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This is one of the best "simple" game systems I've ever seen. With nods to the old FASERIP "Marvel Super Heroes" system, but with a far better dice mechanic, it plays fast and fun, and avoids long dice-rolling exercises in an effort to keep the story moving in a fast and fun manner. I like that as a GM, I don't even have to roll - the players make all the die tests. The art is simple, clean and fun, with a "Saturday Morning Cartoon" feel. Sure, it lacks the "meat" of a game like CHAMPIONS, but in this day and age, I don't have time to run 8-hour combats. This is a great system for a 4-5 hour session!
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I was very surprised to see the M&M writer as the author of this game. Now don't get me wrong, it is nothing like M&M and I think that's a good thing in terms of providing something to the gaming market that is different. Maybe I'm crazy, but I did not see that much new stuff in this game. This game looked to me, especially in terms of character creation, as nothing more than the old FASERIP Marvel system using numbers instead of names for the different power and attribute levels. And let's face it, saying that your Brick has "Monstrous Strength" was one of the cool things about playing the FASERIP system. Interestingly, the author even says that you can use names instead of numbers for the attribute and power levels, and even gives some examples and many of them are dead-on exact matches for the same power/attribute level in FASERIP. Go figure! In all fairness, there are some clever additions or changes to the classic FASERIP design, especially in terms of cleaning up and simplifying some of the powers. There is also a cool mechanism for creating super teams, but some of this information too is included in the old Marvel game. He even uses the terms "Slam" and "Stun" as combat outcomes. Really!?
It is not a bad game at all, and I actually like the artwork and presentation just fine. I'm sure it plays quickly, character creation is a snap, and it's a lot of fun ... but why wouldn't it do all these things, FASERIP sure did that! There are a couple of very clever game mechanisms and the author writes clearly and the text is to the point. My problem is that I wanted something new and different, and for $14.95 I was hoping to get something more than just FASERIP with numbers rather than the cool names for the powers and attribute levels, which is all this game looks like to me.
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ICONS is a rules-light superhero system based off the FUDGE and FATE systems. It is a success ranking system where the dice become modifiers to a character’s Abilities instead of the character’s Abilities being a modifier to the dice roll. These modifiers are determined by using 2d6 where one dice is a positive modifier and the other is a negative modifier. By adding the two dice together, you receive the first modifier for the action being taken with the second modifier being that action’s difficulty level. What you get is a character who is destined to succeed more often than not with that success gauging the actions effect. The net value of the character’s Abilities including both modifiers produces a number that is compared to the never-changing success ranking system that starts at 0. The better the result, the more incredible the character’s success producing increasingly improved outcomes. Pretty simple if you think about it.
The system is quite fitting for a superhero game as it improves one’s chances for success and adding a measurement of how well they succeed. However, only player’s get to use these mechanics as Game Masters do not roll any dice. Actions from a super-villain are gauged by how well the superhero defends. The higher the success on the defensive maneuver, the further reduced that super-villains action becomes. It is definitely a superhero-centric game, designed to reproduce comic books from the Golden and Silver ages.
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ICONS is an excellent system that harkens back to the old school design of comic books from the Golden and Silver ages. Storylines are short and more often than not the superhero overcomes the villain within the pages of a single issue. Additionally, the superhero always seems to make it look easy and no matter what, succeeds in his or her efforts. This is what ICONS is recreating and its mechanics are designed around that feeling. Instead of slapping a theme onto the mechanics, the theme was designed into the mechanics. Even the terminology matches the theme! While it may be limited in an adventure’s look and feel, it definitely does what it aims to do. If you’re a fan of old school Spider Man, Avengers, or Justice League of America, this is the game that will allow you to recreate your favorite comics.
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Publication Quality: 10 out of 10
ICONS is a beautiful book. All superheros and villains are designed in this very traditional coloring manner found in four-color, Golden Age, and early Silver Age comics. While this may seem cheesy, it’s a perfect fit for the theme and design of the system’s mechanics. ICONS is designed to recreate those old comic books and the illustrations only support that theme. In addition, the book’s layout and formatting is easy to read and very pleasing to the eyes. It is a perfectly designed book and really utilizes the digest format to the best of its ability.
