What's so Powerful About Responsibility?
A downloadable game
Face front, true believers! What's so Powerful About Responsibility is a rules lite RPG based on What's So Cool About Outer Space, designed for the spaciest characters of all- swinging 1960's superheroes! Create a heroic character complete with fancy costume, earth-shaking powers, crippling anxieties and shoulder-burdening responsibilities!
Draw on those responsibilities to fight for the causes that really matter to them! Free form character creation aims to help you create exactly the character you want to play, and jump straight into battling perfidious perveyors of villainy in one moment, and wringing your hands over your mighty anxieties in the next. Based on What's so Cool About Outer Space by Jared Sinclair, with additional inspiration from What's so Cool About Lucha Libre, by Simon Moody.
Originally created for the the What's So Cool About Jam, but finished for the Missed Games Jam. Provided here are the ruleset, and form-fillable sheets for heroes, villains and super-villains to help facilitate easy online play.
NOTE: After some time and deliberation, a Second Edition of What's so Powerful About Responsibility has been released. This new edition completely reworks the game's core mechanic, while keeping the focus on bombastic superhero drama. First Edition materials will still be available, for the time being. Available here, if you have purchased this game or claimed a Community Copy, it will be available for download. Thanks for your interest, hope you enjoy!
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Community Copies
For those facing financial hardship (and as someone raising a baby in a pandemic, believe me, I get it) who cannot afford a copy of What's so Powerful About Responsibility, help yourself to a community copy of the game! Community Copies will be added for every PDF purchase, and 1 copy will be added for any increments of $1 that anyone wishes to pay above that.
Also! One of my favorite things about RPG's is character, and seeing what people come up with. If you'd like a copy of the game to be added to the community pool, leave a comment on the game page with a character you would want to make in that game.
Development log
- Second Edition- Changes and RevisionsDec 27, 2021
- And there shall come ... a second edition?Dec 18, 2021
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