Happy (Belated) Holidays from Fainting Goat

Kickstarter for Against the Axis is Live

Start the New Year the right way - punching Nazis with Steve Perrin!
This supplement will be compatible with ICONS, Savage Worlds and SUPERS

Check it out and help spread the word

Happy Holidays!

Against the Axis is a WW2 era RPG supplement written by gaming luminary Steve Perrin for the ICONS, SUPERS! and Savage Worlds. Kickstarter launches in Aug

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New ICONS Adventure for the New Year

A savage group of teenaged villains is raiding a long abandoned base of a retired supervillain.

Can your heroes stop them before they unleash a reign a terror with the super-science weapons they'll find there?

Lair of the Wrathmaster is a short, fun, fast-playing scenario that is ideal for a quick evening's entertainment or to drop as a set-piece into a longer adventure.

This adventure takes place in Stark City - but can be used in any setting with little or no adaptation.

CHECK IT OUT

New Podcast! Supervillain Roundtable

Chuck Rice, Chris McGlothlin, Ade Smith, Jason Tondro and Walt Robillard join us to talk about best and worst villains in comics. Chuck lets loose some tantalizing details about a future zombie project. 

DONT FORGET - the most amusing comment posted by a listener wins a free copy of Emerald City for M&M. So - let us know what you think below.

With the release of Assembled Edition, ICONS is back and better than ever.

To celebrate the dawning of the new age of ICONS - Miscreants, Malefactors and Megalomaniacs is here to give you some supervillains to smash, outwit and overcome.

MM&M contains 12 supersvillain ready to menace your next ICONS session.

Villains such as:

Psi-Wasp - Size-changing supervillain Robin Hood!

Holo-Master- Elusive, mercenary master of hard light illusions!

Blue Shift - Formerly a teleporting secret agent, Blue Shift was betrayed by the government she served. Now she's gone rogue and is out for vengeance!

Tariq - An evil fire djinn summoned by unwary mystics, Tariq seeks to bring the very world to its knees!

Available on RPGNOW for just $3.99

ICONS IS BACK sale

To celebrate this new edition of ICONS, Fainting Goat Games is having our ICONS IS BACK! sale right now.
Almost all of our ICONS products are now 25% off.

Supervillain Handbook Project

So -over at Fainting Goat Games we're working a book for ICONS called The Supervillain Handbook. Or possibly: The Field Guide to Supervillains. 

We're still toying with titles.

The big idea is that it's going to be an exhaustive look at supervillains. This book will detail 40 super villain "archetypes" that often appear in comics, including their abilities, backgrounds, origins, and most importantly the kinds of stories in which they appear. 

We've got a rough draft of the manuscript and - we've started a facebook group where we will be posting the archetypes - probably one every few days or so. We've already got most of the art that's finished for the book up there (mostly by the talented Jacob Blackmon).

We'd like to have a big open discussion with ICONS fans and comics fans about the archetypes as we unveil them. The concept is that a big group of comics fans will have insights and thoughts that we might have missed - and through this collective effort - we can make the best book possible.

So - that's the pitch. Please go give it a look.

And here's the cover for our latest release for the SUPERS! RPG. Art by the talented Adrian Smith

Our First SUPERS! Release - Auguste Anarch

To help celebrate the release of SUPERS! Revised Edition - we are converting a few of our Justice Wheels pdfs to SUPERS! Here's the first (with nifty action figure cover by Adrian Smith) - The Auguste Anarch

BTW - if you haven't checked out SUPERS! - its a lot fun. Give it a look

Extreme Earth Kickstarter Funded!

The Extreme Earth Kickstarter has funded successfully! Thanks to everyone who backed up

Dorkland was kind enough to talk about the Extreme Earth Kickstarter. You can check out their coverage here

Kickstarter for Extreme Earth is Live!

Fainting Goat Games has launched a new kickstarter for a dystopian supers setting called Extreme Earth.
You can check it out here. I've posted some images from the book below. Art is by the always amazing Jon Gibbons

Happy Holidays from Fainting Goat Games

Cosmic Action for the ICONS RPG: The Great Game

Cosmic Action for the ICONS RPG!

