[GR] Mutants & Masterminds Upcoming Releases

[Nikchick]

For those of you who don't visit our boards, here's a little info on a couple of the upcoming Mutants & Masterminds releases:

Freedom City
A Mutants & Masterminds Sourcebook
Written by Steve Kenson
GRR2002
ISBN: 0-9723599-4-X
MSRP: $32.95
192 page, full color hardback

Welcome to Freedom City! Players of Mutants & Masterminds were introduced to this bustling metropolis in the game's very first adventure. Now acclaimed Mutants & Masterminds author Steve Kenson presents a complete and detailed city setting for four-color superhero adventures. Freedom City includes a detailed history, an overview of the city's diverse neighborhoods, scores of locations and backdrops, a cast of supporting characters, three complete hero teams, and dozens of villains, all ready to use! Freedom City is packed with ideas and adventure hooks that make it ideal for players and gamemasters of Mutants & Masterminds and other superhero RPGs as well. Richly detailed and lavishly illustrated in full color, Freedom City is the ideal companion book to the Mutants & Masterminds Roleplaying Game.

Freedom City is currently at print and will be released in March.


Time of Crisis
A Freedom City Adventure for Mutants & Masterminds
GRR2004
MSRP: $16.95
ISBN: 0-9726756-1-2
Written by Christopher L. McGlothlin
64 pages, perfect bound

The first Mutants & Masterminds adventure is here! Set in the exciting world ofFreedom City, Time of Crisis sends the heroes on a mission with the highest of stakes. What starts as a simple robbery escalates until the fate of the world hangs in the balance. It'll take more than a cool costume and witty quips to save the day…and the world! Like every book in the Mutants & Masterminds line, Time of Crisis is presented in full color, with stunning art from comic industry professionals. Easily adaptable to any four color superhero setting, Time of Crisis is an ideal way to kick off your Mutants & Masterminds campaign.

Time of Crisis is scheduled for an April release.

Crooks!
A Mutants & Masterminds Villain Directory
Written and Designed by Super Unicorn
Cover by Cully Hamner
128 page, full-color hardback
MSRP: $26.95
GRR2005
ISBN: 0-9726756-6-3

More than 50 of the world's most dastardly supervillains, monsters, power-mad sorcerers, and would-be conquerors come alive in this lavishly illustrated catalog of criminals conceived, written, and art directed by Super Unicorn design studio! Battle the maniacal Atomic Brain, conquer the demon within Johnny Reb, and maybe score a date with the Other Woman, mysterious maven of the Clique! CROOKS! includes four complete villain headquarters, new powers, a host of villainous devices, and an introduction to the META-4 Universe, first seen in the Mutants & Masterminds core rulebook. You'll definitely want to catch these CROOKS!

CROOKS! is scheduled for a May release.

 

[JELEINEN]

Just out of curiosity, are there any non-superhero books in the works? M&M seems like its a good, generic system in the same vein as BESM or Hero System, but I'm not really big into superheroes and I'm too lazy to do any of the work myself.

 

[Nikchick]

Just out of curiosity, are there any non-superhero books in the works? M&M seems like its a good, generic system in the same vein as BESM or Hero System, but I'm not really big into superheroes and I'm too lazy to do any of the work myself.

You mean using M&M for non-supers? We're not taking it in that direction, at least not at the moment. Trying to establish the game as the supers game it was built to be before we go too crazy.

Nicole

 

[Teflon Billy]

Crooks and Freedom City sound awesome.

What I'd really love is something along the lines of the Ultimate Powers book for the old Marvel Game. Anything like that in the cards?

 

[Assenpfeffer]

I will almost certainly buy all this stuff.

 

[Pramas]

Crooks and Freedom City sound awesome.

What I'd really love is something along the lines of the Ultimate Powers book for the old Marvel Game. Anything like that in the cards?

We discussed it at the M&M summit but we weren't too sure we could fill up a big book and have it not seem like a rehash of the powers in the core rulebook. The game itself was designed to give you tools to create nearly any power as it is. What would you like to see in such a book that would make it distinct from what's in the core rulebook already?

 

[Teflon Billy]

...What would you like to see in such a book that would make it distinct from what's in the core rulebook already?

I'd like a list of power effects and seperate lists of Extras and Flaws. A clarification of how Power Stunts are used in power creation would be good.

I love Mutants and Masterminds, and it is curently the game I play most (and think about most), but power creation and charcter creation have some very vague parts in them that make it sometimes very difficult to figure out how Powers, extras, flaws, stunts and feats interact with one another.

I'd also like to see a bit more differentiation of Flaws and extras...I think the utility offered (or penalty inflicted) by certain flaws and extras are not well represented by a simple 1=1=1 formula.

 

[Lizard]

We discussed it at the M&M summit but we weren't too sure we could fill up a big book and have it not seem like a rehash of the powers in the core rulebook. The game itself was designed to give you tools to create nearly any power as it is. What would you like to see in such a book that would make it distinct from what's in the core rulebook already?

FWIW, I would buy a "Big Book O'Crunchy Bitz" for M&M in a heartbeat, but I'm unlikely to buy the currently announced products. Don't take this as a slam -- I don't buy products in the setting/scenario/book-o-NPCs category for ANY game, generally.

What I'd like in a hypothetical powers bookwould be, basically "More!". More core powers. More stunts. More feats. More in-depth systems for power costing. (Inlcuding cheaper or more expensive feats). Special effect variations granting small bonuses or penalties, so that someone whose armor is defined as 'crystal shell' differs from someone whose armor is defined as 'genetically engineered rhino hide'.

 

[xrpsuzi]

They all look so good....

Eyes too big... budget too small....

I have to pry my friends off Hero and try out a M&M campaign. I keep telling them there are a lot less 3 letter acronyms

suzi

 

[Teflon Billy]

Nicole, your post mentions a releasedate for Freedom City(March), but nothing for Crooks.

Any idea when that will be hitting the shelves (and shortly thereafeter; my shelf)?