Tag: role-playing

Siskoid sits down with The Power of Fishnets’ Ryan Daly to compare Black Canary and Zatanna’s DC Heroes RPG stats and their portrayal in the comics. Two very different characters, except in terms of fashion. Did Mayfair Games get them right? We ask an expert!

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Our heroines and their statistics, according to Mayfair’s Who’s Who gaming supplement:

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Siskoid finds his joy when his 11-year-old self buys his first role-playing manual, Grimtooth’s Traps Too. What is it? How did it change his life? How did it later intersect his life? And most importantly, how did it help him find his joy?

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Highlights from Grimtooth’s Traps, Too, edited by Paul Ryan O’Connor, Pat Mueller and Michael Stackpole; front cover by Jeff Dee; illustrated by Steven S. Crompton:

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Siskoid has only ever run one of the tabletop Star Trek RPGs, so he calls in Ryan Blake, who’s played the rest, for a good honest talk about each one’s positives and negatives, and about the Trek role-playing experience. It’s not your garden variety space opera, you know! And the game must reflect that.

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“Star Trek Theme” by Alexander Courage, with the Irredeemable Shagg on vocals. End theme: “Deep Space Nine Theme” by Dennis McCarthy.

Bonus clips from: Star Trek The Next Generation’s “The Big Goodbye”, starring Patrick Stewart; “Star Trek: Generations” by David Carson, starring William Shatner.

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Gimme That Star Trek presents a sample of each game’s look, starting with the FASA game:

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Siskoid takes the reigns of the show to dole out GameMaster advice, house rules and campaign inspiration for superhero-themed roleplaying in this bonus episode of Hero Points. Whatever game you’re using, we hope you’ll find something of interest here.

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The third episode of our HERO POINTS PODCAST — the show that tackles role-playing games set in the DC Universe! This time around Shag and Siskoid chat about favorite introductory adventure modules! We recap and discuss Mayfair Games “Project Prometheus” and “The Doomsday Program”. Finally, we wrap up the show with your Listener Feedback!

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The second episode of our HERO POINTS PODCAST — the show that tackles role-playing games set in the DC Universe! This time around Shag and Siskoid chat about THE ATLAS OF THE DC UNIVERSE, from Mayfair Games released in 1990. First, we interview comics legend and author of the Atlas, Paul Kupperberg. Then, we provide an overview of the Atlas pointing out some favorite bits. Finally, we wrap up the show with your Listener Feedback!

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The inaugural episode of our HERO POINTS podcast — the show that tackles role-playing games set in the DC Universe! This time around Shag and Siskoid chat about DC HEROES ROLE-PLAYING GAME, the first edition box set from Mayfair Games released in 1985. Future episodes will be released occasionally and will examine various products from DC’s long history of role-playing games.

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Be sure to visit Writeups.org for an impressive collection of character stats developed by the DC-Heroes Yahoo Group. Also, be sure to check out Siskoid’s own DC Heroes write-ups (circa 2001)!

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