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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Jonathan H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/05/2007 00:00:00

The Campaign Planner makes setting up your Mutants & Masterminds games a breeze. There are forms for keeping track of pretty much everything you need in here, including things you might not think of at first.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: The forms are comprehensive, allowing you to get loads of your ideas for your game down on paper and keep them organized. I was very pleased that the package included a print version and a fillable-form version.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Nothing! Great resource!<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Jon P. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/17/2006 00:00:00

Just Purchased the planner and I am impressed with the detail and useful forms that are included in the package. The Layout is nice and easy to follow. I do have some issues with "Quality Control" however. Overall a nice product, but I am disapointed at the bugs in the forms version.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Very easy to follow, nice layout of the forms.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The forms version is pretty buggy. For example, in the Approved Sourcebook section, some of the sourcebook titles fields are linked to each other, so Anything you type in one field is replicated in another. Also, some sections have lines for text, but no fields to type in.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Please e-mail me bugs and I'll have the file updated (and as always, updates are sent free to those that have already purchased the product).
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Anthony H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/12/2006 00:00:00

A very useful product. I've been using it extensively.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Pretty much everything<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Haven't found a thing I don't like<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Russell C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/22/2006 00:00:00

Though I'm still using the 1st edition rules I got this anyway and my initial impression is that almost all the forms can be used with the earlier version. A very useful product for GMs, either in planning a new campaign, or organising an existing one. Suitably impressed I will no doubt pick up CP 2 in the near future. Good stuff.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Ready made forms to direct your imagination. The forms are crisp, clear and very useful.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: A fair amount of solid black formating is used on the forms, possibly making printing a little toner-heavy than it needed to be, but otherwise top marks.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Richard F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 03/18/2006 00:00:00

Another great buy! I love all the forms. This product helps me out tremendously!

<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Everything<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Haven't found anything I didn't like.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br><BR>[THIS REVIEW WAS EDITED]<BR>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Timothy B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/16/2006 00:00:00

A great supplement to help the GM organize and plan!<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: I just found it very helpful!<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Nothing really to dislike.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Timothy B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/16/2006 00:00:00

Another good GM tool. Anything to keep me organized! LOL<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: I think it helps alot.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: not much to dislike.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Jim G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/20/2005 00:00:00

To sum it all up fast: This is an excellent product, with one caveat- it?s like a membership to a Gym. The value of it is dependent on if and how much you actually use it.

I bought this product when one of the authors got involved on bulletin board discussion about how to better promote this product. After he clarified that it was, indeed, for Second Edition M&M, I suggested that the RPG Now product description should reflect that. He replied immediately that he would get right on that, and then did just that. I thought after that sort of conscientious interaction with a potential customer that I owed it to him to try his product out. So, here we are.

The planner is approximately 27 different forms (some with multiple pages) in a PDF format. At the time of my purchase the product came in two versions. One is a straight printable form, and the other has fields which can be typed into and then printed (you can not save with the data, only print the document).

The whole Planner is set up with one primary intent; to organize and document information necessary or helpful in running an ongoing campaign. The first few forms are intended only to be used at the start of the campaign and establish the tone, color, and framework of the campaign. After that the Planner provides a means of keep track of relevant campaign information as well as plan and organize adventures.

Briefly, some of the forms include sheets for developing cities, while others home in on buildings and special locations. Other forms provide a template for developing an adventure outline, while a companion form allows you to sketch out a scene within that adventure. Other documents keep track of player drawbacks and complications, while others document villains and secret societies. Honestly, there is a real broad range of applications here which touch upon many of the more critical elements of a superhero campaign. With 27 different forms, you?re going to have to trust me on that.

A few of my fellow colleagues have graded this product quite harshly because it didn?t include fill-able forms. I feel that was a little harsh, but in response Ronin Arts has changed the product to accommodate that request. Regrettably they report no increase in sales because of that fact and suggest that the sales generated from doing it did not justify the extra work to do it. That is unfortunate because as a reviewer, I have to say, I like the fill-able forms version. My handwriting is for crap and I appreciate that I can type my notes and print them. I would not have refused to buy the product if it didn?t have these fill-able forms, but nonetheless, I?m glad they?re there.

Lastly, I need to point out that this product is not for your ?fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants-GM?, whose idea of a campaign is one sidewalk slugfest on a street corner of the local bank. This is for the GM who plans ahead and puts some real effort into the session ahead of time. Now this could be an excellent tool for this who want to take running a campaign a whole lot more seriously than they do now; as it will point out what small details might be important to save for another session in the future. If you?re a lazy GM (as opposed to an inexperienced one), you might want to save your money however; to get an honest value from this product you?re going to have to knuckle down and use it

<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: I liked the thoroughness of Planner. Some have remarked that you could do this yourself with some lined notebook paper. You can, but I would challenge those statements as being rather trite. I doubt for the price Ronin Arts is charging that most people really would think to cover all the varying subjects that the Planner encompasses. They might take copious notes on some narrow topics, but they might not capture as broad an overview. A lot of thought went into developing what forms would be useful.

