Margaret Weiss Productions and the Cortex Plus System The Smallville Roleplaying Game takes step beyond where most licensed role-playing games go: it uses an innovative character creation process and dice mechanic. Smallville is based on the Cortex System (which is also the rules-system used in the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game) by Margaret Weiss Production, but…
West End Games D6 Superheroes The DC Universe role-playing game was published in 1999 by West End Games, the people responsible for such licensed titles as Star Wars, Men in Black, and Xena: Warrior Princess. Designed by Fred Jandt and Nikola Vrtis, this superhero roleplaying game used six-sided dice to resolve all combat rolls and…
Mayfair Games by Chris Perrin DC Heroes is an out-of-print role playing game published by Mayfair Games. The first edition was released in 1985 and the third (and final) edition was released in 1993. DC Heroes uses a proprietary rules engine called the Mayfair Exponential Game System (MEGS) which was designed just for DC Heroes…
Mayfair Games The Batman Role-playing Game was released in 1989 by Mayfair Games in an attempt to cash in on the popularity of Tim Burton’s Batman movie. The 192-page softcover book was written by Jack A. Barker, Greg Gorden and Michael Stackpole, and it used a scaled down version of the DC Heroes system (although it…
Green Ronin & DC Comics DC Adventures is designed by Green Ronin games to be compatible with the Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition. In fact, Green Ronin probably rushed out the third edition of M&M once they signed a deal with DC Comics to publish four role-playing books for DC Adventures. Mutants and Masterminds 2nd…
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