Recent content by Kenson

Speaking of which, it's "Stephen" Kenson, although I generally go by "Steve". :D

The Assembled Edition of Icons is available in print from Ad Infinitum's partner Green Ronin Publishing and should be available. The Great Power Sourcebook is available in softcover print-on-demand formats from DriveThruRPG and RPGNow. In the new year, the Icons A to Z series will also be...

I think this should cover it, Morrus: Story Creators: Christopher Perkins, Adam Lee, Richard Whitters Story Consultants: R.A. Salvatore, Troy Denning Lead Adventure Designer: Steve Kenson* Designers: Cam Banks,* Walter Ciechanowski,* Alex Melchor,* Christopher Perkins, Chris Pramas,* Robert...

I will note for the record that Morrus and I have been seen in the same place together at the same time. (Which should throw them off the track of my secret identity....) Oh, and you should also count DC Adventures, coming in August!

Possibly upgraded to "merely useless". ;)

It is a Limited flaw on his Morph ability, since it does cut down on Morph's disguise capabilities a fair amount (barring a clever monologue about "BRIGHT PRIMARY COLORS!!! SIR, YES, SIR!" as it were).

I think we properly represented all of J'onn's diverse powers, yes. Apologies if the Design Journal comments were misleading: Plas is better known as a stretchy shapeshifter, whereas J'onn tends to use his shapeshifting more for disguise, and Grodd filled in the role of villain with mental...

Batman has sufficient Investigation skill and Skill Mastery to routinely accomplish DC 32 checks without his player even rolling the die, and near-impossible ones are not out of his reach.

Just wanted to pop in and say that the discussion of dice mechanics, probability distribution, common availability of d6s, etc. with ICONS is all pretty spot-on where my own thoughts are concerned. I'm very glad to hear kids are picking up on the game as easily as I'd hoped they would!

In my experience, it may be easier if you're adding the 2d6 together and adding your hero's ability level for the GM to simply add 7 to all the difficulties, rather than subtracting 7 from every test result. Same result mathematically, less subtraction. Since the GM isn't really rolling for...

Folks are doing so over on RPGnet and on the ICONS Wiki as well.

Just FYI, if you're interested in ICONS, there are forthcoming e-reader versions, all the proceeds from which will go to support cleanup of the Gulf oil spill. Here's the Adamant press release.

I've taught plenty of kids in that age range to play M&M, no problem. Teaching them character design is a bit more involved: you may want to go with archetypes or pre-gens, at least initially, with lots of GM input on PC design later on, but the actual process of game play they pick up very...

Note that you could also substitute the M&M Pocket Player's Guide for the core rulebook, although you'd lose out on the handy bestiary/minions archetypes in the full book.

Only feats listed as "Ranked" in their description have ranks, the rest do not. Well, Vulnerable doesn't have a DC, its value is based on frequency (how often the vulnerability comes up) and intensity (how much additional effect the vulnerability has). Double damage is major intensity (2...