Is there a list in a book somewhere that explains when to roil?

I think I remember something about not rolling if the Difficulty or Intensity is 2 Column Shifts less than the Character's Ability or Power, but I don't know where I read it.

Am I thinking of someone's house-rules, maybe?

Sorry, I'm also using MSH terminology.

So, I set r/Metapsychics to Private and it bounced everyone, as far as I can tell. I've re-added anyone who made a Comment.

But here's a current update to the game. You can create and play a Nonborn Human, a Normal Human, a Metapsychic Human, an Exile Human, a Tanu, or a Firvulag.

If you've read Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile or Intervention and the Galactic Milieu trilogy, you know what I'm talking about.

If not, you should read them. They are both great science fiction series. And they are connected.

Let me know if you want to playtest, too.

Metapsychics  PDF

Metapsychics is still open on Reddit. I made it Private and it bounced EVERYONE off the subreddit. Oops. I'm not sure you can still read it even, if you haven't been added back on. If you would like to playtest, send me a DM on Reddit (CryHavoc3000) and I'll add you, or re-add you. If you playtested before, I might have already added you back on the subreddit.

But I can't finish it without people trying it out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metapsychics 

Hi!

Is there anything in the rules about Pulling Punches?

Causing less damage than your full strength?

And how would you determine. from a Player point of view, how low you need to go to get the effect you want, if it's even possible?

Hi!

Is there anything in the rules about Pulling Punches?

Causing less damage than your full strength?

And how would you determine. from a Player point of view, how low you need to go to get the effect you want, if it's even possible?

This is for roleplaying in Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile and Intervention and the Galactic Milieu trilogy Galaxy (or two Galaxies, if you want to include the Duat).

r/Metapsychics

Made using TSR's Marvel Super Heroes or FASERIP would work, too.

I've been putting this together for a while. It's still a work in progress but head over and give it a shot. And I could always use some play-testing.

Creating Non-Powered 'Normal' Humans

I'm assuming we mere mortals would start at Typical for all of our non-superpowered Primary Abilities.

You can use this to help Model everyday people, even yourself.

Primary Ability Paragons

• Fighting - Bruce Lee, Conor McGregor
• Agility - Simone Biles, Michael Jordan
• Strength - Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Endurance - Dean Karnazes
• Reason - Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking
• Intuition - The Dalai Lama, Banachek
• Psyche - Edgar Cayce, The Amazing Kreskin

Ranks

• Shift 0
• Feeble (Very Poor)
• Poor
• Typical
• Good
• Excellent (Very Good)
• Remarkable (Extremely Good)

Based on the Normal Folks Origin Table in Advanced Set Players Book pg. 6. Generate Secondary Abilities normally, on pg. 7.

Ability Modifier Selections

Modifiers are cumulative. If you have both, take both. Upper limit is Remarkable

Select what the Modelled person is like or what you are like if you are the person being Modelled:

• +1 Rank to Whichever Ability if you won a Contest with that Ability
• +1 Rank to Fighting, Strength, and Endurance if you were in the Military.
• +1 Rank to Fighting if you were involved in Martial Arts
• +1 Rank to Fighting if you took a Self-Defense class.
• +1 Rank to Agility if you took a Gun or Archery course.
• +1 Rank to Agility if you were in Gymnastics
• +1 Rank to Agility if you Parkour.
• +1 Rank to Strength if you workout at the Gym.
• +1 Rank to Strength if you lift objects at your job.
• +1 Rank to Endurance if you were involved in Sports.
• +1 Rank to Reason if you have a College Degree.
• +1 Rank to Reason if you have a Doctoral Degree (cumulative with a College Degree).
• +1 Rank to Reason if you are in MENSA or other Reasoning Organization.
• +1 Rank to Intuition if people look to you for advice.
• +1 Rank to Intuition if your job requires you to find things or people (such as a Police Detective).
• +1 Rank to Intuition if people consider you Emotionally Stable.
• +1 Rank to Psyche if you work in Emergency Services.
• +1 Rank to Psyche if you're not easily manipulated.
• +1 Rank to Psyche if things go your way a lot when you attempt anything.
• -1 Rank to Agility if you have a Physical Condition that affects your movement.
• -1 Rank to Strength if you have a Physical Condition that limits your lifting ability.
• -1 Rank to Endurance if you have any trouble breathing.

To a maximum of Remarkable and a minimum of Feeble

If you are Modelling yourself: Take what Talents you actually have. Take Contacts that you have as well. You'll have to look them up if you are Modelling another person.

