Smallville Game

Leads

• Josh: Electra Ellis
• Avram: Boadicea "Bo" Blackwater
• Gaylord: Laura Jones
• Lisa: Sandy Spade
• Beth: Sophia Byrne

Features

• Bella Blackwater
• Prudence Byrne
• Nichole Charles
• Einstein Ellis
• Foley Ravenscroft

Extras

• Elsinore Jones
• Steve Ross (Detective)
• Hannah Trahn

Locations

• 13 Court Street
• Brownian Motion
• Einstein's Lab
• McNeil Park
• The Nebraska
• Parthenon Books
• Schuster Conservatory
• Straw Island
• Tor Towers
• Wolfman Hospital
• University Dorm

Relationship Map

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Character Creation

• Character Creation Cheat Sheet
• Avram's Pathways chart (PDF)
• Distinctions
• Pathways Map
• Resources and List of Resources
• Statement Ideas
• Names and Comic Creator Names
• Questions
• Alternative Rules and New Distinctions
• Pathways Abstract, an analysis of the Pathways chart, in case someone wants to design a new chart for a different setting.
• Errata

Steps

1. Origin
2. Youth
3. Focus
4. Road
5. Life-Changing Event
6. If you're playing a "Rookie" game, skip ahead to Finishing Touches. If you're not stopping at Rookie, keep on going....
7. Priority
8. Modus Operandi
9. Motivation
10. Identity
11. Finishing Touches

Cheat Sheets

• Avram's Dice Flowchart
• Avram's Trigger Cheat Sheet
• Rolling the Dice here on the wiki.
• Character advancement: Tag Scenes and Growth Pool here on the wiki.
• Plot Points here on the wiki.
• Stress here on the wiki.
• Trouble, right here in River Wiki.
• Smallville Cheat Sheet PDF on NerdNYC
• Smallville Rolling on Google Docs
• Smallville Conflict Flowchart on Google Docs
• JDCS Smallville Cheat Sheet PDF on ScareyMonsters.net
• Assembling a Pool in Smallville on Google Docs
• Smallville contest flowchart on Google Docs
• Story Games thread on Smallville, which is where I got the links to the cheat sheets.
• Somethingville — Fan repository for ideas relating to the Smallville and Leverage RPGs. There are a few professional Distinction listed, like Cop, Lawyer, and Forensic Investigator. Might make a good jumping-off point if you want to develop a Distinction for some other profession.

Details

• Yellow Box is the wiki about superhumans
• Lots of fights between superheros and supervillains
• There was a genderqueer superhero team that was considered to be supervillains for just that reason
• Excelsior Foundation pays Einstein Ellis to be a caretaker of Straw Island
• Sandy has seen someone (Bo) fly on Straw Island
• Bo saw a flicker of light from the fort on Straw Island
• Straw Island has a fort and an asylum, and there are lights there at night