You can improve an enhancement by paying another stunt and bumping the bonus up by +2.ĭrawbacks: Every power has a drawback. That’s an enhancement called Collective Teleportation.

We decide our hero (lets call her Fermion) can take people with her as she teleports across the street. Your basic power costs one stunt.Įnhancements: Optional extra effects that you stack onto your basic power. Does she open a dimensional rift and pop across the room? That’s Teleportation. Let’s take a look at the different attributes of a power.īasic power: The big, flashy thing your character does. It’s the one cool thing that sets your character apart, and the foundation for all the extra effects your hero can do. All characters start with a refresh of 3 and can’t go lower than 1.Ī power is the basic building block of the Venture City system. If that’s not enough juice, you can also reduce your character’s refresh, with each point of refresh equivalent to one stunt. Good news: you get three bonus stunts (for a total of six) to help make your character truly super. Powers are like a bigger, flashier version of stunts in Fate Core, and they are paid for by using your stunts. Most characters in Venture City have one suite of powers. That’s fine, you can come back to this part at any time. These will be key to playing the game, but maybe you won’t be inspired until you find out what kind of superhero they are.

Ideally you should start by coming up with your character’s high concept (their role in life and the world), their trouble (their personal struggle) and their name. And remember: if you really need to make a character quickly, Venture City has a whole set of partially pregenerated characters ready to customize.

It assumes you own both Fate Core and Venture City and provides a quick overview of key concepts without going into the weeds of how the system works. However, sometimes you just want to play a one-shot or tinker with a new character. We strongly believe this collaborative experience helps set the foundation for an engaging, dynamic campaign. Explore the phase trio which gives your characters backstory and connection. Sit down together and discuss the setting, decide on the scale of the story, figure out what issues your party will grapple with, and jointly create the major NPCs and locations. If your gaming group is going to start a new Venture City campaign, then we recommend you follow the guidelines in Fate Core. A primer on creating a Venture City supers character for Fate

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