Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

HELP! IT’S GOT ME!
Thinking again about Eldritch Storm Over Rook City,
Jennifer wants a threat that represents manifestations
of the Storm’s nefarious nature. She settles on
creatures she calls “Storm Imps” — horrid, horned,
and tentacled minions. She decides they will make
useful threats throughout the issue, and thinks it would
be fun and thematic to have a Yellow major twist that
introduces a lot of them at once:
Yellow
MAJOR TWIST
Storm Portal: A rift opens nearby in a deafening
thunderclap. Roll the environment’s dice and add a
number of Storm Imps equal to the Max die.
Create a Challenge
This one is straightforward. Something in the
environment goes wrong and must be dealt with
by one or more successful Overcome actions.
Fires, lava flows, reckless reporters, loss of pressure
in a spaceship — lots of things can go wrong in
your environment that require the attention of
the already busy heroes. Creating them is just like
creating any challenge, as detailed on page 189.
Description
A storm rift opens up nearby and creates a powerful
vacuum effect, slowly pulling in cars and other large
objects.
Action
Roll the environment’s dice and Hinder one hero
with the Mid die.
Resolution
Rescue
Outcome
A few screaming citizens are hanging on for dear
life as the rift pull gets stronger and stronger. Saving
them requires an Overcome action before the next
environment turn or they get pulled in and vanish.
Trigger a Doomsday Device
As a more extreme version of creating challenges,
you can trigger a doomsday device (pages 197-
199) inherent to the environment. A volcano
threatening to explode, a base’s self-destruct
mechanism, or a reactor meltdown are all good
examples. Just remember that not all environments
need a doomsday device and make sure not to use
more than one when you do decide to create one.
Jennifer wants to give her issue featuring the Eldritch
Storm’s Over Rook City environment a more somber,
horror-inspired tone — this means environment twists
that are darker than her usual style. As she thinks
about this, an image of a portal opening up and
pulling in hapless citizens of Rook City pops out in her
mind. She decides it would make a great Green major
twist for the environment.
The Eldritch Storm’s Over Rook City has a clear
catastrophic end game. Jennifer envisions some sort
of dark, horrid, unfathomable being from another
dimension opening up countless rifts into Rook City
and emerging from all of them at the same time! She
knows it makes no sense, but she likes the idea of a
Lovecraftian-inspired evil defying the laws of reason,
physics, and magic.
She creates the following Red major twist:
Red
MAJOR TWIST
It Is Nearly Here: If the scene tracker hits the last
space, hundreds of immense rifts open, bringing
the Eldritch Elder through each of them, destroying
most of the city. The heroes can only prevent this
by finding the location of each grand cultist and
putting an end to their rituals before it’s too late.
Creating Environments
Intro
Playing
the Game
Creating
Heroes
Moderating
the Game
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Adventure
Issues
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