Still Only 99 Cents: Radian

[Messageboard Golem]

FOES FROM THE FALCONER FILES #2
FOR M&M SUPERLINK
"ENTER: RADIAN"


WRITTEN BY: JOHNATHAN WRIGHT
ART BY: JEFF PARKER
PAGE COUNT: 9 PAGES, PLUS COVER, CREDIT PAGE AND OGL.
FORMAT: PORTRAIT, FULLY BOOKMARKED.


Each issue in the Still Only 99 Cents line features a new character with complete background, multiple adventure hooks and character sheets presenting the character at various PLs.

Foes from the Falconer Files features criminals from the street, threats to the American way of life and even Heroes who, if turned to the side of injustice, could pose a threat to innocent people everywhere.

Issue #2 introduces Radian, a hero who started his crime-fighting career as a street-level vigilante only to lose his powers to a strange alien virus. Radian now bears the mysterious Lantern, a powerful artifact that has surfaced time and time again in history and myth. However, this beacon of light has a dark side, a corrupting influence that even the stalwart Radian could succumb to. Radian is presented at PLs 7, 12 and 16.

 

[Crothian]

Radian

Some games like Mutants and Masterminds almost require the DM to come up with new and interesting villains and heroes. Super heroes can be fun to create but every now and again a little help is needed. That is were book like Radian come in. They present some character the player characters can go against or ally themselves with, or even just hear about.

Radian is a PDF by Big Finger Games. It uses the Super Link for Mutants and Masterminds. Big Finger Games has another product like this one. That one is Troll and features a villain with troll like abilities and temperament. The PDF is small, only a dozen pages long. The layout is bookish with very little art or other items to break up the text. The few pieces of art are actually not that great either. The book is book marked.

Radian presents a super hero, but frankly it just is not all that interesting. He has a full background that consists of gaining super powers, loosing them, and then gaining different ones. In the history is a potential world changing event with space spores that rain down denying people their super abilities. I think that little plot hook was way more interesting then the character but very little is given on that.

The book offers two NPCs. The main character Radian has stats as a power level twelve and sixteen character. There is also his side kick or apprentice, Blaze, who is presented as power level seven.

The book is really not that expensive coming in a under a dollar. So, if one is in need for a couple characters with background and personality all fleshed out then this will serve that function. There are many uses for written NPCs it is just that most of the material here failed to inspire as it is written.