Get it. It’s got what you want to start a Super Powered Fate (SPF) campaign. Make sure you grab your copy of Fate Condensed.

At the heart of a Super Powered campaign are the Superpowers, and SPF treats it with clarity and gravity giving us an attractive “true to Fate” rendition of what running superpowers in a Fate Condensed or Fate Core campaign should look and feel like.

The Essentials: On pages 3 and 4 are the crucial things you'll need to consider about Superhero Campaign Mechanics with clear guidance for Character Mechanics and Setting Rules (dial-setting). The work on Superpowers from pages 5-13 is clear, extensive and usefully detailed without being “too much.”

How to write a Superpower Aspect and utilize the permissions and denials it grants is well done and gives us more understanding on the effective use of Aspects overall: this is the core of developing a Superpower. Power Skills gives a tweakable way of looking at skills in a Supers campaign, explaining mundane and super usages without having to author a whole new set of skills, though he also shows what the super powered version of a skill might look like with very effective examples. Power Stunts rounds out the set, showing us how to really give diversity and punch to whatever created effect might be wanted. SPF touches significantly on Power Scale (as a special powers stunt) which is based on the Scale Rule already found in Fate. Finally, 10 character Archetypes are shared, along with a sampling of Super Powered Fate characters.

SPF is written more in the style of FC taking advantage of the clarifications and the style in which it was written. Harmon's skills as a published writer gives us a well written mechanical and descriptively sound perspective, while consistently highlighting some of the clarity brought to us by the newest set of Fate rule-sets, Fate Condensed. SPF is oriented towards Fate Condensed, more so than Fate Core (because of the more recent clarifications of some of the rules such as Stress damage), but Fate Core and Fate Condensed ARE essentially interchangeable with no effort. With that being said, there are very useful references, such as FC p. 52 (Fate Condensed), throughout SPF which sets this particular product a nudge ahead of its peers.

The entire work reads beautifully and is effectual enough to get your Superpowered campaign - whether it's a traditional 4 Color Fight or a menagerie of magic users - up and running in no time.