Mutants and Masterminds Week Day 1: Backstory
We’ve had RPG Weeks for Dragon Warriors, the Marvel RPG and the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, but not one for my most loved system of them all – Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds. This week we’re going to correct that oversight with 7 whole days of pure 100% superheroey goodness. Hold on tight!
What we’re going to do is build a complete superhero campaign setting from start to finish in just seven days. I’m going to show you how the Mutants & Masterminds rules fit in to create a solid gaming platform that’s under complete GM control every step of the way. And it’s going to be big: we’re going to be using the entire multiverse!
I’ve covered a whole ton of ground about Mutants & Masterminds already, so rather than repeat myself here’s a handy-dandy list of previous M&M blogposts to get you started.
Tutorial
Opinion
- Death and Superheroes
- For every hero, a villain
- Heroes
- One Line Hero
- Random Campaign Generator
- Sean asked the questions, I answer
- Teambuilding Metalworks
- Vive la Difference
D&D Conversion
- Why convert?
- Ten reasons why
- Mutants and Racial Templates
- Mutants and Dragons
- Converting Monsters
- Power Word:Superhero
Fantasy Archetypes
Heroes
- Agent Gold
- Angelus
- Attan
- Black Friday
- Black Knight and White Knight
- Blaine
- Bolt
- c’t
- The Gargoyle
- Green Guardian
- Jonah Uglee
- Mercury
- Metal Bear
- Michael Day
- Paragirl One
- Professor Tellerman (bottom of post)
- Redhawk
- Sher kaa bachcha
- Sky
- Sunspot
- Throwback
- The Wastelander
- Whips and Chains
- Upgrade
Villains
Till next time!
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Dear god, man! Thanks some super link ownage. What are you going to do for the other days? It looks like you linked to every M&M post on your site, LOL.
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Heard a lot of good things about MM. How does this system stack up against Savage Worlds? which happens to be my system of choice.
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@Samuel Guilty as charged. I’ve been meaning to put together an index of all my M&M posts for some time, and this RPG Week is as good a time as any. Also, this helps me out as my self-imposed challenge is not to repeat anything I’ve written about M&M before – so no street-level gaming, no comparing M&M to Dungeons & Dragons, no gentle introductions to the game. I’ve done all that – this is all new. Wish me luck.
@Vulcan Stev M&M is a more complex system than Savage Worlds, but plays just as quickly at the table in-game. While it’s firmly rooted in the superhero genre, it’s more than capable of working as a generic system too – we’ve used it for everything from pulp-noir to WWII to fantasy wild west without a problem. It’s very well suited to players (and GMs) who like to tinker with their characters and the setting too.
Creating a character can be as simple as picking an archetype, adding a name and jumping right in, or as complex as you desire meaning it’s great for both new players and hardcore gamers alike.
Me, I’m a bit of a fan.
Note to self: I’d meant to post this up as Day 0 so it could begin proper tomorrow. I’ll fix that with the next post.
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