Mechanics: 8 out of 10
There is one slight drawback to ICONS‘ mechanics to fans of superhero role-playing games: the system centers around the superheroes. How is this different? The superheroes are essentially over-the-top characters who rarely fail and the mechanics are designed around their action and superior abilities instead of spending more time considering the overall setting and a lengthy storyline. Yes it’s designed to recreate comic books where storylines rarely lasted longer than two issues, but some of the tools are taken away from the Game Master to create full campaigns. Simple things like villains don’t roll dice for their own abilities nor do they get a reaction to the superheroes action. They are destined to fail sooner rather than later.
With that in mind, the mechanics are a beautiful blend of quick action, limited dice rolling, and lots of superhero options to keep the game moving quickly and provide players with a variety of options to create their ideal superhero. The rules-light system is obvious in every facet and superheroes are definitely superheroes. Why, powers cover 26 pages of the 127 page book! One of ICONS‘ strongest points is that its theme is designed directly into the mechanics producing a very fluid game system that meshes perfectly with the created characters.
Desire to Play: 8 out of 10
Players looking to recreate Golden or Silver Age comics will find almost everything they’re looking for in ICONS. Those looking for the opportunity to a darker, grittier game will not find it within ICONS. In addition, if you want your superhero to have a high success rate, then ICONS‘ mechanics are a great fit. ICONS produces characters that are super in every regard.
Overall: 9 out of 10
If you’re looking for the ultimate “super” experience where your superhero is all but guaranteed success when using his or her powers and is a driving factor of the entire storyline, then ICONS is most likely the game you’re looking for. While it doesn’t actually contain superheroes from the comic books, it contains a huge variety of powers that can be mixed and matched to recreate those superheroes. Just remember, superheroes here are the ultimate heroes and villains are the people who are always defeated by the good guys.
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ICONS is a fast and easy superhero RPG. The creation of characters is straight-forward and the challenge of coming up with a background for the sometimes oddly paired powers is fun. In most cases, you could have characters roll up a character and be playing within half an hour. One of the things that I most like is that these characters are "take me as I am." You don't level them, they are already super heroes for goodness sake.
Because of the simplicity, I find that running an ICONS campaign by email is very doable and maintains a lot of the fun.
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A solid game that incorporates elements of FATE to create a more character-driven super-heroes game which is just what I like. Overall, an excellent product although the artwork isn't really to my taste. The inclusion of random character generation means you can get started quite fast and even run one-shots with the game. If you like FATE and super-heroes, this is a great game to try.
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Reading different roleplaying systems has always been a hobby of mine, even though I tend not to play many of them. Maybe it's my group that's a little "system conservative", but that's just the way it is. They often help me understand what it is that I like about roleplaying though, and I can tell you for sure that this is a system that, while it didn't exactly "change" my view on roleplaying, it certainly gave me the desire to implement a lot of what was in the book.
This book is a treasure trove, pure and simple. It has a lot of good stuff that everyone could use and implement in virtually any system, with little effort. I am especially thinking of the "Determination" system that lets the players influence the setting with "retcons". While it may be a minor part of the system, then it was most certainly the thing that made this system so appealing to me. Plus, it's about superheroes, what's not to like?
I have always held rules light systems in high regard, but this system might actually be both as light as a great system can get, but it is also very "full" in it's own way. It has almost no "special case scenarios", and it has a very strong consistency. Everything is handled in one roll, well maybe except combat. Resolution is actually really fast, especially compared to a lot of the bigger commercial systems out there.
Well, that was the system part. The book was a nice read, if you are fast, it can be done in a few hours, if you skip reading every single power that is. Yes, there's a lot of them, but I didn't bother reading all of them. I'm looking more foreward to experience them during play. Yes, as a GM, I like being caught with my pants down by my players.
The book is full of really good descriptions and small nice examples. In this system, flavor is everything, it's the bread and butter of rules light systems afterall. But it is just so full of it everywhere. I wouldn't know how it was ever possible to make a flavorless, grey, boring character in this system. Not if you follow the guidelines that is.
I rate this game 4 out of 5. The last star I can't award it yet, since I have yet to try it in play, but I am, as I write, planning a weekend of Superpowered roleplaying, and I am positive that this system will take down the house. I can't wait to play this game.
