ICONS is a pretty light 2D6-based superhero RPG influenced by the original Marvel Super Heroes. Using the second Assembled Edition as the first edition PDF isn’t available separately.
It defaults to random character generation, though it has a points-based option. I created a character randomly last time, and this time I have an idea for a team, so using points to make them.
45 points each, 1 point per for Attributes, Powers and Specialties, Extras 1 per point of the base power, Limits countering that cost.
The New Orleans Stars, the city’s official superhero team. Running with the Fifty States Initiative idea from Marvel with carefully selected people being empowered among others.
Team Qualities
First Response Team
Like We Practiced
Public Identities
Starting with their team leader:
Guardsman
Laurence Dupre
Team leader and shield
A New Orleans native, former Navy officer and Coast Guard captain given an energy absorption power, so he can shrug off lasers as well as bullets. Strong, authoritative and fatherly.
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| Dennis Haysbert Picture him in a dark blue Arrowverse style suit |
N/A but would be Transformed
Attributes
1-8 spread as standard, 6 is peak human, and points-based characters can have one at 9 or 10.
Prowess 4
Coordination 4
Strength 8
Intellect 4
Awareness 4
Willpower 6
Powers
2-5 on the table, adjusted by Origin
Defensive:
Life Support 1 (Pressure)
Resistance 6 (Damage)
Specialties
Skills and other non-power abilities, rated 1-3. For random characters a 2d6 table provides 1-4 of them.
Athletics 1
Leadership 2
Military 2
Underwater Combat 1
Wrestling 2
Qualities
Aspects - in the first edition you could have separate good and bad ones, but now they’re all meant to be sources of both help and trouble, which I think makes it trickier to come up with. So a bit of a houserule to have a neutral one, a mostly good one and a mostly bad one.
Popular hero of the city
A father to his team
Pushes himself too hard
Stamina (Strength + Willpower) 14
Determination (basically Story Points, characters with fewer powers get more) 3
Extras and Limits
These let you switch out powers, add abilities to them, or limit them which gains other advantages.
None
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