Here is an abridged version of what the colors equate to. With the games Godlike and This Favored Land as examples.

Red = Historical Inertia. How much does history in this setting change with the advent of superpowers? Low = history changes drastically.
High = History doesn't change at all despite the Talents and whatever they do. Godlike is Red 4.

Gold = Talent Inertia. How much do Talents -- superheroes or what have you -- change over time by interacting with the setting?
Low = they change all the time.
High = they change rarely and have obvious roles in society by dint of their powers. Godlike is Gold 4.

Blue = The Lovely and the Pointless. How much crazy stuff is going on in the setting?
Low = very little crazy stuff; just the Talents themselves.
High = Crazy stuff all over the place and it's an accepted part of society. Godlike is Blue 1.

Black = Moral Clarity. How easy is to distinguish good and evil in the setting?
Low = there are no moral absolutes except what individual characters can create and enforce.
High = there are concrete, obvious moral absolutes; Good is Good and Evil is Evil and anyone who says otherwise is trying to conquer something. Godlike is Black 2.

This Favored Land has the following settings:

Red 1: The main premise is that The Gifted really did exist during the Civil War, but that they have been forgotten to history. (I include suggestions for raising the Redness of the setting in the campaign chapter, and there's an essay about this on our LiveJournal page.)

Gold 4: Few people can change their station in the 19th century, and The Gifted fear what might happen if knowledge of their powers were to be made public.

Blue 2: The only manifestation of super powers are The Gifted and the Ethereals, though some believe that they are actually two aspects of the same supernatural effect.

Black 2: Both the North and the South had strong moral foundations, and yet Southerners had slaves and Northerners enforced "black codes" to protect whites from black labor. The same era that brought about the abolition movement also saw "Bleeding Kansas".

Shane Ivey
Arc Dream Publishing
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