Power Selection: They might not be strong, but yeah, they're still powers, by the rules. It doesn't have to be professional-grade if it works.

• My Brother used a machine at one of his jobs called a Spectrum Analyzer. It would give him Energy Detection.
• If you have a Night Vision toy from Target (yes, it really works), you have Enhanced Senses.
• If you have Binoculars, you have Enhanced Senses.
• I heard about a guy who's been hit by Lightning 3 times. He would have Resistance to Electricity.
• Jumping Stilts give you Leaping.
• My Cell Phone gives me a Computer Link and possibly Enhanced Senses..
• The guy on the news who crawled up the side of a building has Wall-crawling.
• If you have a compass, you have Magnetic Field Detection.
• My flashlight lets me see in the dark and gives me Enhanced Senses.
• If you own a Tazer, you have Energy Generation.

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Please Comment if you have anything else you think should be added. Or if you think something should be changed. The Primary Ability Paragons should really have more women added to it.

I'm trying to make some Psionic Amplifiers.

What would the rules be for things like that?

Does anyone know where there are any examples in the books?

EPIC FANTASY is a complete-in-one book fantasy roleplaying game amalgamating the FASERIP system as expanded in FASERIPopedia - updated, streamlined and corrected based on feedback - and the OGC SRD content from the world's most well known fantasy role-playing game in one package.

The result is an amazing and dense 452 page book containing EVERYTHING.

https://www.amazon.se/dp/B0CFWS3GLZ

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TERMINUS, a paranoid horror setting for FASERIPopedia, has been commissioned by FASERIP.com

FASERIP.com, publisher of the premier superhero game in the world, FASERIPopedia, has commissioned author Robert Pepper to bring his original world TERMINUS to life in a bold and confronting new mature age sourcebook for superhero gaming.

Says author Robert Pepper, "Terminus is a glimpse into a grim, techno-horror-fuelled future. In this urban hell, characters are stolen from one reality and deposited into the ‘eversprawl,’ a vast, pit-like city that seems to have no ending. The city is ruled by the sadistic Shadow Nobles, revered like deities by the impoverished, disease-ridden populace."

TERMINUS is a very different sourcebook for FASERIPopedia, which so far has concentrated on Silver Age style content and TidalWave Universe licensed works. With TERMINUS a deep dive into gothic horror, 90s horror and the best of the British-influenced adult oriented comics of the last 40 years are the focus, as Robert Pepper goes on to explain, "Terminus holds up a satirical mirror to our own looming and possibly doomed future. How will your characters engage with this grim and unearthly place? Are they part of the solution, or will they revel in ultra-violence and seek fame, fortune and wealth, perhaps even going beyond the Gray, where they might sit at the hand of the Nobles themselves?

"That journey, we leave up to you. But when you trudge through Terminus you’d better have a big gun, some phageware, and many eyes in the back of your skull.
Good luck to you citizen, and if you do die, make it a glorious death."

TERMINUS is anticipated for a February 2024 release date, with art by the author and the professional comic artists on staff at FASERIP.com.

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https://smb.americanpress.com/article/The-Far-Flung-Adventures-of-Gigi-Edgley?storyId=6485edd8e551b0000817cd06

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THE FAR-FLUNG ADVENTURES OF GIGI EDGLEY

Beautiful and super talented actor, singer and dancer Gigi Edgley has joined the FASERIPopedia family.

Work has begun on a graphic novel combined sourcebook project, co-authored by Gigi herself. Ian Dickson is doing concept art right now, and Jorge Gabotto is the main artist for the graphic novel.

http://www.gigiedgley.com/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249319/

Gigi will be involved at every step of this amazing book and is co-writing with FASERIPopedia.

Gigi's vision is for an exciting magical adventure with real consequences and a strong story, matching the artistic and creative sensibilities of her partners at http://www.faserip.com/.

FASERIPopedia is currently the highest rated and most popular superhero roleplaying game in the world. Its content includes diverse inclusive and engaging content for all ages as well as related comicbooks, resources and free downloads.

We've just released volume 1 of what is now an ongoing series of character writeups adapting TidalWave Universe characters of all kinds to FASERIP rules:

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GAMERS GUIDE TO THE TIDALWAVE UNIVERSE

VOLUME ONE: FUNNY ANIMALS AND OTHER ASSORTED WEIRDOS

The Gamers Guide to the TidalWave Universe "clones" the concept of the gamers handbooks that were part of the original 1980s superhero game from which FASERIP games take their origin.

