Smallville Roleplaying Game
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| Designer(s) | Cam Banks |
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| Publisher(s) | Margaret Weis Productions |
| Publication date | 2010 |
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| System(s) | Cortex Plus |
The Smallville Roleplaying Game was the first game using the Cortex Plus system, and is a Superhero Role-playing game which is designed to allow Clark Kent and Lois Lane to be played on almost equal terms. It does this by focussing on story and inter-personal conflict rather than raw power. It won a Judge's Spotlight Award at the 2011 ENnies.
There are two main ways to run the Smallville Roleplaying Game. First you can use the official Smallville setting; the main Smallville page is recommended if you are interested in canon for the TV series. Second, the life-path system in Smallville encourages you to create your own setting involving a coming of age drama with superpowers. The example of character creation in the rulebook shows you how you can create Smallville itself using the character creation rules in the role-playing game and the season nine protagonists Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Chloe Sullivan, Tess Mercer, and General Zod.
Character generation in the Smallville RPG is a collaborative process, with characters going through their lives together step by step and deciding how their histories are woven together. The process starts with their Origin (Rich, Ordinary, Gifted, Strange, and Alien or Metahuman), with each character establishing the very earliest statements of their values, and how important they hold them, how they relate to others, and any resources or powers they may have. This is all both written down and drawn by everyone on a large piece of paper, before everyone moves forward to their youth and develops their values (Duty, Glory, Justice, Love, Power and Truth), their relationships, and their powers and resources accordingly. This process involves creating the most important NPCs and locations in the setting as far as the characters are concerned and indicating how strongly the various PCs value them.
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