This Power System Creation Worksheet is an 11-page printable PDF designed to help novel writers, manga creators, and storytellers build a consistent power system from beginning to end. Whether you’re creating abilities for a fantasy world, structuring supernatural rules for a comic, or refining the mechanics behind a character’s powers, this worksheet gives you a clear, organised, and step-by-step method for defining every part of your system with logic, depth, and narrative impact.

It breaks down power system design into its essential components, guiding you through the core foundations, rules, limitations, visual identity, and story integration so you can create a system that feels balanced, believable, and fully connected to your worldbuilding.

THIS RESOURCE GUIDES YOU THROUGH…
System Category: Begin by identifying the type of power system you’re creating. Includes checkboxes and prompts for defining whether it is magical, spiritual, technological, or another category entirely.
Power Source: Clarify where the power originates. Reflect on how accessible or rare this source is within your world.
Acquisition: Define how characters obtain or awaken their abilities. Guided questions help you describe unique conditions required to gain power.
Cause and Effect: Explore how using the power impacts the user, the environment, and the story. Determine short-term effects, long-term costs, physical or emotional strain, and how power usage shapes conflict and plot momentum.
Limitations and Restrictions: Strengthen your power system by clarifying drawbacks, weaknesses, rules, requirements, and boundaries. Includes checkboxes and prompts to keep the system balanced and meaningful.
Rules and Mechanics: Establish the internal logic of your system. Explore how abilities interact, what conditions dictate strength or failure, and how consistent rules maintain narrative integrity.
System History: Detail the origin, evolution, and impact of the power system. Capture hidden lore, and past events that shape how characters understand and use these powers today.
Each section provides guided questions, structured checkbox options, and writing spaces to help you break down your system with clarity and intentional design.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:
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WHO IT'S FOR:
Manga and comic creators.
Light novel and webnovel writers.
Fantasy and sci-fi authors.
TTRPG worldbuilders.
Students and teachers.
Any creator who wants a structured system for building powers from scratch.

Suitable for beginners designing their first system, and equally valuable for experienced creators refining complex worldbuilding.

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For personal, educational, and author use only. Commercial resale, reproduction, or redistribution is not permitted.
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WHAT MAKES THIS WORKSHEET SPECIAL?
This worksheet focuses on the deeper mechanics and narrative purpose of a power system, not just the abilities themselves. With clear categories, guided checkboxes, and detailed prompts, it helps creators define rules, origins, consequences, and aesthetics in a way that strengthens worldbuilding and storytelling. It’s ideal for writers who want a balanced, thoughtful, and fully developed power system that enriches character arcs and plot design.