GENESYS: SUPERHEROES
These rules are meant to augment the superhero rules available in the Genesys Core Rulebook. It
assumes that the No Mere Mortal and Super-Characteristics rules are being used. No Mere Mortal:
Puny Minions remains optional.
NEW RULES
Superpowers
This document contains superpower trees that
are meant to augment the Genesys talents
system. They work essentially like the Force
Power trees in SWRPG. Each tree starts with a
“basic power” which unlocks adjacent
advancements on the tree. It is recommended
that PCs be given 50-100 points of experience
on top of their starting XP (and on top of the
extra 50 given by the No Mere Mortal rule) to
allow them to purchase a few special abilities
and make their hero character unique.
No Mere Mortal
Superhero-themed games assume that the PCs
are stronger, faster, and better than average
people right from character creation. To
represent this, during character creation,
increase each PC’s starting XP by 50 (this can
be spent on characteristics) and allow them to
increase skills to rank 3.
In addition, since superheroes traditionally
fight with their fists, PCs and supervillains
deal base damage equal to their Brawn +3
when making unarmed attacks. Players may
flavor this damage bonus as martial arts
training, superhuman strength, flaming fists,
or whatever else fits their character.
Puny Minions: If you want your PCs to feel a
cut above regular mortals, you can take the No
Mere Mortal rule one step further. When a
minion or minion group attacks a PC or
supervillain, their attack can inflict a maximum
of 1 wound or strain after damage reduction.
Super-Characteristics
Super-characteristics represent your characters
having attributes that are more than human.
Even superheroes who are nominally "normal"
people tend to display superior Cunning,
Intellect, or other characteristics in a
superhero-themed game, so this applies to any
superhero.
During character creation, your players should
select two of their character’s six
characteristics. These are their character’s
super-characteristics—super strength, super
speed or agility, or super intelligence, for
example. You should also do this whenever
you create a nemesis NPC that you intend to be
a supervillain.
When a character makes a check based on one
of their super-characteristics, if the check
generates a , immediately roll an additional
⬢ into the pool. If that ⬢ generates another ,
then roll an additional ⬢ into the pool again.
The player still gets to resolve all of the as
usual.
This can lead to some impressive results with
lots of , which you should interpret as
appropriately "super." Brawl checks punch
opponents into the stratosphere, Coordination
checks catch civilians falling hundreds of feet,
and Perception checks hear what’s going on
miles away.
New Special Qualities:
Knockback: When Knockback is triggered, one
target hit by the attack is knocked one range
band away from the attacker. If the target is
knocked into a solid barrier, they take 1 point
of damage for each range band they would
have moved if they had not been stopped by
the barrier. If multiple targets suffer hits from a
weapon with Knockdown, the quality may be
triggered multiple times, affecting a different
target each time. Unless specified otherwise,
Knockback requires to trigger, plus one
additional per silhouette of the target
beyond 1. All weapons and abilities with the
Blast quality also have the Knockback quality.
Limitations:
Powers often come with a catch: usually a
means of deactivating them or a limitation to a
specific target. Limitations can be taken on any
power for an XP discount. This discount is
applied the first time you take a given power,
but it cannot reduce the price of any ability
below 5 XP. If you take a severe limitation that
would reduce the cost of the basic power
below 5 XP, you can apply the remainder of
the discount to another ability on the tree.
possessed by a vampire. 20-point limitations
are extremely rare, and usually apply a very
severe catch to a power. A Telepathy power
that works only on a certain class of animals:
“sea creatures,” “squirrels,” or “ants,” for
example, would have a 20-point discount.
The final costs of limitations are ultimately up
to the GM’s discretion. On the next page, you
will find some example costs for some
common (and a couple obscure) limitations.
These costs can be tweaked depending on the
situation; for example, the 15-point limitation
that ties a power to concentration on a spell
might only be worth 10 points if paired with
Super-Speed, because the free movement
maneuver from that tree significantly reduces
the inconvenience posed by having to spend a
maneuver every turn to concentrate on a spell.
Playing around with limitations can give
players a significant degree of customization.
For example, a character who uses a high-tech
armored suit could use limitations to create
multiple mutually-exclusive power-sets (say, a
freeze-ray suit, a strength suit, a flight suit, and
so-on).

Most limitations are worth a discount of 5 or 10

points. Generally, 5- and 10-point limitations
represent minor obstacles, things which your
enemies would have to know about and plan
around in order to take advantage of them. An
example of a 10-point limitation would be one
that limits a Telekinesis power to only work on
metal: most of the time, the obstacle presented
is minor, since metal objects are ubiquitous.
However, enemies who know about this
limitation could take advantage of it by
equipping their minions with carbon fiber
weapons and armor. A 15-point limitation is
one that severely limits the scope of an ability
or can be used against a hero with minimal
planning, such as the suite of weaknesses
 EXAMPLE LIMITATIONS
Archetypes:

-5 XP: You have a weakness, a Rarity 10

Since superheroes come from almost all conceivable
substance such as irradiated rocks from your backgrounds, pretty much any archetype is
home planet. When engaged with that potentially appropriate for play, except perhaps those
weakness, you do not have access to this from Chapter 1: Fantasy. Note that some archetypes
power. have abilities similar to those available in the
-10 XP: This power is externalized in some superpower trees. When an archetype ability is
way, tied to a high-tech suit of armor or identical to a superpower ability, the character may
magic device. If you are caught separated skip that part of the tree, meaning that they pay no XP
from the source of this power, you do not and act as though they had unlocked that part of the
have access to it. A skill check that generates
tree, qualifying for any adjacent powers.
or an enemy attack that generates
can damage the item and deactivate this
power until it is repaired.
-10 XP: This power is particularly dangerous
to use. When a check related to this power
generates , immediately roll an additional
⬢ into the pool. If that ⬢ generates another
, then roll an additional ⬢ into the pool again.
All of the are still resolved as usual.
-15 XP: You have access to this power only
when concentrating on a spell, most
commonly one of the Augment type.
-15 XP: Using this power is extremely taxing
on your body. Whenever activating an ability
in this power tree would normally cost strain,
you must pay the cost in wounds instead.
-15 XP: If you have the Mongrel archetype
(Genesys CRB p. 152), this power only works
when The Beast Within is activated.
-15 XP: If you enter a state of ritual impurity
(see Leviticus chapters 11-15), you lose access
to this power until you immerse yourself in a
mikveh or natural body of water.
Anatomy of a Power Tree
Basic Power: The Basic Power for each tree is the first ability
you may buy. It represents the most basic form of a power
and is the prerequisite for all other abilities on the tree.
WEALTH BASIC POWER
You own a lavish home with all the amenities
necessary for you and ten other people to live
comfortably.
SANCTUM
Part of your home is your Sanctum, a hidden
space which can serve as a hideout and which
can store any vehicles you own of silhouette 2 or
smaller.
LIBRARY WORKSHOP
Decrease the Decrease the
difficulty of difficulty of
Knowledge checks Mechanics checks
in your Sanctum. in your Sanctum.
10
Design Notes
These rules have been written with a few goals
in mind. First, superpowers by and large do
not affect Characteristics. A character can have
super-strength without necessarily having a
high Brawn or having Brawn as their super-
characteristic, and a character can have super-
intelligence without necessarily having a high
Intellect or having Intellect as their super-
characteristic. This may seem counterintuitive,
but it serves to distinguish characters whose
competencies are broad or narrow.
For example, Marvel’s Loki is a Frost Giant,
and as such possesses strength and durability
beyond that of a normal human. However, the
character very rarely gets involved in physical
labor or hand-to-hand combat, opting instead
for stealth, magic, and trickery. A particularly
XP Cost: this is the
amount of XP you must
spend in order to gain
this ability.
10
Prerequisites: abilities
grant access to the other
abilities connected to
them by these lines.
You must purchase
10
a prerequisite ability
before you can
purchase an ability
further away on the
tree.
10
high Brawn score would not fit the character,
but the Strength and Durability superpowers
would. Another example: a robot built for
combat likely has little capacity for creative
thinking, mechanical skill, or other
competencies associated with the Intellect
characteristic. The robot may even have an
Intellect of 1. However, that same robot might
still possess a database of basic knowledge and
perhaps also a universal translator. The
Intelligence superpower and the Polyglot and
Omniglot upgrades would suit such a
character in spite of its lack of overall Intellect.
Effort has been made to give powers the
proper “feel” without completely destroying
game balance. A few compromises are made
between verisimilitude and balance; for
example, you’ll notice that super-strength
gives Pierce and Breach instead of extra
damage; this allows strong characters to punch
out tough adversaries without becoming
overwhelming threats to characters without
Super-Durability. Their bonus damage has a
limit.
Powers are designed to promote highly mobile
combat; characters are encouraged to interact
with their environments and gain advantages
by moving around. GMs should encourage this
with the adversaries and environments they
use as well as with their adjudication of the
dice results.
GMs and players are heartily encouraged to
reskin abilities to suit their needs. A character
(let’s call him “The Roach Fiend”) who
psychically controls a swarm of roaches could
take abilities from the Energy Projection tree.
The “fire” option from the Elemental Attack
upgrade, which gives the attack Burn 2, could
represent the character commanding some of
his roaches to attack an enemy, continuing to
crawl all over and bite them for two rounds.
Telekinesis could represent the roaches coming
together to lift an object or person at the Roach-
Fiend’s command.
A luck-manipulator could take Durability
powers to represent how attacks always
happen to land in nonvital places; instead of
being “bulletproof,” projectiles that fail to
pierce Armor 2 might just miss their mark. For
such a character, the Careful Planning ability
from the Intelligence tree might be used to
represent dumb luck instead of preparedness.
A character with superhuman perception like
Daredevil might replicate some abilities from
the Telepathy tree, getting emotional cues by
listening to heartbeats.
some of the abilities (especially from the
Wealth and Intelligence trees) could be
justified as being the result of natural talent
rather than actual superpowers.
If you want to incorporate some or all of the
ideas here into your own settings or custom
rules, you have my permission and
enthusiastic endorsement, as long as I am
credited somewhere (preferably with a link to
one of the places this supplement has been
published). For ease of conversion, this
supplement includes an appendix with most of
the abilities from the power trees reworked as
standard Genesys talents, starting on page 33.
Some of the abilities assume a modern setting
(fantasy characters won’t get much use out of
Wealth: Garage, and sci-fi characters won’t
benefit much from Intelligence: Inventor), but
those should be easy enough to replace or
convert.
Power Levels
Instead of the standard rules, your group may
be interested in trying one of the following
game-types:
Street-Level: For a street-level game where
marginally-super individuals go up against
mostly mundane criminal adversaries, it is
recommended that players start with 50-75 XP
to buy powers. To keep the power-level from
running out of control, abilities from power-
trees may only be acquired at character
creation. After that point, experience may only
be spent on skills and talents, as in a standard
Genesys game. For extra grit, you can do away
with the No Mere Mortal and Super-
Characteristics rules.

