We return this week with a look at longer weapons from the guisarme to the glave, with staves and spears in between. These weapons offer wielders amazing striking power, at the cost of range. Polearms were pivotal for defensive lines, but should that line be broken, soldiers would need to adapt to closer combat styles. Spears are excellent a [...]
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Quality Gear 6: Poles & Polearms
We return this week with a look at longer weapons from the guisarme to the glave, with staves and spears in between. These weapons offer wielders amazing striking power, at the cost of range. Polearms were pivotal for defensive lines, but should that line be broken, soldiers would need to adapt to closer combat styles. Spears are excellent a [...]
The Red Fool
As part of our Gear series, we are unveiling an NPCs who will be fully introduced in an upcoming adventure. The Red Fool is a Classic antihero that complements martial talents with Exceptional throwing knives, and basic protective Gear. Because they possess both Support Boons and a Fighting Style, the quality of their Gear is less important, [...]
Gobbler II: Fowlest Kaiju – A M...
Four years ago Dyson Turkey created a super-turkey to push their sales. What they didn’t realize is that they had created one of the greatest threats to North America known to man, Gobbler. Now, unwittingly, Butter Beaks Chicken has repeated Dyson’s mistake, giving birth to Hen Zero! When these two meat, let them peck! Only One Will Cl [...]
Quality Gear Interlude: Swapping Load...
Not all Gear focused characters are the same. Some may have unique or signature items they never part with, others use off the rack equipment and tools. Unlike most Powers, Gear can be exchanged, or possibly modified with much more ease.
Swapping from a rifle to a set of pistols between adventures should be relatively painless for a [...]
Quality Gear 5: Long Guns
First, a quick set of definitions, long guns first appeared in the 1500s, representing long barreled firearms intended to be used with two hands and braced at the shoulder, offering improved range and accuracy. This is the broader category, rifles are named for the rifling of the barrel which allows for even greater accuracy, but was largely [...]
Spider Jack Can’t Go Back ̵...
Halloween draws near, for most it’s candy dreams and masked fantasies, the time of tricks and treats is upon them. Fake cobwebs and tombstones adorn homes across the land with giggles and laughs to be had by all. For the survivors of last year’s Perez Park incursion, all these things are reminders of the creature that changed them fore [...]
Quality Gear 4: Fistloads
Often overlooked, fistloads are punching weapons such as the infamous brass knuckles, or weighted boxing gloves, but also include tools such as the bagh nakh (or cats claws) and deer horn knives. There are as many bladed as there are blunt variants. Ultimately what makes a fistload a fistload may be the ability to punch with the weapon in ha [...]
The Adventures of Spider Jack in the ...
An updated version of the Adventures of Spider Jack in the Cotton Candy Forest is now available.
Update includes:
New scene when arriving at Perez Park
New ways to approach the Perez Park forest
Updated Jacklings
Updated Reference Section
Various minor text adjustments (grammar corrections / removed typos)
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Quality Gear 3: Handguns
Time to move into the modern era. Let’s talk about guns, specifically handguns. Extremely popular in the US, handguns are commonly seen as everything from a means of protection to status symbols, with more notorious uses in the middle.Broadly, there are around tend not so distinct categories of handgun, but for the purposes of game pla [...]
Weapon’s Test – A Metahumans Ri...
The Institute for Metahuman Research (IMR) has developed a new Omega battle armor, designed as a military adaptation of their current Zenith series. The armor is designed to be deployed in any field of battle, land, sea, air, or space, with advanced ballistics and laser technology.
The only problem is, it’s so advanced, that standar [...]