I am going to be running a story arc in our Mutants and Mastermind's game. Because everyone is really busy but I need new PCs for this particular arc, I've adapted the M&M Lite rules from the Mutants and Masterminds Annual #2 to serve this purpose. The actual changes I've made from the rules are pretty minimal but they offer a few stronger guidelines and some setting information.

I had originally intended to get this out back in late March. In addition to the normal life getting in the way, I really sabotaged myself by allowing all of the 'shiny house rules' distract me. When I finally sat down and forced myself to be straight forward about what I wanted, it came out reasonably well.

Of course now I have to start work on NPCs.

In recent discussion, it has become apparent that my game group is very busy. Not a whole lot of time for getting together and even less time for actually running a game. As I've been talking about for a while I do have an idea for the next arc, but its going to require the players to create new characters. That isn't exactly in keeping with the plan to minimize effort that needs to be put in. So in one of my last emails I suggested that would could do character creation in game. For a four hour game, creating characters during the session could eat up a lot of game time. So I suggested M&M Lite...

This is really an amalgamation of various ideas that I had all mashed into one. I scribbled it down while on the Metro and wanted to get it written out before the powers vanished (as they tend to do). Not sure I'll ever get a chance to use this but I figured I can always look it up later if I get the chance. This is the story of the planet that sits between Mars and Jupiter, today we call it the asteroid belt but long ago it was known as Minerva.

As many of you know (mostly because I won't stop talking about it) I have been playing in a Mutants and Masterminds game for the last couple of years. Our goal during that time (besides surviving) has been to find out what happened to cause the 'cataclysm' that removed all of the world's active super-beings. As we move closer to that goal, I have an idea for a series of adventures that can take place here and there leading up to that event. I've been trying to hold off on posting this but some ideas just demand to be brainstormed.