Category: Worlds in Peril: General Discussion

Another question. The Takedown move lets PCs deal Minor, Moderate, or Critical conditions to villains. But the villains’ Condition Threshold refers to the number of Conditions they can take, not the severity of conditions they can take. Is there a mechanical difference to dealing a Minor, Moderate, or Critical Condition to a villain, or is that difference purely in the fiction?

If a villain has a Condition Threshold of 3, and you give a Critical Condition (say, “slashed”), does that count as 3 Conditions for his Condition Threshold, so he goes down? Or is that just one Condition, mechanically the same as giving him a Minor Condition (say “bruised”)?

If there is no mechanical difference, why should a player want to spend their Takedown choices on giving more severe Conditions?

Hello, I’m starting up a WiP campaign, and there’s one part of the rules that confuses me. You can add new powers to your Powers Profile by spending Achievements. 2 Achievements for a new simple power, 5 Achievements for a new Possible power (and a range in between). Why would a player make their new power Possible, when they could make it Simple for only 2 Achievements?

I have a feeling the answer is going to be something like “follow the fiction”, but have your players, or you as a player, actually bought a new power for 5 points instead of 2?

There seems to be an assumption here that Borderline and Possible powers are going to be bigger, more effective, but I don’t find any rule that says so.

If I decide to reverse the Achievement cost for new powers for my game (5 Achievements for a new Simple power, and 2 for a new Possible power), what problems will that cause? What is the intention behind this rule being written as is?