Re: [BNW] Homebrewed Alphas

["The Mountain Man" <the_mountain_man@hotmail.com>]

Hmmm ... no one knows what the rules are for alphas right now, but my guess 
is that they've got something more like 25 dice for starting traits. And I'm 
guessing probably more than three power packages and probably every trick in 
the book. Well, at least Superior probably did.  But he wasn't only the 
first alpha, he was also the most powerful.  Alphas could beat the snot out 
of deltas, but most alphas didn't even come close to Superior.  In fact the 
only thing that beat him was a wierd sort of bomb set off by Devastator.  
And Devastator was probably the next most powerful alpha next to Superior.  
But I'm guessing we won't have to deal with alphas for a long time.  My best 
guess is our introduction to Crossroads (GenCon '01?) will be our first 
introduction to alphas.  Why?  The facts are as follows.

No alpha has "awakened" since The Vanishing which probably means that 
something was removed from the world that gave deltas the ability to become 
alphas.

The Vanishing was when Devastator nuked all of Chicago taking the city, 
himself, Superior and all the alphas from both sides with it. They say it 
was a nuclear bomb, but if you read between the lines it's more likely that 
Devastator set off something else.

Sure, all the alphas *could* have been killed in the blast, if it was a 
nuclear blast to begin with.  But my guess is that *something else* happened 
to all the alphas.  What I don't know, we'll have to wait for Crossroads for 
that.

Who knows?  It's all just way to much for me to handle!


TMM

>      Just for a moment, let's skip ahead through a year or two's worth of
>      BNW supplements and try to answer a question that is already burning
>      in the minds of most Guides:
>
>      How would you make an alpha character? I'm sure this will be answered
>      eventually, but how does this sound as an approximation:
>
>      -- 15 starting dice for traits.
>
>      -- Pick any three power packages.
>
>      -- Double the amount of starting tricks.
>
>
>      What do you think? Powerful enough? From the looks of it, Superior 
>was
>      a serious badass from the moment he was "born."
>
>      Perhaps they'll be done up like deltas, with their own alpha power
>      packages . . .
>
>
>      -- Ryan Kimmet
>
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