A character with access to superpowers isn’t

necessarily superhuman. Limitations allow
superpowers to be externalized to gear, and
Anime Bullshit: If you want to emulate media
like Dragon Ball Z, start your players with 100-
150 xp and use the Puny Minions optional rule.
In addition, all players are assumed to have a
base level of extreme superhuman capability.
Player characters move, deal damage, and take
damage on a planetary scale. Powers which
provide Pierce and Soak provide Breach and
Armor, and powers which provide Breach and
Armor provide ten times that amount. Even
the weakest player-character will be able to
take down non-superhumans with ease, and
most player-characters will be able to take on
military vehicles as well. They will be matched
only by similarly superpowered adversaries.
New Talents:
the same power tree once; each additional rank
extends its effects to another power tree.
Fastball Special
Tier: 2
Activation: Active (Action)
Ranked: No
When an ally uses the Hurl ability (from the
Strength and Telekinesis trees) to launch you at
an adversary, you take no damage from the
impact with that adversary. In addition, the
first melee attack that you make on your next
turn deals additional damage equal to the
number of range bands you were hurled.
Henshin Hero
Tier: 1
Activation: Active (Maneuver)
Ranked: No
You have a costume or alternate form (which
can include armor) connected to an item in
your possession (by default, an encumbrance 0
device or totem). As a maneuver, you can
activate that item to instantly exchange
whatever clothing you are wearing for that
costume.
Special: you may take a 5-point Limitation on any
powers you have to make it so that you only have
access to that power when in your alternate form.
Methodical Investigator
Tier: 1
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
When an ability from the Intelligence or
Wealth power trees tells you to make a
Perception or Streetwise check, you may use
Intellect instead of Cunning as the
characteristic for the skill check.
One Size Fits Most
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
If you have superpowers which are derived
from a piece of special gear, you may lend
those powers to others. When you do so, you
lose access to those powers and one other
character gains access to them. While they use
your piece of special gear, the other character
does not benefit from any of their own
superpowers except those granted by the
Intelligence and Wealth power trees.
Pressure Point
Tier: 1
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You may use the Martial Arts skill to perform
the Curse magic action. You may only use
Curse on an Engaged target, but you may use
both the Despair and Doom upgrades.
Signature Power
Tier: 4
Activation: Passive
Ranked: Yes
Choose one of your power trees. Each turn, the
first time you spend strain to activate abilities
on that tree, reduce the strain cost by 1 to a
minimum of 0. This talent may only apply to
SKILLS
SOCIAL SKILLS
 Charm (Presence)
 Coercion (Willpower)
 Deception (Cunning)
 Leadership (Presence)
 Negotiation (Presence)
GENERAL SKILLS
 Athletics (Brawn)
 Computers (Intellect)
 Cool (Presence)
 Coordination (Agility)
 Discipline (Willpower)
 Driving (Agility)
 Mechanics (Intellect)
 Medicine (Intellect)
 Perception (Cunning)
 Piloting (Agility)
 Resilience (Brawn)
 Skullduggery (Cunning)
 Stealth (Agility)
 Streetwise (Cunning)
 Survival (Cunning)
 Vigilance (Willpower)
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS
The “Knowledge” skill is split into the
following four skills:
 Education (Intellect) – knowledge of
the world: history, famous people,
anything relating to the “liberal arts.”
 Mystic (Intellect) – knowledge of magic
and magical creatures. When magic
skills have effects based on your ranks
in “Knowledge,” they use your ranks in
this skill.
 Science (Intellect) – You know what
science is.
 Underworld (Intellect) – Knowledge of
the criminal world as well as of
classified information.
COMBAT SKILLS
 Brawl (Brawn)
 Melee (Brawn)
 Ranged (Agility)
MAGIC SKILLS
You may only take ranks in a magic skill if that
skill is a class skill for you. Arcane, Divine, and
Primal magic are explained in the magic rules
in the core rulebook, starting on page 211. In
addition, magic-users have access to the Illude
spell type.
 Arcane (Intellect)
 Divine (Willpower)
 Martial Arts (Brawn, Cunning, or
Willpower) - This magic skill gives you
the Augment and Barrier spells, but you
may only use them to target yourself.
This skill allows you to perform actions
using that spell for one strain instead of
the usual two. In addition, your ranks in
this skill count as ranks in "Knowledge"
for the purpose of spell effects.
 Primal (Cunning)
 Superpower (Any) - Choose one spell
type. This skill allows you to perform
actions using that spell for one strain
instead of the usual two. In addition,
your ranks in this skill count as ranks in
"Knowledge" for the purpose of spell
effects.
DURABILITY
DURABILITY BASIC POWER

Increase your Soak by 3. This does not stack with any soak increases from armor.

20

INHUMAN BODY RESISTANCE REGENERATION

You are immune Remove Whenever you heal wounds due to natural rest,
to poison and do imposed by you heal 1 additional wound. You can regrow
not need to eat, adverse lost limbs, which takes roughly a month before
sleep, or breathe environments the limb is usable.
10 10 15

DURABILITY IMMUNITY REGENERATION

Never take or
Increase your Soak As an action, spend 2 strain to make an Easy ( )
damage from
by 1. Resilience check. Heal wounds equal to .
environmental
effects.
20 10 10

BULLETPROOF DURABILITY REVIVE

You have Armor 2 When incapacitated, spend a story point to

Increase your Soak
against physical make a Hard ( ) Resilience check. Heal
by 1.
projectiles. wounds equal to .

25 20 10

TAKE THE HIT RESURRECT

Spend 3 strain as an action to make a Hard If you have died, you may spend two story
( ) Resilience check to gain an Armor rating points to make a Daunting ( ) Resilience
until the end of your next turn. check to return to life.

25 25

Superpower: Durability powers, but not energy weapons such as

The Durability power allows heroes to resist
and even heal damage.
Durability Basic Power: You increase your
Soak by 3. This does not stack with any
increases gained from armor.
Inhuman Body: You do not need to eat, sleep,
or breathe, and are unaffected by toxins and
poisons. Some archetypes give this ability
automatically (usually called “Artificial”).
 Bulletproof: You have Armor 2 against
physical projectiles. This includes
bullets, arrows, and most objects hurled
with the Strength and Telekinesis
from the Energy Projection tree.
Resistance: You may remove imposed by
adverse environmental conditions.
 Immunity: You never take or damage
from environmental effects. You never
take damage from falling in normal
gravity or from any extreme heat or cold
short of that from a flamethrower or the
Energy Projection power.
Take the Hit: You brace yourself, becoming
nearly indestructible. Spend 3 strain as an
action to make a Hard ( ) Resilience check.
If the check succeeds, gain an Armor rating of
1 until the end of your next turn. Each  Resurrect: Your powers of regeneration
additional generated increases that rating work even after death. If you have died,
by 1. You may spend to increase the you may spend two story points to
duration of this effect by one round. make a Daunting ( ) Resilience
Regeneration: Whenever you heal wounds check. If the check is successful, you are
due to natural rest, you heal 1 additional restored to life, suffering wounds equal
wound. You do not recover 1 additional to your wound threshold.
wound when receiving first aid or medical
treatment. You can regrow lost limbs, which
takes roughly a month before the limb is
usable. Some archetypes give this ability
automatically.
 Regeneration: As an action, spend 2
strain to make an Easy ( ) Resilience
check. Heal wounds equal to . You
may attempt to heal one critical injury
you are suffering from by increasing the
difficulty of the check to Hard ( ).
 Revive: When incapacitated, spend a
story point to make a Hard ( )
Endurance check. You regain
consciousness, healing wounds equal to
generated.

DURABILITY POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS

-10 XP: Your durability has a weakness, a

relatively common damage type such as fire
or acid. When hit by such an attack, your
durability ceases to function for the rest of the
scene.
-15 XP: Your durability has a series of
weaknesses to common items and
environmental conditions. For example, a
vampire character’s durability might be
deactivated when Engaged with a holy
symbol, when sprinkled with holy water,
when Engaged with garlic, and when in
direct sunlight.
ENERGY PROJECTION
ENERGY PROJECTION BASIC POWER

You have a Ranged energy attack, which deals 7 damage, has a Range of Medium, and has a crit
rating of 3.
10

RANGE PRECISION ELEMENTAL ATTACK

Your energy Choose one of the following elements:

attack’s range Your energy attack Fire: Your energy attack gains Burn 2
increases by one gains Vicious 3. Lightning: Your energy attack gains Stun 4
step. Ice: Your energy attack gains Ensnare 2
5 10 10

BLAST PRECISION ELEMENTAL MANIPULATION

Spend 2 strain to
Your energy You may manipulate your chosen element for a
give your energy
attack’s crit rating variety of effects.
attack Blast. is now 2.
10 10 10

DAMAGE RANGE ELEMENTAL ATTACK

Your energy Your energy

attack’s range The Burn, Stun, or Ensnare rating of your
attack’s base
increases by one elemental attack increases by 2.
damage is now 10
step.
10 10 20

SUPER-BLAST AUTO-FIRE IMMUNITY WREATH

Spend 2 strain to Your energy attack You are immune Gain an aura that
have Blast apply gains the Auto- to damage of your deals 2 wounds to
to all within short Fire quality. energy attack’s all Engaged
range. type. creatures.
15 15 15 20

Superpower: Energy Projection strain to have it affect all characters within

The Energy Projection power gives you a
powerful ranged attack which can be
customized for greater power, speed,
precision, or any combination of the three.
Energy Projection Basic Power: You have eye-
beams, fire breath, a cold ray, or some other
energy-based weapon. This is a Ranged energy
attack dealing 7 damage with a Range of
Medium and a Crit Rating of 3.
Blast: You may spend 2 strain to give your
energy attack the Blast quality, with a damage
rating equal to its base damage, for one round.
Super-Blast: When giving your energy attack
the Blast quality, you may spend 2 additional
Short range, rather than all Engaged
characters.
Elemental Attack: Your energy attack is
elemental in nature, and gains one of the
following special abilities:
 Fire: Your energy attack gains Burn 2
 Lightning: Your energy attack gains
Stun 2
 Ice: Your energy attack gains Ensnare 2
Elemental Manipulation: You learn to
manipulate your element. Depending on the
element you chose for your Elemental Attack,
you gain one of the following abilities:

 Fire: You can control flames and set

flammable objects on fire within short
range. You can cause flames to recede,
creating a path for others, or cause them
to flare up, accelerating a blaze or
blocking an exit. You can light any
flammable object or extinguish any
flame within range (particularly violent
blazes may require a Discipline check to
completely extinguish, at the GM’s
discretion).
 Lightning: You can disrupt unprotected
electronic devices within range by
ENERGY PROJECTION POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS
making an Average ( ) Mechanics
check. -5 XP: Your ability doesn’t work in a certain
 Ice: You can create simple objects out of environment. Your lightning ability, for
ice of a size up to silhouette 1 as an example, might dissipate when you are wet,
action. These objects cannot have or your cold ability might become unreliable
moving parts. This power can be used to in temperatures exceeding 100° F.
replicate any simple melee weapon such
as a dagger, axe, or shield. -15 XP: Keeping your ability under control
requires a piece of gear, such as a special suit,
Wreath: You are surrounded by an aura your a mystical amulet, or a visor. If this piece of
elemental energy. A creature that ends its turn gear is lost or damaged, you could lose
Engaged with you takes 2 wounds, ignoring control of your ability, harming yourself,
Soak. You can activate and deactivate this your allies, or innocents.
ability as a maneuver.
FLIGHT
FLIGHT BASIC POWER

You can glide, meaning you can move horizontally or downward in the air. You cannot gain
altitude using this ability, and you cannot stop in midair without falling.
10

FLIGHT

You can gain altitude while flying.

20

INSPIRE HOPE STABILITY HOVER

Allies heal 1 strain Carry one

per rank of Inspire silhouette 1 You can stop in midair without falling.
Hope when they creature or object
see you fly. while you fly.
10 5 10

INSPIRE HOPE STABILITY AERIAL COMBATANT AERIAL DODGE

Allies heal 1 strain Spend from a Gain to melee Gain +1 melee

per rank of Inspire melee attack to combat checks defense against
Hope when they carry target into against non-flying non-flying
see you fly. air with you. opponents. opponents.
10 20 10 10

INSPIRING STABILITY IMMUNITY AERIAL COMBATANT

Allies add to Never worry Gain +1 melee Gain to melee

checks when you about the defense against combat checks
use Inspire Hope. structural integrity non-flying against non-flying
of things you lift. opponents. opponents.
10 10 15 15

Superpower: Flight
The Flight power lets you fly.
Flight Basic Power: You can glide, meaning
you can move horizontally or downward in the
air. You cannot gain altitude using this ability,
and you have to maintain at least some speed
to stay aloft. While flying, you must spend one
maneuver every turn to move (you can
actually change position, or just circle or wheel
in place and effectively remain where you are).
Flight: You can gain altitude while flying.
 with you. The target stays engaged with
you while you fly unless you choose to
drop them or they succeed at an
Inspire Hope: You fly overhead, cape opposed Athletics check against you.
billowing in the wind (or not), and fill your  Stability: While you fly, you can carry
allies with confidence. The first time they see any object or creature whose silhouette
you fly each scene, allies heal 1 strain per rank you could lift off the ground. You never
of Inspire Hope. have to worry about the structural
integrity of objects you lift. You can
 Inspiring: The first time they see you fly
catch a falling plane without it breaking
each scene, your allies add to all
apart, or stop an incoming meteor
checks made on their next turn.
without pieces breaking off and falling
Stability: Your flight is stable enough to to earth.
support more weight. You can carry one
Hover: You can stop in midair without falling.
creature or object of silhouette 1 or smaller
You do not have to spend a maneuver to move
while you fly.
to maintain flight.
 Stability: Spend from a melee
attack to carry the target into the air
INTELLIGENCE
INTELLIGENCE BASIC POWER

Spend a number of strain equal to the check’s difficulty to automatically succeed at an Easy ( ) or
Average ( ) Knowledge check without rolling dice.
10

GADGETEER INVESTIGATOR GENIUS POLYGLOT

Use Mechanics to Analyze someone Use the basic Spend a Story

buy items instead with a Perception power on more Point to declare
of Streetwise or check. difficult checks. that you are fluent
Negotiation. in a language.
10 10 10 10

INVENTOR CAREFUL PLANNING CODEBREAKER

You may use Downgrade the

Gadgeteer to buy Once per session, may introduce a "fact" into the difficulty of
items from other narrative as if a Story Point had been spent. certain Computers
settings. checks.
15 20 10

ROBOT PAL ESCAPE ROUTE GENIUS OMNIGLOT

Gain an absolutely Spend a Story Use the basic

loyal robot minion You are fluent in
Point to reveal an power on more
with 2 in all all languages.
escape route. difficult checks.
characteristics.
10 15 10 10

UPGRADED PAL CRAZY PREPARED GENIUS BODY LANGUAGE

Your robot pal After introducing a Analyze an

Use the basic
becomes a Rival “fact,” trigger an opponent’s
power on more
and increases their effect as though difficult checks. fighting style to
abilities. had been rolled. counter it.
20 25 15 25

Superpower: Intelligence  Inventor: You can create new items.

