Modern Superheroes by IGM Games

[jezter6]

Link here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=3145&src=ENWorld

Now that we know what I'm talking about, does ANYONE have this and can you tell me anything about it. Thus far, the 2 reviews on RPGNow show 3 and 4 stars, but said they didn't really like the product, and that it 'went in a different direction.' <sarcasm>Since those are mighty helpful reviews </sarcasm>, can someone please let me know what this product is all about?

Thanks.

Edit: To IGM games (if you're out there) the preview is absolutely horrible. It is half table of contents, and the other half a bit of story and fluffer text. It would probably be good to give some sort of demo of the actual mechanics if you want people to spend $12 on it.

 

[C. Baize]

Ooh! I think I have it...
But I might have deleted it... let me check my archive CD, and I'll get back to you.

 

[Turanil]

I think I have it... But I might have deleted it...

It does sound bad, especially if you paid the 12$ for it!

 

[jezter6]

I decided to purchase it, just because I was very curious to see it.

It's not bad, but it's nothing revolutionary. Looks VERY similar to Blood and Vigilance in the way things are handled. Not too bad though. I'm still reading it, but I can understand the 3 star average rating, I was just hoping that the reviewer would have explained a little more, which I plan to do when I'm done with it.

 

[C. Baize]

I definitely paid for it. And I do have it.
I'm going to take a couple of days to really digest it, again, because when I got it, I was put off at first by a general lack of anything popping out at me as being creative, and by the multitude of editing errors.
Now... when I'm in a hurry... I miss a few things (including a double entry in one of the things I edited)... But, this looks like someone used a spellchecker only, and didn't even run it through someone who understands the difference between possessive and plural forms.

Anyway... I'm going to be looking past all that, and really digesting it over the next few days... I will at least post a review on RPGNow based on the content.

Be warned, though... I'm a supers genre supergeek.
And as can be seen in my signature... Blood and Vigilance is my D20 Modern supers game of choice.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Blood and vigialance? Never heard of it. How does it compare to M&M (a game i think is semi-crap)

Basically im looking for somthing just a good as West End Games DC universe d6 system.

 

[Corinthi]

Blood and vigialance? Never heard of it. How does it compare to M&M (a game i think is semi-crap)

Basically im looking for somthing just a good as West End Games DC universe d6 system.

Wow... M&M is semi-crap, but the DC Universe version of D6 is good?

I must be your Bizarro clone or something, because I feel that M&M is semi-good and am looking forward to the 2nd edition, while I feel that the WEG DC Universe game was a terrible game. The book was poorly edited, had bad art, tons of broken rules, and was printed on substandard comic book paper that could easily tear with common usage assuming it didn't explode out of it's binding. All if you overlooked all of that, using the rules as written, you could create a character at the highest starting power level, and still be completely outshined by Robin. Not Nightwing...but Robin.

 

[C. Baize]

Well. It depends on your qualification of "Good".
It was written for D20 Modern, and scales nicely.
It doesn't circumvent the D20 Modern system, it goes right along with it.
It uses Hit Points, Action Points, Wealth System...
It doesn't really compare with Mutants and Masterminds, because they're completely different. Mutants and Masterminds kept the d20 and dropped the system. Blood and Vigilance USES the D20 Modern system. Personally.. I feel B&V is the way to go if you like D20 Modern and the Supers Genre.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Sounds like blood and Vigilance is my kind of Superhero d20 game.

I guess you must be my bizarro clone. I dont know M&M just felt really restraining for a superhero game to name just one complaint i had.

Does blood and Vigilance have a web site or something?

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

www.rpgobjects.com would be the B&V site.

It's a quick, cheap add-on to d20 Modern, I don't think they ever printed it, it's a PDF download.

For what you get, the value can't be beat. It's a different FLAVOR of supers, I'd say, and you can get down on the gritty level without feeling "eh".

I ran a pretty successful game of Pulp Action Supers with it, which eventually petered out more because we were interested in trying a bunch of different games than anything else. It was partially because some scheduling conflicts came up.

It's nice in that I was able to handle quite a few different TYPES of characters with the game, including a non-super-powered character using the Advanced Training background who was sort of a scholar-adventurer type with some Call of Cthulhu d20 spells.

On the whole it was an unholy Frankenstein's monster of a game, but it was SO much fun.

--fje