25 = 8 of Clubs
26 = 8 of Diamonds
27 = 8 of Hearts
28 = 8 of Spades
- reroll line for Hyperion Juicer -
29 = 9 of Clubs
30 = 9 of Diamonds
31 = 9 of Hearts
32 = 9 of Spades
33 = 10 of Clubs
34 = 10 of Diamonds
35 = 10 of Hearts
36 = 10 of Spades
37 = J of Clubs
38 = J of Diamonds
39 = J of Hearts
40 = J of Spades
41 = Q of Clubs
42 = Q of Diamonds
43 = Q of Hearts
44 = Q of Spades
45 = K of Clubs
46 = K of Diamonds
47 = K of Hearts
48 = K of Spades
49 = A of Clubs
50 = A of Diamonds
51 = A of Hearts
52 = A of Spades
53 = Jokers = They are equal
54 = Jokers = They are equal
- If no reroll is being used then there are 2 extra jokers -
55 = Jokers = They are equal
56 = Jokers = They are equal
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"Possible and practical are two comrades who rarely see eye to eye."
Rob Towell
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