The Intelligence power lets you go beyond the When using Gadgeteer, you may
mundane limits of human intellect. purchase any non-magical items from
Intelligence Basic Power: You just know the Steampunk, Weird War, Science-
things. Spend a number of strain equal to the Fiction, and Space Opera settings in the
check’s difficulty to automatically succeed at core rulebook.
an Easy ( ) or Average ( ) Knowledge check Special: If your character has a mystical
(as if the check had generated one ) without background, you may choose to have
rolling dice. this power instead allow you to
Gadgeteer: Instead of tracking down an item, purchase magical items from the
you can build it yourself. You can substitute Fantasy and Weird War settings, as well
Mechanics for the Streetwise or Negotiation as the Realms of Terrinoth setting book, if
check you make before purchasing an item. available.
 Robot Pal: You build a robotic assistant
for yourself, a Minion with 2 in all
 characteristics. This assistant is
absolutely loyal to you.
 Upgraded Pal: Your robotic assistant
becomes a Rival, increasing three of
their characteristics to 3 and gaining two
ranks each in three skills of your choice.
Investigator: As an action, you may make a
Perception check opposed by an adversary’s
Deception. If the check is successful, you learn
the target’s true occupation and the state or
country in which they spent the majority of
their childhood. Additional , , and can
be used to reveal superpowers and Limitations
possessed by the target, as well as other
information at the GM’s discretion.
Genius: Each rank of Genius increases the
maximum difficulty of Knowledge checks
which you can use the Intelligence basic power
on by one.
Careful Planning: Once per session, you may
introduce a "fact" into the narrative as if a Story
Point had been spent.
Polyglot: Spend a Story Point to declare that
you are fluent in a language.
Codebreaker: Your knack for languages gives
you an edge when dealing with secret codes
and unfamiliar devices. When interpreting
encoded messages or using Computers to
break into a system, decrease the difficulty of
the check by 1.
Omniglot: You are fluent in every known
language. When you encounter a language for
the first time (such as when making contact
with aliens or deciphering an unfamiliar code),
you become fluent in that language after a
minute of interaction.
Body Language: Your superhuman pattern
recognition extends to the physical movements
of adversaries. Spend 1 strain as a maneuver to
analyze an adversary’s fighting style. Upgrade
the difficulty of combat checks against you by
that adversary twice for the remainder of the
scene.

 Escape Route: You had a contingency

plan. Spend a Story Point to reveal an
escape route which your character
prepared for just this eventuality. For
example, when surrounded by enemies
and overwhelmed, you could be picked
up just in the nick of time by a
helicopter piloted by a friendly NPC.
Whatever form this escape route takes,
it can bring you and any allies of yours
within short range to safety, although
depending on the situation that safety
might only be temporary.
 Crazy Prepared: Once per session, after
you introduce a “fact” with a Story
Point or Careful Planning, you may
trigger an effect as though a had been
rolled on a check.
MIND CONTROL
MIND CONTROL BASIC POWER

Spend 1 strain to make a Discipline vs. Discipline check against an Engaged target to force the target to
adopt an emotional state or believe something untrue.
10

RANGE MAGNITUDE RANGE MAGNITUDE

Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain to

Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain to
increase the increase the
increase range by increase range by
number of targets 1 range band. number of targets
1 range band.
affected by 1. affected by 1.
5 10 10 5

EMOTION INFLUENCE

Add to checks to force one emotional state of Spend 2 strain to replace a social check with a
your choice, such as calm, hate, fear, or love. Discipline check.

10 20

RANGE MAGNITUDE INFLUENCE

Spend 1 strain to After using

Spend 1 strain to Influence, trigger an
increase the
increase range by
number of targets effect as though
1 range band.
affected by 1. had been rolled.
10 10 20

EMOTION-MONGER TRUE MIND CONTROL

Spend 3 strain to force your chosen emotion on Once per session, mind-control one Rival or
all minions within range. Minion Group.

25 25

Superpower: Mind Control

The Mind Control tree lets you influence and
eventually control the thoughts, emotions, and
actions of others.
Mind Control Basic Power: Spend 1 strain to
make a Discipline vs. Discipline check against
an Engaged target to force the target to adopt
an emotional state or believe something
untrue.
Range: You may spend 1 strain to increase the
power’s range by one range band. You may
only spend this once per range upgrade
purchased.
Magnitude: You may spend 1 strain to increase
the number of targets affected by one. You may
only spend this once per magnitude upgrade
purchased.
Emotion: You become particularly adept at
forcing targets to adopt a particular emotional
state, such as calm, hate, fear, or love. When
forcing your chosen emotional state with the
Influence ability, add to the dice pool.
 Emotion-Monger: You have mastered
your chosen emotion. Spend 3 strain to
make a check to force your preferred
 emotion onto all minions within range.
You must make the check against the
minion group within range with the
highest Discipline.
 True Mind Control: Once per session,
Influence: Spend 2 strain to make a Discipline
vs. Discipline check in place of any other social
check. If the social check would affect more
than one individual, you must apply the
requisite Magnitude upgrades.
 Influence: Those you influence are
willing to go beyond what they would
normally be willing to do. Once per
session, after using Influence, you may
trigger an effect as though had been
rolled.
make a Discipline vs. Discipline against
one Rival or Minion Group within
range. If this check succeeds, that NPC
follows your orders for the rest of the
scene, although they will not risk their
life unless the check generates .
SIZE MANIPULATION
SHRINK BASIC POWER GROW BASIC POWER

Take an action to spend 1 strain and shrink Take an action and spend 1 strain to grow to
yourself to about 12 inches tall. silhouette 2.
15 20

LITTLE EYES QUICK CHANGE STOMP

Decrease the While grown, your

difficulty of You may use this power on yourself as a unarmed attacks
Perception checks maneuver. have the Blast
once while shrunk. quality.
10 20 10

SWIFT RANGE TARGET OTHERS GROW

While shrunk, you You may use Size Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 additional
may move at your Manipulation on use this power on strain to grow to
normal full-size others at short an engaged target. silhouette 3.
speed. range.
10 5 15 15

SMALLER ANT STRENGTH SWALLOW GRASP

Spend 1 additional Spend 1 strain to Grab an enemy in

strain to shrink Swallow an enemy
deal full damage your big meaty
down to the size of whole.
while shrunk. hands.
a small insect.
15 25 15 15

MICROSCOPIC CONDENSED FORCE GROWTH

Shrink smaller While shrunk,

than can be seen your unarmed Spend 1 additional strain to grow to silhouette
with the naked strikes gain Pierce 4.
eye. 3.
25 10 20

Superpower: Size Manipulation against a target of silhouette 1 or greater, you

The Size Manipulation power lets you alter
your volume and mass. Unlike other powers,
the Size Manipulation tree has two Basic
Powers: Shrink, and Grow. Some people can
shrink, some people can grow, and some can
do both.
Shrink Basic Power: You can shrink down to
about twelve inches tall for the rest of the scene
as an action that costs 1 strain. While you are
this size, the difficulty of all Perception checks
to detect your presence is increased by one.
Everything is bigger for you: it takes two
maneuvers to travel one range band. In
addition, you are treated as if you had a
silhouette of -1: when you make an attack
decrease the difficulty of the check by one.
When a character of silhouette 1 or greater
makes an attack against you, they increase the
difficulty of the check by one. Finally, in this
form you are not able to apply as much force:
your attacks can never deal more than 1
wound or strain after damage reduction. If you
take damage from a normal-sized attack, you
immediately revert to your full size.
Little Eyes: Your little eyes can pick out details
more easily. While shrunk, you decrease the
difficulty of Perception checks by one.
Swift: You can move at your normal speed
when shrunk; it no longer takes two
maneuvers to traverse one range band.
Smaller: When you shrink, you can spend 1 difficulty of their attacks twice and cannot take
additional strain to shrink to the size of a small maneuvers to move. In addition, once per turn
insect. The benefits of Shrink are doubled: the you may spend a maneuver to squeeze the
difficulties of Perception checks to detect you target, dealing damage equal to twice your
and attacks against you are increased twice, Brawn, reduced by the target’s Soak as normal.
and the difficulties of your attack checks The target can attempt to escape your grasp by
against normal-sized targets are reduced twice making an opposed Athletics check as an
(as if your silhouette were -3). action on its turn.
Microscopic: You can spend 1 additional strain Swallow: When you have an adversary in your
to shrink smaller than the naked eye. In this grasp, you may make a Swallow attack. Make
form, you cannot be detected without an opposed Athletics vs. Athletics check
specialized equipment or superpowers. against the grasped target. If the check is
Ant Strength: You may spend 1 strain as an successful, the target is swallowed. While
incidental to activate Ant Strength for one swallowed, the target cannot take any actions
round: when Ant Strength is active, you deal requiring the use of its physical body, and
damage as if you were normal-sized. In takes damage equal to twice your Brawn at the
addition, you do not revert to your full size beginning of each of its turns. The target may
when you take damage from a normal-sized attempt to force you to regurgitate them by
attack. making an Athletics check opposed by your
Target Others: You may spend 1 strain to use Resilience as an action.
Size Manipulation on an engaged target other Growth: When you activate the Grow Basic
than yourself. If the target is unwilling, you Power, you may spend 1 additional strain (for
must make an opposed Coordination vs. a total of 3 strain) to grow to silhouette 4. In
Coordination check to affect them. addition to the benefits of growing to
Grow Basic Power: As an action, you may Silhouette 3, your Soak increases by 1, your
spend 1 strain to grow to silhouette 2. While damage bonus increases by 2, and the
you are this size, your soak increases by one, silhouette you can lift increases by 1.
your unarmed attacks deal +2 damage, and
you may lift any object of silhouette 1 or
smaller without making an Athletics check. If
you have powers from the Strength tree, the
silhouette you can lift increases by 1.
Maintaining this giant size is taxing, and you
must spend 1 strain at the beginning of each of
your turns or revert to your small size.
Grow: When you activate the Grow Basic
Power, you may spend 1 additional strain to
grow to silhouette 3. In addition to the benefits
of the Basic power, your Soak increases by 1,
your damage bonus increases by 2, and the
silhouette you can lift increases by 1.
Grasp: Spend 1 strain to make a Grasp attack.
Make an opposed Athletics vs. Athletics check
against a target at least two steps smaller than
you. If the check is successful, the target is
grasped. A grasped target increases the
SPEED
SPEED BASIC POWER

You gain an extra free maneuver each round, which can only be spent on movement. You can still
spend 2 strain to gain an additional maneuver.
15

HARD TO TRACK SPEED FAST HANDS THINK FAST

Your unarmed Spend 1 strain to Add to

strikes have the move an Skullduggery Add to all
Disorient 2 additional range checks to steal initiative checks.
quality. band. items.
5 10 10 10

MOMENTUM BLUR FAST REFLEXES

Pierce 2 per range If you are hidden, you may spend a maneuver Gain +1 Ranged
band moved on to move to any other unseen location within and Melee
your first attack short range without being noticed. Defense.
each round.
15 10 20

UNARMED STRIKES SPEED BE EVERYWHERE QUICK AIM

Your unarmed Spend 1 strain to Act as if Engaged When making an

attacks gain the move an with any or all aim maneuver,
Linked 1 quality. additional range creatures in short make a second as
band. range. an incidental.
15 15 10 10

UNARMED STRIKES SPEED FAST HANDS FAST REFLEXES

Your unarmed Spend 1 strain to Steal items from Gain +1 Ranged

attacks gain the move an target with and Melee
Autofire quality. additional range Skullduggery vs. Defense.
band. Perception check.
25 20 25 15

Superpower: Speed Speed: Spend one strain to move an additional

The Speed power lets you move faster,
eventually faster than the naked eye. This
power applies to all forms of movement you
possess: any other power (such as Flight) that
lets you use a type of movement as a maneuver
can be used in conjunction with Speed.
Hard to Track: Your fast movements are
difficult to follow, giving your unarmed strikes
the Disorient 2 quality.
 Momentum: Your first unarmed attack
each round gains Pierce equal to twice
the number of range bands you have
moved that round.
range band as part of your extra free
maneuver. You may spend this a number of
times equal to Speed upgrades purchased.
Fast Hands: Add to Skullduggery checks to
remove items from someone’s person.
 Blur: If you are hidden, you may spend
a maneuver to move to any other
unseen location within short range
without being noticed. You may also
spend a maneuver to grab any
unattended item within short range
without being noticed.
  Be Everywhere: You may act as though
you were engaged with any or all creatures SPEED POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS
within short range. For example, you can
make melee combat checks and -5 XP: Your speed comes with a super-fast
Skullduggery checks against creatures metabolism. After any scene in which you use
within short range as well as Engaged. your speed, you must consume 2,000 calories
worth of food.
 Fast Hands: You may make a
Skullduggery check against the target’s
Perception to steal a number of items
(including worn items) from the target
equal to the number of generated.

