Hey everyone! I was thinking about the origins of different characters and was wondering what locations people would like to see villains and perhaps heroes hail from for future projects. I've always found the small but definite sprinkling of Canadian characters interesting and I've already have at least one or two Canadians in the mix of future plans. Naturally there will be a few definite U.S. and European ones due to a specific style or flavor I want to incorporate. Normally I like to try to keep the origins out of the mention of the ones that can be practically dropped into campaigns located most anywhere but it doesn't hurt to have a specific nationality or regional flavor from time to time.

Also, I'd like any "foreign" characters to stay away from stereotypes. The Japanese character who's powers  have either got something to do with the Sun, or the African character who comes from somewhere in the jungle  , and the Israeli character that just has to have the Star of David on their costume.

Dave, care to throw out a few more "bones" on upcoming material?

Bill- Thanks!

dsumner- Funny you should ask, the 4th freebie installment is finished and should be up on the site pretty soon! (As in, start checking regular over the next few days and all) This one is a bit different than the rest, its what I call a "playset", although its more of a hybrid between my eventual playset intentions and the current action map releases- long story short, it is both a commerical location and a ready made headquarters for the villain of your choice.
(since your in law enforcement you'll probably notice one thing... I didn't use the standard toliet/sink combo like you see in corrections for some certain cells (  .... as the villain might want to make his more important prisoners feel a wee bit more at home- especially if they are simply held for ransom)


On other news of stuff-

Citizen Report, which is both a commerical (as in price tag) product and the very first thing I worked on for V&V, is in production and slated for future release. I got to see the first batch for art for it a week and a half ago and the stuff is awesome! A bit different than Z-Man's pen or the older, but very well done, very suiting for that product.

I'm bouncing between a bit of commerical work and freebie work right now but should be starting on the next project soon... actually we've already started on the next freebie somewhat as I've been playing around with ideas for it over the last couple of weeks. The next one is going to be a wee bit smaller (similiar to the pawn shop- which was actually the intended product size for most of the releases), but a very common real world location... thus likely most all campaign cities will be in the need of.

Thanks for asking!

WTF? There's new V&V material available? And by new, you don't mean 1980 new? Holy sh&%t! Where do I sign up??? All my classic stuff is falling apart from years of luvin' ... 

I can't tell you how many groups of players have gone through some of my modules.

Trev-Man wrote on Mar 19^th, 2010 at 7:29pm:


You can also purchase many of the original releases... in pretty much the exact same identical format. I remember when I bought my first replacement V&V core book a good while back I nearly cried with joy... it was exact to the one I wore out so many years ago. Naturally I had to start buying up stuff.