• A mad god searches for a dark ritual that will give him the means to destroy the universe. 
• A corrupt space-police organization enslaves civilized worlds to enrich itself. 
• An empire of sentient machines is exterminating any biological life in its path. 
• Pirates prey upon the space-ways with impunity.

Meanwhile, the forces of order and good are retreating, scattered and embattled.

The universe needs heroes!

The Great Game blasts you into the far reaches of the cosmos with characters, organizations, starship stats and advice for running a space-based supers campaign.

Written by a stellar cast of RPG talent (including Steve Perrin and Jason Tondro (aka Doctor Comics)) with many a fond tip of the Kirby Crackling Hat to the cosmic supers of yore, The Great Game is a Cosmic Supers setting for the ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying Game that puts the PCs in the center of the action. It is based in the Stark City Campaign setting and is fully compatible with ICONS Great Power.

You can hear Jason Tondro talking about The Great Game and giving his 'DVD commentary' for the book on the BAMF Podcast.

Flood Relief Bundle Raises Almost 5.5k

the Colorado Flood Relief Bundle has come to a close. I'm pleased to announce we raised almost 5.5k for the Red Cross' disaster relief efforts in Colorado.
Thanks to all who contributed

Vigilance - got nothing to say

hey - just to put it to bed
I'm still getting asked occasionally about Vigilance Press

1) I have no idea what's happening with any of their previous game lines or IP (from before the acquisition).
Per the advice of my lawyer, I will never publish another Wargames product again. Sorry - but that's the safest route.

2) I'm aware of the Monte Cook article. All I can say is: I'm sure Monte meant well and wrote the best article he could with the information he was given. I have no further comment on that.

3) I have no inside info or insight into anything Vigilance Press is doing. I'd simply direct any queries to them.
 I really don't know anyone there anymore and (again, per my lawyer's advice) I have no contact with anyone there anymore.
90 percent of the creative talent who were working with Vigilance Press before the acquisition are no longer affiliated with the company. Including me. Read into that whatever you like.

So - to sum up: I don't know what's going on at Vigilance Press anymore. And I've got no further comment on their current activities, the acquisition or anything.

Colorado Flood Relief Bundle

Fainting Goat Games has (in conjunction with many other publishers) launched a Colorado Flood Relief Bundle. For $20 you get over $200 of RPG goodness (including products from Spectrum Games, Green Ronin, Pinnacle, Ad Infinitum Adventures, Zenith Studios, Harsh Realities and many more.) And all proceeds go to help the Red Cross' flood relief efforts in Colorado. Please give it a look and spread the word.

Just a few of the pdfs in the bundle include

M&M3e Heroes Handbook from Green Ronin
ICONS Super-Powered Roleplaying from Ad Infinitum Adventures
Capes, Cowls and Villains Fowl from Spectrum Games
Bulletproof Blues from Kalos Comics
Achtung! Cthulhu: Three Kings - Savage Worlds from Modiphius Entertainment
Broken Shield Core Rulebook from Chronicle City
Sixcess Core from Harsh Realities
Deadlands Reloaded: Blood Drive 1-Bad Times on the Goodnight from Pinnacle
Shaintar: Legends Arise Players Guide for Savage Worlds - from Evil Beagle Games
Kaiser's Gate for Savage Worlds from Battlefield Press
and many, many more - including many 3rd party pdfs for ICONS and M&M (including several of the acclaimed Hope Prep supplements from Melior Via, several pdfs from the Hero Happy Hour line from Rhinotaur for ICONS and the jaw-droppingly beautiful Watchguard Sourcebook for M&M3e from Xion Studios)

Update!

1) We're going to be at Aetheroncon! To talk about and run a demo of Extreme Earth
2) Justice Wheels rewards have gone to all backers. This crowd-funding campaign is now done. Yay!
3) Improbable Tales print editions have gone to backers and the POD version is now available to the public. This crowd-funding campaign is also now done! Double yay!
4) We will soon mail out print editions of Stark City to backers. So - almost done on that one.
5) Steve Perrin is currently writing a WW2 supplement set in the Stark City verse. We will kickstart this one later this year or early next
6) Jason Tondro has written a cosmic supplement for Stark City. We've got the art produced and we're proof-reading this one now. Release date - probably_ before the end of the year.