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I now have Wild Talents 2nd Edition.
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 9:15 pm
by Hoid
I’ve just purchased Wild Talents 2nd Edition (the corebook), and am reading through it slowly and carefully. I own Godlike, but Wild Talents looks a lot more flexible. Plus, reading the “What if?” future timeline of Godlike has been a blast.
Re: I now have Wild Talents 2nd Edition.
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 9:42 pm
by Arkrite
Never heard of it.
What's it about?
Re: I now have Wild Talents 2nd Edition.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 1:11 am
by Hoid
Well, Godlike is a supers RPG using a custom system -the One Roll Engine (ORE)- set in WWII. Despite the name, Godlike’s supers are actually fairly low-powered. There’re no costumed characters; players portray Allied soldiers who have ‘Talents’—-superpowers. Very, very gritty stuff.
Wild Talents is much broader in scope and can handle considerably greater scales of power, including a Four-Colors style of supers gaming. Wild Talents is setting-generic, at its core, but—-it does feature a “What if?” setting that extrapolates what would happen to the Godlike setting if much more powerful superhumans appeared on the scene.
Re: I now have Wild Talents 2nd Edition.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:49 am
by Davies
It also (or at least my PDF copy also) contains a brilliant essay by Kenneth Hite on building superheroic worlds that I'd strongly recommend to anyone interested in the subject.
Re: I now have Wild Talents 2nd Edition.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:28 pm
by Yojimbo
Davies wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:49 am
It also (or at least my PDF copy also) contains a brilliant essay by Kenneth Hite on building superheroic worlds that I'd
strongly recommend to anyone interested in the subject.
That essay alone is almost worth the price of admission.
That's a great book overall, even if I don't completely grok all the mechanics.
Re: I now have Wild Talents 2nd Edition.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 4:43 pm
by Ares
I had originally picked up the book because I'd heard it had the most comprehensive character creation system ever done, and I wanted to idea mine it for the RPG system I'm working on currently. I honestly didn't find the system all that appealing or compatible with what I wanted to do, so I hadn't gotten all that much out of the book before reading this thread.
After reading this thread and the essays on designing settings, my perceived value of the book has done a complete 180. So a big "thank you" to you guys for helping me get the most out of my RPG obsession.
Re: I now have Wild Talents 2nd Edition.
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 6:56 pm
by Ares
Topping this as well, planning to revisit this book a little later.