Superheroes

I am planning on doing a series of posts next on Superhero RPGs, focusing on some new ones I have picked up with some retrospective of some older ones.I have spoken at length about Mutants & Masterminds, my[...]
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It’s Good To Be Wrong: DC Adventures

Knee-jerk reactions still make us jerks. I think that could be advice to live by, and the internet is not a communication forum known for people admitting when they were wrong. Well, I spouted off at the mouth — an[...]
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Why I should hate DC Adventures, but I don’t

My rpg time has suddenly become a barren wasteland, and that’s a Bad Thing especially given we’re only three sessions away from the end of the world in our Endday Campaign. Here’s hoping that things pic[...]
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Review: “DC Adventures: Hero’s Handbook” RPG

My only major purchase at Gen Con was the DC Adventures: Hero's Handbook RPG, which is an updated version of Mutants and Masterminds. After playing in a demo run by (I believe) game designer Steven Kenson, I was certain [...]
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Roll The Bones: Gamers And Their Dice Habits

Love dice? Have weird dice superstitions? You're not alone.[...]
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Free Stuff Friday: DC Adventures Quick Start PDF

This week’s Free Stuff is: DC Adventures Quick Start PDF. Continuing with my Free Stuff Friday DC Adventures Character Sheet from last week, Green Ronin Publishing just released a quick start PDF for the new DA Adv[...]
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[DC Adventures] Quickstart Available for Download from Green Ronin

If you’re a fan of the DC Universe, and the Mutants & Masterminds ruleset by Green Ronin, you can check out the basics of the new DC Adventures RPG by downloading their Quickstart PDF. Prefer to try before you [...]
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Free Stuff Friday: DC Adventures Character Sheets

This week’s Free Stuff is: DC Adventures Character Sheets. We wrote about DC Adventures last month. It’s a new RPG from Green Ronin Publishing based on the soon to be released the new Mutants & Mastermind[...]
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A Tale of Two Supermen

I have stated here in the past my preference for DC Comics heroes over that of Marvel.  Don't get me wrong, I read the hell out of Spiderman and X-Men as a kid, and reading The Tomb of Dracula was one of the things [...]
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Why Green Ronin? Why?

DC Adventures/Mutants and Masterminds 3E I love Green Ronin, I think they are a great company making great games and when I heard that the creators of Mutants and Masterminds had the DCU license I was pretty stoked. This[...]
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Two Quick Superhero Bits

The Good News: Last night I bought and downloaded the DC Adventures Heroes Handbook, debuting the new Mutants and Masterminds system. Haven’t read deeply enough yet for a true review, but the look-over tells me tha[...]
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First Impressions: DC Adventures

As soon as it was available, I decided to preorder the DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook from Green Ronin Publishing. Although I never actually had the chance to run a superhero game I really like the genre. I very much en[...]
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DC Adventures from Green Ronin Pre-Order

I am very geeked about this.DC Adventures is now up for Pre-order at Green Ronin's website.And if you pre-order at their website, or at your FLGS you can get a code to buy the PDF for 5 bucks.That's not too bad really.I [...]
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Character du Jour: Ratman

When nerdy insular Drew Duayne saw his wealthy socialite parents gunned down by a laughing criminal, he ran. After several months the search was called off and he was declared missing, presumed dead. Ten years later, he [...]
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Characters du Jour: Brickbat and Gunfire

Brickbat was born and raised in a nowhere town in a nowhere state so far in the Deep South they still talk about the Civil War like it was yesterday’s news. His momma told him there was only two ways out: sport, or[...]
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It’s the end of the world as we know it

….. and I feel fine. Just five short sessions to go in our Endday Campaign, and it will all be over. Literally over, because that’s when the world ends. Sorry about that. Slightly more importantly, that’[...]
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The Ultimate Villains & Vigilantes Resource…

Continuing the countdown until the release of Villains & Vigilantes version 2.1 this weekend, I'm reprinting this article below from 18 months ago about Tim Hartin's incredible V&V site (as promoted at the top of[...]
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Mandelbrot Heroes

One of the (many) things I like about Mutants & Masterminds is that it’s possible to generate characters with whatever level of complexity you desire. Just like a fractal you can view your character from 10,000[...]
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My Life And Roleplaying: Countdown To V&V Relaunch…

To celebrate the forthcoming release of the new edition of Villains & Vigilantes this weekend, I've dug out the earliest surviving character sheets for The Acrobatic Flea to share with you lucky people.The Flea was, [...]
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The Week In Geek (supper serving)…

A final serving for the day of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...I Am Nancy Preview from Some Pig Productions on Vimeo.(1) Shoot For The Moon: Philip Reeve has unveiled the title of his next book, Scrivener's [...]
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Endgames

I’ve been thinking a lot about endings lately – and not in a negative way. When it comes to role-playing games many campaigns simply don’t have (nor need) an Endgame; they’re set to run for as long as the gamers [...]
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Rise Of The Super-Pods!

Two new podcasts have recently launched that have caught my attention as they both focus on superheroes - in comics and roleplaying games.First out the gate is Zenith Comics Presents, a monthly show that has so far relea[...]
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What about ICONS? A review…

ICONS RPG is a new superhero role-playing game by Adamant Entertainment. It has been enthusiastically received by the role-playing community, if blog posts and sales at RPG Now/Drive Thru RPG are any indication. Since fi[...]
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The Week In Geek (part two)…

A second helping of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) You Won't Rob These Zombie Hunters: There's an undeniable Devil's Rejects quality about this excellent new collection of five 28mm zombie hunter figure[...]
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Let’s Make a Monster!

