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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2712526" data-attributes="member: 151">Heh.  Now, now...I was just offering an opinion.  In point of fact, I thought I made it clear that I thought that it would be well done, as WotC releases almost universally are, and that it would be financially successfully (as all WotC releases almost universally are).I just think that they're tossing it out there, the same way they tossed a lot of d20 Modern. material  It doesn't have nearly the following of D&D, and appeals to a smaller audience.  I think it's great they're doing it...but I also think it won't have much support.  I'm vieiwing d20 Supers in the same vein as d20 Past and d20 Apocalypse.  Nice extensions to the d20 line that are there more for completeness' sake than anything else.I don't think that they'll be in competetion...I don't WotC even considered it in those terms.    But getting back to the topic at hand, another setting book to consider for d20 Superheroes (again ignoring the fairly light rules details) is The Authority setting book, which I've seen quite a few good reviews about.A question that I have is what are you looking to get out of such a setting book?  To my mind, official conversions are most of what I'd want out of any supplement to a d20 Superheroes book.  And to my mind, that comes in three flavors:1) Marvel2) D.C.3) A Specific Title  (ex:Invincible, Supreme, Tom Tomorrow, Astro City, etc.)For any Marvel and D.C. book, the only unique values it would have would be stats for established characters and a central repository for information on a character, to save me the time of research.  I mean, Marvel and D.C. both put out excellent encyclopedias of their universes that are still pretty useful today, if you have them or can get them.   A real value-add for me would be a comprehensive (and cleaned-up as best they can) Timeline of each universe (did Baron Zemo did in the Amazon before or after the FF first me the inhumans?, etc.).I remember as a kid loving those annuals that Marvel and D.C. would put out with the maps and schematics of some of the superheroes equipment, like a cross-section of Daredevil's brownstone, the Baxter Building or the Fortress of Solitude.  Totally fanciful and totally fun.</blockquote>

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