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ACTION POTENTIAL
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Designer: Rhiannon Swann-Price | Publisher: we evolve
Every RPG needs to have its cool moment, ideally the sooner the better. That moment when you first land the final blow in D&D or roll a messy critical in Vampires: The Masquerade will forever engrain themselves in your mind. For Action Potential, my players were sold the moment they wrapped their persona into a new body during character creation.
Action Potential is a ‘Forged in the Dark’ Sci-Fi system, rewriting the Blades in the Dark core rules to tell a story of outsiders in the far future, where Megacorps control the known universe and having a body is a privilege. The majority of denizens are fitted with a Jump Jack, a device that transfers their consciousness to another form known as a ‘wrap.’ Your original body was company property that you rented for your childhood, which is a debt that most work off by inhabiting sleepless synths, working in farms, mines and factories.