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enjoy Supers games. I don't get to play them as often as I would like, but I enjoy them all the same. I had been playing M&M 2ed and just picked up BASH! so I was hesitant to also get Icons. But Icons comes with a pretty good pedigree. First it is written by Steven Kenson, who gave us Mutants and Masterminds and also worked on Silver Age Sentinels. Steve obviously knows his supers. It has Gareth-Michael Skarka of Adamant Entertainment and one of the minds behind "Hong Kong Action Theater". Walt Ciechanowski has a ton of game systems under his belt too including M&M, True20 and Victoriana (1st ed). And Morgan Davie, whom I'll admit I am not as familiar with. But he is one of the guys that wrote Icons, so that makes him good in my book.
Comics are a visual medium. Full of art and color and eye catching action. Icons is the same. It is a really good looking book, especially one that has such a "retro" or even "indie" feel to it. It lives somewhere between the free flowing cartoon fun of Cartoon Action Hour and the slick, high production values of Mutants and Masterminds. All three of these games are fantastic and their style really tells us a lot about what they are about. Icons is a comic book game that is close to a Saturday Morning Super Heroes cartoon. The art, which some people have disliked, I think sets the perfect mood for this book. It is simple art, but it is good art and has a earnestness about that I like. That is also true for the rules.
Icons, as you may or may not have heard, is powered by FATE. Though the typical FATE/Fudge trappings of naming the power levels is gone in favor of numbers (sort of a step backwards from the FATE perspective, but fine for me). There is the option for named levels too, and I think it would fit the style of comic book action, but I myself prefer numbers. The scale is pretty simple, 1 to 10, with 3 an average. So very similar already to a lot of games I play.
The rules themselves are really simple. It is a modification of the dF system. Use 2d6 with one as positive and one as negative, roll and add, apply mods. Easy. You can be up and running in less time than it takes to say "Meanwhile back at the Hall of Justice..."
Hero creation is unique for a modern game, it is random. Not that you couldn't do it as a "point buy" system, but the randomness is what I think sets it away from BASH which can fill similar needs.
I feel I must at this point call out the Character Sheet. Long ago I was a reader of Marvel and I loved their "Whos Who" of the Marvel universe where they would have bar charts to rank their heroes on various attributes. It was almost very game-like and I loved them. Icons does something similar and it really gives their characters a different feel.
I would be lying if I didn't see bits of pieces of Silver Age Sentinels or Mutants and Masterminds peeking out every so often. That is fine with me. That familiarity is a good thing in my mind.
Icons is not really the game I would use if I were going to run a multi-year, multi-arc long game; that's what Mutants and Masterminds is for. But if I needed to run a supers game on a rainy afternoon or a convention or just something to have some fun with, then Icons is a great choice.
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I am loving this game. I thought about picking it up several times, but I own so many RPGs that I'm hesitant to buy new ones. When I saw this listed for $1 I just couldn't pass it up. I could not be happier with this game.
This is much more rules lite than my other supers rpgs and perfect for a quick game. Once I get a little more familiar with the system I may even try running a full campaign with this.
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It's FATE Super Heroes! If you're familiar with FATE (the FUDGE-based system behind Spirit of the Century, Dresden Files, etc.), you'll find no real game-mechanical surprises here. The default assumption is that you'll be rolling characters randomly, and then trying to justify the combination of powers as coming from a single origin. (This may sound weird, but it could explain Spiderman -- "I have visions of the future, I can climb walls, and I'm a gadgeteering genius? Sounds like a spider to me!") Fortunately, there's also an option presented for point-based builds, so you can play the hero you actually want -- even if it is sort of an afterthought. The powers offer some basic variety, though there are quite a few actual comic-book heroes you can't build with it, and some super-abilities (like Tony Stark or Reed Richard's ability to invent crazy stuff) are handwaved or barely touched on. The system seems to price skill specialties being as useful as super-powers, which is a bit odd -- you're pretty much always better off having a power than a specialty -- and seems designed to justify super-normals. All in all, this is a solid game (largely because it's based on the proven system FATE), with an old-school feel, that handles super-heroes well -- as long as you're willing to accept a lot of GM interpretation and filling in the details. Recommended with reservations.
