Atlantean Crisis!

It's a M&M Superlink Blitz! Coming at you from Vigilance Press, courtesy of Mike Lafferty.

An emissary from Atlantis has come to warn the city of a dire underwater threat that is quickly approaching. His warning may go unheard as trigger happy police have mistaken the aquatic diplomatics for supervillains and opened fire!

Can the heroes stop the chaos before it's too late to heed the Atlantean's warning?

This quick-playing M+M Superlink Adventure is designed to make the GMs job easy and has been thoroughly playtested to ensure your players get into the thick of superheroic action the minute they sit down.

More Modern20 goodies at the DM Sketchpad/OGL Wiki

Here, in the far future of 2010, we enjoy many conveniences: food from a pill, moving sidewalks, personal jetpacks, and free Modern20 goodness from the DM Sketchpad, all made possible by our all-knowing, all-powerful, sentient AI-oligarchs, and viewers like you.

Thank you.

Thrill as a man utterly fails at marketing a game.

And I thought it started so well.

"Modern Pathfinder"

So there's been some talk lately about a "Modern Pathfinder" on various fora lately.

Basically, it's going to be d20 Modern, brought to you by the guys that brought you d20 Modern.

I have a couple questions about this. Such as- will it actually be compatible with d20 Modern? When I hear the word "pathfinder", I think backwards compatibility, but some comments have led me to believe a lot might change.

Oh, and I've been name-checked in threads on the topic several times, which is flattering as hell.

I guess in some ways, I'm seen as a standard-bearer for modern games because I never stopped writing modern games.

Here's a tip on how that came to pass: I am not faking the funk on liking modern games. Since the first time I laid eyes on Champions, Danger International, Justice Inc. (hell yeah Justice Inc!), Here be Tigers (oh man, here there be tigers), Gamma World and even Marvel Faserip, I've loved the idea of gaming outside a fantasy setting.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against fantasy games, as witnessed by all the work I've been doing on OSRIC stuff lately, and sci-fi is cool as hell, but there's something awesome about a modern game that no other game can capture for me.

Vigilance Press end of year report

Well, it's been an interesting year to say the least.

Lots of cool Modern20 work for me this year but the big change for me was when Chris took a hiatus from RPGObjects.

This caused me to focus more on Vigilance Press than ever and I have to say I'm happy with how that's been going.

Over the last 4 or 5 months that I've actually been treating VP like a business, I've seen sales increase each month.

And December is the biggest month in Vigilance Press' entire history, going all the way back to the release of the original Vigilance in the late 60's early 70's (ok, 2002 but who's counting).

This is due in large part to luck really- two BIG releases that have been in the works for quite awhile hit in the same month: Mike Lafferty's awesome Wargames and Mecha Omega, written by some guy- his name escapes me.

It was a great 1-2 punch and led to a lot of folks looking at Vigilance Press for the first time.

Now I'm off to drink myself out of one year and into the next.

Mecha Omega: Destiny Station released

If you like Mecha Omega, and you like Modern20, then Paul King has written just the book for you!

Mecha Omega: Destiny Station provides some new occupations and NPC mech pilots, written using the Modern20 rules.

It also has some new Mech equipment.

It's a lot of material in a small package, at a low price. How could you go wrong?

New Look Short Form "It's Widescreen"

Went to a wider format because I was tired of my embedded video and cover thumbnails getting cut off by the old template.

It's the same old blog, only in sensurround as Jason Fox would say.