Several years ago, I ran a Play by Email Aberrant game. It was set in a post-not-so-apocalyptic world where I mutliated New England by hitting it with a large rock from space and rebuilt it into a thriving metropolis. It (the rock) was slightly larger than Tunguska but not by much. I called the game DT Comics and the setting 'MetroCity'. We didn't get much past character creation (I've never had much luck with Play by Email games) but one of the characters that came out of it was my wife's character 'Kali'. Read the Full Article

The ICONS RPG from Adamant Entertainment doesn't come out to the public until this Tuesday but having pre-ordered it I got it a little early. I've been pouring over the rules for about a week but this is my first full character I've created using the rules. I modelled him based on a combination of his packaging and a few random rolls. Power wise, he came out a little less than a point buy character would have but I think this covers everything.

In a game, I would use him as either a red herring to distract the PCs or as an enigmatic persona who holds the vital piece of information they need to defeat the villain. Alternatively, his Dimension Travel power makes him a great messenger or courier.. preferably for items as mysterious as he is. Read the Full Article

One of the stickiest wickets I've run across when running roleplaying games it figuring out how much of a challenge right for the players. On one hand you want them be challenged while at the same time allowing them to succeed. I do run Superhero games after all and I want to give them a chance to be Super-heroic. Read the Full Article

Blacklight is my first Mutants and Masterminds character. Originally created for a 1st Edition Mutants and Masterminds game set in a world inspired by John Byrne's Superman & Batman: Generations with new heroes taking on the legacies of the older retired characters. As no one had gone for Superman I figured why not make a new version of Superman. I took all of the basic superman powers and tweaked them to have a more energy based spin to them as per the red and blue versions of Superman. Boy was he powerful.

With the release of ICONS, the line artist for the game was doing cheap commissions of characters in the ICONS style. I figured why not pull out a few older characters and have them done up. Blacklight was at the top of the list. Here he is with his stats updated 2nd edition as faithfully as I could (Tweaking regeneration so it works like it did in 1e for instance). Read the Full Article

I finally get around to describing the events of Session 2 of the first adventure from my Paragons of Freedom Game. Looking forward to getting to the next event shortly. Read the Full Article

Once I decided what I was going to make for people, Lady Bee was the first one that I started working on. A while back when I created a poll asking people what their superpower would be, Leah had answered 'Self Healing'. This brought to mind pure regeneraters like Wolverine of Claire from Heroes but I wanted something a little quirkier.

I drew inspiration from an old (7th Doctor) aventure called 'Delta and the Bannermen'. In it, a young human falls for a human-looking alien queen bee and ends up consuming a bunch of royal jelly to transform himself so he could be with her. Continuing with the Bee theme, this got me thinking of the recent Colony Collapse Disorder. Going with some classic Marvel tropes, I put together the idea of a scientist working on CCD through an enhanced Royal Jelly that ends up in her system. This gives her wings, extra strength and tougheness as well as regeneration. I want to avoid the control of bees thing beause that's a bit too cliched. Instead I wanted to touch on the Spiderman web shooters by giving her a set of invented bee stingers.. basically a dart gun that can deliver different types of toxins or even cures.

For the figure itself, I used astraight forward Wasp Heroclix as the base. It was pretty straight forward to give her a bee themed outfit rather than the red one she came with. The real fun in modifying the figure was popping off the wings so that I wouldn't get the yellow and black paint all over the wings. Read the Full Article

This was my gift for Tricia and she was the hardest one for me to do. Over a decade ago now, Tricia played in a Play-by-Email Aberrant game I was running. Her character for that game was a native american powerhouse named Thunderbird. Basically that world's answer to Wonder Woman. My first thought in setting down was to try and recreate that character. Canabalizing my Hero Clix I took Jinx's body for the flowing skirts and general lack of clothes and mixed it with Arclight's head because it had the closest hair for what I wanted. The head was slightly too big for the body. I figured I'd paint it and that would cover up some of the imperfections. This unfortunately just made it worse and she ended up looking like and elderly fae character with exam. In the end I started over. Read the Full Article

A year ago on LiveJournal I participated in an internet Meme that was going around at the time. The basic setup was based around a craft exchange. Here, I'll just post the original text as I re-posted it.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a song. It may be a something costume-y. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well. We all can make stuff!
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The Mutants and Mastermind's message boards have a section called 'Roll Call'. The section is for posting character write-ups. Sometimes these are personal characters but more often they are the stats for various characters from comics, TV, and movies (but mostly comics). Years ago, back when M&M was still in first edition I stumbled across a writeup for a character called 'Liberty: The American Girl' which was a poser based superhero web comic. Read the Full Article