Through Monday, March 17 we present the new Tiny Supers Bundle featuring Tiny Supers, the Gallant Knight Games TinyD6 superhero RPG based on Tiny Dungeon. With stripped-down, minimalist rules that are easy to understand and teach, Tiny Supers is great for all groups, ages, and experience levels who want fast and accessible superheroic action that plays fast and easy.
Tiny Supers lets you quickly create nearly any superhero you can imagine; the stats fit on a 3×5 notecard. Choose anarchetype like Striker, Gadgeteer, Expert, Controller, Mastermind, Trickster, or Paragon. Select from two dozen broadly defined super powers. Model your hero’s Power Traits using a versatile three-tier format to show their increasing potency. Your Traits can be customized with Power Tags like Mutant, Super-Science, Magic, or Alien. You accomplish tasks through tests, rolling 2D6. If a Trait, tool, or situation would grant you a bonus, you get advantage and can roll 3D6 instead of two. If you’re hindered instead, you have disadvantage and roll 1D6. If any result is a 5 or 6, you succeed. The customized Tiny Supers combat system adds enhances TinyD6 with actions like Slam and Set-Up to promote cinematic superheroics in the “four-color” style. (That is: upbeat, optimistic stories of true-blue heroes, seen in Golden and Silver Age comics printed in CMYK four-color-process halftones.)
Tiny Supers takes a toolbox approach in describing its own GallantVerse campaign setting and many standalone micro-settings like Battle League, Angelina and the Guardians of Avalon, and Celestial Gallant Knights Go! The Gamemaster and players sketch their setting by answering basic questions: How common are superheroes, what do the police think about them, etc. Each player claims a character role such as Team Leader, Tank, Artillery, Support, Battlefield Supremacy, or the ever reliable Facepuncher. Each of the first few play sessions focuses on one player character’s origin, with the other players taking temporary roles as supporting nonplayer characters. After everyone gets a spotlight session, the game then becomes a large team-up style campaign.
Since its July 2018 Kickstarter campaign and 2020 publication, Tiny Supers has become one of the most popular TinyD6 games after Tiny Dungeon and Tiny Frontiers. On the Flintlocks and Witchery blog (June 2020), James T. Hook said, “Minimalist/rules-light gaming finds one of its best fits in the supers genre. Anyone who has spent any time watching super movies or reading comics sees how creative the heroes can be in using their powers and solving problems. TinyD6 really allows great player agency, so they can be as creative or loony as possible. […] What really stands out is how the powers are tiered. This allows variation (on top of how the players can decide how the power works/looks/feels like) for characters that have the same powers.”
An example: Super-Speed has three Tiers. Spend one Trait choice to select Super-Speed at Tier One: “Any turn in which you move, you also count as taking the Evade action.” Spend another choice to get the Tier-Two speed power: “You can take a move action once per turn, without using up one of your two actions for the turn.” You can max out your choices with the third and final Tier, “When you take a move action, you can move three times.” All the Tiny Supers PowerTraits work like this, giving a wide swath of powers.
This new Tiny Supers Bundle gives you the rules, the Gallantverse Campaign Guide, and lots of adventures – everything you need for fast and simple Sentry City superness. Pay just US$12.95 to get all eleven titles in our Tiny Supers Collection (retail value $75) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete standalone Tiny Supers core rulebook (plus the GM Screen and the free Threat Matrix and Character Sheet) along with The H.O.M.E. Handbook, Fallen Justice, the Gallantverse Campaign Guide, and five full-length adventures: The Insecticate, The Ray of the Resizer, Teeming Shore Part I and Part II, and Tomorrow’s Legacy. And we add Issue #0 of a Tiny Supers-based comic book, Sentry Force Prime.
We presented the Tiny Supers core rulebook, Gallantverse Campaign Guide, and GM Screen in two previous TinyD6 offers in 2020 and 2023. A 2018 standalone version of Fallen Justice appeared in the February 2021 Old School Cool; this 2020 Tiny Supers version is new. The total retail value of the titles new in this offer is $43.
Get this Tiny Supers offer before the Ray of the Resizer reduces it to microscopic irrelevance Monday, March 17.
