Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Superheroes In The Dreaming Age - The Web Archivist

Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age Role Playing Game is a tabletop RPG of cosmic horror, swords, and sorcery set in a savage lost epoch, where you play out the birth of the gods of ancient myth. Since superheroes are basically our modern versions of myth, the amazing Tim Brannan, has been turning supes into gritty fantasy archetypes for the game. So far he's given us:

He's also been gracious enough to give my spidersona, the Web-Archivist the same treatment. He created the stats, I came up with the background. 

The Web Archivist is a young man named Ryn. The son of scholars, he was raised to respect knowledge and it's power. Unfortunately his library home was attacked by dark cultists. The stole secretive tomes and burned the rest, slaughtering the library's other residence (including Ryn's parents). If not for the timely intervention of the hero Anansi he might have fallen himself. Swearing vengeance on those that would misuse knowledge and honoring the trickster that saved his life, Ryn dubbed himself the Web Archivist. He stalks the dark places, creeping through ruins like a hunting spider, silent and deadly.

The Web Archivist

The Web Archivist
Class: Sage
Level: 3 
Species: Human (Spider-person)
Alignment: Light Good
Background: Scholar

Abilities
Strength: 14 (+1) 
Agility: 16 (+2) N 
Toughness: 14 (+1) 
Intelligence: 16 (+2) A
Wits: 15 (+1) N
Persona: 16 (+2) 

Fate Points: 10
Defense Value: 8
Vitality: 12 (d6)
Degeneracy: None
Corruption: None

Check Bonus (A/N/D): +3/+1/+0
Melee Bonus: +1 (base)
Ranged Bonus: +1 (base)
Saves: +3 vs. Spells and Magical Effects

Sage Abilities

Languages (16), Lore, Mesmerize Others, Suggestion, Renegade Skills, Spells, Read Languages

Renegade Skills

Open Locks: 15%
Bypass Traps: 10%
Sleight of Hand: 20%
Sneak: 20%

Spells
1st Level: Protection from Evil, Web

Divine Touchstones
Level 1: Arcane Power: Enhanced Senses
Level 2: Arcane Power: Innate Magic: Web (1st level)
Level 3: Additional Movement: Wall crawling

Heroic (Divine) Archetype: Scholar

2 comments:

  1. This is so cool! And I love the fact that we now both have characters existing in the same "reality" who can team up and fight crime together :)

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