Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

For example, a geyser spewing boiling-hot water
in a national park could hit anyone at random
for damage, while tear gas canisters fired from
automated launchers in the mountain lair of an
archvillain could hinder a certain number of heroes,
assuming all minions and villains wear gas masks.
Once you’ve established your environment’s three
traits and you have a good idea of its catastrophic
story as the scene tracker progresses, you’re ready to
create those twists based on the following guidelines.
You’ll also find a table at the end of this section with
a suggested breakdown of specific game effect and
relative strength you can attribute to each twist
based on their severity and GYRO.
Environment Basic Actions
The twists you create can “take” any of the basic
actions on one or more targets. This gives you the
flexibility to create a great number of effects.
A lot of things that make the heroes’ (and possibly
villains’) jobs harder can be emulated with Hinder
rolls. In a similar way, anything that can help short
of dealing damage can be covered by a Boost. The
bonuses or penalties created by these twists can be
either temporary or persistent and exclusive.
Jennifer creates an environment called Megalopolisin-Crisis,
where she expects the heroes could get
caught in a anti-vigilante protest rally. She decides
that a Green minor twist will create a persistent and
exclusive penalty targeting heroes with the Min die as
the protesters get in the way and the villains use them
as human shields. Additionally, she adds a challenge
called Unruly Protesters to the scene that the heroes
can complete to remove that danger entirely, but the
underlying sentiment in the populace will need to be
dealt with eventually.
Use the Attack action for any passive event that
can hurt anyone in the scene: automated defenses,
micro-meteors, or collapsing buildings (perfect
when combined with a Hinder roll from a different
trait die) are good examples of that.
In a lost temple environment, a major Yellow twist
could be:
Yellow
MAJOR TWIST
Mystic Field of Pacifism: Roll The Lost Temple’s dice
and Defend anyone who hasn’t Attacked in the last
turn using the Max die, then Hinder everyone else
with the Min die.
Overcome a Challenge
This action is a bit unusual for a passive twist, but in
some cases something from the environment could
resolve one of the scenes’ challenges. For instance,
in a Smalltown, Germany environment you could
have a Red minor twist like this:
Red
MINOR TWIST
First Responders Arrive: Roll Smalltown,
Germany’s dice. Use the Max die to Overcome
one of the remaining obstacles involving civilians in
danger. Use the Mid die to Boost one hero and the
Min die to Hinder all others. They’re very helpful,
but in the way.
Add Threats
Some of the scenes you create can have threats
you already planned. These usually take the form
of minions or lieutenants that you set aside to join
the battle, whether as servants of a villain, as helpful
allies for the heroes, or as some form of neutral
threat hostile to everyone
in the scene, like raptors!
Remember that any
minion-like threats
you add to a
scene wait to
act on the
next turn.
The Defend action is used whenever you want to
provide a situation where one or more characters
in the scene would become temporarily protected
from damage.
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Creating Environments