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The Superteam Handbook puts the focus on the heroes and their team, with details for players and gamemasters alike to make their team cohesive, dramatic, and fun! Heroes can work closer together than ever before with new, team-focused powers, advantages, and attack options. Eight pre-made hero teams—ranging from PL 5 to PL 12—serve as campaign-kickstarters, with guidelines, resources, and advice for running a variety of heroic campaigns, along with background and statblocks for their members to use as player characters, rivals, or villains. Will you save the planet as part of the globe-hopping UNIQUE, battle to keep the streets safe as one of the street-brawling Ferroburg Four, or take onancient aliens from the cockpit of your own giant robot as a member of MagnaForce? Whatever you choose, be stronger than the sum of yourparts!

The opening of the Ring gates creates unlimited possibilities for new adventures in The Expanse RPG and Beyond the Ring gives GMs all the tools they need to support stories like the novel Cibola Burn. The Ring gates are open, as The Expanse RPG advances its timeline to the fourth novel in the series, Cibola Burn. The Ring, a massive construct created by the protomolecule out near the orbit of Uranus, is a portal into a strange non-space known as “the Slow Zone.” Centered on an ancient alien station, it connects to more than a thousand other portals to a thousand different star systems, each with one or more worlds shaped by the ancient aliens who created the protomolecule and intended to do the same to Earth. Now they are long gone, and vast frontiers have opened for human settlement and exploration. Beyond the Ring details the Slow Zone, Medina Station, travel through the Ring gates, and some of the many systems found beyond them, along with tools for Game Masters to design their own systems for characters to explore. Beyond the Ring opens up a whole new type of adventure for The Expanse RPG, as characters travel to distant star systems and face unknown perils!

Danger Zones details 35 different urban backdrops for your Mutants & Masterminds campaign. These ready-to-use locations range from city staples like the bank, coffee shop, and hotel to more colorful sites like the amusement park, parade route, and science center. And of course, highways to take you there! Every location includes a map, as well as useful as advice on how to get the most from its unique features in a cunning plot or superhero slugfest. Danger Zones also includes a catalog of colorful characters ready to populate your urban sprawl. Heroes, get ready for danger!

The Valiant Adventures Hero’s Handbook is a standalone RPG that brings together the Mutants & Masterminds rules and the Valiant Universe of Bloodshot, Shadowman, and X-O Manowar. Comic fans know the Valiant Universe is home to classic characters like Bloodshot, Shadowman, Faith, Dr. Mirage, and X-O Manowar. Gamers know Mutants & Masterminds is the World’s Greatest Superhero RPG. Now these titanic forces combine to bring you the Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game. If you’ve ever wanted to be part of the Valiant Universe, now you can! Create your own character or play one from the comics. Adventure in Britannia, The Deadside, Earth, The Faraway, New Japan, Space, The Stalinverse, or The Unknown. The Mutants & Masterminds rules, renowned for their adaptability, have been customized to reflect Valliant’s signature gritty realism and give you an easy way to create your own character. Pick an archetype, make a few quick customization choices, choose a power set, and you’re ready to play! The Valiant Adventures Hero’s Handbook is your starting point, a core rulebook with all the rules you need to play. Pair it with the Worlds of Valiant sourcebook (available separately) to complete the experience.