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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Firefly In costume Out of costume At twenty-one years of age, Peter Hanawa is the youngest member of the Magnificent Seven. He is also the only one of his teammates without any previous superheroic experience. (His previous experience in the superpower world was of a different nature, as will...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Caballero In costume Out of costume Even after parting ways with the Avatar and heading back to Portland with Patty and her friend, Lonnie Lawson was still only partially reconciled to the idea of once more becoming a superhero. His goals, for the past few years, had largely involved avoiding...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Exile In Hespera, Nzarde spent most of her time trying to avoid change. Change was something that people associated with her mother, and if Nzarde wanted to present herself as a viable alternative as Queen, she needed to court those who were opposed to the changes to Hespera that her mother...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    The Magnificent Seven For some people, at least some of the time, the surest way to get them to go from not wanting something at all to wanting that thing a great deal is to tell them that they cannot have it. So it was, recently, with Marc Bolton, aka Cadmus. If he had ever given any thought...
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    The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

    -missed final clause-
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    I don't have any planned at the moment. Next week will be four revised characters from the World in the Aftermath, plus one recent legacy, plus some context ... and then, as I'm feeling a bit burnt out, I think I'm going to take an extended break.
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Karen Troy In the parallel universe dubbed The World That Burned, human civilization dealt itself what might well be a mortal wound when the United States of America fought a brief nuclear war with its Soviet rival in the late 1990s. The small number of superheroes who had existed in this...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Fendze This is the story that the Fendze tell. Long ago, they were the only thinking beings on their planet, which they ruled through their great strength and their venomous fangs and minds, dominating all other creatures upon it. And they were happy in this state. But the star gods do not...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Lugulux Art by Federico Pironi. By and large, the nomadic peoples who roam the northern extents of the Tarim Basin, in the World Closer to Death, are not thought of as particularly dangerous to the more settled regions. Their numbers are small, they lack the resources to pursue an attack for...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Linda Valentina Nobody ever really thinks of themselves as the bad guy. Admittedly, that is sometimes because certain people are too lost to understand that there is a distinction between right and wrong, much less than the difference is not that hard to figure out. But Linda Valentina, City...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Lord Suthros There are two schools of thought about Lord Suthros, the Grandfather of Assassins and master of the mountain fortress called Karak al'Gharab ("the Raven's Roost".) The first is that he is a sinister manipulator who sends his followers, controlled either by drugs or religious...
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    Pathfinder 2E Free Archetype Variant Rule - if you DON'T use it, why, and how did your players react?

    No. All of the non-multiclass archetypes in the Advanced Player's Guide get a list of Additional Feats. Not all of them cover all the possible levels, but there are usually enough of them that you could take an additional feat at every level where you get a class feat.
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    Pathfinder 2E Free Archetype Variant Rule - if you DON'T use it, why, and how did your players react?

    In the Multiclass Archetypes, you are allowed to take the 6th level feat that gives you a feat of the secondary class more than once. Also, you might want to examine the section in the Advanced Player's Guide about "Additional Feats" -- at least some of the archetypes there have feats of that...
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    What are you reading in 2023?

    My suggestion would be to read them in publication order, rather than the chronological order of the Admiral's life.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Star Wars Force Users in 5e

    This is what I came up with a long time ago, on a forum far far away. The Way of the Mind All monks draw on the hidden powers of the mind and spirit to enhance the body, but followers of this tradition do so in ways that defy imagination. Its techniques are known to strengthen the body, but...
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Princess Pele When her abilities to replicate, on a relatively small scale, the volcanic activity that had created the islands manifested in her late teens, it was obvious how Kamea Keola was going to use them -- to fight against the illegal military occupation of Hawai'i by the United States...
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    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

    ... but didn't Rita turn good?
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    Which of these six is the best H.P. Lovecraft story?

    "At The Mountains of Madness" is the one most like a conventional adventure story. "The Dunwich Horror" has the most memorable protagonist.
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    [Mutants & Masterminds] A World Less Magical But No Less Fantastic

    Haha Niwatori/母鶏 Kishinami Yui regards her status as the second occupant of the House of the Rooster in the Shēngxiào as being of lesser importance than some of the other figurative hats that she wears. (Of course she never wears an actual hat. What decade do you imagine this is?) The death of...
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