I thought damage from falling was covered, but danged if I can find it right now. Where is it? Or am I misremembering? John McMullen (Young old coot) ...
Today I was just playing around waiting for my daughter to get released from school, and my random rolls came up with an interesting set -- Unearthly ...
Here is another attempt of mine to model a media character for Icons. She's really expensive, so I don't know that she would make a good PC, and I need to...
And I have my book now. Giving it another good read. I'm wondering if I should consider an online game or whether I should do Hero instead. Same sort of...
Before the day is out I will have my hardcopy of the Icons rulebook fresh from Amazon. Not without a little bit of guilt, of course, for not buying directly...
This may be a little off topic, but I just grabbed a playtest version of the Threshold RPG, which is described as "tragic superheroes". Has anyone looked at...
I was wondering what if instead of obscuring your sense of taste it instead made it pick up something more specific like almonds for example which is supposed...
In the PbEM group, something very interesting has happened. One of the players (I'm calling you out Icosahedrophilia) wrote into his posting that instead of...
Hello there, I'd like to know if any of you have an easy way to 'flesh out' concepts like Blast, Strike and Blinding into meaningful powers/characters. The...
In an effort to make up for lost time, HPS#2 follows fairly closely on the heels of the ICONS release of The Substitute. For the first time, we're doing a...
Hello, everyone! How to convey, in Icons' terms, the powers from characters like Marvel's Bullseye and Top Cow's Ballistic, which is: their precise senses of...
Hello, there! How do you translate into Icons game the ability of some Marvel characters who can magnify other heroes powers? It's basically the ability to...
This is a randomly-rolled character, constructed (as far as I know) completely within the random character creation rules-as-written. Everything that could be...
"Am I in range?" " Can I get there this turn?" " Can I lift this truck with my Strength of 6?" Players love to ask awkward questions like these. One way to...
In addition to allowing characters to start with basic equipment to assist them, bullet proof vest, guns, regular melee weapons, etc., I also allow all players...
The discussion of Singularity has reminded me that I'd like to poll the list on how they play Power Nullification, Power Theft, Power Duplication, or the like....
... Remember, if your stats total 20 or less, you can re-roll them. Of course, I'd let both characters have firearms, with right aspects. In most Fate games...
Hello, everyone. The Icons Corebook says that, when your character has Elemental Control, "you can only manipulate an existing source of the element; you do...
First things first: I declared the removal of Brandon Blackmoor a closed subject for twenty-four hours. Sending messages privately to the list moderator is not...
Dear friends, ... All of this leaves me rather confused about the relationship between jumping using Strength and jumping using the Leaping power. With all due...
Everyone take a deep breath.... done? Okay, here we go. The biggest concern shared by all is that Brandon Blackmoor was banned arbitrarily and without appeal....
Ok, here's my question. In multitudinous comics and superhero miscellanea, we see examples of characters being pushed around without anything explicitly...
I for one would like to know why Mr. Blackmoor was banned. In the absence of formal rules here, I have found that people are often a little quick to judgement...
Has anyone used cosmic tricksters like Mr. Mxyzptlk, Impossible Man, or Q in your game? I'm thinking about having one appear in my Steel City Icons game and...
Brandon Blackmoor is hereby banned from the Icons mailing list. -- Hollis McCray aka The Fifth Wanderer ascensionschild@... "GMing is like herding cats....
Good morning, I'm afraid this came through a bit later than originally intended, but the ICONS conversion of HPS #1 The Substitute is now available through ...
Unless your dm would rather it be identified by an existing power I'd just go for if its readily available or sometime during an scenario you come across some...
... I guess that means the NRA is a collection of super heroes? Who knew. I guess I'll stop making fun of them. So, if I own a rifle (Blast Device 5), own a...
