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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 6097734" data-attributes="member: 54877">My group tried an idea similar to this with a wacky Fantasy Hero variant a long time ago, and it worked surprisingly well for a system that a few of threw together in a dorm room one weekend. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; I hadn't considered using the 4E boons to do the same thing before this conversation, but had thought that handing out &quot;powers&quot; that way as the method of character advancement could be interesting--not least because the powers can then be concrete and limited in the 4E sense while at the same time being allowed to carry the stunts with them implied by the flavor.&nbsp; So if you get a &quot;fireball&quot; bit, you can throw a ball of fire occasionally that does some concrete damage, reliably.&nbsp; But having this also implies that you are a character that goes around tossing fire around from time to time, doing stunts implied by that.&nbsp; Because these &quot;powers&quot; are the character bits, and are circumscribed when the game starts, then it's ok if the &quot;fireball&quot; guy can produce a small ball of flame in his hand to use as a torch, for example.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 6097734, member: 54877"] My group tried an idea similar to this with a wacky Fantasy Hero variant a long time ago, and it worked surprisingly well for a system that a few of threw together in a dorm room one weekend. :D I hadn't considered using the 4E boons to do the same thing before this conversation, but had thought that handing out "powers" that way as the method of character advancement could be interesting--not least because the powers can then be concrete and limited in the 4E sense while at the same time being allowed to carry the stunts with them implied by the flavor. So if you get a "fireball" bit, you can throw a ball of fire occasionally that does some concrete damage, reliably. But having this also implies that you are a character that goes around tossing fire around from time to time, doing stunts implied by that. Because these "powers" are the character bits, and are circumscribed when the game starts, then it's ok if the "fireball" guy can produce a small ball of flame in his hand to use as a torch, for example. [/QUOTE]

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