From SSgt. Timothy Schuster comes this Excel spreadsheet for quickly calculating leaping distances and speeds for M&M characters, including ones with high Strength and Leaping power ranks.

Download Excel Spreadsheet (ZIP) 

Okay, what a find this was! I’ve got the luxury of knowing Portuguese as a second language, but for those of you who don’t rest assured this hero generator will be a piece of cake to learn after fiddling around for a few minutes. This generator is called the RPGQuest Hero-O’Matic designed by a Brazilian guy (sorry couldn’t find a name!) based on the art of Ronaldo Barata and Pietro Antognioni, the official designers of RPG Quest.

The artwork is quite amazing, and even though it’s purely fantasy based, I’m sure there are more then enough Superlinkers out there that can find a great use for these babies! So get out there and make some fantasy-based supers for your next campaign!

Visit Website to Generate Hero (might be temporary)
ECORE Mirror (Download in case it goes down) 1.36 Megs

Unleash your inner hero over at SciFi.com! While surfing around the “Who Wants to be a Superhero” website, I noticed that they just released a superhero generator a few days ago!

Go Generate a Hero Today!

Simpson’s MnM Excel Character Sheet was possibly the first of its kind back in the days of First Edition Mutants & Masterminds. Updated to Second Edition, it still remains one of the most supported character sheet gaming tools out there today with decent community support. Check out the sheet for yourself!

Download Simpson’s MnM Excell Character Builder v.2.0.7 (ECORE Mirror)
Join the YahooGroup Community
Golden Age Sheet Example (Kid Comet)
Silver Age Sheet Example (Kid Comet)

What?! G.I.Jow? HeroMachine? Together?!

I’m not sure I need to say anything else about this! Jeff Herbert brings us a version of HeroMachine to fill our nostalgic needs. Go make a hero today! G. I. JOEEEEEE!

Visit Website to Generate Hero

I’m not sure what publicity initiative this was done for; I did some digging but couldn’t even find a website for Newsday Inc. It matters not though because the superhero lover community is just as happy with a new generator for their last minute character design needs. HeroMachine does it again with this “cyber journalist” edition. Enjoy!

Visit Website to Generate Hero

HeroMachine was one of the first hero generators online. It’s success was unquestionable within superhero fan communities. Throughout the years Jeff Herbert created a few more off-shoots for clients using the same framework. This one here was done for Stan Lee… so how couldn’t it be a good one?! Check it out!

Visit Website to Generate Hero

Have you ever been frustrated by an inability to see a character you’ve imagined? Are you constantly asking (all right, begging) your “artist friend” for an illustration because you can’t draw a straight line with a ruler? Now your frustrations are over! Thanks to the HeroMachine, you can dynamically create your own customized character portrait. With intuitive controls and high-quality illustrations, the HeroMachine offers millions of possible combinations that will bring your imagination alive.

Visit HeroMachine Website
HeroMachine Classic (Online, UGO)
HeroMachine 2.0 Demo (Online, UGO)
Download HeroMachine 1.0 [ZIP] (ECORE Mirror)

These are instructions for installing and setting up the freely available City Of Hero Character Creator from NCSoft.

The first thing you will have to do is download the City Of Hero Character Creator. This is freely and legally available from the Korean City Of Heroes site and from file-sharing networks such as Shareaza (search for “coh_sengsung” or “CCC_Setup”: the file is roughly 200 MB).

Once you download it, you have to install it. This is a little tricky, because the default language for this software is Korean. To change it so that it displays in English, you must first install it and run it once.
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bblackmoor, Atomic Think Tank and Westguard.org

An OpenOffice spreadsheet intended to facilitate creation of Mutants & Masterminds characters.

Latest Updates:

Update 2.04

* Added “Treat drawbacks as” option;
* made StandardSheet automatically detect if Drawbacks are treated as Complications;
* added Space Travel to movement tab and StandardSheet;
* made movement values work up to progression level 25 (and beyond, but the values cap at 25);
* improved how movement override values are displayed.

Still to do:

* create a sample character that uses AltFormSheet
* redesign MiniSheet
* redesign WoundTrackerSheet
* figure out how to handle ranked feats that can do more than one
thing (e.g., Rage)

Downloads:

Mutants & Masterminds OpenOffice Character Builder - v2.04
Screenshots in Acrobat format - v2.00
Engebrechtre font (required for Standard Sheet)
Simple text character sheet

Sites to Visit:

Westguard.org - Official wiki site of M&M OpenOffice Character Builder Spreadsheet
OpenOffice - The FREE alternative Office Suite for Mac and PC
Atomic Think Tank Discussion Thread

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