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[...]Read on >>
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[...]Read on >>
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[...]Read on >>
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[...]Read on >>
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, [...]Read on >>
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 [...] Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, podcast
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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[...] Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, podcast
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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[...]Read on >>
Let’s Make a Monster!
May 26, 2010 from Dice Monkey
Filed under: 4e DD, Burning Wheel, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds
“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[...] Filed under: 4e DD, Burning Wheel, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds
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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[...]Read on >>
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[...]Read on >>
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 [...] Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, Star Wars
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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[...]Read on >>
To Game Darkly, Savagely, or Mutantly? Or All Three
April 6, 2010 from Thieves' Cant
Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, World of Darkness
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[...] Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, World of Darkness
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The Week In Geek…
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[...]Read on >>
The Week In Geek (extra portion)…
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[...]Read on >>
The Week In Geek (second helping)…
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) [...]Read on >>
The Week In Geek (extra portion)…
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[...]Read on >>
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), [...] Filed under: Mutants and Masterminds, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds, Star Wars
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Small Press Week: Interview with Steve Russell of Rite Publishing
October 23, 2009 from Creatively Anomalous
Filed under: Call of Cthulhu, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub
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[...] Filed under: Call of Cthulhu, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub
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The Nocturnals by Dan Brereton
September 6, 2009 from Temple Lion
Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, mutants & masterminds
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[...] Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, mutants & masterminds
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Plot Hooks in the News: Severed Feet Across Canada
In recent months, a bunch of severed feet have turned up in various locations in Canada. [...]Read on >>
Feedback Required: Mini M&M Campaign
June 22, 2009 from d20 Blonde
Filed under: At the table, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, behind the screen
Would you want super-Supers? Like, powerful enough to fly so fast that you can cause the Earth to spin BACK IN TIME?[...] Filed under: At the table, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, behind the screen
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Don’t Ever Attempt to Run A Game The Players Are Unfamiliar With When You Arrive Completely Unprepared
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[...]Read on >>
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).[...] Filed under: At the table, Mutants and Masterminds, RPG Hub, behind the screen
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If You Build It, They Will Come…
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