Think Fast: Add to all Cool and Vigilance

checks to determine initiative.

 Quick Aim: When you take a maneuver

to aim, you may treat yourself as having
made 2 aim maneuvers, adding an extra
to the check.
STRENGTH
STRENGTH BASIC POWER

You may lift and carry any object up to silhouette 1 without making an Athletics check. Your
melee attacks gain the Knockback quality.
10

UNARMED STRIKES STRENGTH UNARMED STRIKES LEAP

Your unarmed Spend 1 strain to Your unarmed Take a Leap action

attacks gain Pierce increase the attacks gain the to jump
3. silhouette you can Sunder quality. horizontally
lift by 1. within short range
10 10 10 5

KNOCKBACK HURL LEAP

You may activate You may hurl objects to damage targets within When performing
the Knockback short range, by making an Athletics-based a Leap, you may
quality multiple ranged combat check, dealing damage equal to
jump vertically.
times per target. 10 times the object’s silhouette.
10 10 5

UNARMED STRIKES RANGE STRENGTH LEAP

Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain one Spend 1 strain to Spend 2 strain to

increase the Pierce time to increase increase the leap an additional
on your unarmed the range of Hurl silhouette you can range band.
strikes by 2. by 1 range band. lift by 1.
10 5 15 10

TEAR STEEL RANGE STRENGTH LEAP

Spend 2 strain to Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain to

give your increase the range increase the You may leap as a
unarmed attacks of Hurl by 1 range silhouette you can maneuver.
Breach 1. band. lift by 1.
25 10 20 10

Superpower: Strength
The Strength power is pretty straightforward one round. This strain may only be
and I’m not going to insult your intelligence by spent once.
describing it.
Strength: Spend 1 strain to increase the
Strength Basic Power: You may lift and carry
silhouette you can lift without a check by 1.
any object up to silhouette 1 without making
You may only spend this once per strength
an Athletics check. Lifting larger objects
upgrade purchased.
requires an Athletics check as normal. Your
Hurl: You can hurl objects as weapons. The
melee attacks gain the Knockback quality.
impacts deal damage both to the targets and
Knockback: You may activate the Knockback
the object being hurled. Make an Athletics
quality multiple times, knocking the target an
check with a difficulty equal to the silhouette
additional range band for each activation.
of the object being thrown. The damage is
 Tear Steel: Spend 2 strain to give your resolved following all the rules for ranged
unarmed attacks the Breach 1 quality for attacks. Silhouette 0 objects deal 5 damage,
while other objects deal damage equal to 10
times their silhouette. The number of targets Leap: Your powerful legs can propel you over
affected by a single object is up to the GM, but distances. Take a Leap action to jump
in general, a single object should only affect a horizontally to any location within short range.
single target (unless it's particularly large). This
 Leap: When performing a Leap, you
attack follows all the rules for ranged attacks,
may jump vertically as well as
such as ranged defense and aiming.
horizontally.
 Range: You may spend 1 strain to  Leap: Spend 2 strain to leap an
increase the range of your Hurl attack additional range band. You may spend
by one range band. You may only spend this multiple times.
this once.  Leap: You may leap as a maneuver.
 Range: You may spend 1 strain to
increase the range of your Hurl attack
by one range band. You may spend this
multiple times.
STRETCHING
STRETCHING BASIC POWER

You may do anything you could normally do with your hands at Short range. Your melee attacks
have a range of Short and the Defensive 1 quality.
15

REACH HARDENED LIMBS SMOOSH

Spend 1 strain to You may turn one You may fit through any opening through
increase your of your limbs into which you can fit your head.
reach by 1 range a weapon as a
band. maneuver.
10 10 10

ENSNARE HARDENED LIMBS SQUISH

Your unarmed You may form

attacks gain the your limbs into You may fit through any opening larger than 1
Ensnare quality. keys and tools. inch.

10 10 5

REACH HARDENED LIMBS MELT

Spend 1 strain to You may use Your body can become liquid, able to fit through
increase your Hardened Limbs any opening or mesh that isn’t watertight. In
reach by 1 range as an incidental. addition, you can reattach lost limbs by
band. reabsorbing them into your body.
15 10 10

REACH GASEOUS FORM

Spend 1 strain to Spend 3 strain as an action to become gaseous. You take no damage except
increase your from weapons with the Blast quality, and you may fit through any opening
reach by 1 range that isn’t airtight. You cannot take actions in your gaseous form. When in
band. your gaseous form, creatures within short range begin to suffocate.
20 25

Superpower: Stretching
The Stretching power tree gives you the ability
to change their body’s composition, hardening
and softening and eventually altering your
state of matter.
Reach: You may spend 1 strain to increase the
power’s range by one range band. You may
only spend this once per range upgrade
purchased.
Ensnared indefinitely until you let them
go or they make a Hard ( ) Athletics
check.
Hardened Limbs: As a maneuver, you may
turn one of your limbs into a weapon, giving
your unarmed strikes certain special qualities.
You may choose from the following:

 Ensnare: Your unarmed attacks gain the o Blade: Crit 2, Vicious 3, Pierce 1
Ensnare quality. When you ensnare a o Bludgeon: Crit 3, Disorient 4, +1
target, you lose the use of whichever Damage
limb you used to tangle them up, and o Shield: Crit 6, Defensive 2,
must stay within range of your target or Deflection 2
let them go. The target remains
You may not inflict strain damage with a limb
that has been turned into a weapon in this
way.
 Hardened Limbs: You may use
Hardened Limbs to turn your limbs into
any tool less complex than a handheld
power drill. Because you can form
precisely the right tool for your task,
you gain to Mechanics checks using
them. You may also use this ability to
open any mechanical lock that requires
a key.
Smoosh: You may fit through any opening
through which you can fit your head.
 Squish: You may fit through any
opening larger than 1 inch.
 Melt: Your body can become liquid,
able to fit through any opening or mesh
that isn’t watertight. In addition, you
can reattach lost limbs by reabsorbing
them into your body.
 Gaseous Form: Your kindergarten
teachers laughed when you said you
wanted to be a cloud when you grew
up, but look at you now! Spend 3 strain
as an action to become gaseous (either a
true gas or a cloud of aerated particles,
such as sand). You take no damage
except from weapons with the Blast
quality, and you may fit through any
opening that isn’t airtight. You cannot
take actions in your gaseous form, and
each round you must spend 1 strain or
return to your solid form. When in your
gaseous form, breathing creatures
within short range begin to suffocate,
taking 3 strain per round, and, once
incapacitated, suffering one Critical
Injury per round until they die.
TELEKINESIS
TELEKINESIS BASIC POWER

Spend 1 strain to move one object of silhouette 0 that is within short range up to your maximum
range. The default maximum range is short range.
10

MAGNITUDE STRENGTH RANGE RANGE

Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain to
increase the increase the
number of targets silhouette you can
affected by one. target by 1.
5 10
Spend 1 strain one Spend 1 strain one
time to increase time to increase
the power’s range the power’s range
by 1 range band. by 1 range band.
5 5

MAGNITUDE STRENGTH HURL

Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain to
increase the increase the
number of targets silhouette you can
affected by one. target by 1.
5 10
You may hurl objects to damage targets within
short range, by making a Discipline-based
ranged combat check, dealing damage equal to
10 times the object’s silhouette.
10

MAGNITUDE STRENGTH CONTROL RANGE

Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain to
increase the increase the
number of targets silhouette you can
affected by one. target by 1.
5 15
You can pull Spend 1 strain one
objects out of time to increase
secure mountings the power’s range
or another’s grasp. by 1 range band.
5 15

MAGNITUDE STRENGTH CONTROL

Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 strain to
increase the increase the
number of targets silhouette you can
affected by one. target by 1.
5 20
You can perform fine manipulation of items,
allowing you to do whatever you would
normally with your hands via this power at this
power’s range.
10

Superpower: Telekinesis
The Telekinesis power lets you move objects
from far away.
Magnitude: Spend 1 strain to increase the
number of targets affected by one. You may
only spend this once per magnitude upgrade
purchased.
Strength: Spend 1 strain to increase the
silhouette you can target by 1. You may only
spend this once per strength upgrade
purchased.
Range: You may spend 1 strain to increase the
power’s range by one range band. You may
only spend this once per range upgrade
purchased.
Hurl: You can hurl objects as weapons. The
impacts deal damage both to the targets and
the object being hurled. Make a Discipline
check with a difficulty equal to the silhouette
of the object being thrown. The damage is
resolved following all the rules for ranged
attacks. Silhouette 0 objects deal 5 damage,
while other objects deal damage equal to 10
times their silhouette. The number of targets
affected by a single object is up to the GM, but
in general, a single object should only affect a
single target (unless it's particularly large).
(Also note, if you want to use Move to throw
multiple objects at multiple targets, you may
do so using all the rules for hitting multiple
 TELEKINESIS POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS
targets with the Auto-fire quality). This attack
follows all the rules for ranged attacks, such as
ranged defense and aiming. -10 XP: Your telekinesis is magnetic in nature,
Control: You can pull objects out of secure and can only affect objects made wholly or
mountings or out of an opponent’s grasp. partially of ferrous metal.
Control: You gain the ability to perform fine
manipulation of items, allowing you to do
whatever you could normally do with your
hands to a held item (if manipulating
something such as a control board, the controls
count as a silhouette 0 item).
TELEPORTATION

TELEPORTATION BASIC POWER

Spend 2 strain as an action to appear at a point within short range, ignoring all physical obstacles,
including solid walls.
35

RANGE TELEPORT OTHER

TELEPORTATION
Spend 1 strain to Spend 1 additional
increase the strain to bring an You can use Teleport as a maneuver.
power’s range by 1 Engaged target
range band. with you. 15
10 15

RANGE NOTHING PERSONNEL

You may spend 1 strain to increase the power’s

When you teleport behind an adversary before
range by one range band. You may only spend
making a melee attack, add to the check.
this once per range upgrade purchased.
15 15

RANGE REACTIVE TELEPORT

You may spend 1 strain to increase the power’s If an attack against you generates , you may
range by one range band. You may only spend immediately teleport to a point within short
this once per range upgrade purchased. range, without spending strain.
20 10

RANGE

Spend 5 strain as an action to teleport anywhere within 100 miles. You will appear at a safe spot (if any
exists) within a 1 mile radius of your destination. You may spend an additional 2 strain to increase the
distance to anywhere within 1000 miles, or 4 additional strain to teleport anywhere on the planet.
25

Superpower: Teleportation
Teleportation Basic Power: Spend 2 strain as within Extreme range of your chosen
an action to appear at a point within short destination. You may spend an
range, ignoring all physical obstacles, additional 2 strain to increase the
including solid walls. distance to anywhere within 1000 miles,
or 4 additional strain to teleport
Range: You may spend 1 strain to increase the
anywhere on the planet. You may
power’s range by one range band. You may
narrow the radius within which you
only spend this once per range upgrade
will appear with a Survival or
purchased.
Knowledge: Education check, with a
 Range: Spend 5 strain as an action to difficulty equal to the number of range
teleport anywhere within 100 miles. You bands by which you reduce the radius.
will appear at a safe spot (if any exists)
Teleport Other: Spend 1 additional strain to TELEPORTATION POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS

bring an Engaged target with you. You must

succeed at an opposed Discipline vs. Resilience
check if that target is unwilling. You may bring
additional Engaged targets by spending 1
additional strain per additional target, but may
only ever bring one unwilling target.
Teleportation: You can use Teleport as a
maneuver.
-5 XP: Your teleportation makes a loud noise
or a bright flash when activated, which any
un-impaired adversary within medium range
can detect without making a Perception
check.
-5 XP: When you teleport, you open a portal
through which those present can see the place
to which you are teleporting.

