The D-Listers have set up regular patrols through town. While Velocimancer and Aria are out making their rounds, they’re approached, surprisingly, by another Saurid – the first Velocimancer has met on our world. This Saurid has chosen “Natalie” as her human name, and says she’s heard all about the D-Listers and their famous leader, Velocimancer, […]
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City of Heroes had a monster named Jurassik who carried an item which essentially amounted to a car on a stick. While this probably remains my all-time favorite melee weapon, this might very well rank second: Seal Attacks Kayaker with Octopus. Now I really want to make an Octopi-wielding martial artist seal super-villain, but I’ve
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My campaign updates here lag my actual campaign by a few weeks, and as of this writing we’ve played through Chapter 9. Chapter 10 will will be large, complex, and multi-faceted, and will include a number of scenarios that take place on a fantasy landscape. So when I visited Days of Knights for their annual
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Colin Rogers loved everything about being a cop. Everything except the pay. And the rules. And the laws. Okay, really he just liked the power. He got away with abusing that power, too, for a long time – but eventually, after too many lawsuits and internal investigations, his superiors couldn’t cover or ignore his abuses
In a super-powered world, every organization from governments to criminal syndicates to Walmart has a top-secret skunkworks program or two underway. Armed-robbery convict Jake Slattery agreed to participate in one such program – sponsored by an organization whose name he never learned – in exchange for his freedom from prison. He found himself bonded to
Eddie Firth dredged up a magical artifact from the bottom of the C&D Canal and took it home with him. Unfortunately his lack of ability to manipulate the item’s magic during his exposure to it caused his body to launch into a rapid series of mutations that ended in his current form: that of an
Two weeks after the events of chapter 4, all characters have received certified letters confirming their licenses have been approved. Another text message goes out to everyone, but this time from Vinny. “Meet @ Donut shop @ noon – important surprise”. When everyone arrives he seems very excited and asks them to stand in the
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Ever since the owner of his favorite beach-side souvenir shop died in a tragic body-oiling accident, Capri Scum has hated slippery things. He seeks to coat the world in uncomfortably sticky fruit juice so that nothing will ever be slippery again! Generation Method: No drugs were involved! Honest!Type: NPC (Non Persistent Carton)First Appearance: Chapter 5
In my first DIY article about how I’m creating tokens for my campaign, I mentioned a row of small weapon icons printed on my token sheet and promised to explain them later: In Chapter 1, my players faced groups of semi-zombified humans who carried a smattering of weapons among them. I wanted them to be
Armed and… er… Changerous? Read More »
Apparently I’m not the only person running a campaign set in Delaware. In a Facebook group about superhero RPGs I discovered someone whose heroes (in a different game) were running around in a fictional metropolis called Bay City. (Bay City is actually the name of a trailer park downstate that sits on a stretch of
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