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I'd like my players rolling more dice.

So far the trait sets I have are Attributes, Skills, Distinctions.

That seems too few.

What other trait sets could I add?

Relationships seems like it could help, but in my experience with Hammerheads it can be difficult to bring in the character connection.

Resources could work, but in classic SG-1 they don't tend to bring much gear with them, and certainly don't have a ship with them.

So I was browsing through the Marvel Heroic book and I wondered what the limit was of assets are with Sorcery.

Say for instance, you're making a Cortex Prime Marvel Heroes game. You have a character, a young mystic with the Sorcery power with the Constructs SFX (Add a d6 and step up your effect die by +1 when using POWER SET to create ASSET TYPE assets.)

Narrativewise, the mystic (let's call him Patrick) specialises in summoning constructs based off of popular characters (real or fictional) by using the imagination that goes into them by readers.

If he summons a construct based off of Thor, could that construct cause a blizzard complication? For example by rolling Bibliophile (distinction), Buddy (affiliation), Sorcery (power) and Thor Construct (asset)?

I feel it's a bit absurd, but I can't think of why it wouldn't be possible.

I noticed that Cortex Prime is now trending title on Drive Through RPG. I recently got interested in it and suddenly it gets popular (I thought it is dead system)

What's the reason? Is it some new edition?

I’ve been picking up and reading the Spotlights and getting some good ideas.

One of my favorites is the Strange Die in Strange Towns. But now I find myself longing for an updated Cortex Codex with the new mods and things like this.

Other than the official one (linked below), is there a central repository someone is maintaining?

https://prod-images.cortexrpg.com/compendium/cortex-prime-game-handbook/CortexCodex.pdf