Superpowers Block

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The Superpowers Block is useful for stories involving superheroes, supernatural characters, or wielders of mystical forces in a popular space opera franchise.

The Superpowers block has 4 categories associated to a specified power. These are bought with Attribute points. Because there is so much more to spend points on, Rank 2 characters now get 14 Attribute points instead of 12, even if they do not invest any points into the Superpowers Block.

Unlike Attributes, these do not start with a default d4. If a character has no Attribute Points in that category, they cannot use their power in that way. Also, these categories progress faster than standard Attributes, consisting of only 3 ranks - d4, d8, and d12.

Above the sections that define a character's power are a few lines to describe it the power.

Damage
Damage is how devastating a character's power is to a target. This is how efficiently it will inflict damage.

Without Damage, a character’s power cannot lower a target’s health."Nebula has the ability to manifest and control plasma. She wants to be able to use it to badly burn her enemies, so she puts 3 points into its damage. She attacks, rolling 2 d12s. She gets a 12 and a 9, an explosion, so adds them together for an impressive total of 21."

Range
Range is how far away a player can inflict their power upon a target, or how far their power can travel.

Without Range, a character’s power can only be used through physical contact."Interface can use her power to infiltrate a computer. Once in the system, she can branch out to any other computer the system has access to. Because of this, she wants her power to have a good Range. She puts in 2 points so she can use d8s."

Effect
Effect is used to cause a reaction on a target. This could be to incapacitate a target, stun them, or some other effect that doesn’t inflict damage to their health. "Nebula uses her powers to create a bright display of lights in an enemy’s face, hoping to blind them and give her allies an Advantage. She has d8s in Effect, so will roll 2 in order to see if she is successful."

Area
Area increases the size or amount of affected targets of a power."Interface wants to cause multiple phones to ring at the same time to cause a distraction. She has d4s in Area, so rolls, getting a 4 and a 2. Since this is an explosion, she adds the result to 6. The Gamemaster decides how successful this makes her attempt."