D20 and Tri-Stat-DX Silver Age Sentinels is a superhero role-playing game based on the Silver Age of comics, an era when groups such as the Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Justice League of America were making their debut. Darker themes and characters can also be included, but the primary focus is on heroism, self-sacrifice, and the…
Superhero Roleplaying Using Savage Worlds The Necessary Evil Savage Worlds rpg is a superhero setting that was designed by Clint Black, Scott Pyle, and Shane Lacy Hensley in 2004 and updated by Clint Black in 2008. The 2008 edition of the Necessary Evil Explorers Edition is the subject of this review. You might be thinking…
Steve Jackson Games GURPS Supers is the essential RPG supplement for role-playing comic book superheroes in the Generic Universal Role-Playing System sold by Steve Jackson Games these many years. The tagline for GURPS: Supers is “Super-Powered Roleplaying Meets the Real World”. Steve Jackson’s GURPS line seems to have put out a sourcebook for virtually every…
Mythological and Religious Superhero Roleplaying Godsend Agenda is a superhero role-playing game supplement which takes its inspiration from a very different source: Earth’s mythology and religious lore. You might be thinking that most, if not all, big comic book teams include a few characters based on mysticism, god-beings, and even Christian themes. Characters like Thor…
A Champions/Mutants & Mastermind Game Setting from Black Wyrm Games Gestalt: The Hero Within is a superhero-inspired game setting originally designed by Scott Bennie and released by Black Wyrm Games for the Hero System’s Champions 4th Edition rules. Later, a conversion for Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Edition was released. The unique part of Gestalt is…
Battlefield Press – Christopher Helton Beyond Mortal Men is a superhero role-playing supplement intended for use with the Action! System. Written by Christopher Helton and released by Battlefield Press, this 54-page manual adds rules for superpowers, as well as new derived attributes and disadvantages. The core rulebook for the Action! System is required to play.…
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