Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game Kickstarter

The Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game is in it's final days on Kickstarter. If you aren't aware of this project it takes the Valiant comic book universe and converts it to Mutants and Masterminds (much like the previously released and now out of print DC Adventures Roleplaying Game). This will use the 3rd edition of M&M (again like DC Adventures), though I believe it's a bit more streamlined and updated (thought still fully compatible with previous 3e content).

The project as two books: Valiant Adventures Hero's Handbook and the Worlds of Valiant. The Hero's Handbook is everything you need to play. Worlds of Valiant is a larger sourcebook that will talk about the setting and give stats to the characters inhabiting it. There is also a Gamemaster's Kit, cards, and more. 

Mutants and Masterminds used to be my go-to supers game. I have some wonderful memories with it and one of my all time favorite campaigns I ran used the system. That being said it just seems so crunchy to me now. I'm personally on the fence about this one, but I'm glad to see the project is doing well.

If you want to check out the rules and setting, there is a free Quickstart that can be found here.

Ninja-K for Mutants and Masterminds (Official Stats)

Someone recently posted this in the World of Supers RPG Facebook group. This advertisement for Mutants and Masterminds features official 3rd edition stats for Ninjak was featured in Shadow Man #3 (and I'm assuming other Valiant titles). This is a dope way to advertise the game and I love M&M partnering with comic publishers to do this. This means that their have now been official stats for DC (which had its own line of M&M 3e game rules books), George R.R. Martin's Wildcards (2nd setting book and adventure, plus 3e character stats), Marvel Comics (Incredible Hulk write-up in Games Trade Magazine for 1e, which can be found here), and now Valiant Comics.

There was an official Valiant Universe game. I haven't heard anything about it in a few years and I would take this as the official nail in the coffin that it's not making a comeback.

As far as the stats are concerned, Ninjak is created with a beastly 248 points, despite being PL 11. Most M&M player characters start at PL 10 and are made with 150 points. This makes sense in game though, because when you look at abilities, Ninjak is the Batman of Valiant Universe. I know the images aren't the easiest to read. I've hyperlinked them to larger versions hosted on my Google Drive.