Negative Space: superheroes
- 50 Random Superhero Names
- Generate fifty random superhero names and secret identities. The names link back to the character sheet if you’d like to see a hero’s abilities.
- Annual 1—The Ultimate Chapter in the First RAC Challenge
- Uh… Something about Newt Gingrich, by Everyone
- Batman Begins
- A surprisingly good film that marries comic book sensibilities to the big screen in a way that uses and improves the strengths of each. This is the best Batman film ever, and a fine addition to the new series of superhero films.
- The Brand X Hero’s Guide
- The rest of the rules tell you how to create a superhero, what your numbers mean, and the rest of that shit. This book gives you some pointers on how to play the damn game. Consider this a primer on the physics, sociology, and politics of a world with super heroes. This is a world where anything can happen, and, sooner or later, everything does.
- Chapter 10: I got those Tampa Bay Buccaneers Blues
- by Mark Rosendorf; title by Marc “The Jazz” Singer
- Chapter 11: The Truth That Could Have Been Anywhere Else
- by Rob Rogers; title by Mark Rosendorf; Hair Care Products by Vidal Sassoon
- Chapter 12: Point of Departure or Divine is Easy, Comedy is Hard
- by Bill “Now Look” Keir; title by Rob “Roy” Rogers
- Chapter 13: The Ultimate Funeral
- by Dan “No relation to Igor” Sikorski; title by Bill Keir
- Chapter 14: Sing a Song of Six Packs
- by Chad Imbrogno; title by Dan Sikorski
- Chapter 15: Don’t Be a PRICK
- Narcoleptic Dogs Press Presents… RAC Challenge Chapter 15: Don’t Be a PRICK by Matt Rossi; title by Chad “Please don't hurt me” Imbrogno, whose pleas for Mercy will be in vain… heh.
- Chapter 16: If I wasn’t such an evil, evil man… Cheese Cheese
- by Wayne “Poet” Parillo; title by Matt “My state should be sold to the British” Rossi
- Chapter 17: MEMOREX Trackball Program Disk: If used incorrectly, then the world will be conquered
- by Jerry Stratton; title by Wayne “Poet” Parillo
- Chapter 18: Ghost, Ghost, Gander
- by Drizzt; title by Jerry Stratton
- Chapter 19: Screaming Dreams of wReam (I Have No Nose, And I Must Sneeze)
- by Arsenal, the Lone Warrior; title by Drizzt
- Chapter 1: A Fistful of Spandex
- by Henry R. Broaddus; title by Daniel J. Sikorski
- Chapter 20: When the sky hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it HOITS!
- by wReam; title by Arsenal
- Chapter 21: Stretching the World Wide Web or Brain Fever
- by Mike Friedman; Title by wReam
- Chapter 22: Not a real good jumping on point for new readers.
- by Frank W. Patnaude, Jr.; Title by Michael Friedman
- Chapter 23: Is That a Pack of Sugarless Gum in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
- by Michael Mendoza; Title by Frank W. Patnaude, Jr.
- Chapter 2: Gunshots and Grapefruits
- by Daniel Warren; title by Henry Broaddus.
- Chapter 3: Ducks and Delirium
- by Michael Kelly; title by Daniel Warren
- Chapter 4: Thrown Out Stealing
- by Jerry Franke; title by Michael Kelly
- Chapter 5: Into the Swamp, or How Can I Love You When You Killed Me Last Night?
- by Aaron Levitz; title by Jerry Franke
- Chapter 6: Two Question Marks and an Apostrophe or Picnic of the Damned
- by Scott Cederlund; title by Aaron Levitz
- Chapter 7: I Lost My Spleen in Sausalito
- by Augie De Blieck Jr.; title by Scott Cederlund
- Chapter 8: If This is Tuesday, It Must be Belgium
- by Kirk Ambrose, P.D.Q.; title by the Immortal Augie De Blieck Jr.
- Chapter 9: A Farewell to Arms (and a few legs)
- by Marc “The Jazz” Singer; title, and my snappy new nickname, by Kirk “Bierce, comma” Ambrose
- Hero World
- A very specific (and short) game where the superheroes are humans, elves, and mercurians. And galaga creatures.
- Men & Supermen
- Men & Supermen is a superhero role-playing game designed for a wide variety of characters, both of powers and power levels.
- Men & Supermen Rogues Gallery (242.7 KB)
- Welcome to the first Rogue's Gallery for Brand X. Within these pages you'll find a lot of friends and acquaintances for your players to meet. You can also use some of these characters as pre-generated player characters.
- Men & Supermen Rules
- All of the rules for Men & Supermen are here, from character generation (make what you want or roll completely randomly) to the game rules.
- Men & Supermen Starter Kit
- This is what’s left of the starter kit: PDF versions of the character sheet, character creation outline, character creation worksheet, editor’s screen, and editor’s record sheet.
- Mighty Protectors release: Villains & Vigilantes 3.0
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As of today, you should be able to buy both the PDF and the print version of Villains & Vigilantes 3.0: Mighty Protectors. It’s a worthwhile purchase.
- Mista
- An adventure in which the characters travel to another dimension, gain superpowers, and… I’m not really sure what was supposed to come next.
- RACC Challenge II Issue 20
- “James Taylor - Marked For Death! or, If I hear one more Jesus-walking-the-boys-and-girls-down-a-Carolina-path- while-the-dilemma-of-existence-crashes-like-a-slab-of- hod-on-James-Taylor’s-shoulders song, I will drop everything and hop the first Greyhound to Carolina for the signal satisfaction of breaking off a bottle of Ripple and twisting it into James Taylor’s guts until he expires in spasm of adenoidal poesy.”
- Rec.Arts.Comics Challenge!
- The purpose of RAC Challenge! is to have fun and to exercise creativity. Participants pursue these goals through their construction of a chapter in an ongoing story written in the tradition of super-hero comics. RAC Challenge! is based on DC Challenge!, a now defunct title which operated according to a similar rotation of authors.
- The Snowman
- When Professor Leslie Jo Hutchinson runs to the heroes for assistance, her story sounds crazy: a mad snowman threatening to cover the world in ice? But what’s that storm spreading down from the arctic?
- Superhero gaming texts
- Some Champions stuff, some DC Heroes stuff, and a little bit of Villains & Vigilantes.
- Superman vs. the X-Men
- Superman Returns wasn’t as good as I’d been hoping for, but it was very good, and much better than X-Men 3.
- Superman: Last Son of Krypton
- “Last Son of Krypton” explores the responsibility of power and the side-effects of universal good deeds through the super-powered adventures of Superman.
- A Taste of Jasmine
- Adventure in the mountains of West Virginia, protecting a strange teen-age girl and her supposedly dead father from even stranger menaces.
- Villains and Vigilantes at Monkey House Games
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The best superhero game of the old-school, and possibly still, V&V is an easy game to read and play.
- With great power comes great responsibility
- Are superheroes jettisoning exceptionalism? Can they?
More Information
- Champions Character Write-ups
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Over three hundred Hero characters, including original creations and many from established fictional worlds. You can't hardly go wrong on this site if you're playing Champions. Originally by Jack Wilson.
