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Velvet Templeton

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.

Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher

1980s movies Movies

A capsule profile for Chevy Chase’s character in the 1985 movie Fletch. He’s a reporter who investigates through impersonation and disguise.

Every-Man

Comics Marvel Universe

A minor, obscure Captain America foe who went on to have a strange (but still minor and obscure) career as a super-villain.

Every-Man

Comics Marvel Universe

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.

Alec the darklighter

Charmed Television

The first Darklighter seen on the Charmed TV show back in the days. Evil stalker/killer with supernatural powers.

Generic Deathclaw

Adventure/RPG games Fallout Video Games

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.

DC Heroes RPG – New Rules – Guide to the New Rules documents

Articles about Writeups.org Technical RPG articles

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.

Fallout weapons locker

Adventure/RPG games Fallout Technical RPG articles Video Games Weapons Locker articles

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.

Hand-to-hand combat scale

Articles about Writeups.org Technical RPG articles

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.

Huck

Comics Other Universes

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).

Claret Spencer

Adventure/RPG games Video Games

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.

Skyborn companions

Adventure/RPG games Video Games

The companions in the small Skyborn video game.

Hunted healer mage, would-be swashbuckling fencer, 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.

Joe

Adventure/RPG games Video Games

The hero in a popular point-and-click time travel story that evokes the 12 Monkeys movie.

Beware the fallout !

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.

Vault Dweller

Adventure/RPG games Fallout Video Games

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.

Vault Dweller

Adventure/RPG games Fallout Video Games

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.

Vault Dweller

Adventure/RPG games Fallout Video Games

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.

Chosen One

Adventure/RPG games Fallout Video Games

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.

Chosen One

Adventure/RPG games Fallout Video Games

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

Comics Marvel Universe

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.