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When I first picked up and read Icons, I couldn't shake the feeling that it was specifically written for *me* - a guy who wanted a fun, rules-light supers game for pickups and one-shots. It's a lot of fun and I can see myself playing the hell out of this for years to come. It's nice to know it's solid enough to run longer campaigns if I want to too.
Note though that this is NOT a FATE game and (even though FATE inspired some of the rules in Icons) it works differently - personally I'm kind of glad I had no prior experience with FATE so I wasn't confused by the rules in Icons for tagging and compelling.
And I love the artwork!
In my opinion, Icons is truly the Game of the Year for 2010.
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Description -- ICONS is a super-hero, typical role-playing game, based loosely on the FATE rule system (with a little nod to FASERIP descriptions)
Easy Rules -- The rules are well-written and easy to learn.
Fun to Play -- ICONS is fun to play but will lose its luster quickly (it's a one-trick pony; it doesn't handle NPCs very well when it comes to equality with heroes or villains. This is good for a super-hero game, but can get boring if you want something more later.)
Layout and Design -- Full-color, simple cartoon illustration and layout throughout the book. Color image bleeds to the edge on every page with simple gradient graphic colors.
Worth the money -- the PDF is worth the money (sort of / Like all PDFs, it's still hard to read and grasp from a computer screen).
If you print a color version of your booklet, then you might as well shoot for getting a print copy of the game. That's where your wallet will vomit money ... this game is expensive to own in the real world.
Conclusion -- a decent game for a short time, but it can be boring in the long haul. Graphics are top-notch, but printing price is too high a cost.
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What about ICONS? A review…
ICONS RPG is a new superhero role-playing game by Adamant Entertainment. It has been enthusiastically received by the role-playing community, if blog posts and sales at RPG Now/Drive Thru RPG are any indication. Since first hearing about it I was excited! It’s designed by Steve Kenson who has worked in some of my favorite RPGs, I own various PDFs by Adamant that I’ve enjoyed very much, on top of that it integrates elements from FUDGE/FATE, which I’ve become interested on recently. So this was a no brainer. I did miss on the pre-order offer for various reasons, but as soon as it came out I snatched up a copy of the PDF and began to read. I was NOT disappointed.
In a nutshell ICONS is an easy to play, easy to pick up superhero game that harkens back to the classic superhero role-playing games of the 80s, specifically the old Marvel Superhero RPG, also called the FASERIP system, that got retro-cloned with the 4C system. It has all the charm of those old time games with a modern, simple and elegant mechanic with great touches that enhance the role-playing aspect of the game.
If you are a fan of superhero games, do yourself a favor and pick up ICONS. There is one caveat, if you are looking for Champions style granularity, or something like Mr. Kensosn’s Mutants and Masterminds, ICONS is not that. It’s light on rules but big on hearth, and believe me that is a good thing.
Want more details? Read on…
The first thing that struck me was the art style. The whole book is done in a very particular style by Dan Houser, reminiscent of the animated style often associated with modern superhero cartoons, like the Justice League or the more recent Batman team up series The Brave and the Bold. Art is abundant, the layout easy on the eye, the font easy to read. The tables take up a lot of the real estate, and I think some slight changes in the layout might have made the book even shorter (its 128 pages long including the ads) but I’m no expert on this. I’ll say this, I read about half of the book directly from the computer or on my iPhone and I had no trouble reading it. The original PDF is a 9MB file, but I received an e-mail form Adamant letting me know a higher resolution copy is available for download where I purchased my copy.
In all sincerity the art took a little getting used to. I found it whimsical at first but eventually it became a little distracting. I would have loved other styles of art. I know what they were going for but I believe the system is strong enough to support all styles of superhero gaming, from over the top cartoon fun to more serious Watchmen style game and somebody who casually looks at the book in a book store or game store may dismiss it based on the art style. Don’t get me wrong I loved what Mr. Houser did, I just think the book would be better represented by a variety or art styles.
