Warning: this post is about tabletop roleplaying games. Sorry if it makes no sense to you.
Just released: The Mastermind Affair, PDF-format adventure for the ICONS RPG. (Written by me.)
It’s a hefty 45-page adventure suitable for most traditional-type Supers RPG settings – I guess it’s a bit more DC than Marvel in its shadings. It has a whole mess of villains, all with that great Dan Houser art – you can see some of them in the preview pages. It has a descriptive character aspect of which I’m inordinately proud, but I can’t tell anyone what it is because it’s a minor spoiler. It’s a neat adventure and if you like Supers stuff, you’ll get a kick out of this.
Best of all: it is only a buck ninety-nine, American. The publisher, Adamant Entertainment, has adopted an “app-pricing” model where everything costs just under US$2. This means you can get ICONS itself, the amazing full RPG game, for $1.99 as well. (Also my older stuff for the same price.) It’s a fascinating and exciting business move, and I think it’s the way all digital products will inevitably go – music downloads, e-books, online newspaper subscriptions, etc will all be getting massively cheaper as it sinks in that the value proposition is different to that of a physical product.
So, $1.99 for a fun adventure. That’s about $2.60 in NZ pesos. If you are of gaming ilk, do consider it.
(Sadly, although the playtesters are credited, their amazing characters are not included. You’ll need to ask them for descriptions.)
I haven’t finished reading Icons, but I do credit it for certainly helping my “supers binge” while writing The Ministry. And I was seriously considering running an Icons game at Kapcon (before I lost all enthusiasm).
I need this.
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I now have this. I have contacted my old team and suggested that we play it.
THIS IS EXCITING!