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HEROIC The Role-Playing Game by Zenith Entertainment Group
HEROIC The Role-Playing Game by Zenith Entertainment Group

Astonishing Super Heroes Lives On in HEROIC The Role-Playing Game – Now on Backerkit

12/26/2023 / / 0 Comments

It was announced months ago that the FASERIP retroclone remix Astonishing Super Heroes was not going to be receiving the planned second book, Spectacular Origins, but the future was not bleak! We can finally announce the official news explaining what’s up!

HEROIC The Role-Playing Game by Zenith Entertainment Group has just launched on Backerkit!

Andrew Collas of ZEG has assembled a superpowered team of writers and editors to forge a new path forward, completing everything that Astonishing Super Heroes set out to do and so much more! This includes significantly revising an expanded list of powers, among a great many more revisions borne out of prolonged play tests. This will make HEROIC perhaps the single most comprehensive take on revising and streamlining the original FASERIP rules to bring them to a modern audience.

I’m truly excited to see ASH live on in a new and better-supported form. Please show your love by pledging to help out on Backerkit, and follow along with all the news and more gaming goodness at Zenith’s Facebook!

Origin story pathways map
Origin story pathways map

Rising Tide – How to Build a Superhero Campaign the Easy Way

11/07/2023 / / 0 Comments

I’ve started Rising Tide, an Astonishing Super Heroes campaign set in Boston, MA. This article will take a deep-dive behind the GM’s screen on how I setup a superhero campaign loaded with historical detail with very little prep.

This is about building the campaign setting itself. I’ll talk a little about the setting of Boston, how I pulled together an awesome roster of NPCs and a few cool locations, and how I generated the first scenario of the campaign. Best of all, I’ll show you how I was able to do it very easily and very quickly by putting most of the work on the players!

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Superhero Team Up
Superhero Team Up

The Super Simple Superhero Hack for Cortex Prime

06/14/2022 / / 0 Comments

In this post I’ll briefly outline a hack for Cortex Prime. This one’s best described as:

A streamlined take on four color comic book action in Cortex Prime that remains largely compatible with Marvel Heroic Roleplaying.

These hacks are prone to change, so you’ll want to check out the Google Doc for the latest version. That said, it’s kind of neat to see how these hacks develop, so what you’ll get here is a very brief overview; only the bits needed to play, and none of the commentary. Compare and see what changed!

Without further ado, let’s check out the Super Simple Superhero Hack.

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