Category: Legion of Liberty
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The Legion of Liberty is on the March!
Legion of Liberty: Superheroes of 1776, the new setting book from Happy Monster Press, is now available on DriveThruRPG! Available in PDF and print-on-demand, this setting is fully compatible with Savage Worlds Adventure Edition and uses the core rules to bring eighteenth-century superheroes to life! In Legion of Liberty, you play a young superhero who…
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Legion of Liberty on The Wild Die
Legion of Liberty: Superheroes of 1776 gets a shout-out on Episode 81 of the Wild Die Podcast! Listen here!
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Chase Decks and Sales!
It’s a busy week on DriveThruRPG for Happy Monster Press! First off, we’ve published two new products – Chase Decks for Rural and (pre-modern) Urban environments. One of the big changes in the new Savage Worlds Adventure Edition is a complete new set of Chase rules. In the new rules, players maneuver on a row or array…
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Legion of Liberty: Veiled Fury Interview
Legion of Liberty: Superheroes of 1776 is now 96% funded, and Manuel Sambs of Veiled Fury Entertainment was kind enough to interview Scott about the project. Check out the interview video!
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Legion of Liberty – All the Actual Plays
Legion of Liberty: Superheroes of 1776 launched today on Kickstarter! In celebration, here is a list of links (in sequence) for the play-test campaign’s actual-play blog posts. Read about Jacoby Barnes, the Boston Lobster Man; Suzanna, the shapeshifter; Godot, the mysterious psychic; and Francis Parry, the fire-axe-wielding speedster, as they fight their way through the American Revolution!
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Kickstarter Tomorrow – Video Today!
The Kickstarter for Legion of Liberty launches tomorrow – here’s the Kickstarter video so you can see what you will get in the setting book.
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Legion of Liberty Design Notes: Superhumans and History
One significant worldbuilding challenge for Legion of Liberty was deciding how much the existence of superhumans would have changed history. Early on, we decided that superpowers were confined to the New World, meaning that they would have had no significant effect on European history until 1492. Afterwards, however, would the history of colonization have gone…
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Legion of Liberty Design Note: Mass Battles
Developing a setting based on a historical, large scale war requires that the gamemaster consider how the players will participate in major battles. Fortunately, Savage Worlds provides a great starter framework with the Mass Battle rules. However, in the world of Legion of Liberty, superhumans are more powerful on a battlefield than, say, even a…
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Legion of Liberty Design Note: Arcane Backgrounds
Once we had the initial concept of superheroes in the American Revolution, the next major mechanical question was how to model the superpowers. Savage Worlds offers at least three obvious alternatives for superpowers between Deluxe and Adventure editions – Arcane Background: Superpowers from Deluxe, Arcane Background: Gifted from Adventure, and the Superpowers Companion. Of the…
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Legion of Liberty at Arisia 2019
It is 1777, a turning point in the American Revolution. Despite help from the superhuman soldiers of the Legion of Liberty, George Washington’s surprise crossing of the Delaware and subsequent has failed and the general has been ignominiously captured. General Charles Lee, unpopular with the rank-and-file troops of the Continental Army, has taken over command…