Nothing Personnel: When you teleport to

Engaged with an adversary before making a
melee attack, add to the check.
Reactive Teleport: If an attack against you
generates , you may immediately teleport
to a point within short range, without
spending strain.
WEALTH
WEALTH BASIC POWER

You own a lavish home with all the amenities necessary for you and ten other people to live
comfortably. Your wealth gives you on social checks when interacting with certain people.
10

TYCOON BUTLER SANCTUM

Reduce the Gain an absolutely Part of your home is your Sanctum, a hidden
effective rarity of loyal minion with space which can serve as a hideout and which
all items by 2. 2 in all can store any vehicles you own of silhouette 2 or
characteristics. smaller.
10 10 10

PLAYBOY HELPFUL BUTLER LIBRARY WORKSHOP

You can get into Your assistant Decrease the Decrease the
buildings and grants to all difficulty of difficulty of
arrange meetings non-combat skill Knowledge checks Mechanics checks
with most people. checks. in your Sanctum. in your Sanctum.
10 15 10 10

MOGUL BETTER BUTLER CRIME LAB

Once per session, Your assistant Your Sanctum has a crime lab which can be
gain a safehouse becomes a Rival used to analyze bodies, weapons, and other
nearby. and increases their pieces of evidence.
abilities.
10 20 20

BRIBERY TRAINING FACILITY GARAGE

Once per session, you may make a Negotiation Grant two career Your sanctum can
vs. Discipline check to gain control of one rival skills to all hold bigger
or minion group. members of your vehicles. You may
group. acquire vehicles.
15 15 25

Superpower: Wealth government officials, legitimate

Some superheroes are incredibly wealthy. As
in real life, being incredibly wealthy has its
benefits.
Wealth Basic Power: You own a lavish home,
which could be a mansion, a castle, or a
penthouse, with all the amenities necessary for
you and ten other people to live very
comfortably, potentially including maids, a
cook, and a bar that’s always fully stocked, if
you so desire. Your wealth gives you to
social skill checks when interacting with
businesspeople, and their employees, when
those people know about your wealth.
Tycoon: Reduce the effective rarity of all items
by 2. This affects talents relying on item rarity
such as Utility Belt. Any item whose rarity is
reduced to 0 may be acquired for free and with
minimal hassle.
 Playboy: You and anyone with you can
always get into any exclusive club,
office or nonmilitary government
building. You can arrange meetings
 with any government official or
legitimate businessperson.
 Mogul: You have real estate holdings
everywhere. Once per session, you may
declare that you own property near
your current location. You or your allies
can stay there without being discovered
for at least 24 hours.
 Bribery: Everyone has a price. Once per
session, you may make a Negotiation vs.
Discipline check against one Rival or
Minion group as an action. If this check
succeeds, that NPC follows your orders
for the rest of the scene, although they
will not risk their life unless the check
generates . Bonuses (such as for an
adversary who has been recently
mistreated by their employer) or
penalties (such as for an adversary who
holds a grudge against you personally)
apply at the GM’s discretion.
Butler: You have an assistant, a Minion with 2
in all characteristics. This assistant is absolutely
loyal to you.
 Helpful Butler: When your assistant is
present, you gain to all non-combat
skill checks.
 Better Butler: It is possible to get good
help these days. Your assistant becomes
a Rival, increasing three of their
characteristics to 3 and gaining two
ranks each in three skills of your choice.
Sanctum: Part of your lavish home is your
Sanctum, a hidden space which can serve as a
hideout and safehouse, and has sufficient
space to store any vehicles you own of
Silhouette 2 or smaller. No one can find this
Sanctum if they do not know it exists, and even
if they do, it can only be found by making a
Formidable ( ) Streetwise check after a
week’s worth of investigation.
 Library: Your sanctum has extensive
research materials. Decrease the
difficulty of all Knowledge checks
performed there by 1.
 Workshop: Your sanctum has state-of-
the-art tools. Decrease the difficulty of
all Mechanics checks performed there
by 1.
 Crime Lab: Your sanctum has a state-of-
the-art crime lab, better than that found
in any police department. If you analyze
a body, you can determine its cause of
death with an Average ( ) Medicine
check. If you analyze a weapon, you can
determine the person who last used it
with a Hard ( ) Streetwise check.
The lab can be used to determine other
information as appropriate, at the GM’s
discretion.
 Training Facilities: Choose two skills.
All members of your group gain these
skills as career skills. In addition, when
providing assistance with those skills,
all members of your group upgrade the
pool once in addition to the usual effects
of providing assistance.
 Garage: Your sanctum can hold vehicles
of Silhouette 3, and you may acquire
any vehicle by shopping around
discretely for a number of days equal to
its rarity.
MINOR POWERS
The previous section detailed powers whose
applications are multifaceted and require
complex trees to represent satisfactorily. The
following powers represent more niche
abilities. Limitations can still be taken on minor
Amphibious
AMPHIBIOUS
You have gills, granting you the ability to
breathe underwater, and fins, granting you the
ability to move as easily in water as you do on
land.
10
Burrower
BURROWER
You may burrow, digging through the ground
up to short range as an action. You may dig
through anything softer than solid iron.
10
` `
BURROWER
You may burrow as a maneuver.
10
powers, but they should give lower XP
discounts. What would warrant a 10-or-15-
point discount for a major power may only
warrant a 5-point discount for a minor power.
Camouflage
CAMOUFLAGE BASIC POWER
You can change your body to match your
surroundings for the rest of the scene as an
action by spending 2 strain.
` 10
`
INVISIBILITY PERSISTENT CAMO
Camouflage Spend 1 strain to
makes you stop Camouflage
invisible. from being
deactivated.
25 15
Camouflage Basic Power: You can change
your body to match your surroundings for the
rest of the scene as an action by spending 2
strain. While camouflaged, the difficulty of all
Perception and Vigilance checks to detect your
presence is increased by one. If you take
damage or make an attack, your camouflage is
deactivated.
Invisibility: When you activate Camouflage,
you become completely invisible. Camouflage
now increases the difficulty to detect you by 2.
In addition, it adds to your melee attack rolls
and increases your melee and ranged defense
by 1.
Persistent Camouflage: When your
camouflage would be deactivated by making
an attack or taking damage, you may spend 1
strain to keep it activated.
Natural Weapon Perception

NATURAL WEAPON BASIC POWER PERCEPTION BASIC POWER

You have claws, a whipping tail, or a bite attack
which gives your unarmed attacks +2 damage
and a crit rating of 2. If your archetype gives
you Claws, this power costs only 5 xp.
10
` `
NATURAL WEAPON
You perceive things as if they were one range
category closer than they actually are, allowing
you to hear a discreet whisper at Short range or
a shout for help at Extreme range.
20
INSTINCT

You gain `+1 to your melee and ranged defense.

Your natural weapon gains Vicious 4. `

10 15

UNCANNY SENSES

When deprived of your senses, ignore that

condition.

15

Perception Basic Power: You perceive things

as if they were one range category closer than
they actually are, allowing you to hear a
discreet whisper at Short range or a shout for
help at Extreme range.

Instinct: Your augmented perception gives you

the uncanny ability to escape harm. You gain
+1 to your melee and ranged defense.

Uncanny Senses: When deprived of your

senses, you may act as though that were not
the case: you can see in total darkness or when
blindfolded, your hearing is never obscured by
loud noise. Either your senses are just that
good, or you’ve mastered letting your other
senses compensate. Adversaries do not benefit
from using the Camouflage power against you.
Phasing Stench
STENCH BASIC POWER
PHASING BASIC POWER
You possess a pungent stench, which imposes
Spend 2 strain as an action to make your on all checks by breathing creatures engaged
movement ignore all physical obstacles, with you. Thankfully, this “ability” may be
including solid walls, until the end of your turn. activated and deactivated as a maneuver.
10
20

PHASING

You may activate

` Phasing as an incidental.

` 15

PHASE DEFENSE PHASE OTHER

Gain +1 Ranged Spend 1 additional

and Melee strain to bring an
Defense. Engaged target
with you.
15 15

PHASE OTHER

You can partially phase adversaries into walls

or the floor in combat. Your unarmed attacks
gain Ensnare 2.

10

Phasing Basic Power: Spend 2 strain as an

action to make your movement ignore all
physical obstacles, including solid walls, until
the end of your turn.

Phasing: You may activate Phasing as an

incidental.

Phase Other: Spend 1 additional strain to bring

an Engaged target with you. You must
succeed at an opposed Discipline vs. Resilience
check if that target is unwilling. You may bring
additional Engaged targets by spending 1
additional strain per additional target, but may
only ever bring one unwilling target.
Telepathy current thoughts of your target as well as their
emotional state.
TELEPATHY BASIC POWER
Range: You may spend 1 strain to increase the
Spend 1 strain to sense all living things within
short range. Perception vs. Discipline check to
power’s range by one range band. You may
sense the emotional state of one Engaged target. only spend this once per range upgrade
10 purchased.
TELEPATHY
Magnitude: You may spend 1 strain to increase
Spend 1 strain when making your Perception vs.
the number of targets affected by one. You may
Discipline check to sense the current thoughts of
your target as well as their emotional state. only spend this once per magnitude upgrade
purchased.
10

RANGE MAGNITUDE
Venom
Spend 1 strain to VENOM BASIC POWER
Spend 1 strain to
increase the
increase range by Your unarmed attacks gain a poison that deals
1 range band. number of targets
affected by 1. additional wounds based on your ranks in
5 5 Resilience.

RANGE MAGNITUDE ` 20

Spend 1 strain to SPIT VENOM

Spend 1 strain to
increase the
increase range by You can propel your venom with force, giving
1 range band. number of targets
affected by 1. you a ranged attack with base damage equal to
10 10 your Brawn +3, a range of short, a crit rating of 4,
and the Venom ability.
RANGE MAGNITUDE 10

Spend 1 strain to Venom Basic Power: Your unarmed attacks

Spend 1 strain to
increase the gain a potent poison. If an unarmed attack
increase range by
number of targets
1 range band.
affected by 1.
deals damage, the target must immediately
10 10 make a Hard ( ) Resilience check or suffer
wounds equal to your ranks in Resilience, and
Telepathy Basic Power: Spend 1 strain to sense strain equal to your ranks in Resilience. This
all living things within short range (including counts as a poison.
sentient and non-sentient beings). Make a
Perception vs. Discipline check as an action to Spit Venom: You can propel your venom with
sense the current emotional state of one living force, giving you a ranged attack with base
target with whom you are engaged. damage equal to your Brawn +3, a range of
short, a crit rating of 4, and the Venom ability.
Telepathy: Spend 1 strain when making your
Perception vs. Discipline check to sense the
Wall-Crawler Web-Slinger

WALL-CRAWLER WEB-SLINGER

You never have to make a check to climb any You have a web attack which can Ensnare
surface capable of holding your weight. targets at medium range.

20
` 10 ` `
`
WALL-CRAWLER WEB-SLINGER WEB-SLINGER

You never have to make a check to keep your Move through the Spend strain to
grip on any object, so long as it doesn’t apply air by swinging give your web
enough force to rip your arms off. You can still from tall objects. Blast, Auto-Fire, or
keep your grip if it does, but you shouldn’t. Concussive.
5 10 20

Web-Slinger: You have a web attack. This

attack deals no damage, but a target hit by it is
Ensnared (as if by the Ensnare weapon quality)
for a number of rounds equal to generated.
You may spend to move the target one range
band towards you. If the attack is made against
a helpless adversary or generates against a
non-helpless adversary, you may make the
Ensnare quality indefinite, so that the effect
will not end until the target (or an someone
helping the target) succeeds at a Hard ( )
Athletics check.

