Campaign help
On these pages, judges will find various documents to help them run their campaign world. From universe backgrounds to organizations to specialized character generation rules.
Here is the DC to Marvel conversion chart that I use. Always remember if something doesn't look right, change it. The chart is just a guideline.
From Triumph Comics comes the Christian superhero SoulWatcher!
Use this Technological Item Name Generator to quickly come up with what to call that fancy do-dad.
Marvel & Computers
Culled from the legendary MSH mailing list, Reason = I.Q.
Here are a couple ideas for the overall background of your gaming universe. One uses the pre-Crisis DC idea of a multiverse of infinite earths.
The other gives a possible world history if the Marvel and DC universes were meshed into one. Not an amalgamation of characters like in the comics, but as if all of the Marvel universe and all of the DC universe lived in the same universe.
Infinite Earths
Amalgam
Marvel Timeline
DC Heroes AD&D Background
A DC Continuity Cleaning Timeline
I moved Access and Waverider to a new DC Cosmic Characters page.
This next section deals with character generation.
Enhanced Combat Operatives
Armored Heroes
Psions
Vampires
JLA members
Space Knights
Mythic Greece
Starfleet Academy
new Elders
Presence
To aid in the character generation process, here are some ideas on Martial Arts.
Along the lines of Fighting, here are a few new Combat Tactics.
From the Classic Marvel message board comes stats on various Diseases & Poisons.
Instead of going to Tony Stark for your high tech needs, now your players can go hit up S.T.A.R. Labs for assistance.
Here are some optional magic rules to spice up any mystic campaign, or just for added affect for the party's mage.
Magic
A couple articles on how to play an Illusionist
Try these suggestions for running an adventure based on Inferno from the pages of the X-Men.
Taken from the Villains & Vigilantes RPG are The Crusaders!
From the PC game Starcraft come the alien Zerg!
I've got Space Combat Rules taken from the Secret Wars II module, and Starship Speeds taken from the Marvel Phile.
Also for off-world adventuring, here are some Space Phenomena that can be encountered in outer space.
Now you can generate a Planetary System with these random tables taken from the Legion of Superheroes World Book.
Now you can adventure in the Phantom Zone of the DC Universe.
Here is the background needed and minimum requirement for creating and playing a Green Lantern.
How about a little something for your players to try and track down the source and put a stop to? Mega-Flex is a soda drink that bestows super strength to the user. ADDED 6/28/07
Try out a new band of Jedi Knights called the Bendu! Also some new rules for using the Force in your campaign.
For campaigns with an international flavor, here's a chart to determine the country a hero or villain may hail from. Earth's Hero Population
Keeping with the global theme, here is a background for using International Super Teams in your game.
For something different, here's a background I worked on to convert from Palladium to MSH. It took quite awhile to do. I found this writeup on the web and did the conversion. The race is called The Syrax, and I'm sure there's any number of ways to use them in your campaign.
Here is background information for a military special forces unit, the Canadian Airborne Regiment. Staying with Canadian Military, here is the National Police Force. And to help fend off our neighbors to the north, Navy Seals.
Check out the background on Darkhorse comics Comics Greatest World.
Here is an organization from the Image Universe to have some fun with. Order of the Cross
Here is some information on the graduates of Weapon X. Finally, the the members of The 12 have been revealed.
Another item from the MSH RPG mailing list, a unique set of Virtual Armor.
The GM can always use a few Disadvantages on player characters, used during the creation process. A set of Random Encounter Tables never hurt either. Head over here for a very nice Crime Scene generator to get your adventures started. Check out this article on Historical Accounts of Ghosts. This short article on Pagan Gods could give some ideas for an adventure or a basis for a campaign.
The Classic MSH site with the fun-filled message board will not be falling by the wayside. I pulled a few things from Aunt Petunia's page before it was saved by donations from the inhabitants of the message board. I'll leave those few files here.
The Ultimate Martial Artist
Maximum Human Potential
Benchmarks
Culled from saved MSH Mailing List archives comes rules for Negative Health. Try this new power, Chi Manipulation.
The Ultimate Bag O' Beans is one of the greatest random generation charts I have ever seen. Just take a look at it, that's easier than trying to explain it. It was taken from a website.
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