Best Selling Books by Steve Kenson

Rogues Gallery collects super-villains from Green Ronin''s popular online series, with the addition of new material and never-before-seen characters. It has dozens of fearsome foes for your Mutants & Masterminds series, enough to keep your heroes busy stopping schemes and saving the world for quite some time! In its pages you will find solo and loner villains, teams and alliances, organizations and outliers, and bad guys of many different power levels, backgrounds, and styles, suited for different M&M series, all with complete game information. Plus each villain comes with ready-made adventure hooks, making the book a collection of more than a hundred possible adventures as well!

Modern AGE is a roleplaying game that lets you have exciting adventures in any era from the Industrial Revolution to the near future. The game can handle everything from two-fisted action to urban fantasy to weird conspiracies. Modern AGE uses the Adventure Game Engine (AGE), the ENnie Award-winning system made popular by the Dragon Age, Fantasy AGE, and Blue Rose RPGs. The Basic Rulebook includes a new, classless implementation of the AGE system, 20 levels of advancement, an innovative stunt system, psychic and magic powers, rules for chases, player and GM advice, and an introductory adventure so you can hit the ground running. Options let you tune the rules for grim and gritty stories, high adventure, or something in between. Enter the Modern AGE!

The opening of the Ring gates creates unlimited possibilities for new adventures in The Expanse RPG and Beyond the Ring gives GMs all the tools they need to support stories like the novel Cibola Burn. The Ring gates are open, as The Expanse RPG advances its timeline to the fourth novel in the series, Cibola Burn. The Ring, a massive construct created by the protomolecule out near the orbit of Uranus, is a portal into a strange non-space known as "the Slow Zone." Centered on an ancient alien station, it connects to more than a thousand other portals to a thousand different star systems, each with one or more worlds shaped by the ancient aliens who created the protomolecule and intended to do the same to Earth. Now they are long gone, and vast frontiers have opened for human settlement and exploration. Beyond the Ring details the Slow Zone, Medina Station, travel through the Ring gates, and some of the many systems found beyond them, along with tools for Game Masters to design their own systems for characters to explore. Beyond the Ring opens up a whole new type of adventure for The Expanse RPG, as characters travel to distant star systems and face unknown perils!

Martial arts duels. Superpowers. Gadgets. Conspiracies. The Modern AGE Companion adds new rules for these elements and more, giving you the tools to customize the Modern AGE Roleplaying Game to fit countless campaigns. Explore new backgrounds, professions, talents and other options to customize character creation for your campaign. Build your own stunts to suit different genres and environments. Master systems for everything from fighting styles to horror. New rules for extraordinary powers, technologies, and organizations, genre inspirations and campaign design tailor the game for players and Game Masters. Make Modern AGE your own

Vikings plunder jewelry stores along the waterfront! Killer robots from the future hunt Abraham Lincoln! And the heroes are on trial for crimes they haven''t committed... yet! Time is a toybox for superheroes and villains, filled with colorful characters and convoluted plotlines. Time travel opens up new potential just as much as blasting off into space, with the convenience of all the major players and events already being written for you! With time as a canvas, you can pump up the grim or gonzo in your adventures, or build a whole campaign around protecting not just the world, but everything that has happened or ever will happen! The Time Traveler''s Codex is a supplement for Mutants & Masterminds, Third Edition that launches heroes into the fourth dimension. The Time Traveler''s Codex includes: A brief history of time travel, and an overview on the structure of time and how it functions in the Earth-Prime setting. Tips for deciding how time travel works in your campaign, complete with the consequences and hazards of meddling. Advice on creating your own time-hopping series, including optional rules, suggested power levels, and temporal dangers that lie along the way. Six causality-shaking villain archetypes who can harry heroes across the centuries, like the Immortal Conqueror and the Future Perfectionist, backed up by dozens of minions from across time and beyond! Guidance for players building time traveling heroes, complete with new advantages, powers, and equipment as well as a half-dozen time-sliding hero archetypes, like the Quantum Alien and the Temporal Tourist! Over a dozen different historical eras detailed, with rules guidance and statblocks for each, as well as adventure ideas and guidance for setting individual adventures in that time period, or an entire campaign! Catapult your adventures out of the city streets and into medieval French castles, Aztec battlefronts, and the imperial Ming court with the Time Traveler''s Codex!

In the world of the Blue Rose RPG, both good and evil have touched the natural world. The Light reached down and invested some animal--called rhydan--with souls, sapience, psychic power, and a deep need to fight against the wickedness of the world. Where Shadow has crept into the wilderness, it has given rise to abhorrent shadowspawn, things that rise against the Light and seek to spread their corruption far and wide. Touching the Wild is half shadowspawn bestiary and half rhydan player''s guide, so useful to both Narrators and players. The bestiary presents shadowspawn of various power levels, making foes both fair and foul to face down the heroes of a Blue Rose chronicle. The player''s guide offers advice for playing rhydan--including the option of an all rhydan chronicle--as well as a variety of talents, specializations, arcana, and equipment uniquely suited to rhydan characters. Light and shadow, friend and foe, Touching the Wild enhances any Blue Rose chronicle.

