Wild Talents (role-playing game)

Wild Talents is a superhero role-playing game published by Arc Dream Publishing and written by Dennis Detwiller, with Greg Stolze, Kenneth Hite, and Shane Ivey, with illustrations by Christopher Shy, Sam Araya, and Todd Shearer.

Appelcline noted that this work also led a spin-off fan project called Star ORE (2005), a free game designed by Shane Ivey that used the Wild Talents game system, but that "Unfortunately, as they approached publication of Wild Talents, Ivey and Detwiller realized that they didn't have the money to produce it.

To that point, all of Arc Dream's products had been small, saddle-stitched books; the more expensive Godlike and Will to Power rules instead were published by Hobgoblynn.

[2]: 237–238  Wild Talents was updated in 2010 for a second edition, and a partnership between Arc Dream and Cubicle 7 allowed greater opportunities for distribution.

The reviewer concluded with a guarded thumbs up, commenting, "I find some fault with a few drawbacks inherent in character creation [...] but the ORE system offers an unconventional, but well thought-out, way to resolve combat and other moments where the world hangs in the balance.