To quote a certain cinematic super-villain:

“It’s finally ready!”

Capes and Crooks! #1 is available now through Your Games Now. Issue #1 clocks in at 38 pages (including OGL) and retails for $5.95.

Each exciting issue of Capes and Crooks! gives GMs and players new characters, vehicles, places to throw down and adventures for their M&M 2e campaigns, along with words from the authors, sneak previews of upcoming products from PZP, Ninja Cow and other Superlink publishers and more!
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Green Ronin’s own Steve Kenson is interviewed in the latest episode of The Groovecast, a podcast dedicated to RPGs online. The episode is all about Mutants & Masterminds with regard to play-by-post gaming.

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The print version of Hero High, a teen heroes sourcebook for Mutants & Masterminds, is now available in the Green Ronin Online Store.”The Crime League is on a rampage downtown, but the prom is tonight and, worse yet, you’ve got a make-up test tomorrow! But then nobody said life was easy at Hero High!”

Hero High

Little Girl Lost, the first book in the on-going Autumn Arbor: City of Legends series by Lee F. Szczepanik, Jr., is now available at Amazon.com, and will be available through all major book-chains in the U.S. Canada, and U.K. in Fall 2007!

Arbor Productions sat down with Lee F. Szczepanik, Jr. to discuss the first book, and his plans for the on-going series.

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Shades of Gray

Telling the White Hats from the Black Hats in the Iron Age is tricky. The heroes abandoned the hopefulness and positive attitude (some would say naïveté) of the heroes of the past in order to adopt a harder-edged approach to heroism that was harsher and more practical.

This change was particularly obvious in regard to heroic motivations. Once upon a time, heroes were motivated by the desire to right wrongs and make the world a better place because it was the right thing to do, or to protect innocents from being victimized like the hero had been. In the Iron Age, heroes are driven by revenge and the desire to mete out justice…or, at least, what they consider justice.

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In this episode your host Chris Pramas takes advantage of Gen Con to bring on some special guests. First up is Russ Morrissey of EN World and EN Publishing. He and Chris talk about Gen Con, the ENnies, the EN World community, and the announcement of 4th edition D&D. Then Chris hosts a roundtable discussion with Nicole Lindroos, Christopher McGlothlin, and Steve Kenson. Many Mutants & Masterminds books are discussed, including Paragons, Golden Age, Worlds of Freedom, Iron Age, Hero High, and Freedom’s Most Wanted.The show is 50 minutes, 28 seconds long, and is a 47.3 MB download.

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The webcomic “Zero-Men” is holding strong with a steady release. It is now seven pages in and the main two characters, Captain Zero and Gadget have been introduced with what may be the first nemesis called Aries, a big bad ass dude in jeans and muscle shirt lighting his cigar with his fingers after blowing a bunch of sideliners away. Heck, he may be a good guy–too early to tell so if you haven’t YET gone over to Zero-Men.com get over there and show some love!

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Green Ronin won a suite of ENnies at this years Gen Con. Here is the list:

Best Interior Art: Ultimate Power (Gold ENnie)
Best Production Values: Ultimate Power (Silver ENnie)
Best Rules: Ultimate Power (Gold)
Best Adventure: Time of Vengeance (Silver)
Best Supplement: Ultimate Power (Silver
Best d20/OGL Product: Ultimate Power (Gold)

Industry Leader to do RPG Adaptation of Classic Shared World Anthologies

August 16, 2007–SEATTLE, WA: Green Ronin Publishing has reached an agreement with New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin to license the Wild Cards series of shared world anthologies. Green Ronin will publish a line of Wild Cards roleplaying game books next year for its Mutants & Masterminds RPG. The first of these books, the Wild Cards Campaign Setting by series author John Jos. Miller, will debut next August at Gen Con 2008.

The Wild Cards series began in 1987, developing out of an ongoing superhero roleplaying campaign run by Martin and eventually spanning 17 volumes. Contributing authors include Roger Zelazny, Lewis Shiner, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Walter Jon Williams, John Jos. Miller, and Martin himself. Tor will be bringing the series back this January with Inside Straight, the first in a new generation of Wild Cards novels. Read more »

The Paragons Campaign Setting for Mutants & Masterminds is now available in PDF format from the Green Ronin Online Store.

“More than just a setting, Paragons is multiple settings in one, giving you the resources you need to create a world of paranormal powers, and to tell the stories of the paragons: normal people, paranormal power.”

Paragons PDF in our Green Ronin Online Store

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