Category: Worlds in Peril: General Discussion

Anyone else have story prompts they can add?  I’m always looking for good jumping off points for adventures :)

Anyone else have story prompts they can add?  I’m always looking for good jumping off points for adventures 🙂

Anyone else have story prompts they can add?  I’m always looking for good jumping off points for adventures 🙂

Story Style:

Typically, each style is going to want to have a Beginning (Set-Up), Middle (Area of Exploration/Growth), and End (Conclusion).  Remember that those that have power want to keep it and those that don’t want to get it. 🙂

– 1 & Done

– Graphic Novel: A longer one and done story.

– Event: 2+ Episodes of a fairly stand alone story possibly bringing together outside help to stop a cataclysmic event or major villain and usually self contained.

– Arc: 5-6 Episodes Building to a Conclusion and with hooks beginning in the last episode or 2 that lead to the start of the next Arc.

– Season: 12-24 Episodes Building to a Conclusion and with hooks throughout that can lead to the stories of the following Seasons.

Tropes (You can always start off with one and twist the story in a new direction with another):

– Enemy of the Week

– Time Travel-Fix the Past

– Time Travel-From the Future to fix the Present

– End of the World Battle

– Doomsday Plague/Event (Zombies, Disease, etc.)

– Unstoppable Force

– Immovable Object

– Heroes as Villains

– Villains as Heroes

– Epic Journey-Someone Comes to Town (New Sheriff in Town)

– Epic Journey-Someone Leaves Town (Road Trip)

– Origin Story/Explore the Past (Bourne Identity)

– Pass the Torch/End of an Era

– New Powers Threats Responsibilities

– Vengeance, Pay-Back or Justice

– Redemption (Making up for the Past)

– Any of the Deadly Sins (Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, or Sloth)

– Terror Attack

– Conspiracy Theories (Aliens, Illuminate, Big Brother, etc)

– Heist (ala Oceans 11)

– Chase

– Mystery

– Enemy of My Enemy/Strange Bedfellows

– Survival on a ‘Desert Island’

– Battle Royal/Fight Club

– Time to Train

– Mind-Control/Pod People/Taken Over

– Love Triangle

– Someone Cashes in a Chip

– Hostage Negotiations

– Lost Powers

– Swapped Powers

– Framed for Something You Didn’t Do

– Secret Identity Crisis

– Running the Gauntlet

– Caught in a Trap/Prisoner

– Moral Conundrum/Impossible Choice

– Easter Egg Hunt (ala National Treasure, Da Vinci Code)

Fred Hicks, It’s awesome that you’re jumping in on Worlds in Peril.  I’m really looking forward to the game.  Thanks.

Fred Hicks, It’s awesome that you’re jumping in on Worlds in Peril.  I’m really looking forward to the game.  Thanks.

Fred Hicks, It’s awesome that you’re jumping in on Worlds in Peril.  I’m really looking forward to the game.  Thanks.  

It would be great to see Adam Koebel , Sage LaTorra, and Vincent Baker  jump in as well.  Just sayin’.

I’m far from proficient in this system but it seems to me that a player might want to make custom “power” moves.

I’m far from proficient in this system but it seems to me that a player might want to make custom “power” moves.

I’m far from proficient in this system but it seems to me that a player might want to make custom “power” moves. Is that in here?

Does anyone else here read the Wild Cards books?

Does anyone else here read the Wild Cards books?

Does anyone else here read the Wild Cards books? It would be a great source for odd character ideas. Basically an alien war unleashed a chemical that powered folks. Some people got cool super powers (aces) while others were deformed if they even got a power at all (jokers). It’s an anthology series put together by George R.R. Martin and friends who started out this setting as an RPG campaign. So far, I’ve loved the entries I’ve read.

SPOILERS

My favorites so far are the Great Turtle and the Sleeper.  The Turtle is an omega-level telekinetic, but he’s so agoraphobic that he fights crime while encased in an armored ‘turtle-mobile’ of sorts. The Sleeper is a guy who changes forms/powers every time he sleeps which usually resembles more of a hibernation/chrysalis. This means he might be a high flying, handsome Ace one day (think ) and five months later he might wake up with a body made of jell-o and no other powers. He even goes so far as to take drugs to postpone sleep when possible.  I’ve found the series pretty neat and fresh simply because several of the contributing aren’t traditional writers of super heroes. 

http://www.wildcardsonline.com/index.html

For someone who’s a newbie to this type of system, would someone suggest a place to start?

For someone who’s a newbie to this type of system, would someone suggest a place to start?

For someone who’s a newbie to this type of system, would someone suggest a place to start?

I’m reading the Worlds in Peril rules, but is there another source I should look at?

Kyle Simons, is there anyway to combine Freedom Fighters and Golden Age Heroes?

Kyle Simons, is there anyway to combine Freedom Fighters and Golden Age Heroes?

Kyle Simons, is there anyway to combine Freedom Fighters and Golden Age Heroes? I have two friends that want a PDF and I have already registered for my book.