Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

Jennifer invents the first challenge, writing this on a
fourth notecard as:
The heroes have uncovered a series of clues that
point toward the location of a group of minor villains
using an abandoned auto manufacturing plant as
their HQ. They decide to investigate the place —
taking Jennifer a bit by surprise. She expected them
to pursue a different thread of the plot in this session.
The group is made up of five heroes and Jennifer
decides to create an action scene of moderate
difficulty. From her list of prepared GM characters,
she picks two minor villains, writing their names —
Tire Fire and The Riveter — on index cards and
setting them on the table. She also adds a group
of five minions (“Road Rashers”), for which she
makes another card. She completes the scene with
two challenges.
TWISTED STEEL BARRICADES
Description
Villains behind the barricades gain a Defend of 3
minus the number of successes heroes have had
dismantling it.
Resolution
Dismantle the barricades
She sets the other challenge (again, written on a
notecard) as:
TREADMILL OF DOOM
Description
A few hapless citizens are bound to a functioning
but slow moving treadmill, leading them to certain
death. This challenge requires an action by a non
minion villain to be activated.
Resolution
Successes
Timer
Triggered: It won’t be pretty.
She decides that the villains and minions are waiting
in the abandoned plant, expecting the heroes’ arrival.
They’ve reinforced key points of their HQ to make
their stand. They also have a nasty trap of sorts, in
case they need to distract the heroes. She could use
an environment, but decides to forgo it in favor of
two challenges, instead. She still uses a scene tracker.
Swapping Scene Elements
You can:
• Replace a moderate element with two easy ones
• Replace a difficult element with two moderate ones
• Swap two moderate elements with one easy
and one difficult
Additionally, you can:
• Take a moderate scene and remove a moderate
element to make it an easy scene
• Take a moderate scene and add a moderate or
difficult element to bump it up into a difficult scene
Jennifer wants an action scene of moderate
difficulty that threatens to swamp the heroes with
lots of small enemies, rather than a few more difficult
ones, so she takes a moderate difficulty scene she
used in a previous issue and adapts it. Originally the
scene used three minions and a lieutenant, so
she replaces each minion with two minions.
The new scene has six minions and one
lieutenant, so a larger group of more fragile minions,
still led by a particularly powerful lieutenant, giving
her a very different opposition feeling for this scene.
Creating Action Scenes
Intro
Playing
the Game
Creating
Heroes
Moderating
the Game
B ullpen
the
Adventure
Issues
The
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