{"id":2395,"date":"2011-02-01T00:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:35:17","slug":"icons-the-mastermind-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"ICONS: The Mastermind Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: this post is about tabletop roleplaying games. Sorry if it makes no sense to you.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mastermind<\/a><\/p>\n

Just released: The Mastermind Affair<\/em>, PDF-format adventure for the ICONS RPG. (Written by me.)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, the amazing full RPG game, for $1.99 as well. (Also my<\/a> older stuff<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

So, $1.99 for a fun adventure. That’s about $2.60 in NZ pesos. If you are of gaming ilk, do consider it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Sadly, although the playtesters are credited, their amazing characters are not included. You’ll need to ask them for descriptions.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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