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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Quality Gear 2: Being Blunt
Last week we looked at the sharpest tools in the shed. This week, let’s be blunt, specifically, it’s time to explore clubs and hammers. There are a number of other blunt weapons such as the staff, or nunchucks, but let’s save those for their own articles.
Mechanics
Clubs and hammers have a larger striking surfac [...]
Quality Gear 1: Swords
Weapons are a force multiplier. The effort put into striking unarmed may be the same as with a club or sword, but the impact and damage output is far greater with the weapon. To begin this series, we start with one of the most iconic and varied weapons, the sword. Most people have an idea in their head of what a sword looks like, a long meta [...]
Quality Gear
When we published Metahumans Rising, included in the Power and Gear Examples, Pg. 69 – 75, are a number of weapons and items. A lot of this Gear has been scaled to play at the Classic power level. To let everyone behind the curtain for a moment, this is because we could list powers without a Value and they can scale to any power level [...]
Gator Bites – A Metahumans Risi...
Ever since the mutant primate-alligator hybrid Reptilla disappeared into the Mississippi swamps in 1966 rumors of her whereabouts have floated throughout the deep south. When a team of environmental scientists go missing in the Louisiana swamps, the heroes are called in to investigate, because the locals fear they know what, or rather who ma [...]
Day Jobs 15: Law Enforcement
It may be strange to think about, but there are a surprising number of superheroes who are also police officers. Not surprisingly there is a fair bit of crossover in the skills needed to wear the badge and put on the spandex. Some examples of heroes who are also in law enforcement include the Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Nite Owl I, the Questi [...]