Supers (GURPS, 4th Edition)

Introduction......Page 4 Masked Avengers......Page 5 Extraterrestrials......Page 6 The Comics Code......Page 7 Mission......Page 8 Costume......Page 9 The Mask......Page 10 The Achilles' Heel......Page 11 Supers . . . but Not Super Heroes......Page 12 Crossover......Page 13 Genre......Page 14 Breaking the World......Page 16 Power Levels......Page 18 League......Page 19 Non-Teams......Page 20 Elements......Page 21 Racial Templates......Page 22 Attributes and Skill Defaults......Page 23 Under the Hood: The Cost of Super-Strength......Page 24 Itching......Page 25 Modular Abilities and Modifiers......Page 27 Perks......Page 30 Disadvantages......Page 31 New Limitations......Page 33 Power Modifiers......Page 34 Skills and Super-Strength......Page 35 Wildcard Skills......Page 36 Techniques......Page 38 Phasing......Page 39 Speed......Page 40 Acrobat......Page 41 Sleight of Hand Magic......Page 54 Enchanted Items as Signature Gear......Page 55 Biomorph......Page 42 Blaster......Page 43 Brick......Page 44 Dreadnought......Page 45 Kinetic......Page 46 Man Plus......Page 47 Mesmerist......Page 48 Nightstalker......Page 49 Renaissance Man......Page 50 Shaper......Page 51 Sifu......Page 52 Supermage......Page 53 Techno......Page 56 Weatherworker......Page 57 Attack Abilities......Page 58 Motivations......Page 59 Your Own Worst Enemy......Page 62 3. Supporting Casts......Page 63 Teammates as Allies......Page 64 Under the Hood: Multiple Appearance Rolls......Page 65 Wildcard Skills for Supporting Cast......Page 66 Best Friends......Page 67 Point Values for Dependents and Allies......Page 68 New Enemies......Page 69 The Good Conspiracy......Page 70 The Rogues' Gallery......Page 71 Watchers and Rivals......Page 72 Tools of the Trade......Page 73 Hybrid Equipment......Page 74 Unusual Background and Equipment......Page 75 Equipment and Extra Effort......Page 76 Acquiring a Costume......Page 77 Shields......Page 78 Sensors and Computers......Page 79 Weapons......Page 80 Consumable Signature Gear......Page 81 Unique Equipment......Page 82 Personal Gear......Page 83 Swinging......Page 84 Headquarters......Page 85 Apparatus......Page 86 Concealment......Page 87 Pets......Page 88 Enchanted Items......Page 89 Spell Research......Page 90 Encounter......Page 91 Exposition......Page 92 Deathtraps......Page 93 Elsewhere or Elsewhen......Page 94 Mob Scenes......Page 95 Other Lives......Page 96 Character Conflict......Page 97 Four-Color Roleplaying......Page 99 Rules for Silly Campaigns......Page 100 Bending Steel Bars......Page 101 Under the Hood: Maximum Travel Times......Page 102 Optional Rules: Speed Talent and Skill Bonuses......Page 103 Ruling the Elements......Page 104 Machines......Page 105 The Mechanical Hierarchy......Page 106 No Evil Shall Escape My Sight......Page 107 Looking Forward......Page 108 Hiding Your Thoughts......Page 109 Comic-Book Wizardry......Page 110 Versatility......Page 111 One-Use Powers......Page 112 Godlike Strength......Page 113 Spending Character Points on Feats......Page 114 7. Clashes of Titans......Page 115 Rules for Four-Color Campaigns......Page 116 Four-Color Damage......Page 117 One-Man Armies......Page 118 Big Weapons......Page 119 Improvised Weapons......Page 120 Under the Hood: ST Requirements......Page 121 Damage Reduction......Page 122 Fists of Steel......Page 123 Benchmarks......Page 124 Cosmic Scale Damage......Page 125 Mental Grappling......Page 126 Mental Crippling and Killing......Page 127 8. Universes......Page 128 Jane's All the World's Superhumans......Page 129 The Beginning......Page 130 First-Person Super......Page 131 Top 12 Rankings......Page 132 Individual Career Length......Page 133 Retrospective......Page 134 Villains......Page 135 Supers in Private Life......Page 136 Historical Impact......Page 137 Varied Power Levels......Page 138 Popular Culture......Page 139 Religion......Page 140 Advanced Technology......Page 141 Other Dimensions and Supernatural Beings......Page 142 Parallel Worlds......Page 143 Campaign Seeds......Page 144 Prior Art: Supers Settings in GURPS......Page 145 Super-Abilities Table......Page 146 Bibliography......Page 147 Index......Page 149 The 20th century gave birth to a new genre of fiction: the super-powered adventure. Men and women with strange powers protected ordinary mortals from a variety of threats, from street crime to world-shattering disasters. When roleplaying games appeared, supers quickly became one of their most popular genres and one of the most challenging to do right. GURPS Fourth Edition provides the game mechanics and tools for the job, and GURPS Supers is your guide to applying them: a comprehensive playbook to the supers genre and to capturing it in your campaign. This volume is a comprehensive playbook to the supers genre and to capturing it in your campaign. It is focused on drama and characterization