Black market tech is a dime a dozen, but if you want the best of the best, there’s only one place to go: Toymaster’s Toy Shop. Sure, there’s Stark and his shiny Slap-Chop armory, but when you need real tech support, Toymaster’s fleet of delivery drones have got you covered. Based out of Pan, The Portal City, the Toy Shop can deliver anywhere, anytime.
The Toy Shop
If the Fix-it Network is black market, this is the “white market” counterpart. In many ways it is its mirror.
Accessing The Toy Shop
Hiro uses his Toy Shop to support superheroes only and it should be treated as such.
Characters that want to access the Toy Shop cannot have the following Tags: Black Market Access, Streetwise and Villainous, or, the Trait Infamous.
Anyone without the above Tags and Traits can access the Toy Shop.
Note: While Toymaster will not sell to villains or anti-heroes, what happens after the goods have been delivered is out of his control.
How to Use The Toy Shop
Players with appropriate access to the Toy Shop can shop its offerings or arrange upgrades and repairs any time during downtime. However, Toymaster’s drones will ONLY make deliveries during game sessions.
The Shop is always visible to all Absolute Overpower players in the Overpower Discord. It is up to individual Narrators to determine if there’s a narrative reason why players should have restricted access.
The currency used for the Toy Shop is a player’s Karma. The price for items is determined by the campaign Narrator for the player purchasing from the network and should be fair to the relative worth of the item or service being purchased.
One of the major mechanical differences between Tinkerer’s network and Toymaster’s drones is that one can only be accessed and used during downtime (Fix-It Network) while the other (Toy Shop) can only be played during an active session. It is recommended however that purchases are made and cleared with Narrators during downtime, to be roleplayed whenever the player sees fit.
Updates on the Network
Once a campaign begins, it is common for that campaign Narrator to add (or remove) options from the Toy Shop that will appeal to their players. Narrators should use the shop as a way to provide options their players have requested for their characters if it makes sense narratively. This should be done bi-weekly.
Irregular updates to the shop should be added if there’s a compelling narrative hook in a campaign.
Hiro Okamura
As with any NPC, Narrators should keep track of how much their players interact with Hiro Okamura. Continued favorable interactions should unlock quests, deals on items and upgrades, or maybe even the ability to deploy Hiro as a deployable NPC during combat!