In November 2022 we resurrected two offers featuring The World’s Greatest Superhero Roleplaying Game, Mutants & Masterminds from Green Ronin Publishing. We brought back (for a second time) the January 2019 Mutants & Masterminds Earth-Prime Bundle along with its loyal sidekick, the September 2021 Mutants Power-Up.
These revivals promoted Green Ronin’s Kickstarter campaign in progress, the Mutants & Masterminds Reprint Extravaganza. The company brought several Third Edition titles back into print, including the Deluxe Hero’s Handbook, Gadget Guides, and Power Profiles, and published two new novels about the heroes of Earth-Prime.
First published in 2002, Mutants & Masterminds started as an Open Game License d20 spinoff. Designer Steve Kenson (Icons) creatively modified and expanded the d20 System to reflect the unique demands of a superhero game. Character generation, character advancement, damage, and saves are all different from the traditional d20 System. Today the superhero RPG Green Ronin likes to call “the World’s Greatest” is much more than a system. It offers two well-developed settings, Freedom City and Emerald City, and you can easily create your own setting. You can even publish your own setting through Green Ronin’s “Super-Powered by M&M” Trademark License, which allows third-party publishers to use “product identity” text.
1. M&M EARTH-PRIME [from Jan 2019]
This revived January 2019 Mutants & Masterminds Earth-Prime Bundle had the Basic Hero’s Handbook especially designed for new players, plus a sharp-focus lineup that lets you fly straight into four-color comic-book superhero action. If you’re new to Mutants & Masterminds, start here.
There were three titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $60) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete M&M Basic Hero’s Handbook with stripped-down Third Edition rules for newcomers; the Rogues Gallery collection of dozens of supervillains; and the classic M&M campaign setting Freedom City updated for 3E.
Those who paid more than this revival’s threshold (average) price also got this offer’s entire Bonus Collection with three more titles worth an additional $63, including the 320-page Deluxe Hero’s Handbook with all the rules you need for any situation; the Atlas of Earth-Prime, a 270-page guide to the entire world of M&M; and Hero High, about the travails of super-powered teens training to become the heroes of tomorrow.
2. MUTANTS POWER-UP [Sept 2021]
The three major supplements in this September 2021 Mutants Power-Up supercharge your M&M campaign: the M&M 3E Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide, the Superteam Handbook, and the Time Traveler’s Codex sourcebook, plus the free Codex overflow book All Time, No Space.
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to these two M&M revivals’ pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and Canada and to regional response agencies around the world.
