Review: Melior Via – Freshman Handbook (Hope Preparatory School)

Hope Preparatory School: Freshman Handbook Freshman Handbook is the Hope Preparatory School superhero setting guide for ICONS written by John Dunn and Jennifer Harding and published by Melior Via. By Aaron T. Huss Freshman Handbook is the core setting guide to the Hope Preparatory School setting for ICONS. It starts with the characters entering Hope Prep as freshmen before they are anywhere close...

Review: Adamant Entertainment – ICONS

ICONS ICONS is a complete superhero system written by Steve Kenson, Gareth-Michael Skarka, Walt Ciechanowski and Morgan Davie and published by Adamant Entertainment. By Aaron T. Huss ICONS is a rules-light superhero system based off the FUDGE and FATE systems. It is a success ranking system where the dice become modifiers to a character’s Abilities instead of the character’s Abilities...

Designer’s Diary: Melior Via – Hope Preparatory School

Hope Preparatory School Hope Preparatory School is a setting for ICONS and Mutants & Masterminds and published by Melior Via. By John Dunn Welcome to the nineteenth Designer’s Diary, a regular column where designers are given the opportunity to take readers on an in-depth ride through the design and development process of their system, setting, or product. If you’d like to share your product...

Users Guide: The Superhero, Humor, and Anime Genres

The following article is the conclusion of the Genres in Gaming series of articles written to help players and GMs determine which games are available within the genres they want to play. The lists of systems contained throughout or by no means exhaustive. All game systems are listed within the sub-genre as I understand from the knowledge I have. If they are improperly...