This is the black and white version meant solely for book distribution. Do not buy directly from Lulu. Metahuman Martial Arts is an extensive supplement for the Mutants & Masterminds 3e rules. Written by Steven Trustrum, contributor to the DC Adventures product line, this massive sourcebook transforms martial arts into a unique, vital aspect of your game. Included are 17 character archetypes, 5 villain archetypes, more than 160 different fighting styles/martial arts (both real and imagined), dozens of combat maneuvers, an arsenal of weapons and weapon qualities, new and expanded skills, over 150 advantages, and new villains and heroes to use in your game.
Within you will find three new flaws to start off, followed by game stats for the company's two owners and the Gearbox secret facility where all of the vehicular magic takes place. Next, you are provided with over 20 new vehicle features, and an expanded vehicle size category chart that allows you to build vehicles as large as a solar system. If that's not enough for you, more than 20 power build add-ons are also provided, ranging from active camouflage to defensive systems to super-shocks (most of which are scalable by rank), finishing things off with more than a dozen weapon builds, nearly 10 vehicle complications, and 10 stock vehicle templates to get you started. This version is intended for distribution. Do not purchase directly from the print provider.
Since 2002, Mutants & Masterminds has earned its title as the World's Greatest Superhero RPG, inspiring countless game sessions and winning many awards for excellence. The Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook is the core rulebook of the game's third edition, giving you everything you need to have your own superheroic adventures. The detailed character creation system lets you create the hero you want to play, choosing from a wide range of skills, advantages, and power effects. Customize your hero's powers with modifiers to create an almost endless range of superhuman abilities. Choose the complications your hero must overcome, earning you the hero points to achieve victory. You can also choose from one of more than a dozen heroic archetypes, customize as you like, and be ready to play in just minutes! The streamlined system of game play requires only a single die roll and features easy-to-use rules. Play out an entire heroic adventure in a few short hours without long, drawn-out encounters. Plus, the hero point system allows players to influence the flow of the story and pull off superheroic stunts in the best comic book tradition! Become a hero of legend with the Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook!
-- A "sleeper" worldbook that has just continued to sell and sell. -- Martial arts are applicable to every sort of campaign...fantasy, SF, or modern! -- Detailed discussions of over 50 different fighting styles.
The Algernon Files is a compilation of heroic and villainous NPCs designed to give a GM and his players additional resources for the Mutants & Masterminds game. It includes over 100 write-ups for NPCs of varying power levels, as well as maps, new rules, new powers, and new feats. It introduces the hero teams, The Sentinels, The Aerie, and The Covenant, as well as solo heroes. The book also introduces the villainous teams The Black Knights, The Prometheans, and The Sinister Circle, as well as heavy hitters such as Praetorian and The Serpent Queen, followed by other villains and potential sparring partners of different types, power models, and general effectiveness.
The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a profits over people approach, but we are at a point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations can become healing forces. Conscious Capitalism pioneer Raj Sisodia and organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb were inspired to write this book because of the epidemic of unnecessary suffering connected with business, including the destruction of the environment; increasing numbers living paycheck-to-paycheck and barely surviving; and rising rates of depression and stress leading to chronic health problems. Based on extensive in-depth interviews and inspiring case studies, Sisodia and Gelb show how companies such as Shake Shack, Hyatt, KIND Healthy Snacks, Eileen Fisher, H-E-B, FIFCO, Jaipur Rugs and DTE Energy are healing their employees, customers, communities and other stakeholders. They represent a diverse sampling of industries and geographies, but they all have significant elements in common, besides being profitable enterprises: Their employees love coming to work. They have passionately loyal customers. They make a significant positive difference to the communities they serve. They preserve and restore the ecosystems in which they operate. The enmity and dividedness between those who champion unfettered capitalism and those who advocate socialism is exacerbating rather than solving our problems. In a world that urgently needs healing on many levels, this is a movement whose time has come. The Healing Organization shows how it can be done, how it is being done, and how you can begin to do it too.
Some drunken South Carolina teenagers claim to have seen the Loch Ness Monster while out boating in the Charleston Harbor near Fort Sumter. Normally Project Odyssey ignores such crazy assertions, but a Coast Guard informant confirmed something big and "odd" is indeed swimming about the harbor. Since a gate mishap caused the last known dinosaur, Nessie, in fact, to appear, the Project's leaders want this claim investigated. If the creature does exist, Dam Con is to capture and contain it, leaving no evidence for the curious to question. Southern Discomfort is a beginning-level Odyssey Prime Modern d20/Unisystem (TM) adventure written by Christina Stiles for both Dam Con and Odyssey Teams. The adventure includes possible tie-ins with Goodman Games' Broncosaurus Rex, proving that most games/game worlds are compatible with Odyssey Prime. Southern Discomfort is a joint Misfit Studios and Eden Studios production.
Battling bad guys. High-tech hideouts. The gratitude of the masses. Who at some point in their life hasn't dreamed of being a superhero? Impossible, right? Or is it? Possessing no supernatural powers, Batman is the most realistic of all the superheroes. His feats are achieved through rigorous training and mental discipline, and with the aid of fantastic gadgets. Drawing on his training as a neuroscientist, kinesiologist, and martial artist, E. Paul Zehr explores the question: Could a mortal ever become Batman? Zehr discusses the physical training necessary to maintain bad-guy-fighting readiness while relating the science underlying this process, from strength conditioning to the cognitive changes a person would endure in undertaking such a regimen. In probing what a real-life Batman could achieve, Zehr considers the level of punishment a consummately fit and trained person could handle, how hard and fast such a person could punch and kick, and the number of adversaries that individual could dispatch. He also tells us what it would be like to fight while wearing a batsuit and the amount of food we'd need to consume each day to maintain vigilance as Gotham City's guardian. A fun foray of escapism grounded in sound science, Becoming Batman provides the background for attaining the realizable—though extreme—level of human performance that would allow you to be a superhero.
Howling Shadows is a core rulebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, with a wealth of dangerous creatures, sprits, artificial intelligence, and more to add variety and fun to Shadowrun games. The critters were designed with both players and GMs in mind - they can be added as a resource for players to use or obstacles to overcome. The critters also have plot hooks built in to fuel plenty of adventures and campaigns. With full color art, this book displays the bizarre and dangerous critters of the Sixth World in their full glory.
