The company released less products than its predecessor in running a DC Universe RPG, they were actually a fraction of those published by Mayfair, perhaps largely due to the poor reception the game had with players. The core rulebook despite having a substantial section with a general inside look to the DC Universe, his organizations, cities and even a detailed timeline from "10 years ago" til today (for that time), it totally ignores Metamorpho, Simon Stagg or Stagg Enterprises. At least it is mentioned on the timeline Batman left the Justice League of America and formed the Outsiders, the team's dissolving is mentioned as well.
Unfortunately Metamorpho was not very active by the years the game was in print (1999-2002), his canonical appearances were outrageously scarce for that time and Metamorpho fell relegated just to picturesque alternate versions in Elseworlds stories. That is the reason none of the art (which from what I recall seems to be recycled) depicts Metamorpho.
It seems that everything goes according to the eyes of whom wrote the handbook and according to them it was more important to create stats for a bunch of unknown characters in despite of older established characters. Sample of this is the chapter nine titled "Legendary Heroes and Villains", the word "legendary" warns the reader you will find there only those high profile characters most players would like to role-play and although the selection of characters is not bad at all, it does not have a classic or "legendary" taste but it is rather mostly a tour to the 90's freaks today no one remembers.
The supplements evade Metamorpho too, it seems Rex Mason's disappearance for the time from the monthly books made him to fall into oblivion. The sourcebooks in which Rex Mason could have the right to appear such as the "JLA Sourcebook" instead were more willing to give entries to multiple versions of the same character (Flash 2, Flash 3, Green Arrow 1, Green Arrow 2) not to mention the usual dose of novelties from the era.
It is the same for "Gotham City Sourcebook" which contains stats for several Batman allies but unlike the "Batman Sourcebook" from the DC Heroes RPG this book does not include stats for the members of the Outsiders, probably due to the fact no Outsiders series was being published when this book was released.
I have included this RPG in this series of articles only because despite being perhaps the less successful, it represents still an important part of the history of RPG based on DC Comics properties, but Metamorpho fans cannot find anything here about the Element Man neither to collect nor to use in a game session.
The d6 system has evolved and become a very solid cornerstone of the RPG gaming community, it is now an open game system and anyone can create derivative works from it. In fact, a lot of publishers use this system as the rules set for their RPG.
It seems that everything goes according to the eyes of whom wrote the handbook and according to them it was more important to create stats for a bunch of unknown characters in despite of older established characters. Sample of this is the chapter nine titled "Legendary Heroes and Villains", the word "legendary" warns the reader you will find there only those high profile characters most players would like to role-play and although the selection of characters is not bad at all, it does not have a classic or "legendary" taste but it is rather mostly a tour to the 90's freaks today no one remembers.
The supplements evade Metamorpho too, it seems Rex Mason's disappearance for the time from the monthly books made him to fall into oblivion. The sourcebooks in which Rex Mason could have the right to appear such as the "JLA Sourcebook" instead were more willing to give entries to multiple versions of the same character (Flash 2, Flash 3, Green Arrow 1, Green Arrow 2) not to mention the usual dose of novelties from the era.
It is the same for "Gotham City Sourcebook" which contains stats for several Batman allies but unlike the "Batman Sourcebook" from the DC Heroes RPG this book does not include stats for the members of the Outsiders, probably due to the fact no Outsiders series was being published when this book was released.
I have included this RPG in this series of articles only because despite being perhaps the less successful, it represents still an important part of the history of RPG based on DC Comics properties, but Metamorpho fans cannot find anything here about the Element Man neither to collect nor to use in a game session.
No comments:
Post a Comment