But that’s cosmetic, what about what’s under the hood? The game opens with an introduction to a very simple game mechanic and I think the discussion of the statistics and what results to expect is a strength that helps the reader understand what to expect from the system. The Determination mechanic, a resource available so characters can improve their chance of success, perform power stunts and other in game effects, seems a great balancing factor between super power houses and more down to earth heroes. The more powers you have the less Determination, so Superman has all the powers, but Batman has all the points to make his crazy plans work.
The idea that characters earn Determination through the complications and disadvantages (called Challenges in the game) they established for their characters enforces the tropes of the superhero genre. And I think this is one of the things the games does particularly well, emulate not only the superhero, but the situations and events typical to comic books. From Determination, to creating a team and how the Determination heroes contribute serve as resources to the members, to the role of leaders in hero groups, to catchphrases heroes utter, all these elements emulate comic books, are quantified in the game, and reinforce the type of adventure that feel, well, super heroic!
Character generation is random, from assigning attributes in the order rolled, to rolling for the origin of the hero and number of powers. I’ve said it before; I’m NOT a fan of randomly generated heroes. But I did give it a chance (and the result is the topic of my previous posts) and think it works. It harkened back to the days when I rolled characters using the Marvel Superheroes RPG, but the game has tweaks built in, like allowing you to swap two attributes and the inclusion of complimentary powers (called bonus powers in the game which can be confusing) within power descriptions that you can choose instead of rolling for the next random power, that lets you create a character with some internal consistency. If you don’t want random generation, there is simple point buy option in the book.
Power selection is varied enough that you can cover most powers you can think of. Undoubtedly someone will come up with some power that cannot be represented using the rules, but I can’t think of one for now. The descriptions are very general and some will require interpretation or house ruling, but I think this fits the style of play the game supports. This is a game that wants you to have fun first and foremost and worry about rules later.
My least favorite part of the book is the Taking Actions chapter. It lists the rules, attributes and what you can do with them like attacking and facing challenges and some of these concepts are important enough to have been explained with more details, perhaps a few additional examples. This alone may make the book a little harder to pick up by a newcomer which is a pity since this would be an ideal entry level superhero game. Character advancement is covered very briefly, integrated into the Determination mechanic, but in my opinion this is one area of the game that could be expanded in future supplements.
The book could have been organized a little better, for example, an earlier discussion of what determination is. Reproducing important tables like material strength level and such in an appendix for easy reference. Some rules refer to other parts of the book and could have either been consolidated in one place or simply repeated. An index is something I always look for in a book. ICONS is small enough that you don’t get lost looking for things but an index would have been a great addition.
But these are minor complaints on an otherwise excellent book. The Game Master section is short but it contains solid advice on running the game and superhero campaigns in general. The sample villains are varied, colorful and fit many of the typical roles to be found in any superhero comic. The short sample adventure illustrates the concepts put forth in the Game Master chapter.
The game also includes some stock characters and creatures, enough to extrapolate much of what you will need. There is some discussion on weapon damage in the rules but I think some tables with real world items and their game effects would have been a good idea.
ICONS is not a game for someone looking to have every detail spelled out for them. It requires Game Master Interpretation, player trust and participation. So many modern games try to quantify every aspect of play and end up becoming endless lists of rules and exceptions. Not ICONS! ICONS is meant to be played by people who trust each other and want to tell a fun story together. That is the best recommendation I can think of for this game!
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I came late to the ICONS hype party, and missed out on the first wave of preorders. Therefore, I rushed to DriveThruRPG at 12:03 AM on June 1 to purchase the PDF edition. I've lost a few hours of sleep since then staying up late to read the rules, and I'm pleased to report that ICONS lives up to its advance billing. Aside from a few grammatical and typographical errors (for which I'd subtract half a star if the rating system allowed half-stars), ICONS is a wonderful product, with a solid rules set, entertaining prose, and artwork that produces a look and feel perfectly matching the game's tone.
In brief, ICONS—authored by industry stalwart Steve Kenson—presents a rules-light take on the superhero genre. Using mechanics from the FATE system as its core, ICONS rates pretty much everything on a scale from 1 (weak, minimum human) to 10 (cosmic or maximum superhuman). Characters have six ability scores, three physical and three mental, rated on this scale. Super powers are also rated on this scale. Tests of abilities, powers, and so on result in one of four outcomes: failure, moderate success, major success, or massive success. Anything more detailed than that (except when dealing damage to another character) is storyline and GM narration, not mechanics.
