Feng Shui vs Sentinel Comics RPG

Compare Feng Shui and Sentinel Comics RPG side by side. See differences in complexity, dice, genre, and more.

	Feng Shui	Sentinel Comics RPG
Genre	Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Historical, Modern, Post-Apocalyptic	Modern, Superhero
Tags	Cinematic, Combat-Heavy, Fast-Paced, High-Power, Martial Arts, Playbook-Driven, Pulp Action, Strong GM Support, Tactical, Theater of the Mind	Heroic, Narrative, Superpowers, Combat-Heavy, Cinematic, Theater of the Mind
Core Mechanic	Roll a positive d6 and a negative d6, subtract the negative die from the positive, and add the Swerve to an Action Value. Meeting or beating the Difficulty succeeds, while open-ended sixes create extreme results.	Roll three dice (from powers, qualities, and status) and use the middle result vs. difficulty. Your status zone (green/yellow/red) changes available abilities as you take damage.
Dice	2d6	d4–d12
Complexity	Medium	Medium
Availability	Free quickstart	Paid
Runnability	5 of 5 book tools	5 of 5 book tools
License	All Rights Reserved	Proprietary
Third-Party Publishing	Noncommercial only — Atlas Games Fair Use policy	Not yet researched
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Publisher	Atlas Games	Greater Than Games
Year	2015	2022
Languages	English, French, Russian	English
Best For	Groups that want fast Hong Kong action, tactical shot-by-shot fights, melodramatic hooks, and time-traveling campaigns that mix genres	Superhero campaigns that feel like reading a comic book, with a unique status-shifting system and structured hero/villain/environment turns.
Highlights	A descending shot countdown makes every action and interrupt change when a character acts again. One-hit mooks support crowd-clearing spectacle, while featured foes and bosses use deeper wound rules for climactic fights. Feng shui sites link faction victories to changes in history across four connected eras.	Captures comic book pacing well, status system creates dramatic arcs, villain/environment turns keep things dynamic, developed published setting
Considerations	Most starting archetypes have fixed statistics and schticks, so initial mechanical customization is limited. The default adventure structure treats investigation and social scenes mainly as connections between fights. Exploding positive and negative dice permit large reversals even when a character's Action Value substantially exceeds the Difficulty.	Tightly tied to the Sentinel Comics universe, status dice tracking requires careful bookkeeping, can feel constrained for freeform players