Okay this is just a half-baked not fully costed idea to reproduce the Marvel Super Heroes Karma Economy in Icons that just came to me. It replaces the...
I'm new to ICONS. I've ordered a hardcopy of the rules mainly because the PDF is such an ink hog... cheaper this way. I want to introduce my two sons to...
Basically, we're going with the flow. This is the second Comicworld guide, this time describing Ukraine, largest country in Europe, excluding Russia. Honestly,...
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It's been said before, many times by name people, but I just say it's once more. Randomly rolling Icons characters is ridiculously fun. I've rolling up a whole...
So any news on Team Up? Art previews? Table of content? Is on schedule for November? Also if I pre-order it from the UK is it the usual deal, buy on the...
1. Is it okay to share/post our .icf files of our original characters with other users? I'm assuming it's probably similar to sharing MS Word .doc files 2. How...
http://tinyurl.com/5stnx9d New ICONS Actual Play Podcast, this one has James Dawsey, ICONS artist Dan Houser and Mike Lafferty playing through the opening of...
Just got a note from Theron Bretz--he liked what our group did with sins of the Past. Wahoo! That was a nice uplifting note at the end of a long and slightly...
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...
