Sentinel Comics RPG Core Rulebook

On Balance
If you browse the options on the tables used to
create heroes, you can see that some options get
better dice than others, which means that some
heroes end up with more dice or larger die sizes
than others. This is doubly true if you use the
constructed method and can just choose which
options you want to maximize your dice.
A hero with fewer/smaller dice should feel distinct
and powerful with plenty to contribute to a team,
even when compared to a hero with “better” dice.
Each hero has their own powers and qualities, as
well as unique abilities that give them a role in the
team. Your abilities and how you use them matter far
more than the specific sizes of dice of your powers
and qualities. Within the Sentinels of Freedom,
superpowered heroes like Legacy fight alongside
non-superpowered heroes like Wraith and both are
valuable and powerful members of the team.
The Secret Third Option
Of course, you can make a hero without using either
of these two methods. If you’re trying to replicate an
existing hero and have already made heroes using
one of the other methods, you might just assign
powers, qualities, abilities, etc. as you see fit from
any entries. Even if you have your GM’s permission
to use this method to make your hero, the GM
still has to sign off on your hero build when you’re
done. No one wants to play with Superamazing
Man, with in each power and quality, where
every ability can do anything with Min+Mid+Max.
He’s strong… and completely boring.
What Goes Into
a Hero?
SCRPG heroes have the following elements, each
of which will be assigned through hero creation:
• Powers rated from (above average) to
(godlike)
• Qualities rated from (solid competency)
to (world class)
• Status rated from (wavering) to
(ready to give anything)
• Abilities in Green, Yellow, and Red varieties
• One Out ability
• Two principles
• Maximum Health value
You come up with one quality specific to your
hero in addition to choosing from lists. Other
characteristics, like your hero’s heroic moniker,
their mundane alias (if any), and their appearance
are all yours to define once the process is finished.
Making Existing Heroes
Chapter 7 contains heroes from two super teams,
but you may want to make your favorite hero that
doesn’t appear in this book, either from elsewhere
in Sentinel Comics lore or from another universe
entirely! Hero sheets for more Sentinel Comics
heroes can be found in later books, reflecting
where they are in the storyline, but you can use
this same process to make versions of any hero
you want. All heroes in this book are made using
this process, so don’t worry about being outclassed
by existing heroes.
Rolling Dice to Choose from
Tables
In each step, you roll some combination of dice that
help you choose from the tables provided. When you
roll dice for these steps, you may take the result of any
single die or combination of any two dice to make your
selection. So, your options are the dice values rolled
or the sums of any two of the dice that you rolled.
If Sarah rolls showing 3, showing 5, and
showing 7, she can select from table entries 3, 5, or 7
from the single dice she rolled, or 8, 10, or 12 by using
the sums of any two values she rolled.
What Goes Into a Hero?
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Intro
Playing
the Game
reating
H eroes
Moderating
the Game
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Issues
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