Web-Slinger: You may move through the air

as long as there is an object sturdy enough to
support your weight within medium range.
Web-Slinger: You may spend 1 strain to give
your web attack the Blast or Auto-Fire quality.
You may spend 3 strain to give it the
Concussive 1 quality.
APPENDIX: POWERS AS TALENTS
The superpowers system in this supplement is
separate from the talents system in the Genesys
core rulebook. There are two reasons that this
is done. The first is that having discrete power
trees was the easiest way to implement the
Limitations system. The second is that many of
these abilities have complex, interlocking
prerequisites, which are much easier to make
sense of in tree form than in the format in
which talents are written.
The third is that in most superhero settings,
characters who aren’t particularly experienced
nevertheless have multiple abilities which
would correspond to tier 3, 4, and 5 talents. In
core Genesys, when buying a talent, a
character must have at least one more talent in
the next lowest tier (see page 72 of the core
rulebook). This means that in order for a
character to have access to a very common
ability like the Durability Basic Power, which
costs 20 xp and would therefore be equivalent
to a tier 4 talent, that character would then
need to have at least two tier 3 talents, three
tier 2 talents, and four tier 1 talents. This leads
to an extreme level of granular calculation in
character creation and leads to common
character concepts requiring hundreds of xp
and an unwieldy number of lower-tier talents
in order to be realized.1
Nevertheless, GMs may wish to opt out of the
superpowers subsystem presented here and
instead use the abilities with the talent system.
This may especially be the case if one wishes to
use the abilities in this supplement in a
different setting or genre where characters still
have access to abilities beyond normal human
limitations, but those abilities aren’t the core
focus of the game. Abilities from the Strength
tree might round out a fantasy barbarian-type
character, or abilities from the Wealth tree
1
An option I’ve considered for solving this issue is
granting players a certain number of “super-talent-
points” which may be spent on talents without following
the normal talent-pyramid rule; a starting character
might be useful if a player wants to play a rich
character but the GM doesn’t want to deal with
the headache of the PCs having on-demand
access to millions of gold pieces / credits /
dollars.
If the prerequisite for a talent is listed in a
different tier, that talent’s tier will be listed (in
parentheses). If no tier is named in
parentheses, then the prerequisite talent is in
the same tier.
Tier 1
Mind Control: Magnitude
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
Your character must have purchased the Mind
Control Basic Power talent (Tier 2) to benefit from
this talent. You may spend 1 strain to increase
the number of targets affected by one. You may
only spend this once per magnitude upgrade
purchased.
Mind Control: Range
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
Your character must have purchased the Mind
Control Basic Power talent (Tier 2) to benefit from
this talent. You may spend 1 strain to increase
the power’s range by one range band. You may
only spend this once per range upgrade
purchased.
Size Manipulation: Target Others (Range)
Tier: 1
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Size
Manipulation: Target Others talent (Tier 3) to
might have a couple tier 4 or 5 talents to start out and
feel suitably “super” without having to complicate the
character creation process by having to select a dozen
others.
benefit from this talent. You may use Size
Manipulation on others at short range.
Speed: Hard to Track
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Speed
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
talent. Your fast movements are difficult to
follow, giving your unarmed strikes the
Disorient 2 quality.
Stability
Tier: 1
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Flight
(Improved) talent to benefit from this talent. Your
flight is stable enough to support more weight.
You can carry one creature or object of
silhouette 1 or smaller while you fly.
Strength: Hurl (Range)
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
Your character must have purchased the Strength:
Hurl talent in order to benefit from this talent. You
may spend 1 strain to increase the range of
your Hurl attack by one range band. You may
spend this once for each rank of this talent you
possess.
Telekinesis: Control
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Telekinesis (Hurl)
talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this talent.
You can pull objects out of secure mountings
or out of an opponent’s grasp.
Telekinesis: Magnitude
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
You must have purchased the Telekinesis Basic
Power talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
talent. Spend 1 strain to increase the number of
targets affected by one. You may only spend
this once per rank of this talent purchased.
Telekinesis: Range
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
You must have purchased the Telekinesis Basic
Power talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
talent. You may spend 1 strain to increase the
power’s range by one range band. You may
only spend this once per rank of this talent
purchased.
Telepathy: Magnitude
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
You must have purchased the Telepathy Basic
Power talent in order to benefit from this talent.
You may spend 1 strain to increase the number
of targets affected by one. You may only spend
this once per magnitude upgrade purchased.
Telepathy: Range
Tier: 1
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
You must have purchased the Telepathy Basic
Power talent in order to benefit from this talent.
You may spend 1 strain to increase the power’s
range by one range band. You may only spend
this once per range upgrade purchased.
Wall-Crawler (Improved)
Tier: 1
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Wall-Crawler talent
(Tier 2) in order to benefit from this talent. You
never have to make a check to keep your grip
on any object, so long as it doesn’t apply You must have purchased the Burrower talent in
enough force to rip your arms off. You can still order to benefit from this talent. You may burrow
keep your grip if it does, but you probably as a maneuver.
don’t want to.
Codebreaker
Tier: 2
Tier 2 Activation: Passive
Ant Strength: Condensed Force Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Ant Your character must have purchased the Polyglot
Strength talent (Tier 5) in order to benefit from this talent in order to benefit from this talent. Your
talent. While shrunk, your unarmed strikes knack for languages gives you an edge when
gain Pierce 3. dealing with secret codes and unfamiliar
devices. When interpreting encoded messages
Amphibious or using Computers to break into a system,
Tier: 2 decrease the difficulty of the check by 1.
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No Elemental Attack
You have gills, granting you the ability to Tier: 2
breathe underwater, and fins, granting you the Activation: Passive
ability to move as easily in water as you do on Ranked: No
land. Your character must have purchased the Energy
Projection Basic Power talent in order to benefit
Animal Aspect Basic Power from this talent. Your energy attack is elemental
Tier: 2 in nature, and gains one of the following
Activation: Passive special abilities:
Ranked: No
You have the heightened senses of an animal,  Fire: Your energy attack gains Burn 2
adding to all Perception and Vigilance  Lightning: Your energy attack gains
checks. How this special sense manifests is up Stun 2
to you: it could be the keen nose of a canine,  Ice: Your energy attack gains Ensnare 2
the eyes of an eagle, the electroreception of a
shark, or the special danger-sense that comic Elemental Manipulation
book writers seem to think that spiders Tier: 2
possess. Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Burrower Your character must have purchased the Elemental
Tier: 2 Attack talent in order to benefit from this talent.
Activation: Active You learn to manipulate your element.
Ranked: No Depending on the element you chose for your
Like the noble groundhog, you can move Elemental Attack, you gain one of the
through the ground. Moving up to short range following abilities:
is an action, and you can dig through anything
softer than iron.  Fire: You can control flames and set
flammable objects on fire within short
Burrower (Improved) range. You can cause flames to recede,
Tier: 2 creating a path for others, or cause them
Activation: Passive to flare up, accelerating a blaze or
Ranked: No blocking an exit. You can light any
 flammable object or extinguish any
flame within range (particularly violent
blazes may require a Discipline check to
completely extinguish, at the GM’s
discretion).
 Lightning: You can disrupt unprotected
electronic devices within range by
making an Average ( ) Mechanics
check.
 Ice: You can create simple objects out of
ice of a size up to silhouette 1 as an
action. These objects cannot have
moving parts. This power can be used to
replicate any simple melee weapon such
as a dagger, axe, or shield.
Energy Blast
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Energy
Projection Basic Power talent in order to benefit
from this talent. You may spend 2 strain to give
your energy attack the Blast quality, with a
damage rating equal to its base damage, for
one round.
Energy Projection Basic Power
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You have eye-beams, fire breath, a cold ray, or
some other energy-based weapon. This is a
Ranged energy attack dealing 7 damage with a
Range of Medium and a Crit Rating of 3.
Energy Projection (Improved)
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Energy
Projection Basic Power talent in order to benefit
from this talent. Your energy attack’s base
damage is now 10.
Fishy Odor
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You have a fishy stench, which imposes on
all breathing creatures engaged with you.
Thankfully, this “ability” may be activated and
deactivated as a maneuver.
Flight Basic Power
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You can glide, meaning you can move
horizontally or downward in the air. You
cannot gain altitude using this ability, and you
have to maintain at least some speed to stay
aloft. While flying, you must spend one
maneuver every turn to move (you can
actually change position, or just circle or wheel
in place and effectively remain where you are).
Flight (Supreme)
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Flight
(Improved) talent (tier 4) to benefit from this talent.
You can stop in midair without falling. You do
not have to spend a maneuver to move to
maintain flight.
Gadgeteer
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Instead of tracking down an item, you can
build it yourself. You can substitute Mechanics
for the Streetwise or Negotiation check you
make before purchasing an item.
Inhuman Body
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You do not need to eat, sleep, or breathe, and
are unaffected by toxins and poisons. Some
archetypes give this ability automatically
(usually called “Artificial”). Little Eyes
Tier: 2
Inspire Hope Activation: Passive
Tier: 2 Ranked: No
Activation: Passive Your character must have purchased the Shrink
Ranked: Yes Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
Your character must have purchased the Flight talent. Your little eyes can pick out details more
(Improved) talent to benefit from this talent. You easily. While shrunk, you decrease the
fly overhead, cape billowing in the wind (or difficulty of Perception checks by one.
not), and fill your allies with confidence. The
first time they see you fly each scene, allies heal Mind Control Basic Power
1 strain per rank of Inspire Hope. Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Inspire Hope (Improved) Ranked: No
Tier: 2 Spend 1 strain as an action to make a
Activation: Passive Discipline vs. Discipline check against an
Ranked: No Engaged target to force the target to adopt an
Your character must have purchased at least one emotional state or believe something untrue.
rank of the Inspire Hope talent to benefit from this
talent. The first time they see you fly each Mind Control: Emotion
scene, your allies add to all checks made on Tier: 2
their next turn. Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Intelligence Basic Power Your character must have purchased the Mind
Tier: 2 Control Basic Power talent (Tier 2) to benefit from
Activation: Active this talent. You become particularly adept at
Ranked: Yes forcing targets to adopt a particular emotional
You just know things. Spend a number of state, such as calm, hate, fear, or love. When
strain equal to the check’s difficulty to forcing your chosen emotional state with the
automatically succeed at an Easy ( ) or Influence ability, add to the dice pool.
Average ( ) Knowledge check without
rolling dice. Each rank of this talent increases Natural Weapon
the difficulty of checks you may apply this Tier: 2
talent to by one. Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Investigator You have claws, a whipping tail, or a bite
Tier: 2 attack which gives your unarmed attacks +2
Activation: Active damage and a crit rating of 2. If your archetype
Ranked: no gives you Claws, this power is tier 1.
As an action, you may make a Perception
check opposed by an adversary’s Deception. If Natural Weapon (Improved)
the check is successful, you learn the target’s Tier: 2
true occupation and the state or country in Activation: Passive
which they spent the majority of their Ranked: No
childhood. Additional , , and can be Your character must have purchased the Natural
