Morpheus Unbound

Morpheus Unbound's House Rules

Anyone who has played an RPG more than a few times often has the desire to change the rules or fill in holes, or even come up with something entirely new.  We've each been playing for more than a decade, and so we have our own collection of house rules.  Here they are.

Villains & Vigilantes (includes Revised [1982] and v2.1 [2010])

• Ideas for conventional body armor.
• Double Dose.  Sometimes a player will roll or chose a Power multiple times.  Here are some guidelines for how to handle that.
• Some real physics behind Size Change: Larger
• Fixing the problems with Hand-to-Hand attacks
• Cyberpathy v. Lightining Control.  How does one control a computer?
• Unofficial Errata for various V&V 2d. ed. sourcebooks.
• Karma.  Borrowing an idea from MSH to add heroic drama to the game mechanics.
• Reworking Gravity Control to make it a meaningful power.
• Extending the effective range of superpowers like Power Blast and Magnetic Control.
• Random Power Generation - a new model - the fewer total powers you have, the more choice you have in which powers they are
• Guidelines for Training and Inventing Points - includes notes from the rulebook and a variety of alternative ideas

FASA Corporation's Shadowrun, 2d. Edition

• Multi-tasking your Cognitive Needs, getting the most out your encephalon.  Also includes rules for more than two arms.
• Paranatural (Meta)Humans (Mutants in the 21st Century).
• Conversion Notes:  Shadowrun to Marvel Superheroes and back.

Hero Games Hero System

• Hitting Well. The game mechanics separate the act of hitting the foe with determining how much damage was done. Here are some suggestions for improving the damage done when by dramatic dice rolls.
• Notes for converting characters from Shadowrun to Hero System.
• See also Morpheus Unbound's site for Brian Wong's Watch Tower where we have some house rules that Patric and Brian developed for the campaign during 1998.

Palladium Books Heroes Unlimited

• A readme file.
• Changes and additions to Cybernetics, Bionics and Skills.
• Adjusting the strength rules to make them more four-color.
• At what level does the character gain a new Martial Arts Power?  (Ninjas and Super-spies)
• Karma.  Borrowing an idea from MSH to add heroic drama to the game mechanics.

Steve Jackson Games Car Wars

• Some of our original vehicle designs.
• A random list of gunners from the Grey Industries Gunner Pool.
• Completely Unofficial AADA Vehicle Guide 2 Errata Sheet.
• Completely Unofficial AADA Vehicle Guide 3 Errata Sheet.  About VG3:  "Great ideas!  Neat format!  Amazing imagination!  The editor must have been under a nasty deadline!"

Steve Jackson Games GURPS

• Relative Time.  How many extra attacks does a character with Altered Time Rate get?
• Missile and Jet superpowers in GURPS Supers, Second Edition.  Did you notice that 2d ed. doesn't expla the difference?
• High Tech Ballistic Warfare.  Put the atom bomb back on top with these rule additions to protect high tech civilizations from low tech HEAT and HESH warheads.
• The advantages of Force Fields.  The two most influential space operas in history use force fields rather than armor. Here are some rules to boost the power of force fields.
• Streamlined Force Fields.  Another advantage of variable configuration force fields is that they can be used to "add" streamlining to otherwise unstreamlined vehicles and robots.

TSR's Advanced Dungeons and Dragons

• New styles of Kung Fu for use with the 1st edition Oriental Adventures gamebook
• Karma.  Borrowing an idea from MSH to add heroic drama to the game mechanics.