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Review – Threat Report: King Babylon from Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Sea of Stars — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:34:28 +0000

King Babylon, possessed of nearly godlike powers and a notable lack of self-control is the kind of villain you do not want to have to tangle with but he is just too dangerous to ignore. A useful character to use as a reoccurring threat and plot device. Threat Report: King Babylon is a 4-page PDF [...]

Interview: Wynter Rouse, CoastCon 35 – The Dark Crab Rises in Biloxi, Mississippi – March 16-18, 2012 from Game Knight Reviews

Game Knight Reviews — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:00:29 +0000

As CoastCon gets ready for its 35th annual science fiction and gaming convention in Biloxi, Mississippi on March 16-18, 2012, Wynter Rouse has her hands full. She’s the Charity Liason this year and she’s been involved with CoastCon for more than a decade. She even met her husband at a CoastCon! With CoastCon 35 . . . → Read More: Interview: Wynter Rouse, CoastCon 35 – The Dark Crab Rises in Biloxi, Mississippi – March 16-18, 2012

Review – Justice City Superpowered from Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Sea of Stars — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:11:01 +0000

Justice City is a setting for a superheroic world with recent emergent superheroes. It provides a useful, if general, backdrop for a campaign or just for a place to visit. Justice City Superpowered: A Superhero Setting Book and Campaign Installment is a 32-page PDF (27-pages if you remove the cover, OGL pages and ad) for [...]

Review – Threat Report: Doctor Shock from Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Sea of Stars — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:49:49 +0000

Doctor Shock, once a brilliant medical doctor, now an even more brilliant supervillain. A steel age sort of character, willing to kill for his goals, which is to study how superpower work and as such he has a reputation as a cape killer. Perhaps not a character that will fit in all campaigns, but an [...]

Review – Threat Report: Cerebrus Rex from Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Sea of Stars — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:31 +0000

Cerebrus Rex, saurian mastermind from an alternate dimension ruled by the descendants of dinosaurs, seeks to conquer our world as a new home for his people. If a dinosaurian mastermind with robotic minions seeking to oppress a world of “ape primitives” has a place in your campaign, look no further. Threat Report: Cerebrus Rex is [...]

Cradle of Rabies’ year 2012 from Cradle of Rabies - From role to games

Cradle of Rabies — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:32:00 +0000

I am a little late with new year. Well, obviously my year turned the same time as everybody else's but in this blog. I am not a fortune teller, but here are few ideas what year 2012 of this blog and my roleplaying could be.Vampire: the Masquerade Chron...

Superboy must die! from Greywulf's Lair » RPG

Greywulf's Lair — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:53:52 +0000

I’m planning a DC Adventures scenario where the Batman Irregulars have been sent by old Bats himself to investigate the death of a superhero. A short while back I threw out the question of which superhero it would be and … Continue reading →

Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition System Reference Document from Held Action » Role-Playing Games

Held Action — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:00:49 +0000

One mighty-thewed soul, John Reyst, has assembled the open content from the third edition of Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds role-playing game into a hyper-linked web site. And it’s attractively marked up, to boot. Seriously, this i...

Unfinished business from Stargazer's World

Stargazer's World — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:08:25 +0000

I think as a whole we human beings are completists. We want to complete what we began; we want the whole story. We crave to know the conclusion, and when we don’t get closure we often resent it. From famous court cases to cancelled TV series, we just...

[Review] The WatchGuard Sourcebook for M&M 3e from Xion Studios from Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer

Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:41:05 +0000

The WatchGuard Sourcebook is first product in a line of supplements centered around the WatchGuard universe, updated to be usable with the Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition ruleset. The sourcebook is well laid out, matching the visual aesthetic that people have come to expect from M&M products, with vibrant colors and professional-grade character artwork. My [...]

Skills, Skills, always Skills from The Rhetorical Gamer

The Rhetorical Gamer — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:07:09 +0000

This is a story about a truck, a jump (actually many) and a time before webcam-madness… When I was sixteen (can I even tell you how much I miss being sixteen sometimes?) I had this friend who owned a big, lifted, pickup. I was a track and field k...

Mutants & Masterminds Review PART 1 from Cradle of Rabies - From role to games

Cradle of Rabies — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000

First time I did read Mutants & Masterminds I did like it. I already had played Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 so I knew the basics how D20 system works and before that played simplified True20 system of Blue Rose. M&M is kind of between those two ...

Empowered Powers Down from BARKING ALIEN

Barking Alien — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:39:00 +0000

I regretfully announce that after only two sessions and much thought, I am discontinuing my Empowered inspired Mutants & Masterminds 3E campaign that I started over Skype.This has been a very difficult decision, made all the more difficult by the p...

Empowered…More or Less from BARKING ALIEN

Barking Alien — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:47:00 +0000

Ran the first of my Empowered based M&M 3E sessions and I have to say I am really unsure about how I feel about it.First, I want to say the players were amazing. No, you don't understand. A-MAZE-ING! Huge kudos go to Erin Palette who all but stole ...