The next three acts I publish, starting with this one, can be played in any order. They comprise the bulk of the gameplay from Mass Effect and feature the scenes in which Shepard gathers information about Saren and begins to … Continue reading
I’m not happy with the way my last post turned out. The outline for Act 1 seems light, feels incomplete. I kind of want to re-do it or at least add to it. What are your thoughts? This is a … Continue reading
I’m following the steps for making an event as they are presented in the Basic Game of the Marvel Heroic RPG. Step 1: Sketch up the premise or the idea of the Event. The story and events of Mass Effect, … Continue reading
One of the great things about Mass Effect is that the player is given a large amount of control over character personality and even history, to some degree. Character creation in the first game consisted of reconstructing Shepard’s history. Players … Continue reading
The asari were the first to discover the Citadel in this cycle. They are a mono-sexed female race capable of mating with any other organic creature and have life spans counted in the centuries. Many of the most respected beings … Continue reading
Here’s the first in a double feature wrapping up Shepard’s crew from the first game. Tali’Zorah nar Rayya (Tali, for short) is a quarian, a species driven from their homeworld after accidentally creating a fully sentient race of machines known … Continue reading
We have the first half of Shepard’s crew from Mass Effect all written up: Kaiden Alenko, Ashley Williams, and Wrex have all been converted for my hack of the Marvel Heroic RPG. Today I continue the trend with one of … Continue reading
Marvel Heroic RPG It looks like I’ll be getting a chance to play Marvel on Friday. My regular group wants to take a one-week hiatus from our Serenity campaign of failure* because one of the guys can’t make it. His … Continue reading
If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out my review of the Marvel Heroic RPG and the hack I made to convert it for Mass Effect. This is the third of Shepard’s companions from the original Mass Effect. (Yes, … Continue reading
Here’s the second iteration of the Mass Effect Hack. Version Info Preliminary rules for squad relationships have been added. Scale of effects has been set. Outlooks have been moved below Specialties and I’ve changed the way they operate and advance. … Continue reading
