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Since 2002, Mutants & Masterminds has earned its title as theWorld’s Greatest Superhero RPG, inspiring countless game sessions andwinning many awards for excellence. The Mutants & MastermindsDeluxe Hero’s Handbook is the revised and expanded core rulebook ofthe game’s Third Edition, detailing everything you need to haveyour own superheroic adventures. The character creation system lets you make thehero you want to play, choosing from a wide range of skills, advantages, andpower effects. Customize your hero’s powers with modifiers to create analmost endless range of superhuman abilities. The Deluxe Hero’sHandbook includes a Quickstart Character Generator and two brand-newadventures.

With the Mutants & Masterminds rules you can create virtually any power you can imagine, but where to start? Power Profiles answers the question, “How do I create…?” for hundreds of different powers and dozens of different themes. Now you can “shop” through a catalog of pre-created power concepts looking for just the right one to suit the hero or villain you want to create. In this book you'll find over three dozen different Power Profiles, arranged according to theme, from Cold and Fire Powers to Mental and Meta Powers. Each profile features a look at the theme's descriptors and mechanics, important game system effects, and a selection of offensive, defensive, movement, and utility powers. That's over 400 different powers in one book! You'll also find some useful power variants, expanded power extras and flaws, and optional rules for use with your Mutants & Masterminds games, and some guidance on creating and handling more complex or unusual power concepts. With Power Profiles, your imagination truly is the only limit on your power to create!

Where do you get all those wonderful toys? Right here! Gadget Guides is a collection of diverse devices for the Mutants & Masterminds Superhero Roleplaying Game, from armor and weapons to psychic crystals and steamtech. Each section of the book looks at a particular type of gadget, putting together the effects and modifiers from the Hero's Handbook to create a catalog of ready-to-use items. It also includes expanded material on the inventing, artificing, and ritual rules from the M&M Hero’s Handbook. What Power Profiles did for super-powers, Gadget Guides does for gear, making it a great character creation and in-play resource for both players and Gamemasters.

Every hero needs an origin story and this can be yours! Written with newgamers in mind, the Basic Hero's Handbook streamlines and clarifies theflexible, robust third edition rules of Mutants & Masterminds. Withsimplified character creation and a selection of ready-made adventures, theMutants & Masterminds Basic Hero's Handbook lets players jump right into theaction. The book is fully compatible with the Deluxe Hero's Handbook and theentire library of third edition Mutants & Masterminds supplements, instantlyexpanding your character options and adventure potential. Whether you're justgetting started, or want an extra player-friendly reference at the table, theMutants & Masterminds Basic Hero's Handbook is the choice for yourworld-saving needs!

Modern AGE is a roleplaying game that lets you have exciting adventures inany era from the Industrial Revolution to the near future. The game can handleeverything from two-fisted action to urban fantasy to weird conspiracies. ModernAGE uses the Adventure Game Engine (AGE), the ENnie Award-winning system madepopular by the Dragon Age, Fantasy AGE, and Blue Rose RPGs. The Basic Rulebookincludes a new, classless implementation of the AGE system, 20 levels ofadvancement, an innovative stunt system, psychic and magic powers, rules forchases, player and GM advice, and an introductory adventure so you can hit theground running. Options let you tune the rules for grim and gritty stories, highadventure, or something in between. Enter the Modern AGE!

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!

Welcome to Aldis: City of the Blue Rose! This beautiful, full colorsourcebook lavishly details the capital city of the central nation in the BlueRose RPG, providing players and Narrators alike the tools needed to tell storiesusing the city as a focus. From the intrigues of nobles in the High Ward to theentertainments in the Middle Ward to the roughest parts of town found in theOuter Ward, this supplement details people, important sites, and historicalevents of the City of the Blue Rose. Romantic fantasy narratives frequentlyremain focused around singular locations, giving time and opportunities forheroes to develop friendships, romances, and rivalries with the people to befound there, and this sourcebook provides everything to allow players in a BlueRose RPG campaign to do just that!

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!

All that is required for evil to flourish is for good folk to do nothing. When society fails—when corruption or hatred or apathy take root—the helpless and the marginalized suffer first. And all too often heroes must rise from the ranks of the dispossessed, not to impose their will on others, but to provide the same safety and justice so many others take for granted. The Vigilante’s Handbook is a sourcebook of street-level action and adventure for your Mutants & Masterminds campaign. This book provides everything you need to stand up and push back against the overwhelming corruption and inequality that threatens so many, often without the deep pockets or impressive powers the four-color heroes rely on. This sourcebook features guidelines for creating street-level vigilantes, from low-powered brawlers to high-powered but maligned heroes who work from the shadows, and optional rules for overwhelming enemies with your menacing presence or fearsome reputation and for gauging and tracking your hero’s reputation. Vigilante’s Handbook also looks at what kinds of predators prowl the urban jungle, from corrupt cops and politicians to criminal masterminds and assassins, and introduces a flexible template system, separating your villains’ role from their powers. The world of Earth-Prime is also expanded with a gazetteer of Ferroburg, a city of corruption and struggle in desperate need of heroes. Welcome to a world where your compassion, your human decency, and your ability to take a punch mean more than your satellite headquarters and fancy costumes. Welcome to the streets.

