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Archive - Jun 29, 2007

Game Day: Mutants & Masterminds, Freedom Blogs, Infinity Storm

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 5:48pm
Book Cover: Freedom City

After much discussion, a half-dozen character building and playtest sessions, four source books and two blogs, my first-ever superhero campaign is launching tonight.  Titled Infinity Storm, the campaign uses Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds d20 superhero system as well as the companies Freedom City campaign setting. It will be run Dark City-style, with action quickly moving from character to character as they explore Freedom City and come into contact with its heroes, villains and citizens.

Do Shadowrun Review Numbers Lie?

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 9:48am

Gamers with Jobs reports on Shadowrun developer Mitch Gitelman's disappointment with the 7.0 reviews that his game has been getting. He laments that reviewers are being too harsh, have unreal expectations, and don't appreciate the game for being innovative. Having reviewed the game for SCI-FI (and giving it a C+) I figured I'd offer my two cents on this.