Over the coming weeks we will explore more detailed martial arts using the Metahumans Rising system. Each entry will include an overview of the style, key techniques, or feel of the martial art, associated weapons, and how to build a character that is able to emulate the martial art’s style. As Metahumans Rising is a game of superheroes, we’ [...]
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Martial Arts In Metahumans Rising Par...
Over the coming weeks we will explore more detailed martial arts using the Metahumans Rising system. Each entry will include an overview of the style, key techniques, or feel of the martial art, associated weapons, and how to build a character that is able to emulate the martial art’s style. As Metahumans Rising is a game of superheroes, we’ [...]
Power Archetype: The Ghost
Every breath you takeEvery move you makeEvery bond you breakEvery step you takeI’ll be watching you
Every Breath You Take, The Police
Before we start, lets define our Ghost, we are not looking at spooks or specters, rather we broaden our definition to those that move unseen through the shadows, be they assassins, or ninjas, [...]
Power Archetype: The Symbiotic
I can run from the law, I can run from myself.I can run from my life, I can run into debt.I can run from it all, I can run til I’m gone.I can run for the office and run for my cause.I can run using every last ounce of energy.I cannot, I cannot, I cannot run from my family.They’re hiding inside of me.
Runs in the Family lyrics,&n [...]
Power Archetype: The Mythic
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow
The hammer of the gods
W’ell drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde, and sing and cry
Valhalla, I am coming!
The Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin
The Mythic is perhaps the broadest category we’ve covered so far. From Athena [...]
Power Archetype: The Gadgeteer
I don’t believe it
There she goes again
She’s tidied up and I can’t find anything
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions
But, it’s poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
She’s blinding me with science
She Blinded Me With Science, [...]
Power Archetypes: The Speedster
The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody’s out on the run tonight
But there’s no place left to hide
Together Wendy we can live with the sadness
I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul
H-Oh, Someday girl I don’t know when
We’re gonna get to that place
Where we real [...]
Power Archetype: The Mentalist
You’re seeing now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars,
I’ve been living on the edge so long, where the winds of Limbo roar.
And I’m young enough to look at,
And far old to see, all the stars are on the inside.
I’m not sure that’s there’s anything left to me
Veteran of the Psychic Wars, Blue Oyster Cult
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Power Archetype: The Blaster
Like Orphee in some thunder world
Asking to be bathed in light
To be exemplified
With grey desire he looks out mad
His soft grey indigo eyes
Indigo Eyes, Peter Murphy
Cyclops, Havoc, the Human Torch, Radioactive Man, Static, even Jubilee with her plasmoids, the Blaster is raw power unleashed. There are few, if any more dangerous th [...]
Power Archetype: The Ultra-Human
One of the most iconic archetypes, the Ulrta-Human is probably the most and least well known. We define the Ultra-Human as a paragons exceeding human expectations on multiple levels. There are a host of heroes that could meet this definition. Just to name a few Justice Leaguers we have: Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, even the Martian Manhu [...]
Power Archetypes: The Shapeshifter
Hello again, friend of a friend, I knew you when
Our common goal was waiting for the world to end
Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend
You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again
Black Sheep, Metric
From Mystique, to Mr. Fantastic, with Beast-Boy and Violator thrown in for good measure, the shapeshifter [...]