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architect[...]
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The Red Knight of Germany

Tattered fabric flutters from the three wings of an old German triplane. The faded red fuselage has seen better days and as the airplane swoops down into a silent dive you realize it’s translucent. All that can be seen[...]
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The Joy of Random

Role-playing games in the ‘80s were typified by two things: random character generation, and big-ass tables. Only the trendy systems used point buy. Rolling up your character meant literally rolling up your character w[...]
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I’ve got supers on my mind…

In my years as a Game Master I’ve run a lot of campaigns, fantasy, sci-fi, modern, space opera, but no genre has proven as difficult as the superhero game. Sometimes I muse about why that is… Superheroes are everywhe[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Mutants & Masterminds Regeneration: The third edition of Mutants & Masterminds is due out this Autumn, using the same iteration of the rules as plann[...]
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Mutants and Masterminds to have a 3rd edition

For those Super Hero RPG lovers out there, the Third Edition of the Mutants and Masterminds RPG has just been announced by Green Ronin. My experiences with the system haven’t been the happiest, but there’s no[...]
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New Edition Frenzy

It’s a big day for new editions. First I discover Green Ronin’s announcement of Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition, then I find Smirk and Dagger plans a mahoosive new edition of Hex Hex. I can’t say [...]
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Green Ronin bags another licence

But is it one too many? I was surprised to read that Green Ronin had signed an agreement with DC Comics to release a series of four books as part of their Mutants and Masterminds line. It makes me wonder how many license[...]
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The Week In Geek…

A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Eric Holmes RIP: The 'old school' gaming community is coming to terms with the passing of another great, Dr John Eric Holmes aka Eric Holmes, who edited the [...]
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Willow & Tara: Mutants & Masterminds

Willow and Tara: M&M ConversionsA while back my semi-regular Willow and Tara game was coming to an end.  I had just finished the second season, "Season of the Witch" and wanted to work on a third season.  B[...]
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Zatanna, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

Note: Continuing my posting on DC Comics and Mutants & Masterminds this week.  If you want to know why then read this; Green Ronin to do DC.Like many my first comics were DC Comics. Superman, Batman and Wo[...]
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Character du Jour: Math-Whizz

If I could only persuade someone to run a Mutants & Masterminds game set in the Kick-Ass universe, this would be my character. Say hello to Math-Whizz! Poor Sammy Tomkins. Cleverest boy in school, and all round bully[...]
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Dracula: Mutants & Masterminds

More Mutants & Masterminds today.  Here is one of my favorite builds.Dracula, Lord of Vampires, Prince of DarknessDuncan Summers left the lecture hall to bright mid-day sun. It was, by all accounts, a beautiful[...]
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Green Ronin to do DC

In what I am sure is already "old news" Green Ronin sent out a press release today about their new partnership with DC Comics to do a new DC Adventures RPG.You can read the details here, http://www.greenronin.com/20[...]
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Seven Champions: The Cathedral

Every superhero group needs a Headquarters. This is their home, their meeting and living space of their super identities and – most important of all – a visible edifice and target for their equally super-powered foes[...]
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Seven Champions: Doc Storm

Doc Storm’s adventuring careers began in World War II when he was one of the original Seven Soldiers. Young Anthony Lisbon was working as a field medic in war-torn Poland in the middle of a thunderstorm, trying to resc[...]
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Schattenkrieg: The Soviet Union

Since Schattenkrieg is set in an alternative history, there is a need to define what is different in this fork of time. What is the same and what is different needs to be established and it all has to make plausible sens[...]
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Digital Frontier – Part 3

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that Rob from Accidental Survivors invited me to play in an ongoing play-by-wiki game over at Obsidian Portal. This is a take on play-by-forum (which I did a lit[...]
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Schattenkrieg Personalities

Here's a glimpse at some of the personalities being developed for Schattenkrieg. You'll notice that in Schattenkrieg, the origin of supers using alternate identities actually stems from the tactical practice of using cal[...]
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Gamers with Low Attention spans

That’s us. Over the past few weeks we’ve flitted between campaigns and systems like a load of flittery flitting things, a horde of rampaging butterflies that land only to move off in a spuriously random direction. An[...]
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Re-imagining History Accurately

I know the title of this article sounds like an oxymoron; how can one accurately change history? If you change it, then by definition it would not be accurate, correct? Yes, if you’re trying to pass off the re-imaginin[...]
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To Game Darkly, Savagely, or Mutantly? Or All Three

I am gaming like its 1997!By that I mean, I am playing in a game of Vampire: The Masquerade, and I have a tattered copy of the Shadowrun rules (2e) sitting on the nightstand beside my bed. I’ve not yet tackled the Sh[...]
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Seven Champions: Oriflamme

As the attorney who managed to put Syndicate crime boss Jung Li Bao away, Denise Montmartre knew her days were numbered. What she did not expect was that she would be kidnapped, taken to an abandoned warehouse and behead[...]
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Seven Champions: The Red Knight

As heir to the Boanerges family fortune, James had it all – the mansions, the cars, the wealth and the playboy lifestyle to match. His life came crashing down when the Syndicate moved in. For reasons he still does not [...]
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Seven Champions: Serpentine

Patrick Ultan was born on the rough streets of Ulster, and felt he had little choice but to turn to petty crime simply to survive. His mistake was breaking into the home of an elderly warlock who caught then turned him i[...]
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Vampyres Week: Wrap-up

Vampyres Week: Wrap-UpSo that was my week for Vampyres.Here are the links for future reference.- Introduction- Chill, 1st Edition (Pacesetter)- C. J. Carella's WitchCraft RPG- Mutants & Masterminds- Big Eyes, Small M[...]
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