 | Official Handbook of the Amazing Universe: Akari Saito & Athena Curtis (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $2.29 Bundle price: $2.00 Format: Watermarked PDF
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Criminal groups, cults, and cartels are nothing new. With the advent of super-powered beings (SPBs) throughout the world, the formation of super-powered criminal groups became inevitable. The trajectory of such groups typically follows the same path. First, the group makes their explosive, violent, and dramatic introduction. The destructiveness of their crime spree leads the group to gain media attention—and the notice of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. For a time thereafter, this new band of lawbreakers dominates the headlines as they rack up an impressive list of crimes and high body count.
Once law enforcement agencies learn enough about the crooks, they put together the necessary team, tactics, and resources to hunt down and defeat the villains. Often, this involves the ...
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 | Official Handbook of the Amazing Universe: Arno Severin & Vanessa Martin (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $2.29 Bundle price: $2.00 Format: Watermarked PDF
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Psychologists, journalists, intelligence bureaus, and law enforcement agencies around the world have studied the terrorist criminal group known as the Syndicate. These organizations have sought to understand the Syndicate’s motives, strategies, tactics, and weaknesses. These investigations inevitably lead to the same big question: how do so many dangerous, deranged, and cruel individuals work together at all? Why haven’t they killed one another?
The Syndicate’s membership roster includes numerous super-powered beings with strong and egotistical personalities. At times, they despise one another. When they fight among themselves, any bystanders learn to get out of the way to avoid becoming collateral damage. The group’s powers make them both daring and ruthless. Despite their differences...
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 | Official Handbook of the Amazing Universe: Dale Anderson and Olya Petrovik (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $2.29 Bundle price: $1.98 Format: PDF
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The rise of superhuman powers and abilities brought with it a concomitant rise in crimes committed by super-powered individuals. These criminals, rogues, and terrorists demonstrated their potential for inflicting destruction and death on a level never experienced. This led to state and national governments around the world forming their own powered groups to combat the rise of super-criminals. Corporations followed suit and likewise formed their own powered security forces. Taken together, these events birthed a super-powers arms race that continues to this day.
As with every arms race, however, no side forever retains the upper hand. Those villains who are incapable or unwilling to change ended up in prison or dead. Villain groups are unable to work together or cooperate disbanded. In...
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 | Official Handbook of the Amazing Universe: Dallas Hall & Hector Perez (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $2.29 Bundle price: $2.00 Format: Watermarked PDF
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Super-powered criminal groups like the Syndicate face many challenges and accept countless risks in pursuing their illegal careers. While such groups enjoy the special abilities and talents their powers provide, those same powers demand that law enforcement agencies take them seriously. A group of bank robbers or kidnappers, no matter how skilled or successful, doesn’t pose a sufficient threat to demand global attention. On the other hand, a group of criminals able to control minds, rip steel in their bare hands, and phase through walls require these agencies to commit to doing everything in their power to stop these crooks.
While the Syndicate’s membership boasts some of the world’s most powerful and lethal super-powered individuals, they still can’t afford to start a fight every ti...
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 | Official Handbook of the Amazing Universe: Jonathan Henry & Iesha DeGallo (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $2.29 Bundle price: $2.00 Format: Watermarked PDF
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Everyone needs money to survive. The majority of people work mundane jobs for most of their lives, existing paycheck to paycheck with the fading hope that someday they can retire and enjoy their final years. Some people inherit their fortune or enjoy the boost that privilege and status give them in life. Then there are those individuals who choose a life of crime as the way to earn a living. Whether they are forced down this path or choose it, most people who commit crimes do so for the money.
When it comes to criminals and would-be criminals with special powers, their motivations are like those of non-powered individuals: to earn a living. Possessing special abilities changes the equation, however. On the one hand, a super-powered person stands a good chance of using their power to ...
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 | Official Handbook of the Amazing Universe: Kareem Jones & Khasa Vasin (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $2.29 Bundle price: $2.00 Format: Watermarked PDF
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For the first several years following its formation, the Strikeforce program proved successful beyond everyone’s expectations. Members of the various Strikeforce units demonstrated their skills and abilities time and time again in the field, with Strikeforce One earning the status of elite among the elite. The ongoing but friendly rivalry among the units encouraged them to perform at their best and outdo each other. The United States government could point to the program’s unblemished record as proof of concept and justification for the tens of billions of dollars spent on it. The program became globally recognized with plans to form new units in other nations, with Canada slated as the first trial run.
In the span of an hour, everything changed as one of the worst tragedies of the pro...
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 | Official Handbook of the Amazing Universe: Mark Nicieza & Randolph Ryan (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $2.29 Bundle price: $2.00 Format: PDF
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In the aftermath of the [REDACTED] incident near Steel Heights, Michigan, the entirety of the Strikeforce program underwent a system-wide audit and review, followed by numerous secretive investigations and not a little soul-searching. The program suffered limited public backlash due in part to the controls placed on the media in the incident’s aftermath. Few people knew what occurred during the incident, and even fewer people understood something tragic had occurred with one of the Strikeforce units.
The public records involving the [REDACTED] incident and the consequences for Strikeforce Three’s surviving members remain sealed. Outside of conspiracy circles, little enthusiasm for digging into the event exists. The full details may never become public, especially those details relating...
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 | Welcome to the Amazing Universe Campaign Setting (Super-Powered by M&M) Regular price: $0.99 Bundle price: $0.01 Format: PDF
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Every story needs a beginning, and the hero of every story needs their origin story. While we may never learn the full truth of how superhuman powers came to exist in our world, we do know a great deal about the first two heroes of our times. Indeed, the first two humans to acquire superpowers are still alive, albeit retired.
From what history tells us, the first human to acquire superpowers was Adam Cross, better known to the world first as Major Victory and eventually as Victory. He appeared on the public stage in the waning years roughly 70 years ago. When people first saw proof of Victory’s abilities, they reacted in shock and fear to see a man who could fly, bend steel bars with his bare hands, and ignore tank shells striking him in the chest. Given the uncertainty of the time and...
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