used to reveal other information at the GM’s Weapon talent to benefit from this talent. Your
discretion.
natural weapon is particularly potent and
gains a Vicious rating of 4. Resistance
Tier: 2
Polyglot Activation: Passive
Tier: 2 Ranked: No
Activation: Active You may remove imposed by adverse
Ranked: No environmental conditions.
Spend a Story Point to declare that you are
fluent in a language. Resistance (Improved)
Tier: 2
Polyglot (Improved) Activation: Passive
Tier: 2 Ranked: No
Activation: Passive You never take or damage from
Ranked: No environmental effects. You never take damage
Your character must have purchased the Polyglot from falling in normal gravity or from any
talent in order to benefit from this talent. You are extreme heat or cold short of that from a
fluent in every known language. When you flamethrower or the Energy Projection power.
encounter a language for the first time (such as
when making contact with aliens or Robot Pal
deciphering an unfamiliar code), you become Tier: 2
fluent in that language after a minute of Activation: Passive
interaction. Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Gadgeteer
Regeneration (Improved) (Improved) talent (Tier 3) in order to benefit from
Tier: 2 this talent. You build a robotic assistant for
Activation: Active yourself, a Minion with 2 in all characteristics.
Ranked: No This assistant is absolutely loyal to you.
Your character must have purchased the
Regeneration talent (tier 3; your character can also Speed: Blur
gain the ability through an archetype) to benefit Tier: 2
from this talent. As an action, spend 2 strain to Activation: Active
make an Easy ( ) Resilience check. Heal Ranked: No
wounds equal to . You may attempt to heal Your character must have purchased the Speed
one critical injury you are suffering from by Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
increasing the difficulty of the check to talent. If you are hidden, you may spend a
maneuver to move to any other unseen location
Hard ( ). within short range without being noticed. You may
also spend a maneuver to grab any unattended
Regeneration (Supreme) item within short range without being noticed.
Tier: 2
Activation: Active Speed: Blur (Improved)
Ranked: No Tier: 2
Your character must have purchased the Activation: Active
Regeneration (Improved) talent to benefit from this Ranked: No
talent. When incapacitated, spend a story point Your character must have purchased the Speed:
to make a Hard ( ) Endurance check. You Blur talent to benefit from this talent. You may act
regain consciousness, healing wounds equal to as though you were engaged with any or all
generated. creatures within short range. For example, you
can make melee combat checks and
Skullduggery checks against creatures within
short range as well as Engaged.
Speed: Improved
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
Your character must have purchased the Speed
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
talent. Spend one strain to move an additional
range band as part of your extra free
maneuver. You may spend this a number of
times equal to your ranks in this talent.
Speed: Fast Hands
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Speed
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
talent. Add to Skullduggery checks to
remove items from someone’s person.
Speed: Think Fast
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Add to all Cool and Vigilance checks to
determine initiative.
Stability (Supreme)
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stability
(Improved) talent (Tier 4) in order to benefit from
this talent. While you fly, you can carry any
object or creature whose silhouette you could
lift off the ground. You never have to worry
about the structural integrity of objects you lift.
You can catch a falling plane without it
breaking apart, or stop an incoming meteor
without pieces breaking off and falling to
earth.
Stomp
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased at least one
rank of the Grow Basic Power talent (Tier 4) in
order to benefit from this talent. While the Grow
power is active, your unarmed strikes have the
Blast quality.
Strength Basic Power
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You may lift and carry any object up to
silhouette 1 without making an Athletics
check. Lifting larger objects requires an
Athletics check as normal. Your melee attacks
gain the Knockback quality.
Strength (Improved)
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
Your character must have purchased the Strength
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. Spend 1 strain to increase the silhouette
you can lift without a check by 1. You may
spend this once for every rank you have in this
talent.
Strength: Hurl
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. You can hurl objects as weapons. The
impacts deal damage both to the targets and
the object being hurled. Make an Athletics
check with a difficulty equal to the silhouette
of the object being thrown. The damage is
resolved following all the rules for ranged
attacks. Silhouette 0 objects deal 5 damage,
while other objects deal damage equal to 10
times their silhouette. The number of targets
affected by a single object is up to the GM, but
in general, a single object should only affect a
single target (unless it's particularly large). This
attack follows all the rules for ranged attacks,
such as ranged defense and aiming.
Strength: Knockback
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. You may activate the Knockback quality
multiple times, knocking the target an
additional range band for each activation.
Strength: Leap
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. Your powerful legs can propel you over
distances. Take a Leap action to jump to any
location within short range.
Strength: Leap (Improved)
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength:
Leap talent in order to benefit from this talent.
Spend 2 strain to leap an additional range
band. You may spend this multiple times.
Strength: Leap (Supreme)
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength:
Leap (Improved) talent in order to benefit from this
talent. If you leap two range bands or fewer,
you may execute that leap as a maneuver.
Strength: Unarmed Strikes
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. Your unarmed attacks gain Pierce 3.
Strength: Unarmed Strikes (Improved)
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength:
Unarmed Strikes talent in order to benefit from this
talent. Spend 1 strain to increase the Pierce on
your unarmed strikes by 2.
Stretching: Ensnare
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stretching
Basic Power talent (Tier 3) in order to benefit from
this talent. Your unarmed attacks gain the
Ensnare quality. When you ensnare a target,
you lose the use of whichever limb you used to
tangle them up, and must stay within range of
your target or let them go. The target remains
Ensnared indefinitely until you let them go or
they make a Hard ( ) Athletics check.
Stretching: Hardened Limbs
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stretching
Basic Power talent (Tier 3) in order to benefit from
this talent. As a maneuver, you may turn one of
your limbs into a weapon, giving your
unarmed strikes certain special qualities. You
may choose from the following:
o Blade: Crit 2, Vicious 3, Pierce 1
o Bludgeon: Crit 3, Disorient 4, +1
Damage
o Shield: Crit 6, Defensive 2,
Deflection 2
You may not inflict strain damage with a limb
that has been turned into a weapon in this
way.
Stretching: Hardened Limbs (Improved)
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stretching:
Hardened Limbs talent in order to benefit from this
talent. You may use Hardened Limbs to turn
your limbs into any tool less complex than a
handheld power drill. Because you can form
precisely the right tool for your task, you gain
to Mechanics checks using them. You may
also use this ability to open any mechanical
lock that requires a key.
Stretching: Hardened Limbs (Supreme)
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stretching:
Hardened Limbs (Improved) talent in order to
benefit from this talent. You may use Hardened
Limbs as an incidental.
Stretching: Melt
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stretching:
Squish talent (Tier 3) in order to benefit from this
talent. Your body can become liquid, able to fit
through any opening or mesh that isn’t
watertight. In addition, you can reattach lost
limbs by reabsorbing them into your body.
Stretching: Range
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
Your character must have purchased the Stretching
Basic Power talent (Tier 3) in order to benefit from
this talent. You may spend 1 strain to increase
the power’s range by one range band. You may
only spend this once per rank of this talent
purchased.
Telekinesis Basic Power
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Spend 1 strain to move one object of silhouette
0 that is within short range up to your
maximum range. The default maximum range
is short range.
Telekinesis: Fine Manipulation
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Telekinesis (Hurl)
talent in order to benefit from this talent. You gain
the ability to perform fine manipulation of
items, allowing you to do whatever you could
normally do with your hands to a held item (if
manipulating something such as a control
board, the controls count as a silhouette 0
item).
Telekinesis: Hurl
Tier: 2
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Telekinesis Basic
Power talent in order to benefit from this talent.
You can hurl objects as weapons. The impacts
deal damage both to the targets and the object
being hurled. Make a Discipline check with a
difficulty equal to the silhouette of the object
being thrown. The damage is resolved
following all the rules for ranged attacks.
Silhouette 0 objects deal 5 damage, while other
objects deal damage equal to 10 times their
silhouette. The number of targets affected by a
single object is up to the GM, but in general, a
single object should only affect a single target
(unless it's particularly large). (Also note, if
you want to use Move to throw multiple
objects at multiple targets, you may do so
using all the rules for hitting multiple targets
with the Auto-fire quality). This attack follows
all the rules for ranged attacks, such as ranged
defense and aiming.
Telekinesis: Strength
Tier: 2 Venom (Improved)
Activation: Active Tier: 2
Ranked: Yes Activation: Active
You must have purchased the Telekinesis Basic Ranked: No
Power talent in order to benefit from this talent. You must have purchased the Venom talent in
Spend 1 strain to increase the silhouette you order to benefit from this talent. You can propel
can target by 1. You may only spend this once your venom with force, giving you a ranged
per rank of this talent purchased. attack with base damage equal to twice your
Brawn, a range of short, a crit rating of 4, and
Telepathy Basic Power the Burn 2 quality.
Tier: 2
Activation: Active Wall Crawler
Ranked: No Tier: 2
Spend 1 strain to sense all living things within Activation: Passive
short range (including sentient and non- Ranked: No
sentient beings). Make a Perception vs. Like most terrestrial insects, arachnids, and
Discipline check as an action to sense the squirrels, you never have to make a check to
current emotional state of one living target climb any surface.
with whom you are engaged.
Wealth Basic Power
Telepathy: Read Thoughts Tier: 2
Tier: 2 Activation: Passive
Activation: Active Ranked: No
Ranked: No You own a lavish home, which could be a
You must have purchased the Telepathy Basic mansion, a castle, or a penthouse, with all the
Power talent in order to benefit from this talent. amenities necessary for you and ten other
Spend 1 strain when making your Perception people to live very comfortably, potentially
vs. Discipline check to sense the current including maids, a cook, and a bar that’s
thoughts of your target as well as their always fully stocked, if you so desire. Your
emotional state. wealth gives you to social skill checks when
interacting with government officials,
Tiny but Swift legitimate businesspeople, and their
Tier: 2 employees, when those people know about
Activation: Passive your wealth.
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Shrink Wealth: Butler
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this Tier: 2
talent. You can move at your normal speed Activation: Passive
when shrunk; it no longer takes two Ranked: No
maneuvers to traverse one range band. Your character must have purchased the Wealth
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
Venom talent. You have an assistant, a Minion with 2
Tier: 2 in all characteristics. This assistant is absolutely
Activation: Passive loyal to you.
Ranked: No
You have a potent venom, which gives your
unarmed attacks Burn 2.
Wealth: Playboy
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. You and anyone with you can always
get into any exclusive club, office or
nonmilitary government building. You can
arrange meetings with any government official
or legitimate businessperson.
Wealth: Mogul
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. You have real estate holdings
everywhere. Once per session, you may
declare that you own property near your
current location. You or your allies can stay
there without being discovered for at least 24
hours.
Decrease the difficulty of all Knowledge checks
performed there by 1.
Wealth: Sanctum (Workshop)
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth:
Sanctum talent in order to benefit from this talent.
Your sanctum has state-of-the-art tools.
Decrease the difficulty of all Mechanics checks
performed there by 1.
Wealth: Tycoon
Tier: 2
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. Reduce the effective rarity of all items by
2. This affects talents relying on item rarity
such as Utility Belt. Any item whose rarity is
reduced to 0 may be acquired for free and with
minimal hassle.

