If you want to play a character type that can take Super schticks, your best bet would be the Super Hero. However, if you wish to use one of the pre-existing types from the books, some conversion notes are presented below. Anyone from this list must come from the modern juncture. Those marked with an asterisk are optional types you may wish to exclude due to potential awkwardness:
Big Bruiser:
Power 4. Swap the Guns skill for Superpowers = 13. Gain 3 Super schticks instead of weapon choices.
Everyman Hero:
Power 4. Swap the Guns skill for Superpowers = 13. Gain 3 Super schticks.
Ex-Special Forces:
Power 4. Gain Superpowers = 10, but you may trade points from your Guns skill and put them into Superpowers if you wish. Choose either 4 gun schticks and 1 Super schtick or vice versa.
*Gambler:
Power 3. Gain Superpowers 12 [Max 14]. For every point you reduce your Guns skill by (maximum of 3), you may choose 1 Super schtick.
*Journalist:
Power 3. Choose either Superpowers = 12 and 2 Super schticks, or Superpowers = 13 and 1 Super schtick.
*Karate Cop:
Power = 5. Gain Superpowers 11 [Max 13]. Gain 1 Super schtick.
Killer:
Power = 5. Gain Superpowers =13. You may trade in any number of Gun schticks for an equal amount of Super schticks (minimum 1).
Martial Artist:
Power = 5. Gain Superpowers 12 and 1 Super schtick.
Masked Avenger:
Power 2. Swap the Guns skill for Superpowers = 13. Gain 3 Super schticks instead of the gun schticks.
*Maverick Cop:
Power 3. Gain Superpowers 11. Gain 1 Super schtick.
*Medic:
Power 4. Gain Superpowers = 13. Choose to gain 1 Super schtick or swap your normal schtick selections for 2 Super schticks.
*Ninja:
Power =5. Swap your Guns skill for Superpowers 10 [Max 13]. Gain 1 Super schtick.
*Private Investigator:
Power 4. Swap the Guns skill for Superpowers 10 [Max 13]. Gain 1 Super schtick.
Scrappy Kid:
Power = 6. Gain Superpowers = 12. You may swap the values for Martial Arts and Superpowers if desired. Gain 2 Super schticks instead of the fu schticks.
*Spy:
Power 3. Gain Superpowers 10 [Max 13]. Gain 1 Super schtick.
*Techie:
Power 3. Gain Superpowers 11 [Max 13]. Gain 1 Super schtick.
Thief:
Power 4. Swap the Guns skill for Superpowers 11 [Max 14]. Gain 2 Super schticks.
Absorption
When you are attacked by an opponent using a Super schtick, make a Superpowers task check: the Difficulty is your Superpowers Action Result. If you succeed, the Outcome equals the number of sequences for which you may use the Super schtick in question. Your opponent is unable to use the Super schtick for that number of sequences.
Amphibious
You can easily move and breathe underwater. If you wish, you can reduce your Move attribute by any amount on land in order to increase it by the same amount when underwater, this decision is made when you take the schtick.
Armor
For each schtick spent on this power, gain 2 points of natural Armor. You may not gain more than 8 points of Armor in this way.
Blast
You have an ability much like the Magic schtick Blast. For each schtick you spend on this power, you may gain one of the special effects presented in the description for Blast on page 114 of the main rulebook. Use Superpowers as the skill to make task checks with, not Sorcery. You cannot take the Chi special effect, however you can also choose from the following list:
- Air. If you choose, you could opt to inflict no damage and instead knock the target back meters equal to your Outcome. It's also good for filling a boat's sails, knocking over power lines, and keeping cool on a hot summer day.
- Energy. This generic blast attack can be any color you choose, and must emanate from a pre-determined part of the body, most commonly the eyes or fingertips. This energy attack is not capable of starting fires, but is certainly capable of destroying barrels containing flammable materials, for instance.
- Water. A handy ability to have when you need to put out a fire, clean your driveway, fill some ice cube trays, or if you're just thirsty.
