In a Time of Heroes

Example PCs

Amek, the chieftain of the desert horsemen

• Covertly d8
• Directly d10
• For myself d4
• For others d6
• With love d6
• With violence d12
• Exorcism, the holy ceremonies that expel demons and protect people and places from them
  • It requires you to call upon certain warrior gods and recite their holy names and deeds. It’s not dramatic; no flashy effects.
  • It has to be used for others. For NPCs, it’s good for self-protection.
  • Significance 1: it’s far-reaching. You can use it to do battle with demons and other unseen, obscure, spiritual enemies.
  • Its die is a d8.
• Best Interests:
  • to deliver Tajie safely to her marriage to the harvest god
  • to seduce and take Mekha as a lover

Example NPCs

Shahu Seen, the wandering spirit, inflamer of passions

• Action d12, d8
• Maneuvering d10, d6
• Self-protection d6, d4
• The power to inflame passions, such as a wandering spirit might possess.
  • Whisper in someone’s ear and fan their passions into flame.
  • It has to be used covertly. For NPCs, it’s good in action.
  • Significance 1: it’s consequential. It threatens for others; for NPCs it threatens self-protection.
  • Its die is a d8.
• Best Interests:
  • for the beautiful girl to be no virgin for her marriage to the harvest god
  • to murder or arrange the murder of the exorcist

Owe List

1. None

Oracles

1. A galaxy on the cusp of open war
2. An interplanetary cold war, threatening to turn hot in an instant
3. A runaway experiment, with strange, inexplicable powers
4. An ancient weapon of mass destruction, left behind by a forgotten race
5. An eccentric inventor, on the run from a dangerous corporate empire
6. A distress signal, with no apparent source
7. A small community of Christians, humans and alien converts, on the aliens' home planet
8. A blue skinned orphan fleeing an arranged marriage to her elderly tutor
9. Smuggled goods of rare fortune, small enough to slip in a pocket
10. An alien princess asking for asylum
11. A young fertile planet with a newly awakened consciousness
12. The rotting hulk of a spaceship, flagship of the old empire, found at the end of a beacon
13. A gunship sold at the end of war into private hands
14. A daring young explorer, fresh from her stint at the academy, eager to prove herself and taking on all comers
15. A sassy spelunker looking for an alien god's heart in the depths of a planet made up entirely of millions of space ship derelicts that have accreted over time
16. A crew of rogues, led by a former war hero
17. A young doctor, throwing away a promising career over a deadly secret
18. A smuggler of dubious repute, only interested in a quick payday
19. An expert assassin, laying low after a botched job
20. The universally famous monarch, hiding as a citizen of no consequence
21. A brilliant scientist, racing against time to find a cure for her affliction
22. The galactic savior-child stolen by pirates who want a planet as ransom
23. A stranded alien, trying to get back to it's own people
24. A military AI, trying to override it's destructive programming
25. The first settlers on a newly terraformed frontier world
26. A group of freedom-fighters, waging a desperate war against a tyrannical government
27. A secret technology, unearthed by an archaeologist on the homeworld of a long-dead race
28. A cryptic warning, left behind by an extinct alien race
29. The last survivor of a brutal attack, by a previously unknown race
30. A young woman, selected via lottery by an alien power
31. A wayward traveler, hopping between the stars after his homeworld was destroyed
32. An accidental immortal, bored with life, who has become obsessed with carrying out some mundane task
33. A group of alien scientists, trying to recover their lost data, possibly by vivisection
34. An ancient temple defiled by a swarm of insect-bots, sent by a disillusioned adherent
35. The first interspecies child is born
36. A colony of refugees in an asteroid belt