{"id":972,"date":"2015-05-20T22:34:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T05:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:40:09","slug":"the-coming-of-the-metagene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"The Coming of the Metagene!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <em>Invulnerable RPG: Vigilante Edition<\/em> is out, I&#8217;m ready to announce that I&#8217;ve been working on a lighter, faster, kid- and con-friendly super hero game called <em>Metagene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Metagene RPG is also based in the Earth-Omega universe, but it will be a smaller product, both in page count (a little over 130 pages right now) and shelf size (6&#8243; x 9&#8243; format).<\/p>\n<p>Players of <em>Invulnerable<\/em> will find lots of <em>Metagene<\/em> familiar. If you add on all the rules in <em>Metagene<\/em>&#8216;s Appendices, it will play a lot like Invulnerable. The main differences are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolution mechanic is 2d12 + Attribute, with option to spend points to add a Knowledge (talent\/skill), instead of 3d6 + Attribute + Basic Talent.<\/li>\n<li>Powers are simpler and more streamlined. There are no Power Enhancement; instead, some Powers, like Elemental Control, give you points to spend on a limited list of related Powers (Elemental Control (Fire) gives you points to divide between Blast and Flight, Elemental Control (Ice) gives you Armor and Snare, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Simplified damage mechanic.<\/li>\n<li>Attributes are rated from -5 to +5, with -2 as human average and +0 as heroic average. Talents and Powers are rated Amateur, Trained, Veteran, Global, or Cosmic.<\/li>\n<li>Four Attributes: Body, Mind, Brains, and Aura, kind of like how Capsule Mooks work in this Invulnerablog article: <a href=\"http:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/?p=791\">http:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/?p=791<\/a> .<\/li>\n<li>Health and Life Force become just\u00a0Vigor, CDEF and RDEF become just Dodge.<\/li>\n<li>To control how crazy and overpowered Hyper-Agility can get, instead of just granting a +1 per Level to all Moves applications, instead it (and other Powers) gives you &#8220;Maneuver Points&#8221; that can be spent to increase either attack rolls, Dodge, or initiative. Ever wonder why villains can ever manage to hit the Flash? He has to focus on what he&#8217;s doing!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The book is written, save for a few fixes and tweaks, and it&#8217;s in playtesting now. I have no projections on how long that process will take, but <em>Metagene<\/em> has been pretty well received so far. It&#8217;s been a heckuva lot of fun to write, that&#8217;s for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Invulnerable RPG: Vigilante Edition is out, I&#8217;m ready to announce that I&#8217;ve been working on a lighter, faster, kid- and con-friendly super hero game called Metagene. The Metagene RPG is also based in the Earth-Omega universe, but it will be a smaller product, both in page count (a little over 130 pages right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthomega","category-metagene-rpg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GPIr-fG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}