Action Features

Action Features is a multipurpose sourcebook. Like The Cosmic Toybox, this book is a homage to the cartoons I spent my childhood watching. Action Features is a collection of variant racial traits, starting traits and feats designed to give your heroes some of the iconic, gimmick-oriented superpowers shared by cartoon heroes of the 1980s. Inside you’ll find heroic options for flight, super strength, built-in bionic gadgets, fabulous animal sidekicks, super-elasticity and more.

Many of these traits and feats were originally presented as D20 Modern talent trees for 2012’s Powered Hero Evolution. They’ve been re-mixed and rebalanced, added to all new content designed to allow for some interesting character building options. Much of this content is usable (and designed) for The Psi-Watch Campaign Setting, but is also just as useful for adventurers in any of Otherverse Games’ signature campaign worlds. Many of the powers in this sourcebook build on earlier options presented in Battlechangers: Ironworks and Fursona Unleashed, offering cool new abilities to some of my favorite gaming races.

The focus of this sourcebook is interesting, visually obvious and distinctive superpowers. Not every talent from Powered Hero Evolution made the cut. Abilities that step on the distinct gameplay niches developed by the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, or infringe on the psychic powers described in Ultimate Psionics (Dreamscarred Press, 2013) were left on the cutting room floor. The resulting powers are as useful to a Rogue as a Wizard, as effective in an Oracle’s hands as a Fighter’s, as good a choice for a Summoner or a Mindblade, as long as the campaign world looks more like Eternia than Middle Earth.