The Fantasy AGE Campaign Builder''s Guide is an indispensable resource for aspiring and experienced Game Masters alike. It provides advice and examples on such topics as designing entertaining and effective encounters, crafting interesting locations, customizing adversaries, and much more. It also includes tables to help generate campaign elements when a bit of spontaneity and randomness is desired. Each chapter in the Campaign Builder''s Guide is devoted to a different topic, each approached with a mix of advice, mechanical assistance, and ultimately ready-to-use examples. Whether you''re designing your own pantheon of fantasy deities for a campaign or seeking to alter settings, characters, and rules to emulate a particular sub-genre of fantasy, the Campaign Builder''s Guide has the advice and tools you need.

Included in this collection are vols. distributed as well as published by White Wolf Pub.

Glimpses of a Higher World When a mage Awakens, she touches one of the five legendary Watchtowers. The Atlantean kings erected these mystical spires in ages past to call out to slumbering souls, beckoning them to claim their birthright; the power of magic.

Readers of The Expanse novels have thrilled to the adventures of the crew of the Rocinante. Now it''s your turn to make your mark! Abzu''s Bounty presents a series of six full-length scenarios designed for a new crew of characters in The Expanse Roleplaying Game. They embark on a series of adventures, from a fateful discovery in the rings of Saturn to acquiring their own ship to a deadly confrontation that could change the course of history for the entire solar system. Abzu''s Bounty is the perfect way to kick off a new campaign. Get ready for launch!

The gates to Arcadia, the original paradise, are closed. Only the world of humanity remains. Without any awareness of our true nature, humankind crushes us beneath its banal heel. Joy and laughter are gone; only the Dreaming remains. We are changelings, the forgotten ones, neither fully fae nor wholly mortal. The last of our kind on Earth, we have built ourselves an invisible kingdom. We are everywhere, yet you have never seen us. We hide, not behind some fragile Masquerade, but in plain sight with the power of our Glamour. We exist within a real world of make-believe where "imaginary" things can kill and" "pretend" monsters are real. The Changeling Storytellers Guide picks up where the Changeling rulebook leaves off and offers a plethora of new information, from rules clarifications to new and advanced systems for handling fae magic -- and puts it all in the Storyteller''s hands. Included are new settings and new rules for expanding the boundaries of your Changeling chronicle.

The Mythic Age wanes, its denizens disappearing into the Otherworld, its Quintessential energies fading. But some refuse to let it go. These magi dare to tread the bane places and twisted paths that still shimmer with ancient power. These dwindling lands still have guardians, though. Spirits and secrets that sorely test those who try to wrest forth their power. The Grimoire expands the Dark Ages: Mage world, providing insight into Fellowships in various lands, aids to help players and Storytellers grasp medieval magic and superstition, and hints on maintaining chantries in the tumultuous times of the early 13th century. There''s also a look at hedge magic, medieval holy days and the shallowings they create, and a host of creatures--including the fae--that haunt the forlorn frontiers of Dark Ages Europe.

The Fantasy AGE Companion provides a plethora of new rules and play options for your Fantasy AGE roleplaying game campaign. This book expands upon the core Fantasy AGE rules and provides alternative game systems so that you can build rules and characters which fit any setting and game you desire.

The DC Universe features a dazzling array of characters who have thrilled readers for generations. The two-volume Heroes & Villains set details more than 500 of those characters for use in your DC Adventures games, all featuring character stats fully compatible with the award-winning Mutants & Masterminds RPG. With Heroes & Villains in-hand, you will never lack for characters to use in your game, from heroic guest-stars and villainous foes to heroes suitable as ready-to-play characters. You''ll also have a comprehensive guide for modeling your own DC characters based on existing examples along with a collection of animals and monsters useful for mimics and shapechangers. It''s the comprehensive guide to the heroes and villains of the DC Universe no fan should be without! Volume 2 covers characters from the League of Assassins and Legion of Super-Heroes to Zatanna and Zauriel.

Though vampires have their intrigues, werewolves have their wars, mages have their realities, wraiths have their passions and changelings seek to return to their homeland, there are supernatural powers at work in the world that concern all of these beings. Indeed, there are people and forces in the world of Darkness that endanger all those who exist. Learn the secrets, alliances, enemies and plans of these shadowy beings in a series of world of Darkness books that can be integrated into all of the storyteller games. Amenti is destroyed, Osiris awakes and the undying are reborn. But if they are not the ancients themselves, who are these new mummies? Mummy: The Resurrection brushes aside the veil of mystery and delves into the Middle Eastern World of Darkness to bring you completely revised and updated rules for playing a new kind of mummy character. Contained within are new spells, new horrors and new insights into the mysteries of Arabia, Egypt and the lands of the dead.

