A modification of the cortex used in several more recent Margaret Weis games. Use for Marvel Heroic RPG, Leverage and Smallville
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Effect of simultaneous Physical Stress
Here is the situation that happened in today's game:
Johnny Storm (Human Torch) as a NPC has d12 of Physical Stress, and has activated his Nova Flame SFX on his previous action.
He is attacked by a ...
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How does the “spotlight method” of recovering trauma work?
I'm looking at page OM28 here:
If you don’t relish the idea of sitting out an entire Act or it doesn’t make sense in the story for the Watcher to skip ahead several weeks in a single Transition ...
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When a villain grandstands, what is he rolling against?
From OM15:
The Watcher may add to the doom pool directly by spending effect dice from a villain’s action, rather than inflicting stress or creating a complication. This represents the villain ...
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Can assets be given to another player's character?
If a player creates an asset in Leverage like Baseball Bat d6 (paying the plot point to do so) can the PC then give the bat to some other PC? Of course they can in the fiction, but does the other PC ...
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How do I create a sense of Impending Doom?
I've been reading up on the rules and I've noticed that if the player rolls multiple ones on their action I can choose to either award a PP for each 1 and add a d6 for each opportunity or I can choose ...
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What is innovative about the Smallville RPG?
I gather the Smallville RPG has innovative mechanics. In what way are they innovative?
(Particularly, I've heard that they're like indie RPGs. That's what I'm interested in, but it's also harder to ...
