Starting Out: Wild Talents

[Tadanori Oyama]

On it's face I'd say Useful since it doesn't stop incoming attacks, it achieves a specific goal. But you could build it as a Defense depending on how you build it. If you prevent falling damage by, say, negating kinetic force, then that works against attacks too.

[clockworkjoe]

useful - defend is used to negate attacks.

[SimonLucid]

I thought it'd be useful but I just wanted to check

[Ryo]

I'd say a dud. Is not taking damage from a fall really worth points? How often is it even going to come up?
If you want a power, then make it immunity to impact damage.

[beej]

WT doesn't need a battle map does it?  The APs make it sound more like its description.   Is this the case?

[clockworkjoe]

WT doesn't need a battle map does it?  The APs make it sound more like its description.   Is this the case?

unless you have like 15 or more combatants, no not really.

[beej]

Yet another question.  I've been doing alot of research on Victorian London and I have a good handle on the background and what not, but I'm still struggling with the story.  I want to start out as fighting street gangs morph into fighting Deep Ones, Prussian were-assassins, Lich Napoleon and the evil capitalism monster that the East India Company.   The biggest hurdle I'm facing is I've never played superhero games.  Can anyone recommend campaign superhero books?  I'm looking what a superhero game/plot actually looks like.   

mahalo

[clockworkjoe]

You need The Kerberos Club

http://www.arcdream.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=7&zenid=f46990084d3169b1df0bc5d6648901c9

"The Kerberos Club" is a "Wild Talents" sourcebook for superheroic roleplaying in Victorian London. It includes a detailed history and thorough treatment of Victorian society in its every particular, especially the incredible and sometimes awful changes that "the Strangeness" comes to wreak upon Queen and Country alike.

[beej]

I have Kerberos.  I mean something of the equivalent of Road Trip or keep on the Shadowfell.  A book that lays what a campaign might look like.

[clockworkjoe]

Ah. I can't think of any off the top of my head. Well, there's one for Godlike http://www.arcdream.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=40

but for straight up superhero games? I don't know.

[beej]

Could you recommend any steampunk campaign books?  I figure after while there will be zepplins and steam powered robots given the proclivities of a few of my players.

[clockworkjoe]

http://airshippirates.abneypark.com/

Space 1889

Castle Falkenstein

Iron Kingdoms

[beej]

Ross, have you and Tom done an episode on running a superhero game?  I've been digging through old podcasts and I've found ones for running realistic games and mystery games, but not strictly superhero games.

[beej]

I've been flipping through the core WT book but I haven't found a lot about skill challenges.  Are there published examples of skill challenge or rules for skill challenge construction?

[clockworkjoe]

Kerberos Club has some examples - think of challenges as threats - they have dice pools that you have to reduce to 0 through skill checks and the like