It’s Good To Be Wrong: DC Adventures

August 24, 2010 from The Rhetorical Gamer
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, design 
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 Green Ronin? Why?

July 24, 2010 from The Rhetorical Gamer
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, design 
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

July 16, 2010 from The Rhetorical Gamer
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Review 
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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The Ultimate Villains & Vigilantes Resource…

June 24, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub 
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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My Life And Roleplaying: Countdown To V&V Relaunch…

June 22, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub 
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)…

June 21, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, podcast 
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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Rise Of The Super-Pods!

June 11, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, podcast 
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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The Week In Geek (part two)…

May 31, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Star Wars, podcast 
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 Week In Geek…

May 17, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Star Wars 
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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Green Ronin bags another licence

May 10, 2010 from Mostly Geek
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub 
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…

May 10, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, Star Wars 
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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Digital Frontier – Part 3

April 19, 2010 from Back to RPG Basics
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, Play, RPG Hub 
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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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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The Week In Geek…

March 22, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds 
A second helping of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) More Adèle Blanc-Sec: Another stunning trailer for for Luc Besson's Victorian Sci-Fi The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc Sec (albeit in Fre[...]
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The Week In Geek (extra portion)…

March 8, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Labyrinth Lord, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub 
A tasty extra serving of your weekly round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Osprey Does Zombies: Well-known military history publishers Osprey is releasing a "zombie-special" in time for Halloween t[...]
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The Week In Geek (second helping)…

February 22, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Labyrinth Lord, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub 
A second helping of geeky news you might have otherwise missed....(1) Seventh Doctor Materialises: Character Options is finally bringing out a 5" action figure of the Seventh Doctor - complete with an Imperial Dalek.(2) [...]
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The Week In Geek (extra portion)…

February 8, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub 
An extra round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Gamers Raise $178,900 For Haiti: Through sales of the 'special bundle deal', online pdf outlets DriveThruRPG and RPGNow raised an incredible sum to do[...]
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Happy Third Anniversary, HeroPress!!!

January 16, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, Star Wars 
Three years! Who'd have thought it? Not me, for one. After my first two aborted attempts at a HeroPress blog (the first cruelly assassinated by its service provider and the second exploding from its own internal angst), [...]
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Small Press Week: Interview with Steve Russell of Rite Publishing

As part of Zachary Houghton’s wonderful Small Press Week, I got in contact with Steve Russell of Rite Publishing.  Steve started Rite Publishing himself and forms the (lively) backbone of the company.  I have tho[...]
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The Nocturnals by Dan Brereton

Like many gamers, I am also a comics aficionado. When it comes to my favorite artists, Tim Sale and Dan Brereton run neck and neck. Sale’s lines are clean and elegant. Brereton’s paints are wonderfully wei[...]
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Plot Hooks in the News: Severed Feet Across Canada

July 1, 2009 from d20 Blonde
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, behind the screen 
In recent months, a bunch of severed feet have turned up in various locations in Canada. [...]
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Feedback Required: Mini M&M Campaign

Would you want super-Supers? Like, powerful enough to fly so fast that you can cause the Earth to spin BACK IN TIME?[...]
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Don’t Ever Attempt to Run A Game The Players Are Unfamiliar With When You Arrive Completely Unprepared

March 20, 2009 from Dice Monkey
Filed under: Advice/Tools, Mutants and Masterminds, Play, RPG Hub 
Does the title say enough? I should have been prepared. I had two nights to do so. But then the PHB2 came in, and all plans fell out the window. It was bad. Last night, I gathered the players around the table, for a cha[...]
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Nerding it up at Disney World!

December 17, 2008 from d20 Blonde
Filed under: At the table, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, behind the screen 
Not only was the trip romantic, it inspired a ton of awesome plot hooks (this from the chick that runs M&M games featuring the Danger Girls at Disney, of course).[...]
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If You Build It, They Will Come…

December 14, 2008 from HeroPress
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub 
a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jvBFHkK2ZXc/SUOjfvOVAQI/AAAAAAAADnY/Uc5pc6PRg1U/s1600-h/V+and+V+Emporium.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279242953856188674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CUR[...]
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