The Prophets of Unconquered Sun Spiritual pilgrims, the Zenith Caste of the Solar Exalted are the hands and voice of the Unconquered Sun. Yet these stalwart heroes are more than mere priests and propagandists. With their crusading hearts and invincible strength, the Zenith Caste is a mighty force for righteousness in the world. Those who would make it a place of misery and pain should fear, for the champions of the Sun have come to deliver their comeuppance. The Judges of a New First Age Caste Book: Zenith is the next in the Caste Book series for Exalted -- books detailing the game''s different character types. Within its pages are all the secrets of the Zenith Caste, from their fragmentary memories of the First Age to the shared visions of the Unconquered Sun that unite them. The book contains new Charms, rules, spells and artifacts to help them carry out their holy mission.

Fantasirollespil.

The Expanse RPG brings the universe of James S.A Corey''s sci-fi novels tothe tabletop. Being a GM for such a rich setting is a big job, so The ExpanseGame Master''s Kit is here to help. It provides a sturdy, full-color GM screenwith essential tables and references for game-play on one side and evocativeartwork on the other. It also includes 4 quick reference cards that put thestunts and actions at your fingertips, a combat tracker that you can write onwith wet or dry erase markers, a set of pre-generated Player Characters, and acomplete adventure to launch your crew right into the exciting universe of TheExpanse!

Aces and Jokers Wild! In 1945, an alien virus released over Manhattan changed the world forever. Ninety percent of the people exposed to the Wild Card virus died, and some say they were the lucky ones. Of the survivors, ninety percent were mutated into the hideous freaks known as Jokers. Only a rare one percent became Aces, people gifted with superhuman powers. In 1985 George R.R. Martin and a stellar group of authors introduced readers to the world of Wild Cards, and now the series spans more than a dozen anthologies and novels. In the summer of 2008 players of Mutants & Masterminds can make this world their own for the first time with the Wild Cards campagin setting, written by series author John Jos. Miller. Inside this beautifully illustrated book you will find a full history the setting, profiles and game stats for dozens of major characters, background information and rules on the Wild Card virus, an introductory adventure, and advice on running your own WildCards campaign.

The essential tabletop accessory for the Valiant Adventures Gamemaster. The Gamemaster''s Kit is a key accessory for your Valiant Adventures RPG campaign. It features a sturdy and practical 3-panel hardback screen with all the reference material you need to run the game. The kit also includes 4 quick reference cards and a combat tracker that you can write on with wet or dry erase markers. The Valiant Adventures Gamemaster''s Kit is the perfect complement to the Hero''s Handbook and Worlds of Valiant.

The Valiant Adventures Hero''s Handbook is a standalone RPG that brings together the Mutants & Masterminds rules and the Valiant Universe of Bloodshot, Shadowman, and X-O Manowar. Comic fans know the Valiant Universe is home to classic characters like Bloodshot, Shadowman, Faith, Dr. Mirage, and X-O Manowar. Gamers know Mutants & Masterminds is the World''s Greatest Superhero RPG. Now these titanic forces combine to bring you the Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game. If you''ve ever wanted to be part of the Valiant Universe, now you can! Create your own character or play one from the comics. Adventure in Britannia, The Deadside, Earth, The Faraway, New Japan, Space, The Stalinverse, or The Unknown. The Mutants & Masterminds rules, renowned for their adaptability, have been customized to reflect Valliant''s signature gritty realism and give you an easy way to create your own character. Pick an archetype, make a few quick customization choices, choose a power set, and you''re ready to play! The Valiant Adventures Hero''s Handbook is your starting point, a core rulebook with all the rules you need to play. Pair it with the Worlds of Valiant sourcebook (available separately) to complete the experience.

The Valiant Adventures Hero''s Handbook gave you the rules to make characters and play the game. Now, its companion volume presents worlds from the Valiant Universe for your games. The Worlds of Valiant sourcebook details eight iconic settings and includes character write-ups for over 80 heroes and villains. These characters are also usable in any Mutants & Masterminds RPG campaign. Gamemasters can run their adventures and campaigns in these Valiant settings: Britannia, The Deadside, Earth, The Faraway, New Japan, Space, The Stalinverse, or The Unknown. Worlds of Valiant also makes a great reference book for comic readers. Jump into the Valiant Universe today! Eight worlds and over 80 characters from the comics for the Valiant Adventures RPG.