Bouncing (costs 2 schticks)
Your body is rubbery and bouncy. If you sustain falling damage, make a Superpowers task check with a Difficulty equal to half the number of meters you fell (round up). Subtract the Outcome from the amount of damage you would normally take. Also, as a 3-shot cost action, you can bounce up to twice your normal Move rating.
Chameleon
You can make yourself invisible by hiding even behind the most inadequate of cover. As long as you don't move, this automatically works. Anyone attempting to locate you must make a Perception check with the Difficulty equal to your Superpowers AV; if they fail, you remain unseen. The number of targets you can affect depends on the number of schticks you spend in this ability. May not be used if someone is looking directly at you.
Clinging
You may walk or crawl on walls or ceilings and not fall. Your Move rating is halved while using this. If you sustain damage, make a Strength check with a Difficulty equal to the amount of damage you took to stay in place.
Create Darkness
You can create an area of darkness around you and maintain it indefinitely. You can mold and shape the field anyway you like, but the field has a radius equal to your Power rating in meters. Anyone caught inside the field will suffer from a -4 penalty to any skill task check that requires sight unless they have some form of immunity like specialized goggles or enhanced vision. If you are hit in combat, you must make a Superpowers task check with a Difficulty equal to the amount of damage from the attack (before Toughness is reduced). If you fail, the darkness field is nullified and you cannot create another for the rest of the sequence.
Damage Immunity
You are immune to particular form of damage, and suffer no Wound Points from such attacks no matter what. For each schtick you spend, you become immune to an additional form of damage. You may not spend more than two schticks on this ability during character creation. New schticks in this ability gained during the course of play cost four times the usual number of experience points.
Danger Sense
Even when you seem to be paying attention to something else, your senses are working overtime looking out for trouble. Hidden dangers such as enemy ambushes, falling rocks, lurking poisonous snakes and ticking time bombs hidden underneath chairs rarely surprise you. When the GM makes a check on your behalf to see if you spot such things, you get a +2 bonus to your Perception Action Value for each Danger Sense schtick you've purchased.
Death Resistance
For each schtick you spend on this ability (up to a maximum of 3), you gain a +3 Action Value bonus when making Death checks.
Duplication (costs 2 schticks)
You may split into multiples of yourself. Determine how many shots you wish to concentrate for (it must be at least 3 but no more than your Superpowers AV score), after which make a Superpowers check. The Difficulty of the task check is equal to your Superpower AV minus the number of shots you spent concentrating. If successful, a number of unnamed duplicates of yourself equal to your Outcome will instantly appear near you, and will follow your orders to the death. The duplicates will only have with them the same clothing as you are wearing. You cannot duplicate weapons or other objects. You may only use this power once per game hour. The duplicates will possess all of your attributes and skills, but are incapable of creating more duplicates.
Enhanced Senses
Each of the following costs one schtick to purchase:
- You can hear any sound within a radius equal to your Superpowers AV in meters with perfect clarity. Any sound you attempt to discern beyond that requires a Perception check with a +2 bonus. You can also hear sound with frequencies above the normal human range of hearing.
- You have a sense of small far beyond the human norm, and can determine distinctive odors for practically everything and anything you encounter. You may memorize an odor by sniffing it for at least one sequence. You may attempt to track a memorized smell with a Perception check with a +2 bonus.
- You have X-ray vision and can see through any material except for lead on a successful Superpowers check. The Difficulty is 1 for each inch of thickness of the matter you are looking through.
- You can see into the infrared and ultraviolet spectrum, allowing you to ignore any penalties for working in darkness. This will not, however, protect you from being blinded.
Extra Strength
For each schtick you purchase, add 1 to your Strength rating. There is no limit to the amount of times you can buy this.
Flight
You can fly through the air at your normal Move rating times 2. For each additional schtick spent, add 2 to your move rating while flying. If you take damage while in flight, make a Superpowers check with a Difficulty equal to the amount of damage you took. If you fail, you begin falling out of control and can make no other actions. At the beginning of every sequence, make another Superpowers check to try and regain control. The GM will determine exactly how high up you are, but if you hit the ground, take normal falling damage.