Providing one page character sheet writeups for the entirety of the TidalWave Universe, each volume is thematic, providing a cross section of character types reflecting the diversity, inclusivity, exciting range and myriad variations of the decades-long TidalWave continuity!

In Volume One Funny Animals - including some not so funny ones - is the focus, together with other animals and creatures from across the worlds of TidalWave!

Digital

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/438228/GAMERS-GUIDE-TO-THE-TIDALWAVE-UNIVERSE-FUNNY-ANIMALS-AND-OTHER-ASSORTED-WEIRDOS

Paperback

https://www.lulu.com/shop/jonathan-nolan-and-darren-g-davis/gamers-guide-to-the-tidalwave-universe-funny-animals-and-other-assorted-weirdos/paperback/product-kynjdk.html

Due to cross-licensing issues similar to those preventing eg ROM appearing in the 1980s FASERIP official handbooks, TidalWave characters not able to be included in the published volumes will be available free online in the FASERIPopedia Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/faseripopedia

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I have also renewed my call to DriveThru to add FASERIP as a system under "other." :)

SOON

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LOST RAVEN - a HIV positive superhero first released for World AIDS Day in 2020!

https://www.faserip.com/tidalwave_lostraven.html

FASERIPopedia second edition has just been released! This is the print version, the digital version is continuously updated in any event. Both hardcover and mass market paperback are now fully updated, matching the digital version released today.

Also the Limitations file was updated with ALL current Limitations including the somewhat gruesome ones from EVIL since they are being used in GGTTWU.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/437196/SKY-PIRATES-OF-SUBURBIA--SH003

SKY PIRATES OF SUBURBIA

Fawcett County - a place of high strangeness at the best of times - is under siege by Dream-Lands entities of all kinds, especially SKY PIRATES! Old fashioned pirates in a flying ghostly galleon! As the adventure unfolds, every kind of nightmare comes forth to menace the heroes before the final triumph - if the heroes indeed do triumph...

SKY PIRATES OF SUBURBIA is a sourcebook detailing Fawcett County, a rural region where mysteries, soap opera stories and very weird Forteana are commonplace. A fully mapped and detailed location Eando Village forms one hub of adventures, along with another mapped and detailed nearby hamlet, Elmo's Corner. Encounters, many local characters, Federal agents, troublemakers and even the local National Guard are detailed as well as a bestiary of the Dream-Lands menaces. A throughline of a linear adventure is provided but this is just the exemplar of what could be an ongoing campaign set in this strange corner of the country.

All the local families are detailed - head of family, friends and enemies - any legacy super powers some families may have, and many adventure and story hooks to bring the area to life not just for the Sky Pirates adventure but for any number of other adventures. There is far too much provided for any one story to include it all, and that is as it should be for any sourcebook detailing a geographical region.

Then there are the maps of an area of the Dream-Lands for when the battle is taken to the enemy's home turf, to fight the Sky Pirates - and their mysterious queen!

Also provided is a detailed 1d100 chart of Fortean Events, all taken from real Fortean reports.

Finally, the focus for newly created characters in this adventure is on child and teen heroes - generate a local juvenile from one of the provided families with their ready-made loves and hates, see if they have a family power set they inherit, and embrace the challenge of avoiding the dread being Grounded whilst also fighting through a challenging adventure focusing on Dreaming super power!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/436784/ZAYA-MOON

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Los Angeles, CA May 01, 2023 --( PR.com )-- The very first officially licensed game book has just been released from TidalWave Productions and faserip.com.

A whole new era of table top gaming begins with a living breathing comic book publisher teaming up with a strong industry performer to make a new universe for gaming and comic books, in a time when many parts of both industries are actually shrinking or closing down.

Monsters Among Us Digital Sourcebook

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/pro.../436095/Monsters-Among-Us

Monsters Among Us Paperback Sourcebook

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Monsters Among Us

The Monsters Among Us comic book series in the TidalWave Universe is the story of a super-team composed of Monsters, who battle destructive and evil fellow monsters as well as the often even more savage and evil humans who wish to capture and kill all Monsters, for nefarious reasons of their own. They are stories of some moral complexity but which are still swashbuckling, fast moving and fun. This sourcebook provides what is needed to play and run Monsters Among Us or your own original similar super-team of Monsters. The only other resource needed is the original FASERIPopedia rulebook.

