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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.
A martial artist with a whip and a gun, from the King of Fighters video games. Profile redone in December, 2016.
The *heavy* machinegunner of the G.I. Joe team, as he appeared in the classic Marvel comic books. Entry completely redone in December, 2016.
A melancholy giantess who’s a great warrior, a great sculptor and a great strategist. This presents Eir during the Edge of Destiny novel and the early bits of the Guild Wars 2 video game. Giant wolf included, and also now comes with M&M stats.
Explanations about the ways to contribute to writeups.org, from the most casual to the most hardcore. We’re a tiny team of volunteers, so help would be cool. This is the first draft, I’m sure I’ll think about other things later on. 🙂
A fairly important Marvel super-hero with cosmic activities. Quasar has Green Lantern-like powers, a slight Silver Age Superman vibe, and an interesting career. This profile covers all the early stuff and the run of his solo series.
A team of five identical, supernatural killers with enhanced strength, poisonous elbow spikes, etc. These guys appeared in the classic Mage: The Hero Discovered comics series, back in the halcyon days of a while ago.
The World Mage and Merlin figure in the great Mage: The Hero Discovered comic book series of yesteryear. Mentor, ally and thaumaturgist.
A sort of giant faerie killer gorilla. It’s a thing. This creature was seen in the landmark indie Mage: The Hero Discovered comic books.
Fairly generic zombies from a fairly generic zombie survival game, so that’s useful if you need zombie stats. This is a video game, so there are various variant zombies with “powers”. And zombie emus (I think). And that dang zombie deer everybody hates. So many zombies.
The original lead for the Fatal Fury brawling video games, and later one of the playable characters in King of Fighters games.
Marvel Comics’ Modred the Mystic, a time-tossed Arthurian magician. This is the first chapter of his profile and covers his early appearances, back when he was meant to be an occult super-hero.
Second chapter in our profile for Modred the Mystic, covering the 1980s. During this era he’s chiefly an agent of Chthon.
Four elemental monsters who once fought the Thing, Spider-Woman and Modred the Mystic at Stonehenge. They seemed like handy chaps to have game stats for.
An example, fleshed-out zombie apocalypse survivor from minor video game How to Survive. She believes in do-it-yourself industrial chainsaws and dual-jerrycan flamethrowers and, well, it’s hard to argue that point.
This is Giganta as she appeared a few times in 1940s Wonder Woman adventures. Peak human strength, agility and ferocity.
This is the Silver Age version of Wonder Woman’s enemy Giganta, as briefly seen in 1966-67.
From time to time we do a short video game strategy article, because we so like to help our fellow non-cannibalistic living human person. How to survive is a PC-and-most-consoles 2013 zombie survival video game. All this and braaaaiiinnnssss too.
A special serum once extracted from Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)’s body and used to turn Alicia Masters into a powerful spider monster. That’s how we did things back in 1977, baby.
An old-school Marvel Comics character, ruler of the underground realm of Netherworld ! Comes with explanations about Netherworld’s history, equipment to use during the Winter Olympics of Peril, stuff like that.
A mass-murdering White supremacist with big guns who clashed with Superman on multiple occasions. Now with revised texts, high-definition art and M&M game stats.
A very minor villain with an incendiary theme. Fought Blue Beetle during the 1980s. Now with revised texts, much improved art and M&M game stats.
An obscure 1970s comics character, published as the first NYPD female patrol officers hit the streets. Mostly of historical interest (the profile includes a historical primer) and maybe for retro campaigns, though she returned decades later as a police chief in Ivy Town. Now with improved texts, improved art, M&M game stats.
The archetypal goofy elf girl/fantasy archer, from Japanese RPG video game Recettear. When she’s not busy obsessing over pastries, she can perform some strange magical bow shots.
One of those video game strategy guides we very occasionally do because heh, I have to take breaks sometimes. Dungeon of the Endless is a neat, well-reviewed roguelike/tower defence hybrid from a major studio.
Our first entry for Karla Sofen (aka Moonstone, Meteorite, Ms. Marvel and others), covering her early life until she gains powers.
Second chronological profile for Moonstone (Karla Sofen), covering her pre-Thunderbolts villainous career. Flying blaster, with phasing and strength on the side.
Chapter #3 of our Moonstone saga of writeups/profiles/whatever. This one covers her time as Meteorite, among the early version of the Thunderbolts.
Fourth part of our big Moonstone profile, our karlastravaganza. This profile covers her time with the Thunderbolts when she was powered by two Moongems rather than just one. This changed her power level, obvs.
Fifth character profile for Karla Sofen, now as Moonstone and Ms. Marvel of the Thunderbolts and Dark Avengers.
A technical article with material from Ray Winninger and Greg Gorden — the two main designers of the DC Heroes RPG — about frequently-asked questions about how the system was designed and some of its weak points.