Driveby RPG Has Scion ready for Download in PDF format (visit the web site, or click on a cover below)

The Scion RPG by White Wolf - Overview

• Pesedjet - The gods of Ancient Egypt, including Anubis, Atum-Re, Bastet, Geb, Horus, Isis, Kebauet, Osiris, Ptah, Set (or Seth), Sobek, and Thoth.
  
• Dodekatheon - The gods of Greek mythology, including Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Persephone, Poseidon, and Zeus.
  
• Aesir - The gods of Norse mythology, including Baldur, Freya, Freyr, Frigg, Heimdall, Hel, Loki, Odin, Sif, Thor, Tyr, and Vidar.
  
• Atzlánti - The gods of the Aztec civilization, including Huitzilopochtli, Miclántecuhtli (sic), Quetzalcoátl, Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc, Tlazoltéotl, and Xipe Totec.
  
• Amatsukami - The Shinto gods of Japan, including Amaterasu, Hachiman, Izanagi, Izanami, Raiden, Susano-o, and Tsuki-Yomi.
  
• Loa - The god-spirits of the Vodou religion, including Agwe, Baron Samedi, Damballa, Erzulie, Kalfu, Legba, Ogoun, and Shango.

Further diversification is encouraged by inclusion of instructions for creating custom pantheons and adapting existing but unaddressed spiritual traditions. In addition, recent PDF supplements include the Celtic Tuatha Dé Danann pantheon (including gods such as The Daghda, Brigid, and the Morrigan) and the Chinese Celestial Bureaucracy.

The basic assumption on which this game is based, is that the game world is similar to our modern world with just one difference -- all the old myths are actually true.

The characters that players create are considered to be the offspring of a god from one of the mythologies, and their purpose is to serve their parent. These services are required as the Titans of Myth are also real, and they have returned or are trying to return to the world and are against the current gods reign. Adventures set within this milieu -- range from the mundane act of simply recovering a lost ancient artifact,  to a modern version of the 12 tasks of Hercules.

As each volume expands the scope of the game, characters go from being enhanced humans in Scion: Hero to full-fledged gods in Scion: God.

The scale also grows, from adventures in the physical world in Scion: Hero, to adventures in the Underworld and various Terra Incognitae in Scion: Demigod, to adventures in the Overworld with its Titanrealms and Godrealms in Scion: God.

Scion uses a rules system similar to the Storyteller system made popular by the World of Darkness, but is not part of the World of Darkness. The rules are a new version of the system presented in Exalted: Second Edition but set in a modern world, that also includes elements from the Trinity Universe series of games, most notably Aberrant.

One change to the system that has caused some debate is the lack of Backgrounds in Scion. Characters are allowed to have whatever contacts, history, and wealth that makes sense for the character without the need of any rules to oversee them. The core mechanics of the game will also increase in scale with each additional book in the series, eventually promoting the hero characters to demigod- and god-hood.

The two primary abilities available to hero characters are Epic Attributes and Boons.

Epic Attributes increase the characters nine basic abilities to super-human levels (Hercules' strength or Helen's beauty, for example).

Boons are the divine powers granted to the children of the Gods, categorized into Purviews (covering: animals, chaos, darkness, death, earth, fertility, fire, guardians, health, justice, the moon, psychopomp--travel, the sky, the sun, war, water, pantheon-specific purviews (Heku, Arete, Jotunblut, Itzli, Tsukumo-Gami, and Cheval), magic, mystery, and prophecy), and activated through special relics given to the Scions by their divine parents.

Scions also round out their abilities by attracting Followers, being befriended by legendary Creatures, or being aided by often mystical Guides.

The List of Pantheon Specific Purviews include:

• Heku - The Pesedjet Purview that allows a Scion to tap the separate parts of person's essence according to Egyptian mythology.
  
• Arete - The Dodekatheon Purview that grants a Scion excellence in skills of life (almost like Epic Attributes but different)
  
• Itzli - The Atzlanti Purview that allows a Scion to perform blood sacrifice to boost their power.
  
• Jotunblut - The Aesir Purview that allows a Scion to give a mortal being enhanced strength and endurance through their blood.
  
• Tsukumo-Gami - The Amatsukai Purview that allows a Scion to speak with the spirits of the world.
  
• Cheval - The Loa Purview that allows a Scion to possess and control living beings.
  
• Scire - The Atlantean Purview that allows a Scion insight into knowledge and language.

Descriptions and summation gleened from Wikipedia

Scion RPG created by White Wolf