Character Development: Super Powers and Super Gizmos

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the series on Character Development. Today we’re going to talk about super powers and super gizmos.

First we should define what we’re talking about, though you can probably already guess. For the purposes of our discussion, a super power is any naturally-occurring ability (whether inborn or something that can be learned) which a character possesses that is not inherently known to or possessed by humans (aka. The audience). For example, telepathy. Not possess...