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Craig Thompson-Wood ran a seriously entertaining Urban Manhunt match report over at Teaching With Board Games. He does a great job breaking it all down and explaining how the game works. Please hit Like and Subscribe to show support for what he's doing over there. Folks like him are crucial to the tabletop game industry.
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 Spectrum Games is proud to announce the PDF release of BIFF! BAM! KAPOW!, the roleplaying game that seeks to faithfully emulate the superhero TV shows of the 1960s. The hardback version will be available in October.
According to Spectrum President, Cynthia Celeste Miller, “This isn’t a traditional superhero RPG that just happens to include 1960s aesthetics. Every aspect of the game system itself was meant to replicate a very specific style of superheroes, one that was prominent on television screens of that era. This includes incorporating budget limitations as well as what we call Climactic Fight Scenes, which are the big, rollicking slugfests found at the end of each episode.” The game utilizes a heavily modified version of Barak Blackburn’s Intention System, the game engine found in Retrostar, Stories from the Grave and On the Air. It offers fast-paced game play that emphasizes collaborative storytelling. “It’s really a perfect game for gamers who lead busy lives, as the prep time is minimal,” says Miller. “It takes minutes to create Player Characters and potentially even less for most Showrunner Characters. Even preparing episodes is a snap, given that the players have some control over a good portion of the narration. The Showrunner decides on a villain, figures out their master plan and makes a few notes. Viola!” BIFF! BAM! KAPOW! also boasts a sample series called The Adventures of Hoot Owl, complete with setting details, behind-the-scenes information and write-ups for numerous heroes, villains and supporting characters. You can purchase BIFF! BAM! KAPOW! here. The hardcover version of the Urban Manhunt Companion is now available! Click here to purchase.
The Urban Manhunt Companion is the first major supplement for the Urban Manhunt tabletop miniatures game. It contains: -- Prowl rules that allow hunters to take a stealthy approach to the sport, sneaking into position to strike (or shoot) silently from the shadows. -- Cinematic elevation rules for when combat occurs high above the ground. Take the fight to the crims on rooftops and gantries, creating movie-like combat sequences that will keep you on the edge of your seat. -- Match alterations that change the way matches are set up and played out, from alternate hunter/crim deployment and hidden laser emplacements to cannibal mutants and randomized pod effects. -- 58 new options for creating hunters (Extra Rules, Special Rules, Momentum Options and an all-new sub-category called Flaws). -- A large selection of pre-made weapons to make hunter creation easier. -- 10 new iconic hunters, including Lolly Pop, Caution, Phreon, Vaudekill and more. -- 4 new crims for your hunters to eliminate… or be slain by: Shifty Scumbag, Trigger-Happy Mobster, Armored Thug and Entitled Suburbanite. -- New game variants, including single-player mode, cardless mode and free-for-all mode. -- Three helpful essays/articles, with topics that include using the hunter creation rules to construct more interesting hunters, strategies for eliminating the various types of crims and setting up zones that are more challenging and entertaining. -- Amazing art from Patrick Sullivan, Brent Sprecher and Nolan Segrest. -- Evocative fiction that pushes the game setting ever forward. -- Much more! ABOUT URBAN MANHUNT Urban Manhunt is an affordable tabletop miniatures game that depicts a blood sport of the near future, as seen through the lens of 1987. In this sport, highly-trained, over-the-top hunters compete against each other for points by eliminating criminals (or “crims”) in sectioned off areas of prison cities. The bloodier or more entertaining a kill is, the more points a hunter receives for it. The game offers a unique gameplay dynamic in which the players’ hunters don’t actually attack one another, despite being in direct competition. The game system itself controls the crims. DriveThruRPG has its Cthulhu Mythos Sale going on right now and Spectrum Games has two game lines represented.
MACABRE TALES is a dominoes-based roleplaying game that faithfully and meticulously emulates the tales of H.P. Lovecraft. The game system itself was designed to create the kind of creeping, ominous tension found in HPL's best fiction. STORIES FROM THE GRAVE is the roleplaying game of anthology style horror, whether it's the old EC comics or the movies/TV shows like Tales from the Darkside and Creepshow. Lots of Lovecraftian horror lurking about in this genre. So get in on the shunned and foetid fun... for a price that's affordable for even the most frugal gamer. Click here! It's DTRPG's "Christmas in July" Sale and all of Spectrum Games' PDF products are included. Choose products from our various lines of "genre emulation" games:
• Urban Manhunt (1980s retro-future miniatures game) • On the Air (Old Time Radio RPG) • Cartoon Action Hour (1980s action cartoon RPG) • Macabre Tales (dominoes-based Lovecraftian horror RPG) • Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul (superhero comics RPG) • Slasher Flick (psycho killer horror RPG) • Retrostar (1970s science fiction TV show RPG) • Stories from the Grave (anthology-style horror RPG) • The Big Crime (film noir RPG) Click here for the savings! The fine folks at the Indie Invasion podcast have released what is effectively a spectacular introduction to Urban Manhunt. They go over the premise of the game, talks about the various highlights and more. Please check it out and don't forget to like and subscribe to their channel. Spectrum Games is a part of DriveThruRPG's big Sci-Fi Sale. Titles such as Retrostar, Cartoon Action Hour, On the Air, Urban Manhunt, Macabre Tales and Capes, Cowls & Villains Foul are all represented here. Click here to get in on the savings!
Spectrum Games is proud to announce the release of the Urban Manhunt Companion, the first major supplement for the Urban Manhunt tabletop miniatures game. It includes:
According to Spectrum President, Cynthia Celeste Miller, “I’ve always had a soft spot for game supplements that offered a wide variety of new game elements. We feel the Urban Manhunt Companion accomplishes that goal. There really is something for everyone in this product.” The Urban Manhunt Companion was originally going to be released last year, but the global pandemic slowed down the playtesting process to a crawl. “We didn’t want to release a supplement that wasn’t thoroughly playtested, so we opted to wait. We’re happy we did, because the end result is exactly the product we wanted it to be from the beginning.” The Urban Manhunt Companion is available as a PDF at DriveThruRPG and Wargame Vault. Click here to purchase it: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/355729/Urban-Manhunt-Companion?affiliate_id=35508 The product will be available as a hardcopy book in June. Check out the official press release here.
The Indie Invasion podcast has created some cool new content for Urban Manhunt fans... with a promise of more to come.
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