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Scion RPG

Role-playing Game Name: Scion

Description: Scion: Hero Modern day children of the gods Role-playing Game White Wolf Publishing

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RPG Scion

Scion is an Role-playing Game with a terrific premise and sketchy mechanical implementation.

Like most White Wolf Games, it's a dice pool system using d10s. Where the system breaks is how it handles Epic Attributes. Each level of Epic Attribute gives automatic successes, on a geometric scale, so before long, a specialist will be untouchable in their particular arena. That's not an issue when you're comparing a PC to a mortal, but once you start comparing Demigod to Demigod or higher, things get very squirrelly.

Scion's setting and world is a brilliant bit of modern mythology, but a potential GM would be better taking the source material and running it in a system that better models the sort of challenges they'd like to see.

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There is also a question of versatility. Each purview is given specifically defined powers, and while they are interesting and potent, it also mean that one earth god looks a lot like every earth god. It's not a deal breaker, because there are many purviews to chose from, but it still is a factor.