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Homefront Heroes is the next in Vigilance Press' popular line of USHER Universe supplements set in WWII! In the Golden Age of comics, most comics were set on the "homefront" and centered on heroes who, for a variety of reasons, were left behind from the war effort. Homefront Heroes shows what...

I agree, I don't think it was PR. Remember, one of the "selling points" internally at WOTC for the OGL back in the development of 3rd edition was "hey, these guys will write adventures, those are least profitable products!" Of course, 3PPs could figure that out just as easily as WOTC, and so...

I think the existence of a license that says "write adventures to support our game but don't you DARE create anything new" vs. the license that allowed Spycraft and M&M is where I decide to call the GSL 180 degrees from the OGL.

Not sure if this was directed at me or not, but I'll take a run at it anyway. At the time, when I was working for RPGObjects, we had published d20 books and d20 Modern books and were very keen on the idea of getting in "on the ground floor" of a new edition. My partner Chris Davis and I had...

It's 180 degrees because the GSL is far more restrictive than the OGL. Also, the license was late by, what, a year? In other words, WOTC moved from more open (OGL), to less open (GSL), and from more attentive to letting everyone know right off the bat that their new open license was the last...

They did no do "it". They used Open Content twice in two years, almost all of it written by ex-WOTC staffers and published some books written by Monte Cook after he became a 3PP. Now let's look specifically at the things mentioned in the original open letter, did they: Talk About Us Support...

The next in our ongoing series of Cold War themed supers for ICONS is the devious, steel-headed villain Death Mask! Death Mask (aka James Moraity) is a brilliant but twisted genius. While posing as a legitimate businessman, he channels his billions into P.H.A.N.T.O.M., a private terrorist force...

Being able to find three examples in ten years sort of proves my point (I'm calling MMII, Unearthed Arcana, and Call of Cthulhu d20 as examples). They were not interested in highlighting 3PP's. Which is fine, I don't blame them for that. It's just a fact. Yes, there were occasional...

Given that Mike Mearls has responded to folks on these forums, and on therpgsite, I assume he and other WOTC staffers *do* read them, yes. But that doesn't mean they have unlimited freedom to enact policy, especially one that runs 180 degrees in the direction of what seems to be their...

Well, I think expecting any reaction from WOTC, even a "no thanks", is... well, naive is the only word I think applies. WOTC never actually served as a booster for 3rd party d20 content in the early days of the OGL, and that was a completely different company in terms of 3rd party...

Another day, another art preview. This one is probably my favorite of the lot, and it's called We Can Do It!

More art!

Another art sample from Homefront Heroes!

In the Golden Age of comics, most of the heroes were not actually "over there". This new book in our WWII line, written by gaming legend Steve Perrin of Runequest fame, incorporates those heroes left behind. Though they are not in the war, there is still adventure to be had, fighting enemy...

This third Dispatch of the Moreau Files details two mystic themed supervillains for your ICONS campaign Loki Lie-Smith: Schizophrenic, shape-shifting con man or Nordic god on a crusade to save humanity? No one is quite sure... Guigonal: A criminal and novice dabbler in the Dark Arts, Guigonal...

Next in our line of retro-tastic 80s-supers themed line for ICONS is: the BATTLE CZAR In the Soviet Bloc, the renegade super-soldier Battle Czar is often remembered as one of the few good things that came out of the Stalin era: A champion and hero of the people who performed mighty deeds in the...

That's right! In April 2002, half on a dare from my gaming group, I released Vigilance, a d20 Superhero roleplaying game on RPGNow. This was followed by Darkness and Light, a NPC folio for Vigilance, featuring the first appearance of Old Glory, the Savant and the USHER universe was born. We...

The Soviet super-team, the People's Revolution, was formed by the Kremlin in 1941 in response to demands from the Red Army for an organized force to counter the Nazi's super soldier forces. Although the British and American super soldiers receive the most attention and glory (at least in Western...

The next in our ongoing series of Cold War themed supers for ICONS is THE GLOBALIST As the leader of the jack-booted, international terrorist organization UNITY, the Globalist is dedicated to the destruction of all national governments and the unification of Earth into one harmonious order --...

I'd call Cap Advanced Training myself.