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!

Master Modern AGE as a player or Game Masterwith advanced techniques and new rules.Perfect your Modern AGEgame! Unlike traditional “Game Master Guides,” this expansion to thecore Modern AGE rules provides advice for both players and Game Masters, rangingfrom instruction on storytelling and character portrayal to deep dives into therules of Modern AGE. That includes new game systems, such as alternate charactercreation, and official rules updates to the Modern AGE Basic Rulebook. Take yourgame to the next level with the Modern AGE Mastery Guide!

The Modern AGE Basic Rulebook and its supplements present a hugely flexible toolkit that can handle anything from alternate history and gothic horror to urban fantasy and post-apocalyptic adventures. Now Modern AGE Powers is here with the definitive expansion of the game’s extraordinary abilities. Covering magic, psychic phenomena, mutations, exotic origins, and extraordinary items, this book provides support for everything from technologically superpowered heroes to cyberpunk post-humans. Though designed for Modern AGE, Powers is also useful for GMs of other Adventure Game Engine RPGs, like Fantasy AGE and Blue Rose.

As the pressure rises and the exodus through the ring gates continues, opportunities abound for shrewd crews willing to take risks on Earth, Mars, and in The Belt. The changes brought about by the discovery of the protomolecule continue to disrupt the status quo, and tensions between the factions are white hot. Sol System provides information on the governments, corporations, and factions that vie for power and influence, along with expanded rules for trade and running corporations and other organizations. This beautifully illustrated sourcebook opens new ways to play and exciting new details on humanity’s homes. Sol System also offers a plethora of new adventure opportunities—political intrigue, spies, strange cults!—and sets the stage for the Free Navy Conflict sourcebook.

Green Ronin brings N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy to tabletop roleplaying.N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy comes to tabletop RPGs in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game! Enter the Stillness, a vast, furious land that is home to thousands of Comms, settlements large and small where people gather for safety in a dangerous and unpredictable world. Each member contributes according to the dictates of their use-caste, and all with one goal: to prepare for the next Fifth Season, those cataclysmic events when Father Earth himself rages against humankind. It is only through the wisdom of the ancient Stone Lore that the people of the Stillness stand a chance of survival. The game gives players a chance to portray the folk of the Stillness, working together to deal with the problems that face their Comm to better prepare for the coming of the next Fifth Season. Players build a Comm together, create characters of that Comm, and face the challenges that the Stillness has to offer. The Fifth Season RPG is powered by a customized version of Green Ronin’s popular Adventure Game Engine (AGE), the same rules system as The Expanse, Modern AGE, Blue Rose, and Fantasy AGE RPGs. If you’ve played any AGE RPG before, you already know the core of the rules. Can you survive in the Broken Earth? Find out in The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game!

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.

The Valiant Adventures Hero’s Handbook gave you the rules to make characters and play the game. Now, its companion volume presents worlds from the Valiant Universe for your games. The Worlds of Valiant sourcebook details eight iconic settings and includes character write-ups for over 80 heroes and villains. These characters are also usable in any Mutants & Masterminds RPG campaign. Gamemasters can run their adventures and campaigns in these Valiant settings: Britannia, The Deadside, Earth, The Faraway, New Japan, Space, The Stalinverse, or The Unknown. Worlds of Valiant also makes a great reference book for comic readers. Jump into the Valiant Universe today!Eight worlds and over 80 characters from the comics for the Valiant Adventures RPG.

The essential tabletop accessory for the Valiant Adventures Gamemaster.The Gamemaster’s Kit is a key accessory for your Valiant Adventures RPG campaign. It features a sturdy and practical 3-panel hardback screen with all the reference material you need to run the game. The kit also includes 4 quick reference cards and a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers. The Valiant Adventures Gamemaster’s Kit is the perfect complement to the Hero’s Handbook and Worlds of Valiant.

The Cthulhu Awakens Game Master's Kit is a collection of resources that help you smoothly deliver terror and adventure to your players. It provides a sturdy Game Master's screen that displays stunts and other essential information. Four quick reference cards provide further assistance with commonly used rules, and a dry-erase friendly combat tracker that helps you follow violent moments of triumph, or doom. The secrets of the Game Master’s Kit are revealed in Unexpurgated Texts, a booklet detailing a dozen fell grimoires and their modern counterparts, each in an expanded, 2-page format listing the eldritch workings and other strange secrets each of them contains. The Cthulhu Awakens Game Master's Kit is the perfect complement to the game’s core rulebook.