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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by R G. E. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/24/2006 00:00:00

A moderately useful PDF of adventure ideas for the M&M roleplaying game. The scenarios all contained some interesting premises, however their implementtaion was not quite as good - they were more like single scenes with a bit of blurb to explain how the characters got to that point.

Personally I would have preferred fewer scenarios but each scenario more fleshed out with at least three scenes - a hook, investigation / development and then finally a climactic bit of action.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: A nice sized PDF (in terms of page) count that along with the low price encourages impulse purchases. Core ideas of scenarios were good.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Scenarios could do with being fleshed out more. The advertised "comic book style" was not much apparent beyond the cover, however I see that later issues have more internal art, and in colour.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Timothy B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/16/2006 00:00:00

I am really glad I took a chance on this book. I think its really good and well put together.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Presentation, the artwork the scenerio, the overall package.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: nothing of note.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Shawn C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/15/2005 00:00:00

An excellent resource. I purchased it some time ago and not only have I gotten a lot of use out of it, but Ronin Arts updated it to Second Edition so that I can continue to use it with the new M&M rules.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by David W. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/21/2005 00:00:00

I hate doing reviews, or at least snapshot reviews as these tend to be. Overall I found Superline to be an excellent product, the formatting and content layout was both fresh and enjoyable to read.

The actual content itself was typical of what I've expected from Ronin Arts, by that I mean they consistently publish high quality products.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Pretty much everything really.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Nothing.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Paul P. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/29/2005 00:00:00

It's an adventure collection for modern supers. No more, no less.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The adventures are fairly clear and concise, and theyr'e value for money, since they're easily adaptable to other (i.e. non M&M) rulesets.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Somewhat dull and straightforward as such adventures go; at the end of the day, I didn't feel I couldn't have come up with them myself.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Chris J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/22/2005 00:00:00

A good solid set of four scenarios, each laid out in as much detail as the "Capers" from the M&M Annual#1. Very attractive layout, the scenario related artwork is fairly minimal & B&W, but otherwise very good. The only colour art is the cover and a couple of adverts for other Superlink products.

One thing to watch out for - this PDF claims to be set in a four colour world. Don't confuse four-colour with "Golden/Silver Age". One scenario focuses on drugs, another has a villainess with a very hefty Lethal attack who's on a killing rampage through the city.

I'm planning to run "The Witching Hour" for my group soon.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: The level the scenarios are detailed at - more than a plot seed, less than a full-blown scenario. Gives a GM lots of room to adapt.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Nothing to actively dislike. I would have liked to see illustrations more tightly connected to the scenarios, as it is they're fairly generic.<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:
Actually, the interior illustrations are of some of the villains the players will encounter. I'm glad you enjoyed #1. I hope you'll also give #2 a try.
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Gregory B S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/10/2005 00:00:00

Three complete M&M supers adventures for a cheap price,... yahoo!

I liked this one. You can rip these babies apart and insert your own villains and run them in any supers game. I like Champions personally.

Very stylish in its comicbook print scale and format.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. But look again, there are four adventures in there.
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Darren M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/25/2005 00:00:00

All printed up, and it looks pretty neat.

So, in order you've got:

A street-based adventure, focusing on a new drug, and the superhuman drug designer who made it.

A power-armored squad smash and grab, but in this case the powered armored squad has a pretty cool and versatile power and a sidebar on how to use it.

An entire jet is caught in an alien abduction scenario - the nice thing I like about this is the aliens are not defined, just their capture ship and their robot guards. You can add in any alien race you like. Use Ronin Arts' Taxob-Zhin or Sauri, or throw in Omegadrones, Mindflayers, or heck, even a supervillain and start answering the question "What are they up to that they're using an alien abduction scenario?"

The last one is a supernatural/occult adventure, with three witches who use some nice power synergy, and their Unholy Creations that are in danger of killing everything in their path. Still, you do get 4 different PL versions of the Unholy Creations...

In summation, looks like a bunch of fun one-shots or two shots, with plenty of material to spring off other scenarios from. The adventures as written try to give options for GMs who might need to tweak things for their games, and also suggest in many places how to take the events of the mini-adventure and expand upon it with follow up events, or tailoring it to fit the campaign it ends up being used in.

Overall, a very good product. I think ideal for those nights you need a breather between two BIG adventures, or if someone doesn't show and you want something fun to fill in with.

For what this is, a group of 4 small adventures or encounters, I give it high marks. Out of 100, I'd give it a 92. There are some things it could have done slightly better, but that would be the really user friendly aspects that you don't normally get in Superlink product.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: I particularly like the tips for making foes more deadly for a grittier feel. The art is TOP notch. Very nice. Not reused stock art, but nice high-quality comic book style stuff.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: In the last adventure: My only complaint here was I wish the Unholy Creations had a bit more variety rather than being different power levels - though I could see that working in a team of mixed levels ( I personally advocate a PL 7 and 10 superteam wherein each player makes 2 characters, 1 for each power level, and the Unholy Creations might work out well there...)

I'd like it if there was more color used in the print version - I understand wanting black and white for the pdf.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Superline #1: Tomorrow's Headlines
Publisher: Ronin Arts
by Chris H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/24/2005 00:00:00

As usual, the Ronin Arts quality shines through in another really good product. I am glad to see that they haven't abondoned the Superlink line, and are showing what a quality publisher can do within the line. The adventures will fit into any campaign and they cover a broad base of types of senarios.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: I'm not usually one for senarios, but the senarios in this book were very well thought out and worked out. The usual clean, easy to read graphic design that marks Ronin Arts is an excellent buying point as well.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The main baddies could have been a little more fleshed out, so that GMs can use them as returning villains.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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