It also has a nice professional appearance. It does not look like someone put it together one Saturday afternoon and called it a PDF. <br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Very few dislikes. I wouldn?t like to see the price point any higher than what it is now. (Though, again, I would refute a claim that anyone could do just as well with a sheet of paper and a pencil).

There are a few sections blocks I would have made smaller and a few others larger, but not everyone has the same priorities, so in that regard I count that as a personal preference rather an overall critique.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br><BR>[THIS REVIEW WAS EDITED]<BR>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Thank you for this excellent, detailed review. One important point, though, is that the editable forms version can be saved but ONLY if you have the full version of Acrobat.
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Shawn C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/15/2005 00:00:00

While I have purchased and enjoyed Campaign Planner tremendously, I have used it more as a design document for a campaign setting rather than for a specific campaign. As such, there are several pages I have not used, but I think that's the real beauty of this product: virtually everything you need is here, and you can pick and choose which pages you print out to suit the needs of whatever project you're working on. This is easily the most utilitarian product I've ever purchased on RPGNow.com.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Jeffrey J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/03/2005 00:00:00

These forms could prove very valuable for organizing a campaign, especially if you're in the early stages and floundering with where to start. Some forms are mostly useful for the planning stages (campaign overview, locations, adventures), others should be printed out and kept on hand for use during the adventure (notes on what happened, who the PCs meet, effects of PCs actions, etc). Only one form struck me as "filler" (the "notes" page - I can get lined paper anywhere).

Some of the forms from the previous version of this file (for 1st Edition M&M) have been moved to the Campaign Planner 2.

Page count of 38 includes cover, title page, introduction, 27 forms (some multi-page like the villain datafile), OGL, and advertisement.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Form-fillable PDFs.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Darrin K. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/18/2005 00:00:00

I have looked over the Superline Campaign Planner. And honestly, I'm pretty impressed at the level of detail covered by both products. It is really well done.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by laurence c. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/15/2005 00:00:00

excellent product, made creating a campaign a lot easier<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Thank you. You'll be happy to learn that we're working away on the revision (updating the Campaign Planner to second edition) and once finished you (and everyone else that purchased this) will be sent the revised version free. It's also being expanded -- the revised version is currently over 10-pages longer than the original (and still growing)!
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Marsha W. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/28/2005 00:00:00

I pride myself on being a fairly organized person. At work, I'm hailed as an example of organization and neatness. But when it comes to running games...I stink at keeping information organized. Plots, character reactions, NPC stats...they're all scattered around my home on little yellow post-it-note, scraps of notebook paper, or backs of envelopes (don't ask).

Not any more. The M&M Superlink Campaign planners contains some 30-odd pages to help people like me keep track of what's going on in our games. Pages to plot out your campaign, pages to sum up the most important stats for your NPCs (this was an eye-opener for me: I usually draw up a complete character sheets on NPCs, then have to rifle through them during combat, which slows me down), sheets to help you detail your setting, your universe, even what supplements you've approved for use in your game.

Frankly, this is more detail than I think I could ever use, but I can certainly see a use for every single page listed. This product would be especially useful for the first-time gamemaster, who's just getting his/her arms around the bookkeeping aspect of GMing.

I wish more companies had products like this in their GM guides, or packaged with their GM screens. I would have killed for something like this when I started out GMing Mage: the Ascension.

My one complaint, and it's a pretty big one: this product should've been offered in an editable PDF format. Ten years ago, when computers weren't as common as they are now, I would've make photocopies of the needed pages without even blinking. But now, when I organize my games on my laptop (as do so many GMs)--well, there's simply no excuse for not offering it in an editable format. That is a HUGE oversight--I don't know what the publishers were thinking.

I know M&M recently announced a 2nd edition: this would be a great chance for the publisher to bring out a 2nd edition campaign planner with the editable PDF as a feature.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Gives the hopelessly unorganized GM the tools to pull their ideas and materials together. Outstanding.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: It's inexcusable that these PDF forms are not offered in an editable format. Not everyone wants to handwrite out their campaign info. For that reason alone, this product doesn't get five stars.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
I'll try to make sure than when the 2E update is put together we make a forms version available. The 2E PDF will be sent free to those that already bought this version.
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by russell c. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/03/2005 00:00:00

Extremely dissapointed!!!!!!!

by not making these form fields editable, this product has become useless for me. I want to be able to enter the data on my PC. If I wanted to write this down, I would just get some lined paper and not waste printer ink.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: the layout is nice<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: unable to enter data on PC<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Disappointing<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Ripped Off<br>



Rating:
[1 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
The product is now updated to the second edition rules AND includes a form-fillable version that you can type into if you have Acrobat Reader.
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Superline: Campaign Planner (M&M Superlink)
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Steve S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/15/2004 00:00:00

If you love super heroes and comics, you're gonna love Mutants and Masterminds. If you love Mutants and Masterminds, need this great GM aid. It is a must for your M&M library! Buy it!<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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