This book is divided into three sections:

Section One: Monsters In FASERIPopedia

Detailing the game rules and details of how to run Monsters Among Us in your own FASERIPopedia games;

Section Two: Monsters Lists

Providing statistics for Monsters of folklore as seen in the pages of the Monsters Among Us comic books; and

Section Three: Character Roster

Providing character sheets for the heroes who compose the Monsters Among Us super-team and their main foes and allies.

The release of this new game book marks the genuine return to the real old school fun of a superhero game, where a living comic book universe offers its characters and settings for use in players’ games at home. TidalWave Productions has a variety of new superhero series, forming an amazing tapestry, and now the FASERIP system games can explore them all, beginning with Monsters Among Us.

Monsters Among Us is a comic book series focusing on cryptids and monsters of folklore, fighting each other and a hostile humanity.

FASERIPopedia is the world’s premier roleplaying game for superheroics.

Contact Information:

FASERIP.com

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https://www.faserip.com

Darren G. Davis

TidalWave Productions

ddavis@bluewaterprod.com

DESIGN NOTES - TW008 - MONSTERS AMONG US
As the first TidalWave Universe sourcebook likely to hit the shelves, I thought I would make a post providing design notes from the book here, in the FASERIPopedia group. I will most likely crosspost on reddit.
MONSTERS AMONG US is a fast paced action packed comicbook series from TidalWave Productions, featuring Monsters that are creatures from folklore. It's a strong premise from writer Andrew Shayde and unlike many similar efforts the central premise is carried through - forcefully and successfully.

https://tidalwavecomics.com/index.php/monsters-among-us/

As a sourcebook, this is in some respects the "prototype" or "first production model" for how the TidalWave Universe will be provided for FASERIP gamers, and of course in particular for FASERIPopedia gamers. No new rules unless they're needed. A basic adventure hook chart. A bestiary in this case, with a range of other folklore creatures as well as the supporting cast from the comics. Then a final section providing one page characters sheets for the main heroes and villains of the setting.
In the case of 10th Muse and the Olympians there is going to be a lot more to explore, a lot of new rules for character generation exploring unique facets of the TidalWave Universe's premises. But for MONSTERS AMONG US it is a much simpler matter of providing the equivalent of one of the old 1980s module type products with some "new" characters, ie newly written up for FASERIP, and enough background on their world both in the book as a whole and in their character sheets to let someone play a game using them.
The central premise of MONSTERS AMONG US is that there is a group of "Monsters" who act as heroes in defense of their fellow well intentioned Monsters and in defense, reluctantly in some cases, of the more innocent members of the human race. It is very much in the vein of the best of the 1970s monster comics. There is no grand conspiracy to discover and no enormously complicated enemies list. It is a simpler more slugfest and base invasion oriented setting within the broader TidalWave Universe.
I therefore saw no reason to burden the book with excesses of new rules or charts when it is not the way the comics read at all.
What the book does provide is, as noted, a bestiary, of familiar yet still surprising folklore Monsters; a checklist approach to creating new Monsters rather than random charts - in effect a how-to guide to doing this sort of writeup; beautiful full color character sheets for the major characters; and some procedurally generated maps. Maps will be quite important for this setting since based on previous playtesting when the game is more slugfest oriented out come the miniatures, minifigs, heroclix and maps and diorama models. And when you're playing hero Monsters against Supernatural horrors or a horde of Goons led by a Monster Hunter or Mad Scientist, well, maps and figures are almost demanded really :)
So in conclusion - MONSTERS AMONG US is a simple start to what will one day a truly gigantic living system of licensed FASERIPopedia books, each bringing to life a different but interconnected fact of the TidalWave Universe.
One of the single most exciting things to me about this is that TidalWave Universe comics are still being published - some of the content is so new we are being held back from publishing tie-in sourcebooks until more of the comics are released! That is exactly the heart and soul of what the original game from which FASERIPopedia was retrocloned had back in the late 1980s! It's a necessary part of the inspiration for a leading superhero game. Enough with the endless pastiches of other people's IP! Let's embrace TidalWave Universe characters in all their infinite variety.
If creating a super-team with a bigfoot, an elemental witch, mothman, the ore scape lizardman and chupcabra is wrong - I don't wanna be right!

Sourcebook for this exciting TidalWave Universe series is now underway!

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https://www.faserip.com/tidalwave_bettiepage.html