As some of you may know, I'm a big fan of the RPG output of Mr. Jeff Moore, whose work and thoughts you can keep up with at https://comicbookheart.blogspot.com.
Jeff's most recent game is "High Five," a superhero game that, much like his "Hi-Lo Heroes" game before it, has totally captured my imagination.
In fact, I like both of those games so much that I kind of came up with a mash-up of the two, at least as far as "random character creation" goes.
I call it "High-Lo Five Heroes." I know. I'm so clever.
Anyway, the details of the mash-up are as follows:
- Take 5 playing cards from a standard deck, numbered, get this: 1 through Five.
- Shuffle the cards, place them down, and draw one at a time.
- Each numbered card is associated with a Grade for your Hero's Details:
- 1 = A
- 2 = B
- 3 = C
- 4 = D
- 5 = X
- Yes, the lower the card number, the higher the Grade. Switch it the other way round if you want.
- Draw one card at a time, and assign the associated Grade to your Hero's Details in order:
- Attack
- Defense
- Move
- Craft
- Connection
- Based on your Hero's Level (though I would start most Random characters at Level 1), those Grades will set a Score for each of your Details.
- When it comes to generating random Flavors for your Details, this is where the Hi-Lo Heroes book really comes in!
- Attack Details:
- Roll a D6: 1-3 = Roll under Mundane Attacks, 4-6 = Roll under Fantastic Attacks
- Defense Details:
- 1-3 = Evasion Powers, 4-6 = Barrier Defense Powers
- Move Details:
- Roll under Movement Powers ( I may create a second Table for this, too)
- Craft Details:
- Roll 1-6 for Career Type, then 1-6 for Specific Career
- Connection Details:
Now, for any of those Details results, you are not strictly bound to the wording of the result in the Hi-Lo Heroes book. These are just random prompts for your imagination.
Using this "system" of prompts, I created...Dr. Sparks! Check him out!