I believe there are lots of ways to express the super hero campagian. I take this lead both from game producers plus the comic's. These games are all based...
One of the greatest advantages to super hero roleplaying games over other types of RPG's. Is the ability to quickly run brief games with one or only two...
One of the greatest advantages to super hero roleplaying games over other types of RPG's. Is the ability to quickly run brief games with one or only two...
I like to read comics from both Dc and Marvel to get ideas. For situations plot points and characters. However I think there are some other sorce materials...
Recently I read the Dean Koontz Novel titled By the Light of the Moon. In the book a mad doctor creates a serum full of tiny microscopic devices called...
I saw HellBoy and the new Punisher film. I really enjoyed both films they are very differant sorts of pictures but both are good. Hellboy is of course...
Something that all Players and even the gamemaster should think about for every character. Is now that this character is filled to the brim with undenialable...
A real challenge for the game master is to come up with villians to challenge the heroes with. It can also be trouble to come up with good crimes exctra....
Spiderman 2 is perhaps my favourite super hero movie ever. The action was amazing the effects cool. The acting dead on for most if not all the various...
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I have recently purchased Hero Designer for the hero role playing system better known as Champions. I have just begun to use this very good software. I have...
Ok here I will list a bunch of my favourite cartoons. I will also rate them warning though these ratings will mostly be based on a rather faulty memory. I...
I don't know how many of you were familiar with the 4th edition Hero rules, but the official software for that system was Creation Workshop. With the...
Here are a few idea's of the types of super hero Campaigns and some brief story ideas you could use. 1)Mutants this is a world where most heroes and or...
6) Mystic heroes the characters all relate to magic in one way or another. They mostly battle evil wizards extra dimenisional monsters and things like...
I'm a big fan of the post-apocalypse setting myself. I also like the low-powered setting, where most of the NPC's/villians are normals (with a few exceptions)...
How about something from "The Boys From Brazil"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077269/ It is a movie from the 70's in which a secret cabal of aging Nazis that...
I like that "Reluctance to kill" idea. Even if they haven't bought Code Vs Killing, they'll still be penalized for killing too easily. I've had players that...
A lot of people mis-use the word nanotech to refer to what is better descibed as microtech. Nanotech are "molecular machines" that manipulate matter on a ...
Willam Defoe was awesome as the GG. I have to admit that I liked the second movie a bit better than the first, but I still rate the first as one of the best...
Just remember "Absolute Power corrupts absolutely". If the PC's think that there's nothing to stand in their way, there will be few constraints on their use of...
I just bought this Superman graphic novel about an Elseworld Superman who's ship crashes on Earth in the 1930's, but 12 hours later than it normally does. The...
I disagree about the party size for fantasy games, some of the best roleplaying I've ever done has been 2-player fantasy. It's just up to the GM to scale...
I love the HERO system, but I wish it wasn't so unwieldy. For newbies it is a very paperwork intensive game. In fact, if you don't know the game inside-and-out...
Long before there was D20 there was Hero! At one point I used Hero System exclusivly for ALL genres, Superhero, Fantasy, Modern, Sci-fi, Pulp, Anime Mecha,...
The adage "Go With What You Know" works well in most settings. Obviously you can't base your Fantasy campaign in your hometown. But I also like to use...
I'm a big fan of HERO as well. My very 1st supers game was Champions, and I've always been bitten by the bug. But not too many folks in my neck o' the woods...