Wealth: Sanctum Tier 3

Tier: 2 Elemental Immunity
Activation: Passive Tier: 3
Ranked: No Activation: Passive
Your character must have purchased the Wealth Ranked: No
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this Your character must have purchased the Elemental
talent. Part of your lavish home is your Attack talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
Sanctum, a hidden space which can serve as a talent. You are immune to damage of your
hideout and safehouse, and has sufficient energy attack’s type.
space to store any vehicles you own of
Silhouette 2 or smaller. No one can find this Energy Blast (Improved)
Sanctum if they do not know it exists, and even Tier: 3
if they do, it can only be found by making a Activation: Active
Formidable ( ) Streetwise check after a Ranked: No
week’s worth of investigation. Your character must have purchased the Energy
Blast talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
Wealth: Sanctum (Library) talent. When giving your energy attack the
Tier: 2 Blast quality, you may spend 2 additional
Activation: Passive strain to have it affect all characters within
Ranked: No Short range, rather than all Engaged
Your character must have purchased the Wealth: characters.
Sanctum talent in order to benefit from this talent.
Your sanctum has extensive research materials.
Escape Route
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Careful
Planning talent (Tier 4) in order to benefit from this
talent. You had a contingency plan. Spend a
Story Point to reveal an escape route which
your character prepared for just this
eventuality. For example, when surrounded by
enemies and overwhelmed, you could be
picked up just in the nick of time by a
helicopter piloted by a friendly NPC. Whatever
form this escape route takes, it can bring you
and any allies of yours within short range to
safety, although depending on the situation
that safety might only be temporary.
Gadgeteer (Improved)
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Gadgeteer
talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this talent.
You can create new items. When using
Gadgeteer, you may purchase any non-magical
items from the Steampunk, Weird War,
Science-Fiction, and Space Opera settings in
the core rulebook.
Grasp
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased at least one
rank of the Grow (Improved) talent in order to
benefit from this talent. Spend 1 strain to make a
Grasp attack. Make an opposed Athletics vs.
Athletics check against a target at least two
steps smaller than you. If the check is
successful, the target is grasped. A grasped
target increases the difficulty of their attacks
twice and cannot take maneuvers to move. In
addition, once per turn you may spend a
maneuver to squeeze the target, dealing
damage equal to twice your Brawn, reduced by
the target’s Soak as normal. The target can
attempt to escape your grasp by making an
opposed Athletics check as an action on its
turn.
Grow (Improved)
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: Yes
Your character must have purchased the Grow
Basic Power talent (Tier 4) in order to benefit from
this talent. When you activate the Grow Basic
Power, you may spend 1 additional strain to
increase your silhouette by 1. In addition to the
benefits of the Basic power, your Soak
increases by 1, your damage bonus increases
by 2, and the silhouette you can lift increases
by 1. You may activate this talent a number of
times equal to your ranks in this talent.
Regeneration
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Whenever you heal wounds due to natural
rest, you heal 1 additional wound. You do not
recover 1 additional wound when receiving
first aid or medical treatment. You can regrow
lost limbs, which takes roughly a month before
the limb is usable.
Shrink Basic Power
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You can shrink down to about twelve inches
tall for the rest of the scene as an action that
costs 1 strain. While you are this size, the
difficulty of all Perception checks to detect
your presence is increased by one. Everything
is bigger for you: it takes two maneuvers to
travel one range band. In addition, you are
treated as if you had a silhouette of -1: when
you make an attack against a target of
silhouette 1 or greater, you decrease the
difficulty of the check by one. When a
character of silhouette 1 or greater makes an
attack against you, they increase the difficulty
of the check by one. Finally, in this form you
are not able to apply as much force: your
attacks can never deal more than 1 wound or
strain after damage reduction. If you take
damage from a normal-sized attack, you
immediately revert to your full size.
Shrink (Improved)
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Shrink
Basic Power talent to benefit from this talent.
When you shrink, you can spend 1 additional
strain to shrink to the size of a small insect. The
benefits of Shrink are doubled: the difficulties
of Perception checks to detect you and attacks
against you are increased twice, and the
difficulties of your attack checks against
normal-sized targets are reduced twice (as if
your silhouette were -3).
Size Manipulation: Target Others
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased one or both of
the Shrink Basic Power talent or the Grow Basic
Power talent (Tier 4) in order to benefit from this
talent. You may spend 1 strain to use Size
Manipulation on an engaged target other than
yourself. If the target is unwilling, you must
make an opposed Coordination vs.
Coordination check to affect them.
Speed Basic Power
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You gain an extra free maneuver each round,
which can only be spent on movement. You
can still spend 2 strain to gain an additional
maneuver.
Speed: Momentum
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Speed
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
talent. Your first unarmed attack each round
deals additional damage equal to twice the
number of range bands you have moved that
round.
Stretching Basic Power
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You may do anything you could normally do
with your hands at Short range. Your melee
attacks have a range of Short and the Defensive
1 quality.
Stretching: Squish
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stretching
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. You may fit through any opening larger
than 1 inch.
Swallow
Tier: 3
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased at least one
rank of the Grasp talent in order to benefit from this
talent. When you have an adversary in your
grasp (per the Grasp talent), you may make a
Swallow attack. Make an opposed Athletics vs.
Athletics check against the grasped target. If
the check is successful, the target is swallowed.
While swallowed, the target cannot take any
actions requiring the use of its physical body,
and takes damage equal to twice your Brawn
at the beginning of each of its turns. The target
may attempt to force you to regurgitate them
by making an Athletics check opposed by your
Resilience as an action.
Uncanny Senses
Tier: 3
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Animal Aspect Basic
Power talent in order to benefit from this talent.
When deprived of your senses, you may act as Tier 4
though that were not the case: you can see in Careful Planning
total darkness, your hearing is never obscured Tier: 4
by loud noise. Either your senses are just that Activation: Active
good, or you’ve mastered letting your other Ranked: No
senses compensate. Once per session, you may introduce a "fact"
into the narrative as if a Story Point had been
Wealth: Butler (Improved) spent.
Tier: 3 (source: SWRPG: Age of Rebellion)
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No Durability Basic Power
Your character must have purchased the Wealth: Tier: 4
Butler talent (tier 2) in order to benefit from this Activation: Passive
talent. When your assistant is present, you gain Ranked: No
to all non-combat skill checks. You increase your Soak by 3. This does not
stack with any increases gained from armor.
Wealth: Sanctum (Training Facilities)
Tier: 3 Elemental Attack (Improved)
Activation: Passive Tier: 4
Ranked: No Activation: Passive
Your character must have purchased the Wealth: Ranked: No
Sanctum talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this Your character must have purchased the Elemental
talent. Choose two skills. All members of your Attack talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
group gain these skills as career skills. In talent. The Burn, Stun, or Ensnare rating of
addition, when providing assistance with those your elemental attack increases to 4.
skills, all members of your group upgrade the
pool once in addition to the usual effects of Elemental Wreath
providing assistance. Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Web-Swinger Ranked: No
Tier: 3 Your character must have purchased the Elemental
Activation: Active Attack talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
Ranked: No talent. You are surrounded by an aura your
You must have purchased the Web-Slinger talent elemental energy. A creature that ends its turn
(Tier 4) in order to benefit from this talent. You Engaged with you takes 2 wounds, ignoring
may move through the air as long as there is an Soak. You can activate and deactivate this
object able to hold your weight within medium ability as a maneuver.
range above you. Precise or complicated
maneuvers (such as swinging above whatever Flight (Improved)
object you are tethered to) may require a Tier: 4
Coordination check at the GM’s discretion. Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Flight
Basic Power talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from
this talent. You can gain altitude while flying.
Growth Basic Power
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
As an action, you may spend 1 strain to grow
to silhouette 2. While you are this size, your
soak increases by one, your unarmed attacks
deal +2 damage, and you may lift any object of
silhouette 1 or smaller without making an
Athletics check. If you have powers from the
Strength tree, the silhouette you can lift
increases by 1. Maintaining this giant size is
taxing, and you must spend 1 strain at the
beginning of each of your turns or revert to
your small size.
Quick Change
Tier: 4
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased one or both of
the Shrink Basic Power talent (Tier 3) or the Grow
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. You may use the Shrink and Grow
powers on yourself as a maneuver.
Mind Control: Influence
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Mind
Control Basic Power talent (Tier 2) to benefit from
this talent. Spend 2 strain to make a Discipline
vs. Discipline check in place of any other social
check. If the social check would affect more
than one individual, you must apply the
requisite Magnitude upgrades.
Mind Control: Influence (Improved)
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Mind
Control: Influence talent (Tier 4) to benefit from
this talent. Those you influence are willing to go
beyond what they would normally be willing
to do. Once per session, after using Influence,
you may trigger an effect as though had
been rolled.
Robot Pal (Improved)
Tier: 4
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Robot Pal
talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this talent.
Your robotic assistant becomes a Rival,
increasing three of their characteristics to 3 and
gaining two ranks each in three skills of your
choice.
Speed: Unarmed Strikes
Tier: 4
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Speed
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
talent. Your unarmed attacks gain the Linked 1
quality.
Stability (Improved)
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stability
talent (Tier 1) in order to benefit from this talent.
Spend from a melee attack to carry the
target into the air with you. The target stays
engaged with you while you fly unless you
choose to drop them or they succeed at an
opposed Athletics check against you.
Wealth: Bribery
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth
Basic Power talent in order to benefit from this
talent. Everyone has a price. Once per session,
you may make a Negotiation vs. Discipline
check against one Rival or Minion group as an
action. If this check succeeds, that NPC follows
your orders for the rest of the scene, although
they will not risk their life unless the check
generates . Bonuses (such as for an adversary
who has been recently mistreated by their
employer) or penalties (such as for an
adversary who holds a grudge against you
personally) apply at the GM’s discretion.
Wealth: Butler (Supreme)
Tier: 4
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth:
Butler (Improved) talent (tier 3) in order to benefit
from this talent. It is possible to get good help
these days. Your assistant becomes a Rival,
increasing three of their characteristics to 3 and
gaining two ranks each in three skills of your
choice.
Wealth: Sanctum (Crime Lab)
Tier: 4
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth:
Sanctum talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
talent. Your sanctum has a state-of-the-art
crime lab, better than that found in any police
department. If you analyze a body, you can
determine its cause of death with an Average
( ) Medicine check. If you analyze a weapon,
you can determine the person who last used it
with a Hard ( ) Streetwise check. The lab
can be used to determine other information as
appropriate, at the GM’s discretion.
Web-Slinger
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You have a web attack. This attack deals no
damage, but a target hit by it is Ensnared (as if
by the Ensnare weapon quality) for a number
of rounds equal to generated. You may
spend to move the target one range band
towards you. If the attack generates , you
may make the Ensnare quality indefinite, so
that the effect will not end unless the target
succeeds at a Hard ( ) Athletics check.
Web-Slinger (Improved)
Tier: 4
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Web-Slinger talent in
order to benefit from this talent. You may spend 1
strain to give your web attack the Blast or
Auto-Fire quality. You may spend 3 strain to
give it the Concussive 1 quality.
Tier 5
Ant Strength
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Shrink
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
talent. You may spend 1 strain as an incidental
to activate Ant Strength for one round: when
Ant Strength is active, you deal damage as if
you were normal-sized. In addition, you do not
revert to your full size when you take damage
from a normal-sized attack.
Body Language
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Polyglot
(Improved) talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from
this talent. Your superhuman pattern
recognition extends to the physical movements
of adversaries. Spend 1 strain as a maneuver to
analyze an adversary’s fighting style. Upgrade
the difficulty of combat checks against you by
that adversary twice for the remainder of the
scene.
Bulletproof
Tier: 5
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Durability Basic
Power in order to benefit from this ability. You
have Armor 2 against physical projectiles. This
includes bullets, arrows, and most objects
hurled with the Strength and Telekinesis
powers, but not energy weapons such as from
the Energy Projection group of talents.
Crazy Prepared
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
You must have purchased the Careful Planning
talent (tier 4) in order to benefit from this ability.
Once per session, after you introduce a “fact”
with a Story Point or Careful Planning, you
may trigger an effect as though a had been
rolled on a check.
Mind Control: True Mind Control
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Mind
Control: Influence talent (Tier 4) to benefit from
this talent. Once per session, make a Discipline
vs. Discipline against one Rival or Minion
Group within range. If this check succeeds,
that NPC follows your orders for the rest of the
scene, although they will not take action more
likely than not to lead to their death (such as
shooting themselves in the head or attacking
alone a threat known to be beyond their ability
to handle) unless the check generates .
Robot Pal (Improved)
Tier: 4
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Robot Pal
talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this talent.
Your robotic assistant becomes a Rival,
increasing three of their characteristics to 3 and
gaining two ranks each in three skills of your
choice.
Shrink (Supreme)
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Shrink
Basic Power talent (tier 3) to benefit from this
talent. You can spend 1 additional strain to
shrink smaller than the naked eye. In this form,
you cannot be detected without specialized
equipment or superpowers.
Speed: Blur (Supreme)
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Speed:
Blur (Improved) talent to benefit from this talent.
You may make a Skullduggery check against
the target’s Perception to steal a number of
items (including worn items) from the target
equal to the number of generated.
Speed: Unarmed Strikes (Improved)
Tier: 5
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Speed:
Unarmed Strikes talent (tier 4) to benefit from this
talent. Your unarmed attacks gain the Autofire
quality.
Strength: Unarmed Strikes (Supreme)
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Strength:
Unarmed Strikes (Improved) talent in order to
benefit from this talent. Spend 2 strain to give
your unarmed attacks the Breach 1 quality for
one round. This strain may only be spent once.
Durability: Take the Hit
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Durability
Basic Power talent (tier 4) in order to benefit from
this talent. You brace yourself, becoming nearly
indestructible. Spend 3 strain as an action to
make a Hard ( ) Resilience check. If the
check succeeds, gain an Armor rating of 1 until
the end of your next turn. Each additional
generated increases that rating by 1. You may
spend to increase the duration of this effect
by one round.
Mind Control: Emotion-Monger
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Mind
Control: Emotion talent (Tier 2) to benefit from this
talent. You have mastered your chosen
emotion. Spend 3 strain to make a check to
force your preferred emotion onto all minions
within range. You must make the check against
the minion group within range with the
highest Discipline.
Wealth: Sanctum (Garage)
Tier: 5
Activation: Passive
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Wealth:
Sanctum talent (Tier 2) in order to benefit from this
talent. Your sanctum can hold vehicles of
Silhouette 3, and you may acquire any non-
Restricted vehicle by shopping around
discretely for a number of days equal to its
rarity.

Resurrect
Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the
Regeneration (Supreme) talent to benefit from this
talent. Your powers of regeneration work even
after death. If you have died, you may spend
two story points to make a Daunting ( )
Resilience check. If the check is successful, you
are restored to life, suffering wounds equal to
your wound threshold.

Stretching: Gaseous Form

Tier: 5
Activation: Active
Ranked: No
Your character must have purchased the Stretching:
Melt talent (tier 2) in order to benefit from this
talent. Your kindergarten teachers laughed
when you said you wanted to be a cloud when
you grew up, but look at you now! Spend 3
strain as an action to become gaseous (either a
true gas or a cloud of aerated particles, such as
sand). You take no damage except from
weapons with the Blast quality, and you may
fit through any opening that isn’t airtight. You
cannot take actions in your gaseous form, and
each round you must spend 1 strain or return
to your solid form. When in your gaseous
form, breathing creatures within short range
begin to suffocate, taking 3 strain per round,
and, once incapacitated, suffering one Critical
Injury per round until they die.