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Writeups.org is an encyclopaedia of characters in genre fiction — comic books, video games, action movies, etc. It offers illustrated, researched profiles. These also include technical data for role-players. If you need a robust understanding of a character’s abilities, personality, history, etc. this is *the* place to be.
These strange monsters from the Fallout 2 video game are as tough as they are mysterious. Many Wastelanders think they are space aliens, but they probably ain’t.
We begin our “base camp” profiles for the New Warriors during their original 1990s career. As always with our team/organisation profile, the goal is both to have a focused and informative article, and to make it possible for the individual profiles of the team members to be way shorter than they would otherwise be, so not like this sentence.
Various additions and stuff (including pictures) on the 21st of February, 2017.
From the 2016 edition of our Halloween character creation event. And yes, Gareth *again* rolled “magical items” on the random magical character creation tables. Could something be trying to tell us something ?
This is the “G1” version of Transformers leader Optimus Prime. This means the one who appeared in the classic 1980s Marvel Comics book series.
What’s up with the site, what’s up backstage, how it’s all running. And also, we need donations to keep this thing not-broken.
A retro super-spy à la James Bond, but as an experienced lady rather than as an hairy-chested thug in a good suit. From the Image Comics Velvet series by Brubaker and Epting.
A capsule profile for Chevy Chase’s character in the 1985 movie Fletch. He’s a reporter who investigates through impersonation and disguise.
A minor, obscure Captain America foe who went on to have a strange (but still minor and obscure) career as a super-villain.
Our second character profile for Marvel’s Every-Man (Larry Ekler), as a pawn of Doctor Faustus. Now he’s got an “equalizer” super-weapon that drains strength to empower him, destroys intelligence and likely does other weird things.
The first Darklighter seen on the Charmed TV show back in the days. Evil stalker/killer with supernatural powers.
One of the emblematic Fallout mutant monsters of the wasteland, and deadly to boot. This profile includes an example of DC Heroes discussion about setting durability levels for a monster.
What it says on the tin. A page with links to all the new DC Heroes RPG rules document on writeups.org, listed in order so you can find what you need.
This discusses both the weapons specific to Fallout video games, and how to manage weapons in other post-apocalyptic games (with notes about realism and scaling). It’s fairly thorough.
Now with… various additions. Mostly near the end. It grows organically, really.
A relatively brief article for Writeups.org readers who do not know DC Heroes RPG rules but would like to gain a sense of hand-to-hand combat proficiency levels from the numbers.
Also useful for DC Heroes RPG players, as it happens. Wotta stroke of luck.
The *only* text that comes to mind is “Mark Millar licks goats”. That’s a problem. I’m gonna check with the rest of the crew if somebody has a better intro in mind while I finish the illustrations (nice Raf Albuquerque art).
A gifted mechanic, a competent gunfighter, a brazen pilot, and not exactly conflict-avoidant. Claret Spencer is the heroine of a small computer RPG called Skyborn, and a good steampunk/fantasy heroine.
The companions in the small Skyborn video game. Hunted healer mage, would-be swashbuckling fender, lonely mutant girl, regal winged warrior-mage. Not the most powerful adventuring party ever, but they get things done.
A “base camp” entry for DC Comics’ Masters of Disaster, a natural catastrophe-themed team of villainous mercenaries. These guys have primarily fought the Outsiders, but they are generic and convenient.
The hero in a popular point-and-click time travel story that evokes the 12 Monkeys movie.
The updates for the second third of January are heavy on the older Fallout isometric video games. Usually, we avoid “themed” batches of new content, under the notion that it’s bad for those readers who do not happen to like that theme. But here, it was logistically soooo much simpler.
Therefore – 1997/1998 Fallout material aplenty.
This is our sample version of the Player Character in the original Fallout video game, to serve as an example. This article also comes with a good primer about the Fallout setting.
Revised, expanded, reillustrated and M&M-ified in January, 2017.
Part 2 of the profile for our sample Fallout Vault Dweller (Player Character). You should start with the first entry.
Revised, expanded, reillustrated and M&M-ified in January, 2017.
Part 3 out of 3 for our sample Vault Dweller (original Fallout video game). You should read part 1 and 2 first, obvs.
Revised, expanded, reillustrated and M&M-ified in January, 2017.
Our sample Chosen One – the Player Character in the Fallout 2 video game. The deadly Alessa-Maria’s mutant brain makes her a perfect predator of the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Ferociously overhauled and reillustrated in January, 2017, and M&M stats added.
This is the second chapter for our sample Chosen One — the Player Character in the classic Fallout 2 video game. Covers Klamath, the Den, the slavers’ camp and the Umbra Tribe.
Magma of the New Mutants, with a super-powered lava form and fire/tectonics powers. May or may not be from a lost Roman colony in the Amazon, possibly.
Stats refined in January, 2017 and added M&M stats.
A potential ally for the Player Character in Fallout 2, with minor but useful skills.
Various revisions in January, 2017 – plus M&M stats.
A tough low-tech tribal who is a potential ally in Fallout 2. Sulik also has “magic powers”, in his own way.
Various revisions in January, 2017 – plus M&M stats.
Chapter 1 for our Sunspot (Roberto da Costa) solar-powered profile. It covers his “year one” era, more or less.
Entirely overhauled in January, 2017.
Chapter 2 of our Sunspot profile. This one covers the events from Nova Roma inclusive to Asgard exclusive.