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I love superheroes. I love generators. But man, do I hate mile-long compendiums of every single thing in existence under a particular heading, and then having to flip back and forth between page 13 and 47, and still being shackled to the dictations of tables.

So instead of having an omniscient superpower encyclopedia, I thought it would be nice to make something that would be capable of producing a whopping 1,296 different outputs, while still giving plenty of opportunity for interpretation and customization — all spawned from just 4 tables.

Supertables is pretty much just that: a collection of tables, with some structures connecting them, which you can use to create powers and contexts for characters in a superhero setting. It's not a game... or maybe it is. Or maybe it's a part of a game. Call it what you will, and it will be that thing. (As long as it involves generating superpowers.)


Made for the Beyond the Super Jam, hosted by Riley Rethal.

I'd love to hear your thoughts about this! Leave a comment below, and/or tweet at me.

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Release date Jun 02, 2020
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
AuthorXander Hinners
GenreRole Playing
TagsSuperpowers, Tabletop role-playing game

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

Supertables.pdf 145 kB
Supertables.txt 7.3 kB

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Xander, you won the 'People's Choice' category of the summer game jam! AMAZING!  

 Send me an email at Templarstabletop@gmail.com with a shipping address, and I will mail you a copy of S3-Lite! 

NICE JOB!

Oh my goodness, I'm honored! Thank you so much!!

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An extremely fun tool for quickly generating interesting superpowered people. My first creation was The Motor Monk, a man blessed by hyper-technologically advanced aliens to wield the power to transform into any vehicle, though he must use it sparingly or be stripped of his power. Can't wait to use this chart in my games!

I'm glad you like this! And hell yeah, Motor Monk seems awesome! I could totally see the drama of looking on as he's forced to balance between force shifts lest he become permanently stuck in vehicle mode, but missing out on critical life moments because of a poorly timed transformation...

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Hi Xander,  

This table is great, and I am really impressed with your page design! NICE! 

I am hosting a superhero TTRPG game jam and I wanted to extend a personal invitation to join. I am allowing reposts of games, so if nothing else maybe the algorithm will give your game a few more views! Jam Link: https://itch.io/jam/summer-superhero-ttrpg-jam 

Check out the details on the jam page, and let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you so much! I will absolutely submit this to the jam. Heck, I'll probably submit something else too...

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I am adding this to my Masks game prep item!

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That's super cool!! Masks rocks lol. Thanks for letting me know! ☺