Which naturally make me concerned about how Supers & Sorcery handles this, and for an Edition that is notably lower-powered than Pathfinder. Even back then I realized that I was fighting against the rules in order to better fit genre constraints. While I’d like to think that I did an adequate job with the tools that I had, if I were to run Arcana High again I would not use Pathfinder or a D&D system for that matter. And while they were talented enough to handle themselves, several ‘mid-level’ NPC allies they made along the way could still usefully contribute in smaller ways to their adventures. In all but the final arc PCs still had regular concerns of balancing school life with magical vigilantism. Furthermore, I had a more focused sense of what I wanted the game to be I knew that things in Pathfinder got crazy past 12th level, so I sought to keep things in the setting (including the larger threats) within this scale while still doing my best to emulate “larger than life” adventures.
For this I drew influence from magical items rather than class features, so as to at once reduce the Christmas Tree effect while also allowing for meaningful progression. Topping this all off was my own feat-like progression of special abilities derived from superhero tropes.
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I used the Pathfinder system with the caveat that every PC must have levels in a full or partial spellcasting class, and the Secret Sword relics automatically granted Big Six bonuses along with anti-divination and disguise abilities to better maintain a secret identity. I’ve gone on to GM many other campaigns from then on, but even seven years later it is one of my most memorable campaigns. The pitch was that the PCs were students at a world-renowned magical academy, but ended up inheriting relics which allowed them to transform into the Secret Swords, a team of masked heroes from times of yore. Back in 2014, I ran a campaign known as Arcana High.
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