Do Over.

Looks pretty good so far.

Are you going to do any worldbuilding or is this just a toolkit?

2 minutes ago, drainsmith said:

Are you going to do any worldbuilding or is this just a toolkit?

For now it's just a tool kit. I'm trying to put together on online games for Wednesday nights. (You interested?) I'm hoping to use that campaign to do world building. There is another section coming soon about building your own super hero universe or playing within one that already exists. I do have some setting ideas already and they will eventually find their way onto this document.

If any of you guys want to take a crack at some of these powers, please be my guest.

1 minute ago, glewis2317 said:

For now it's just a tool kit. I'm trying to put together on online games for Wednesday nights. (You interested?) I'm hoping to use that campaign to do world building. There is another section coming soon about building your own super hero universe or playing within one that already exists. I do have some setting ideas already and they will eventually find their way onto this document.

If any of you guys want to take a crack at some of these powers, please be my guest.

Even if you use your game to build the world out, I highly recommend you at least give it some back story for why the world is the way it is. Gives your players a jumping off point.

8 minutes ago, drainsmith said:

Even if you use your game to build the world out, I highly recommend you at least give it some back story for why the world is the way it is. Gives your players a jumping off point.

Obviously there will be a jumping off point and setting when we begin. This will be incorporated soon. One of the things I'm doing for this campaign in particular is making the PC's the "first" heroes. Obviously there will be NPC's with powers but until now the world at large has been unaware that there are super powered, magical, alien, androids walking among them.

Setting material is coming.

Years ago I was working on a supers RPG of my own, tentatively titled Excelsior! (with the ! of course). Rather than having powers, I was writing an effects-based system, listing a bunch of different effects a power could have, along with synergies (which effects work with other effects), while grouping them into types. Here's the list I had before abandoning the project:

When I was writing Excelsior! , I had Origins, which were divided like so:

• Unenhanced - Heroes who use their wits, human ingenuity, and invention.
  • Tech/Gadgets - Heroes who make use of gadgets, power suits, or advanced weapons.
  • Trained - Heroes who have received intense training in a particular (usually martial) skill.
  • Natural - Heroes who rely on quick wits and their natural strength and ability, normal humans with the willpower to do amazing things.
• Birthright - Heroes for whom power is inherent by virtue of who they are.
  • Outsider Birthright - Heroes whose power is derived from their outsider heritage; angels, demons, fairies, aliens, anything not from here (wherever here might be).
  • Magical Birthright - Heroes with a magical gift from birth. Seventh son of a seventh son. Firstborn of a wizarding family. Direct descendant of Merlin.
  • Evolutionary Birthright (Mutation) - Heroes whose powers stem from the evolution of their species; genetic anomalies of their kind.
• Changed - Heroes who were once just human, but have become something greater!
  • Changed by Bestowed Gift - Heroes who have been granted power by some sort of gift. An alien artifact, a mighty sword, a powerful ring, even ascension.
  • Changed by Power - Heroes who have been exposed to some great source of power - the Well of Souls, an alien device of unknown origin - and were changed by it.
  • Changed by Accident/Experiment - Heroes whose powers come from some fringe science experiment, or an arcane ritual gone awry.
• Artificial - Heroes who have been made. Or at least partially.
  • Cybernetic Enhancement - Heroes who may not be completely artificial, but still require their enhancements to live and to do their good works.
  • Technological Construct - Heroes who are synthetic lifeforms and artificial intelligences. Androids, robots, and the like.
  • Magical Construct - Heroes brought to life by magic, such as golems and homunculae.
• Incarnate - Heroes whose power comes from their very being as the avatar of some tremendous force.
  • Incarnation of a Deity - Heroes who are, or once were, gods, demigods, and other eternal beings.
  • Incarnation of a Place - Heroes representing the combined psyche of a given place, such as the protector of a city, the ghost of an ancient burial site; a being representing a specific place.
  • Incarnation of an Ideal - A hero who is the manifestation of a specific concept, such as hope, peace, or justice.

There's no reason something like that couldn't serve as the basis for archetypes for Supers in Genesys.

(I don't mean to take over the thread; just posting ideas I've been tossing around for years, in hopes some of them might help you with what you're working on.)

1 minute ago, Simon Retold said:

When I was writing Excelsior! , I had Origins, which were divided like so:

• Unenhanced - Heroes who use their wits, human ingenuity, and invention.
  • Tech/Gadgets - Heroes who make use of gadgets, power suits, or advanced weapons.
  • Trained - Heroes who have received intense training in a particular (usually martial) skill.
  • Natural - Heroes who rely on quick wits and their natural strength and ability, normal humans with the willpower to do amazing things.
• Birthright - Heroes for whom power is inherent by virtue of who they are.
  • Outsider Birthright - Heroes whose power is derived from their outsider heritage; angels, demons, fairies, aliens, anything not from here (wherever here might be).
  • Magical Birthright - Heroes with a magical gift from birth. Seventh son of a seventh son. Firstborn of a wizarding family. Direct descendant of Merlin.
  • Evolutionary Birthright (Mutation) - Heroes whose powers stem from the evolution of their species; genetic anomalies of their kind.
• Changed - Heroes who were once just human, but have become something greater!
  • Changed by Bestowed Gift - Heroes who have been granted power by some sort of gift. An alien artifact, a mighty sword, a powerful ring, even ascension.
  • Changed by Power - Heroes who have been exposed to some great source of power - the Well of Souls, an alien device of unknown origin - and were changed by it.
  • Changed by Accident/Experiment - Heroes whose powers come from some fringe science experiment, or an arcane ritual gone awry.
• Artificial - Heroes who have been made. Or at least partially.
  • Cybernetic Enhancement - Heroes who may not be completely artificial, but still require their enhancements to live and to do their good works.
  • Technological Construct - Heroes who are synthetic lifeforms and artificial intelligences. Androids, robots, and the like.
  • Magical Construct - Heroes brought to life by magic, such as golems and homunculae.
• Incarnate - Heroes whose power comes from their very being as the avatar of some tremendous force.
  • Incarnation of a Deity - Heroes who are, or once were, gods, demigods, and other eternal beings.
  • Incarnation of a Place - Heroes representing the combined psyche of a given place, such as the protector of a city, the ghost of an ancient burial site; a being representing a specific place.
  • Incarnation of an Ideal - A hero who is the manifestation of a specific concept, such as hope, peace, or justice.

There's no reason something like that couldn't serve as the basis for archetypes for Supers in Genesys.

(I don't mean to take over the thread; just posting ideas I've been tossing around for years, in hopes some of them might help you with what you're working on.)

Excelsior! is a great name. You're not taking anything over. lol. I'll definitely use these as reference. My goal is to keep this as simple as possible. If anything else this could be a good sheet to hand to players stumped for character ideas.