Okay, I saw Adam Goldberg’s fan-made Ascendant Playbook and wanted to join in on the fun.

10 thoughts on “Okay, I saw Adam Goldberg’s fan-made Ascendant Playbook and wanted to join in on the fun.”

1. I think this is a good start, but it doesn’t feel like a teen! How can you draw in teenage concerns (like environmentalism) while driving the team forward and away from your crusade?

2. Hmm…this merits more thought. Forgot about the teenager aspect admittedly.

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4. What I’ve come to understand about the Mask playbooks is that they’re not about power concepts at all. They’re about stories.

   So what may help you is to consider, what story does this archetype inspire that isn’t already covered by another playbook?

5. That is an excellent way of thinking about it. I had a few more ideas tumbling around, but the more I think about it, the more they seem like slight offshoots from the main 8 playbooks.

   For the Primordial specifically, perhaps it can be a story about a teen who fights passionately for issues they believe in, but her beliefs are constantly swayed and questioned.

6. I think changing the theme to be more about beliefs would make a more interesting playbook. Right now most of the moves make the playbook feel like a Nova who has better control of their powers.

   Overflowing Power is too good especially since I can’t see how it would make you better at mundane, maybe you should limit it to specific moves of labels.

   Emergency Refueling: makes sense for fire or water based powers but doesn’t make much sense for air or earth.

   Nature’s Wrath also seems too powerful since you just get +1 to all your directly engage rolls as long as you have a condition marked, and you get an automatic attack. I would change it to +1 forward instead.

   Finally not having the ability to take a move from another playbook means that every primordial is going to end up very similar mechanically.

7. Yu Tsai I like that idea, a playbook that has very strong beliefs in something, and perhaps has powers that are granted by that belief, but the belief is so radical that most people around them question it. If you go that route, I would drop the nature theme and instead word the abilities and moves around having powers that relate to their belief, in a Joan of Arc style. For character concepts such as…

   “When I discovered my power over sunlight, it became clear to me that I am an incarnation of Ra, the sun god. My destiny is to be the next Pharaoh.”

   “I was born with wings. I have no memory of heaven, but the members of the church I grew up in have always called me an angel.”

   “It was on my 13th birthday that I first heard The Green, the collective voice of all plants on this Earth. They have chosen me to be their champion, and it’s my duty to guard all of nature.”

8. Oooh, really like this idea Andrew. Gonna do some major overhauling.

9. Overhauling just about done. I think I got the essence of a teen who thinks they’ve figured it all out.

10. Ooh, I love the Incarnate! You absolutely nailed the “essence” you were going for.

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