Forcefield
You can create a shield of energy that will stop any kinetic attack going in or coming out of it. Creating a forcefield is a 3-shot cost action, and maintaining it is a continuous action. When creating, decide how large the radius will be in meters (centered on you), and make a Superpower task check against a Difficulty equal to that number times 2. A forcefield has a Toughness rating equal to your own Toughness, and can sustain a number of damage points equal to your Outcome before it becomes unusable. By spending an extra schtick, your forcefield will also protect you from any Blast effect.
Growth
Your body can become physically larger for every schtick purchased. With 1 schtick, you can grow up to double your normal size. Add 2 to Strength and Move but also add 2 to any roll to hit you. With 2 schticks, you can grow up to 3 times your normal size. Add 4 to Strength and Move and 2 Toughness but also add 4 to any roll to hit you. With 3 schticks, you can grow up to 4 times your normal size. Add 6 to Strength and Move and 4 Toughness, but add 6 to any roll to hit you.
Insubstantiality
You may pass through solid matter by making a Superpowers check. The Difficulty is 1 for each inch of thickness of the matter you are passing through. You must specify four types of matter you cannot pass through; your GM picks a fifth type. For each additional schtick you spend, you may reduce the number of types you must choose. It is not possible to buy off the GM's choice.
Invisibility
As a 3-shot cost action, make a Superpowers check against a Difficulty of 10. If you are successful, all Perception checks to notice you add a penalty equal to your Outcome. Should anyone notice you, they will only see a faint shimmering outline of your body, and they will suffer a -2 penalty in combat with you. This lasts for as long as you wish, but it will cost 3 shots to become visible again. If you are knocked unconscious or killed, you automatically become visible.
Magnetism
You can attract or repel any object that contains ferrous metals. The Difficulty the weight of the affected object(s) in kg, divided by 5. The maximum distance that the object can be moved equals the Outcome of the Superpowers check x 3m. Objects under 5 kg can be moved automatically, without the need for a Superpowers check.
Reflection
As a 3-shot cost action, make a Superpowers check with the number of Wound Points (after any reductions for Toughness) you have just suffered from a single hit from any energy attack as your Difficulty. If you succeed, the opponent that wounded you takes an equal amount of Wound Points that are not reduced by Toughness. By spending an extra schtick, you can also reflect gun attacks.
Regeneration
Your Wound Point total decreases by 1 at the beginning of each sequence for each schtick you have spent on this power. You are limited to 5 schticks in Regeneration. Would Point totals may not be reduced below 1. This ability stops working when you fail a Death check until you are restored to 0 Wound Points by other means.
Shrinking
You can shrink to become only a few inches tall, allowing yourself to crawl into certain areas others would normally not be able to reach. Changing forms requires an entire sequence of concentration, and lasts for as long as you wish. Anything you are carrying will also shrink. While you are shrunk, anyone attempting to locate you suffers a -4 penalty to her Perception rolls. Likewise, anyone who attacks you suffers a -4 penalty. However, any damage you inflict in an attack is reduced by half, as is your Move rating (round down in both cases).
Stretching
Your body and limbs can elongate up to a distance equal to your Superpowers AV in meters. Make a Superpowers task check with a Difficulty equal to the number of meters you wish to stretch; the Outcome is the number of shots your limbs can remain extended (minimum of 3). At the end of this time, your limbs will snap back into place.
Superleap
You can leap up to four times your normal Move rating. The leap can be horizontal or vertical.
Superspeed (costs 2 schticks)
As long as you are running (a continuous action), you may add your Move rating to your Damage when you make a Martial Arts attack. Also, every schtick you purchase in this ability raises your Move rating by 1.
Teleportation
As a 3-shot cost action, determine in advance how far you wish to teleport, and make a Superpowers task check, using the distance in meters as the Difficulty. If successful, the user will instantly reappear in the location of their choice. If the check is not successful, you remain where you are and must spend another 3 shots recovering.
Weather Control
The superhero can manipulate weather effects similar to the magic schtick Weather. For each schtick you spend in this ability, you may gain two of the special effects presented in the description for Weather on page 120 in the main rulebook. Use Superpowers as the skill to make the task check with, not Sorcery.
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