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Hello,

I am trying to generate some interest in the Mystery Men RPG. It is a Super Hero RPG with a realistic rules system, which allows a character to expend experience points on powers and abilities. You can actually custom tailor your character to the type of super hero you desire.

If you are interested in playing a Super Hero then let me know...

John Stater's Mystery Men? Sign me up! I already have a folder full of characters!

Jelly Ten! Johnny Rocket! Doc Squared! The Stone! That Guy With A Sword!

What flavor of superhero campaign are you thinking about?

I've attempted a couple different Super Hero games on here and this does interest me. Are we talking this type of mystery men? Who wants to be the Spleen?

Pulpatoon wrote:John Stater's Mystery Men? Sign me up! I already have a folder full of characters!

Jelly Ten! Johnny Rocket! Doc Squared! The Stone! That Guy With A Sword!

What flavor of superhero campaign are you thinking about?

Hi Pulpatoon,

Yes this is John Stater's Mystery Men, and yes you are signed up!

It will be a modern day superhero campaign where the hero team must thwart the villain's devious plans. I have modified and expanded the powers available making it a more flexible system..

GreyWolfVT wrote:I've attempted a couple different Super Hero games on here and this does interest me. Are we talking this type of mystery men? Who wants to be the Spleen?

Hi GreyWolf! You are officially signed up!!

Thanks DM

Unfortunately, I'm in quite a few active games now, can't really take on one more. But I'll be following it if it gets off!

I have the free PDF for this game, and it's quite nice. Is that the whole version? It seems quite complete (70+ pages).

It appears to be a Free pdf download from Lulu if I have this correct.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-stater/my ... 43884.html
Land of Nod blog spot has a little info as well
http://matt-landofnod.blogspot.com/p/mystery-men.html

GreyWolfVT wrote:It appears to be a Free pdf download from Lulu if I have this correct.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-stater/my ... 43884.html
Land of Nod blog spot has a little info as well
http://matt-landofnod.blogspot.com/p/mystery-men.html

Yes, that's it! Couldn't remember where I got it from...

It's really nice that this game is available again. As I understand it, a publisher had bought the rights, and was planning to make a fancy-pants for-profit edition with all the sins of contemporary RPG design—textured page backgrounds, overly-rendered art, way too many photoshop filters. But I guess they never quite got it together, and the rights just recently reverted to Stater. This makes me happy because 1. I like this system, 2. I like free pdfs, and 3. I like Joel Carroll's illustrations of superheroes who have fallen into the public domain.

OH DANG! What if we ran a campaign where very character was a reinterpretation of an old public domain superhero?

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Domain_Super_Heroes

Pulpatoon wrote:http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Domain_Super_Heroes

Great resource, thanks for sharing!

I'm interested. Kinda want to play a shapechanger of some kind.

Urson wrote:I'm interested. Kinda want to play a shapechanger of some kind.

Hi Urson! Got you signed up!!

I've skimmed the rulebook, and I quite like it... but I'm still hesitating whether I should join up or not

Dungeon Master wrote:It will be a modern day superhero campaign where the hero team must thwart the villain's devious plans. I have modified and expanded the powers available making it a more flexible system..

By the way, what do you mean by "modern day"? As in "todayish"?

I'd find it interesting to do a superhero game set in a past decade - 1950-1980s... For me, there is just nothing "super" about a wristwatch communicator today

Can't wait! I'm really excited about getting a chance to play this game—my dice-rolling fingers are itching to get started with chargen!

I'll join in, too, if this is still open. Please send me a PM?

If you're still accepting, I'd like to take part.

Would we be creating our own superhero or must we follow the old Mystery Men setup?

Sadly, Dungeon Master hasn't been logged onto the site in 23 days, so there's a good chance he won't follow up on this campaign. Any chance of an interested player will take up the baton?