Die rolls in ICONS use 2d6, and follow three different patterns, depending on what you're doing. Most of the time, you'll designate one die as the "positive" die and one die as the "negative" die, roll them, subtract the "negative" die roll from the "positive" die roll, and use the resulting number (from -5 to +5) to modify an existing value, such as one of your ability scores or power levels. During character generation and other "offline" activities, you might use a straight-up 2d6 roll, or you might use a "d6 and d6" roll, where the first d6 determines which table you roll on, and the second d6 determines the ultimate result.
A good bit of the early buzz surrounding ICONS focused on the random character generation system, which seems like a bit of a throwback to "old school" gaming. ICONS does include a point buy system, if you'd rather customize your character to taste. The random generation system, however, fits the genre quite well; most superheroes don't choose their powers, unless they rely primarily on fighting skill, like Batman does, or gadgets, like Iron Man does. The process includes some safeguards against generating underpowered characters, and the bell curve of the die rolls together with the bell curve on the power levels and number of powers tables pull numbers toward the middle. My sons prefer the point buy system, because they already know what they want their heroes to do. I plan to play around with randomly generating some villains to go up against Hot Rod and Earthworm.
I kid you not. My kids want to play superheroes named "Hot Rod" and "Earthworm"—and this points to another aspect of the tone and sensibility of ICONS. ICONS is designed for comic-book fun, not for comic-book realism. The artwork by Dan Houser wonderfully captures the spirit of a superhero cartoon, evoking thoughts of the Batman, Superman, Justice League, Teen Titans, and Brave and the Bold animated series. The sample heroes and villains include campy characters like Saguaro the Cactus-Man, Baron Kriminel, and ConfederApe. I think I'd feel rather silly trying to stat out a character named "Earthworm" in Mutants & Masterminds, but it feels perfectly natural in ICONS.
I'm very happy that I purchased ICONS, and intend to play it frequently with my kids. I'd be happy to play it with adults, too, on a pick-up or short-term basis. I don't think I'd want to play ICONS as a long-term campaign with a group of adults who were pretty serious about their superhero gaming, however. For that, I'd want to use Mutants & Masterminds. But ICONS is fantastic at what it does.
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ICONS is exactly what it was designed to be. It's a system for running Supers games with simple rules that most experienced Gamers should be able to gain a basic understanding of in minutes. Newbies could take slightly longer, but even then the learning curve should make this an ideal introductory Supers game.
Think TSR's Marvel Super Heroes RPG of the 1980's done with the FATE system, improved upon, and totally coherent. If you have two d6 and the ability to add and subtract single digit numbers, then you should have no trouble with ICONS (okay, you may occasionally venture into very low double digits).
Character creation is extremely easy to comprehend, but still allows you to generate a wide variety of characters and individualize them. All the basics are reasonably covered. With even basic familiarity, character generation can be completed in under 20-30 minutes without difficulty.
The art fits the tone of the book well, keeping the images as recognizably “iconic” characters without limiting them with labels. Nothing groundbreaking, but it really does suit the book.
Typos are extremely minimal.
Looking it over, my mind starts translating all my old MSHRPG material to ICONS, and it's almost effortless. I imagine most Supers RPGs would be nearly as easy to convert.
The book did go slightly over my usual 10 cents per page limit, but this one I'm happy to pay the extra for.
If you're a Supers Fan and like a system that's crunch-lite (but not mushy), or if you want a good introductory Supers Game for an evening of play, ICONS may be for you.
In all honesty, I have trouble giving ANY product short of perfection 5 stars, and would probably give ICON 4-1/2 stars were that an option, but it definitely deserves better than 4. =)
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Granted, I've just purchased this pdf, but I've skimmed enough of it to declare that the hype around ICONS is well-deserved. Classic "4C" randomization and rules-lite sensibility plus "FATE"'s narrative flexibility equals ICONS; by far Mr. Kenson's best superhero RPG to date. I hope Adamant releases an ICONS compatible logo for third party publishers.
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Thanks for the review! To respond to one point: We have, in fact, released a licensing program for ICONS. Details can be found here: http://www.adamantentertainment.com/?page_id=149 |
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