Four Colors al Fresco

A Roleplaying Game of Pulp-Style Superheroes in an Alternate Renaissance

Table of Contents

Introduction
Explaining the Basis of this Entertainment
Character Creation
Wherein We Meet the Main Characters
Roleplaying
Playing a Role; Being a Hero; Contributing to the Story; Grommets
Storyguiding
Wherein We Become Acquainted with the Storyguide's Role
Storypath Cards
Wherein the Balance of Play is Explained
Panels, Pages, Issues, Miniseries, & Titles
An Explanation of the Structure of the Entertainment; Use of Hooks; Between-Issues
Rolling the Planets
A Mechanical Aid to the Beleaguered or Unsure Storyguide
Degrees of Success
An Optional Set of Rules for Greater Mechanical Detail
Italia
Wherein the World of the Entertainment is Given a Brief Overview, Including Lists of Significant Personages
Omegas
A Selection of Omegas of the Land
Appendix I: Glossary
An Explication of the Terms Special to this Entertainment
Appendix II: Example Descriptors
List of Powers, Both Known and Supposed, with Possible Power Stunts; List of Weaknesses, Both Known and Supposed; List of Traits; List of Flaws
Appendix III: Names
List of Italian Names, Male, Female, and Family; Lists of Names for Other Peoples
Appendix IV: Designers' Notes
An Explanation of Why this Entertainment Has Been Created; Evolution; Inspirography
Appendix V: October Open Game License
Indices
Play Aids
Quick-Start Rules; Character Worksheet; Hierarchy Guides; Character Sheet; Title Sheet; Villain Sheet; Mastermind Sheet; Map

woodelf & Epidiah Ravachol, designers
woodelf, writer
[Epidiah Ravachol, fiction author]
[, cover artist]
[, illustrators]
woodelf, typesetter & layout artist
Akira Barnes & Dan Bongert, additional contributors
Michael Bourne & Kim Vaughan, playtesters

Special Thanks to
Alex Weldon, Travis Casey, & Klaus ®. Mogensen, for help with the probabilities
Jonathon Tweet, Robin Laws, Mike Pondsmith, James Wallis, & Andrew Rilstone, for making us wonder what else might be out there
UWMBDA, for providing a ready group of names to steal for examples

Copyright © Anno Domini 2001 by woodelf & Epidiah Ravachol.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the October Open Game License, Version 1.0 or any later version published by the RPG Library; with the Invariant Sections being "Appendix IV: Designers' Notes" and "Colophon", with the Front-Cover Texts being "Four Colors al Fresco: A Roleplaying Game of Pulp-Style Superheroes in an Alternate Renaissance", and with no Back-Cover Texts.

A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "Appendix V: October Open Game License".

An editable copy of this document may be found via <http://www.tiltingatwindmills.net/alfresco/index.html>