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Señor Cagim This whole thing is a ridiculous misunderstanding. Yes, yes, the prisons are full of innocent people, but see, he will happily admit that he is no blushing innocent. But come on, this place should be for the bank robbers and kidnappers and murderers and would-be world conquerors...

Dusty Devil Unattributed; if anyone knows the artist, please contact me. The idea of "origin chasing", actively pursuing dangerous phenomena in the hopes that it will result in the awakening of superpowers, is clearly derived from the idea of "storm chasing", actively pursuing meteorological...

Count Deimos There are two major prison gangs operating among the prisoners within the Big Rock, one which had been established in the prison system prior to its establishment (a so-called "import") and another which organized itself soon after the prison began operations. The former is a...

Yeah, someone really smart would have done that, wouldn't they? 😎

Mount Graham Correctional Facility The difficulties involved in imprisoning superpower criminals were demonstrated early in the Golden Age, after the capture (and subsequent escape) of the Russian agent known as the Untouchable. Not all "supervillains" were as difficult to imprison as a man...

'Bout three years ago?

La Bomba Maria Carpintero likes to think of herself as an easy-going person. In the ring, she might fight with ferocity if she is appearing as a heel -- pretty often, given how often she works in Japan these days -- and with determination if she has drawn the face. But wrestling is...

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I believe it's a reference to a criminology theory that was largely hijacked by conservative zealots.

Fijiag On the one hand, the Sprawl changes so fast that the events of even ten years ago might as well have happened to a previous generation. Even the terms used by Patois vary immensely depending on when you learned it. So someone who navigates cyberspace might be called a vagero, a pirato...

While it was closer to the latter, it used D&D stats (with Wisdom doubling as Luck) with "roll under" for checks and had some basic combat rules. Not as "gamey" as the Middle Earth Adventure books (which used a slightly cut-down set of the MERP rules) but more than some of this style.

Not a licensed one, but MCG's First Responders supplement for the Cypher System is exactly this. Vlad Taltos was statted up in an article in Dragon #220.

Summoned meteor strike.

Technically has been licensed, though it was for a series of Choose Your Own Narnian Adventure books with some game-like elements, as I recall. Aahz and Skeeve were statted up for the RoleAids module Wizards.

Teleute If there is one thing that any entity who finds themself in a confrontation with Teleute, Hierarch of the Sphere of Entropy, should never forget, it is this: she is not Ananke, the ruler of Daath for uncounted eons. Ananke is no more, having ceased to exist during the Anachronic...

Kuklafron Vaskhane, like most major criminal organizations, makes a great show of complete indifference to the origins of its agents, as long as they display the cardinal virtues of competence, loyalty, and ruthlessness. This is largely a façade, as plenty of high-ranking Vaskhane care a great...

Starfinder In 1969, shortly before humans from Earth took one small step that was also a giant leap, the superhero Meteor found himself investigating a series of heists committed in the Orlando area. Because he kept his extraterrestrial origins a secret, he was unable to reveal to anyone that...

Shé-rén, perhaps.

And obtaining that permission would not be simple, now. Steve Jackson Games is in the same position when it comes to reprinting material from Pyramid's iteration as a webzine -- it is not easy to contact everyone who submitted stuff.

t The last time they tried to produce digital versions of old issues of Dragon (the CD-Rom) didn't work out all that well for them. Their leeriness is understandable.