Nifty accessory: the Superhero Tarot

[buzz]

My Champs GM has recently started using the following as a sort of superheroic Deck of Many Things:

 

http://www.ihero.net/tarot.html

 

It's a tarot deck illustrated with characters from iHero Entertainment's Cyber Age Adventures. The cards are vey high-quality and the art is great.

 

My GM basically lets you opt to draw a card instead of getting XP for a session. Each of the cards has been assigned a different type of bennie, form +20 COM for a game day to a one-time teleport to anywhere in the campiagn world. I think they could also make for a good "creative whack pack", or even as a resolution method for a supers game. With magic being such a big part of the Champs universe, they seem very appropriate.

[Rapier]

Re: Nifty accessory: the Superhero Tarot

 

Fun but too OOC for me.

 

In a contiguous serious (with lighthearted moments, but a serious campaign) how do you rationalise the fact that Slinky the Multi-Armed Martial Artist just teleported hisself to Antarctica and back? He's never done it before and can never do it again.

 

Yes, the same can be done with a plot device teleporter...but at least then its all worked into the game and not just dropped in as some deux ex machina.

[Magmarock]

Re: Nifty accessory: the Superhero Tarot

 

A "Must Have" for my tarot collection.

 

Cool.

 

Mags

[freakboy6117]

Re: Nifty accessory: the Superhero Tarot

 

special effects could be calling in favours

 

"professor maximillian has an experimental teleporter that could get us to doctor magnofluxs secret base in time to stop him but we would have to find our own way home, that is if survive"

 

for bonus COM "thank you Trinny and Susan, I see now that that colour spandex just didn't suit my skin tone"

[buzz]

Re: Nifty accessory: the Superhero Tarot

 

In a contiguous serious (with lighthearted moments' date=' but a serious campaign) how do you rationalise the fact that Slinky the Multi-Armed Martial Artist just teleported hisself to Antarctica and back? He's never done it before and can never do it again.[/quote']

It's supers; anything is possible.

 

But, some people like dramatic editing mechanics, and some don't. If you do, I think these cards are a cool implementation.