[edit: and i suppose Bret Gillan's "Final Girl" which just flings index cards around the table. now that's the kind of beautiful mess that i want!]

I’ll need to go over those lists and see how they stack up to my meta-categories. I want to add content and not clutter. Let the players clutter that thing up.

It’s amazing what the internet already has “on hand”. Now if only there were a wiki for Kryptonites and Super Assets. (But in reality, that stuff doesn’t have to be uber-resolved for the test document.)

best, Eric

(Larry is my real name)

http://theories.activatingevolution.org/swiki/wiki/index.php/Category:Anomalistic_Abilities

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superhuman_features_and_abilities_in_fiction

Both will require some (ok honestly) a lot of work. I’ll look into finding a few lists of weaknesses a little bit later on in the day.
Larry

The Time thing is really cool but i’m not sure how to do it without having other fiddly clock mechanisms in-game. i’ll ponder that a bit further.

Power: Psychic/Psionic
Movement: Leaping? (Distinct enough from flying?) Tunnelling?
Defenses: Intangible
Assets: Wealth
Weaknesses: Not sure how to one-word it, maybe ‘Time’? (I’m thinking about things like Hourman’s pills, or old-style Aquaman’s need to shower hourly or die, or for that matter Green Lantern recharging.)

currently, i’m thinking that pcs get a 2 based move with the option to spend a token for another (pos. 2) move units. “2 based” would be the equivalent of heroic movement. Teleporters would be relegated to 1 based movement except for the ability to move anywhere on the map at the cost of 1 token. This means they would have to pay a minimal cost to use this great power but their normal movement would be less than a rocketeer, etc.

range, i hadn’t had any progress. so thanks for the feedback. i’m not sure if i want a beefy character like the Mule to only be able to hit the location he’s in or if his reach also allows him to strike adjacent squares. the idea of your square plus one lets everyone have some range and you’d narrate it as a thrown object or some such for brute characters and would allow ranged people to shoot locally and one away.

if i go the route of difficulty, i could also express that as hits with 1s and 2s locking the dice. though it makes it less likely that you’re doing good damage from afar as your dice will lock quickly. If the Flaming Arrow is gunning for you from halfway across town, i don’t know that his arrow is any less deadly.

pondering…

and this also opens the door for “knockback”.

My first thought about your questions regarding: Ranged Attacks and Teleportation is to treat them like any other power but give them a difficutly number determined something like this:
The first square away counts as 1, second square 2, third square 3, etc…
Square that number and that’s your Difficulty.

If I’m getting the rules/themes correct an example would be:
Shifter needs to teleport from the Food Court to the Vault (lets say to rescue Aunt Bea). Since he would have to travel through 5 squares to get there his Difficulty is (5^2)=25.
Shifter rolls his 2d6 (5:3) needing more successes he explodes both his dice (3:4) lucky so far and fearing he won’t get there in time explodes them once again (1:5) now his total is 21…he will have to risk exploding the last die (since one is now stopped) to get inside the vault. Of course if he fails who knows what happens, maybe he gets sent somewhere different or teleports right into the lap of someone wanting to hurt him.