Movement

Areas, Ranged Movement & Scale

The Advanced Set introduces a dual movement system. Area movement abstracts space into roughly room-sized chunks defined on the map. Ranged movement uses the half-area ruler from the cut-out sheets — each area equals about half a city block, or 44 yards (≈2" on the outdoor maps).

Use whichever fits the situation. Area movement resolves faster in big rooms; ranged movement matters when exact location is important (corners of intersections, line-of-sight, etc.).

Ground Movement (Endurance-Limited)

A character without movement powers moves a base number of areas per round determined by Endurance:

This baseline applies to running, walking, or any movement without a special power. Heroes with Lightning Speed, Flight, Swinging, or Wall-Crawling use the Long Distance Movement Table below instead.

The Long Distance Movement Table

The canonical Advanced Set Speed Table, from the Advanced Players Book (page 23). Used for flying, super-speed running, swimming, and powered movement. Each rank converts to a specific areas-per-round and miles-per-hour for both Land/Water and Air. MPM = miles per minute (the second value in each MPH cell).

Sound barrier = Mach 1 ≈ 750 mph (≈ Shift X air). Mach 2 ≈ 1,500 mph (Shift Y). Mach 5 ≈ 3,750 mph (Shift Z). In atmosphere, characters with Interplanetary or higher speeds are limited to Mach 5.

Exhaustion & Endurance Sustain

A hero can move without stopping for a number of rounds equal to their Endurance rank number. After that, a FEAT roll is required:

Exceptions: vehicles, devices, robots, and characters with Unearthly+ Endurance are immune to this rule.

Example: Captain America has Remarkable Endurance (30). Running at top speed (45 mph), he makes his first FEAT roll after 30 turns (3 minutes), a second at 60, then 90, and must rest after 120 turns.

Acceleration & Deceleration

A flying or super-speed character can't reach maximum speed in one round. The first round, they move up to their Endurance-limited base (1, 2, or 3 areas). Each subsequent round, speed increases by that same increment until max speed is reached.

Example: Storm has Amazing Endurance (50) and Incredible flight (20 areas/turn). Turn 1 she flies 3, Turn 2: 6, Turn 3: 9, Turn 4: 12, Turn 5: 15, Turn 6: 18, Turn 7+: 20 (max).

Deceleration is simpler — a flying character may always halve their current speed (rounded up). A character that drops to 0 areas falls, unless their power allows hovering (Storm hovers via wind control; Cannonball cannot).

Turning

A character can turn during a move without losing speed. Turns greater than 90° reduce speed by half. If the character lacks the speed to make a tight turn, they end the turn at the point where the turn was attempted.

For sharp 90°+ turns at high speed, the character makes an Agility FEAT — failure means they don't overcome forward momentum and continue in the original direction (potentially crashing).

Low Altitude Flight

If a flying hero is at less than 2 stories elevation or surrounded by tall buildings, maximum speed is reduced to the hero's ground-equivalent at that power rank. Exceeding that limit between ground speed and full air speed requires an Agility FEAT per turn.

Example: Storm's air speed is 20 areas/turn; her ground-equivalent at Incredible is 7. Inside an office or close to the ground, she's limited to 7 at max safe speed. Pushing to 8-20 areas requires Agility FEATs.

Climbing & Vertical Movement

• Stairs: normal movement, 1 floor = 1 area.
• Climbing walls (no power): 1 area/turn with required Agility FEATs.
• Wall-Crawlers: full Land speed on any surface they can grip.
• Elevators: old buildings 5 floors/turn, normal 10/turn, fastest 20/turn.

Falling

Falling itself does no damage — the impact does. Falling rates accelerate:

• Round 1: fall 3 stories
• Round 2: fall 6 stories
• Round 3: fall 10 stories
• Round 4+: fall 20 stories/round (terminal velocity)

Impact damage = the speed of the fall in areas/round, treated as a Charging-style ramming attack. Body Armor reduces this; Karma can reduce it 1-for-1.

Catching a lightpost mid-fall is an Agility FEAT at intensity equal to the speed of the fall (a 20-stories-per-round fall is Excellent intensity).

Leaping

Leaping is tied to Strength, not Endurance. A character may jump as many feet as their Strength rank number without difficulty.

• Green Strength FEAT: a leap of the stated distance.
• Red Strength FEAT: a leap of one additional area beyond the rank's normal distance.
• Leaping down: a controlled fall — represents the max distance the hero can drop on their feet without taking damage. Different from being knocked off (which is an uncontrolled fall).

Teleportation

The Teleporter power rank determines maximum range. Teleportation is instantaneous — no flying speed involved.

• Multiple teleports per turn: Endurance FEAT. Failure = dizziness 1-10 rounds (can't 'port again).
• Carrying small items: automatic.
• Carrying others (Power Stunt): until mastered, Endurance FEAT or both pass out 1-10 rounds. Those teleported must make a red Endurance FEAT or pass out.
• Teleporting into solid matter: dangerous. Damage = material strength of the obstruction. Endurance FEAT to teleport back out. Body Armor does NOT protect.

Throwing Range

Canonical throwing range by Strength rank (from the Advanced Players Book p.25). This is the maximum distance a hero can throw an item. For Powers, range may exceed the listed amount, but each additional area beyond the listed range applies −1CS to hit.

Speed FEATs (Heroic Burst)

Occasionally a hero needs to move faster than they ever have — to save a life, intercept a missile, etc. With a yellow Strength FEAT, a character may add 1 area to their movement this round. Green = the burst fails. White = the hero tripped and continues moving in a Slam-style direction.

A hero may not increase speed by more than 1 area/round (15 mph) via this technique.