{"id":1978,"date":"2013-09-13T13:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2013-09-14T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T17:38:42","slug":"will-to-power-the-first-godlike-sourcebook-now-in-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2013\/09\/will-to-power-the-first-godlike-sourcebook-now-in-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Will to Power,’ the First ‘Godlike’ Sourcebook, Now in PDF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Will<\/a>Back before Dennis Detwiller and I launched Arc Dream Publishing, he put together the first sourcebook for GODLIKE: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946<\/a>. <\/i>The sourcebook, Will to Power,<\/i> detailed the Nazi programs to detect, utilize and foster Talent powers in all their grim ugliness. But that was only part of it. Will to Power<\/i> also had a 44-page appendix with a host of new rules to expand Godlike<\/i> games, with contributions by Matthew Widener and Colin Chapman.<\/p>\n

Will to Power<\/i> was published by Hobgoblynn Press (later EOS-Sama), but Arc Dream bought all stock and sales rights when we acquired exclusive publishing rights to Godlike<\/i> from Hobgoblynn in 2003. Hobgoblynn printed a very large run of Will to Power,<\/i> and that\u2019s why the book still shows their logo after all these years.<\/p>\n

Now, for the first time, it’s available in PDF.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a breakdown of what\u2019s included in Will to Power.<\/i><\/p>\n

Part 1: Overview (6 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

The overview introduces RuSHA SA,<\/i> the Nazi program to study the parahuman powers of Talents, and establishes its relationship to the Nazi Party and to the SS. These details form part of the background of every Talent-powered \u00dcbermensch<\/i> of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n

Part 2: Man, then Super-Man (5 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

This is a biography of Konrad Rahn, der Flieger<\/i>. He emerged at age 21 as the world\u2019s first known Talent, flying into the Olympic arena to stand by Hitler\u2019s side. For two long years he was the only Talent in the world. Then Pevnost<\/i> appeared in 1938, and others followed, and the entire world changed forever.<\/p>\n

Part 3: Rationalizations (11 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

This chapter details the practices and leaders of RuSHA SA,<\/i> including its spurious attempts to tie Talent powers to racial classification and its gruesome projects to attempt to awaken Talent power by torture and find the root of it by vivisection. Its efforts were misguided and futile, much to the benefit of the free world.<\/p>\n

\"Will-to-Power-SS-timeline\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 4: SS-\u00dcberkommandogruppen (9 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Talents of the Third Reich were almost entirely under the control of the SS, Hitler\u2019s personal bodyguard which expanded to include an army loyal only to him. This chapter describes the SS and its eventual deployment of Talents in \u00dcberkommandogruppen<\/i>, or super-commando groups.<\/p>\n

Part 5: Before Consolidation (4 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

After der Flieger,<\/i> the next few German Talents appeared in the ranks of the army \u2014 unlike der Flieger,<\/i> they were not Hitler\u2019s personal pets. That quickly led to a struggle over control of the \u00dcbermenschen<\/i> that mirrored Hitler\u2019s struggle to bring the German military entirely under his thumb.<\/p>\n

Part 6: Battles (4 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

This chapter surveys Germany\u2019s Talents at war, from der Flieger\u2019s<\/i> demolition of the Polish air force in 1939 to the formation of an entire army of Talents, SS \u00dcberkommandogruppe Heinrich Himmler<\/i>, as a last, futile gesture in the Battle of the Bulge.<\/p>\n

Part 7: Allied Intelligence (3 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Allied intelligence agencies were as fractious as their often-bickering nations. This short chapter discusses their efforts to understand the German Talent program and its findings.<\/p>\n

\"Will-to-Power-soldiers-with-german-flag\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 8: Targets of Opportunity (17 pages)<\/b><\/h2>\n

This chapter gives stats and background dossiers on 18 \u00dcbermenschen:<\/i><\/p>\n