Chapter One

Chapter one: Origins

A character's Origin is the explanation of how and why they have there powers. Each origin has advantages and disadvantages.

A player Generating a character must either choose an origin or roll on the chart below. You may not choose All of the above, it must be rolled. If you roll on the chart you MUST take what you roll.(no second chances)

Origin

 
 01-24 Altered Human
 25-35 Normal Human
 36-60 Mutant 
 61-85 High Technology 
 86-90 Robot 
 91-95 Alien 
 96-99 Wizard 
 00    All Of The Above

For a more detailed and exact origin chart go here

Altered Human:Altered humans are normal people with powers derived of radiation, Cosmic rays, etc.

Altered Humans may raise one primary ability by one rank
Altered Humans Role on Column 1

Normal Humans: Normal People are just that normal people. They have no powers but still roll for talents and contacts.

Normal people gain an additional 3 talents and may choose a non(*) Weapon or Fighting skill
Normal people can start with one normal weapon (no fusion Bazzokas)
Normal people recieve a +3 cs to spend on primary abilities. you may not advance beyond what you could roll.
Gain 1 additional contact
Since it is quite an achievment if a normal person to compete with Spiderman, normal people recieve the normal karma award + 1/2 of that. If a normal person takes down Galactus he deserves the karma.
Normal humans role on Column 2

Mutants:Mutants are members of the race homo Superior. The Mutant was invented because the writers for comics ran out of ideas for origins. So as a cop out they now just say they are born that way. In the last couple of years the mutant population has grown considerably due to either radiation from atomic bombs (marvels theory) or a lack of imagination.

Mutants gain 1 aditional power, up to the maximum
Resources are reduced 1 rank
Starting popularity is always 0
Mutants gain popularity at a slower rate than other character types
The Majority of powers are inborn as opposed to equiptment based
They may be affected by mutant detection and Mutant nullification devices
Mutants role oncolumn 1

High Technology:Also called High-Tech Wonders, these heroes derive their abilities soley from their equiptment, and may not use any powers without the equiptment.

Initial reason is raised 2 ranks
Initial resources may be placed at good, or randomly rolled
High Tech Heroes must have one contact declared before the game. This represents the orginization that the hero works for or owns
At least one talent must be scientific or Professional in nature
High-Tech characters may choose body armor as their first power. This represents a battlesuit like Iron Man, and all powers are derived of this suit. If a player chooses a battlesuit continue the generation process here
High techs role on column 3

Robots: Robots are artificially created sentient beings, incliuding organic constructs, clones, life-module decoys, and Mystically powered Golems.

Popularity starts at 0
All PC Robots may heal normally, simulating internal repair function.
There is no karma loss for killing a robot. A robot may potentially be reactivated after it is dead. (since when is that just robots?)
A robots first power is Robotic Construct. Its rank is the material strength of the Robot and robots are immune to aging, disease, and mental attacks
Robots role on column 4

Aliens:Alien is a term for anything not human (or Mutant). This includes Asgardians, Atlatnteans, Kree etc.

Aliens Powers may be natural or inborn to that race (must be determined at creation)
Aliens get one less power(minimum of 2)
Starting resources are set at poor
An Alien gets one contact. If he doesn't choose his home planet, race, whatever he is considered an outcast. This would make for good subplots.
Aliens Role on column 5

Wizards:Wizards are a catagory I felt that the game needed. In the original set they considered them altered humans, but nothing about them has really changed. Wizards don't have any right being able to roll for Amazing Strength. These are normal guys with powers, and in the original game not enough powers. What really stinks is getting few powers and sorry stats. Spells are a little easier to learn than gaining new powers. Now wizards can get lots of powers and more realistic stats. See wizard rules

Wizards get 2 extra powers, up to maximum
Wizards gain a +2cs to Psyche, minimum of Good, max of Amazing
All powers a Wizard gains are considered spells
A wizard may choose Eldrich blast and/or Eldritch Shield as its first two powers at Psyche Rank
Spells are rolled off of Psyche for success and use the spell rank to determine effect.
Wizards role on column 2

All of the Above: Wow if you rollled this, its quite and achievement. You are a being from another civilization, WHO was born with a mutant X factor in their genes, WHO was exposed to radiation or something, WHO was part robot, WHO uses lots of High tech Equipment, WHO has also learned Magic.

This character rolls on column 5 of the random ranks table
They may raise one primary ability by one rank
They gain 3 extra powers (player must delegate at least one to be a mutant power, one to be derived of radiation poisoning or something, one to be a spell and any other powers may be placed at will.
They start with a high-tech weapon or battlesuit.
Starting Resources are set at poor
Initial Reason is raised 1 Rank
They gain one fighting or Weapon skill (Nothing over 1 *)
Being mostly robot and if they are killed it Has to be their own fault. (That's a joke. The only way to kill them is not to convince them to commit suicide) There is no karma loss for killing this character.

Random Ranks Table

   Rank    Initial   Column 1     Column 2      Column 3       Column 4    Column 5
   Name    Rank #
    FB       2        01-05        01-05          01-05          01-05      01-10 

    PR       4        06-10        06-25          06-10          06-10      11-20
 
    TY       6        11-20        26-75          11-40          11-15      21-30 

    GD      10        21-40        76-85          41-80          16-40      31-40

    EX      20        41-60        86-95          81-95          41-50      41-60

    RM      30        61-80        96-00          96-00          51-70      61-70

    IN      40        81-96                                      71-90      71-90 

    AM      50        97-00                                      91-98      91-95

    MN      75                                                   99-00      95-00 






 
 

Ability Modifier Table 

Table 6 (used for Sorcery spells, and resources ONLY) 

Dice      Modification
01-15     -1CS 
16-50     unchanged 
51-70     +1CS 
71-85     +2CS 
86-95     +3CS 
96-00     +4CS

Generating Health: Total the Rank Numbers in Fighting, Agility, Strength, and Endurance

Generating Karma: Total the Numbers in Reason, Intuition, Psyche

Generation Resources:Initial Resources begin at Typical (poor for Aliens), modified on the Ability Modification Table.

Generating Popularity: Popularity is 10 for most Heroes, for mutants and robots

+ 10 if identity is publicly known
- 5 if identity is secret
- 5 if hero hangs out with known mutants.
- 5 if hero is just Ugly or relatively unpopular. Aliens tend to have this problem.

Number of talents/powers/contacts 

Die Roll     Powers        Talents          Contacts 
01-12         1/3            0/8               0/2 
13-26         2/4            1/3               0/4 
27-41         3/5            2/4               1/4 
42-55         4/6            3/5               2/4 
56-66         5/7            4/6               2/6 
67-75         6/8            5/6               3/3
76-83         7/9            5/7               3/4 
84-89         8/10           6/7               3/6 
90-94         9/12           6/8               4/4 
95-97        10/12           7/8               4/5 
98-99        12/14           7/9               5/5
 00          14/18           8/10              6/6

The number behind the slash is the maximum number. You may gain one power/talent/contact up to the maximum by lowering your Reasources one Rank.

Reroll Option Through adopting drawbacks or with initial Karma, a character may spend Karma to reroll any starting rank. (note. If you choose to reroll a physical stat you May adjust health, If you reroll a mental ability you may not adjust Karma. You may only reroll at the time of character creation and if you roll lower than the first roll you may take the better of the two, but you still lose the 100 karma.

Chapter 2:Powers