FFG: Realms of Terrinoth Heroic Abilities Preview
What makes a Hero a hero? Well these Heroic Abilities sure help – see how they will impact your character!
Realms of Terrinoth is an upcoming Fantasy Campaign Sourceboook for the Genesys RPG System from Fantasy Flight Games. In the system, the players will be able to create their own Heroic Abilties and powers that help make them who they are, with the GM’s permission of course. Today, we’re taking a look at the steps it takes to create your own Heroic Abilities!
via Fantasy Flight Games
Heroic Abilities are powerful actions used as incidentals during combat. These abilities represent what makes your hero unique—through a backstory that you develop, your Heroic Ability comes to life. As your character grows in experience, they receive ability points, which you can spend on upgrades that further customize your character’s Heroic Ability.
That’s right – you get to spend your ability points in customizing your character’s Heroic Ability, creating a unique Heroic Ability that is specific to YOUR character! And all it takes is three easy steps:
1 – Choose A Primary Effect
The Primary Effect is the core of your Heroic Ability. When choosing this, it should be rooted in your character’s backstory and concept. It should help define what makes your character who they are – if this was a super hero game it would be what makes the hero “super” in a way.
Realms of Terrinoth has a massive list of primary abilities to start with. However, nothing in the rules says you can’t work with your GM to create your own effects, too. These abilities do come at a price as they cost two story points to use and can only be activated once per session. So whatever you pick, choose wisely…
2 – Determine Your Ability’s Origin
There are a few different ways to do this, but FFG has also created a chart to help you out with this part.
The Origin of your powers can be just as important as the powers themselves – so have fun with this step and work with your GM so that it fits your character and helps with the narrative you’re crafting as well.
3 – Name Your Ability
This step is possibly the most intimidating step of all three. The name of your power will become iconic, like Goku’s Kamehameha or Ryu’s Hurricane Kick, the name does matter! But really, this step is also there there add that last bit of flavor for your character and help personalize it that much more.
Level Up
As your character level’s up, you can spend XP to improve your Heroic Ability. In this way, your ability grows and changes as your character does, too. For every 50XP you earn, you can spend it on improvements that can change the base effect, increase how often you can use it, the length of time it lasts, and a whole lot more…
Here is an example of one of the Heroic Abilities and the “upgrades” it can have. Hard to Kill, as the name implies, makes your character extremely resilient to damage. You can tweak this power with xp as your level up as well by working with the GM and making it unique to your character. Why does your character have this trait? Do they have some magical artifact that grants them this ability? Perhaps they trained to years to toughen their body and mind to ignore physical punishment. The options are wide open and you can decide how it works, why it works, and where it will take you from there!
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