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Author’s Comments on Breakdown:  “Creating Characters” I’ve especially enjoyed recent historical and sociological storytelling games, such as Microscope and In a Quiet Year, as well as my own foray into that realm, At the Hands of an Angry God.  But it’s been a great pleasure to return to character-focused gaming, my first love in roleplaying.  Breakdown is relentlessly focused on character, specifically that of our players’ protagonists, whom we call “Pros.”  The settings exist solely to facilitate Pro creation, help bond Pros, and focus Pro context (including plot lines), otherwise bearing no weight of their own.  Plots only serve character development, being built solely based to...

Welcome to the first installment of Breakdown.  I hope you enjoy it, and I look forward to your thoughts.  I’ll share a few thoughts of my own along the way.  I’d like to first thank everyone at High Rock Press and especially Jason Walters.  I’ve enjoyed tremendous support from High Rock as well as the good fortune of friendship with the ceaselessly diligent and caring Jason (I must add, I hope everyone is looking forward to his Symposium as much as I am).  You might wonder why this game has two settings, and why the specific two.  Why not one or three (or...

This is the proposed text for my Champions Character Creation Cards Kickstarter project. Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think!  - Jason Walters, Publisher Create your Champions character in less than one minute using this versatile deck of 54 cards. Pick one Characteristics card, one Complications card, and three to ten Abilities cards to make your point-averaged superhero! Then upload the card numbers to the Hero Designer software to print your character sheets. Electronic files will be made available through Bits & Mortar for retail store customers. Ever want to play Champions but...

A Kickstarter for Michael Surbrook's Ghosts, Ghouls, and Golems will be going live on March 10th!"Ghosts, Ghouls, and Golems is a roleplyaing game guide to these darkness-dwelling creatures of folklore and myth for the Hero System, Savage Worlds, and Mutants & Masterminds. Emphasis has been placed on presenting these creatures as close to their traditional descriptions as possible - although a few “cinematic,” Hollywood-inspired versions of some of the more popular entries are included. In this book you will find information on vampires, lycanthropes, ghosts, ghouls, wights, and zombies, as well as more obscure creatures like the old hag and...