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| San Angelo: City of Heroes 1.5 (M&M Superlink, Action!) |
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| Average Rating:4.4 / 5 |
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This excellent work sets the standard for superhero city guides. Detailed, thorough, compelling and evocative, San Angelo is a city any costumed hero would be proud to call home. But probably the most exciting aspect of this product is how the electronic version uses layers and colors to bring different systems into sharp relief - you can easily differentiate Mutants and Masterminds stats from Action! stats, and so on. This product sets not only the gold standard in content but pushes the boundaries of what PDFs can do as well. A top-notch work well worth every penny, and then some.
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There really isn't much I can say about this product that hasn't been said. It's quite simply excellent. You can see certain similarities with other city books that the authors have worked on (ie. Freedom City by Steve Kenson), but it still has it's own personality. Excellent work.
LIKED: Almost everything
DISLIKED: Some editing needed to remove old Champion's references.
QUALITY: Excellent
VALUE: Very Satisfied
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Interesting city details, easily adapted to any superhero campaign.
LIKED: Plenty of maps and basic information. It covers the bases.
DISLIKED: Could have used a little jazzing up -- San Angelo is a bit "vanilla".
QUALITY: Very Good
VALUE: Satisfied
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A solid product in it's time, it has been eclipsed by Freedom City by now. I like the quotes from people living in San Angelo very much! A good deal if You need 'another city' in Your comic book universe.
QUALITY: Acceptable
VALUE: Satisfied
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One of the best city source books ever. almost any GM will find things to mine from this book.
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This has to be one of the most complete city supplement for any modern roleplaying game. I think I could get adventure ideas from every page. A great supplement.
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it a great game look forward to more. it add['s a new level to the d 20 setting.
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Astounding attention to detail. The city of San Angelo is as close to a living, breathing place as an RPG supplement can make one.
I found the layout to be a bit busy and confusing at times, as there are breakouts, pullquotes, multiple types of stat blocks, sidebars, etc. However, the information density is very high and the potential game ideas and plot hooks are endless.
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I found this is an excellent book. Not only is it usable with M&M Superlink and the Action! System, but its adaptable to any super hero role playing game.
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On th whole a lot of work went into this city supliment, but it just wasent my kind of supliment. It was only an OK supliment.
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It would be helpful to us if you could provide a bit more detail about the reasons for the score you gave the book (especially for such a low score). |
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Excellent product. I have v1 for Champions but the layout and formatting is superior in this version. Looking forward to San Angelo 2.0!
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Utterly superb! San Angelo is no longer a unique product, but it's still the best. Any number of fictional comic book cities are now available as setting books for various superhero games, but this is the one you need.
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San Angelo: City of Heroes is simply the best treatment of a modern city that has ever been published for a roleplaying game. In my opinion, nothing else comes close. The level of detail contained within this product is simply astonishing.
Even if you don't like superhero games, I still recommend this sourcebook as an example of how to build a modern city for an RPG. In fact, with a bit of work it would be possible to use San Angelo as a setting for other games such as d20 Modern, White Wolf's World of Darkness, or R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk 2020.
San Angelo: City of Heroes was originally published as a sourcebook for use with the Champions RPG from Hero Games. This PDF edition converts the setting for use with Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds and the Action! System from Gold Rush Games. In some places the conversion isn't perfect and some references to game jargon derived from Champions have slipped past the editors. However, don't let this minor quibble scare you away. If you don't already have a copy of the print version of San Angelo, you should buy this version to get some idea what all of the fuss is about.
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Very excellently done. I am glad to finally get to own a San Angelo product and happy that it supports Mutants and Masterminds, the superhero game I am now using. Kudos@
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San Angelo with Mutants & Masterminds stats? I am so there! San Angelo 1.5 also includes stats for GRG's own Action! System, but since I don't play that my assessment of this product is as an M&M Superlink product. The PDF is 176 pages - less than the Hero 4th print version's 256 pages, but that difference appears to be due to re-typesetting rather than any content being cut. Copy & Paste is enabled, so you can paste statblocks, descriptions and graphics into other documents, which I find very useful for creating handouts (and is one of the big strengths of the PDF format IMO)
What's Good? - San Angelo is a wonderful piece of worldbuilding. It gives a great feel of a living, breathing city, populated by supers and normals with very human weaknesses and failings. The text is dotted with quotes from occupants of the city, showing how the presence of supers has touched their lives (I loved the worker's excuse for being late "My bus got transported to another dimension! You can?t dock my pay for that!") San Angelo's resident superhero team, the "Justice Foundation" are around PL10, making them around the same level as starting PCs, which is a refreshing change from making them "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" which seems to be the standard for other companys' superhero citybooks.
This includes stats for both M&M and Action! system. While the various D20 based supers games are incompatible, I think the M&M stats here would make a good basis for converting to other D20 games, like SAS D20 or Blood & Vigilance, or even D20 Modern.
What's bad - nothing's earthshatteringly bad, but there are a couple of niggles. Some of the boxed text is in non printer-friendly coloured boxes. Campaign tips are in dark purple, while M&M stats are on green backgrounds. Both of which have white text. I think at 176 pages the assumption is that this will be used on-screen rather than printed out.
I also found some of the M&M conversions a little disappointing, lacking some of the colour from the original Hero stats. For instance, Corona is vulnerable to cold attacks and use of her fire powers dehydrates her, while Cavalier is vulnerable to electricity attacks. Neither character has this reflected in their M&M statblock, despite the fact that both effects are quite doable in the M&M system (even if they're not points efficient) This is doubly surprising since M&M creator Steve Kenson is co-credited for the conversions. (I don't know Action! system that well, but it looks like the Action! stats do a better job of modelling the original Hero system stats.) It's a fairly simple matter for a GM to handwave vulnerabilities based on the character descriptions, and I know that M&M is a lot more granular than Hero, but I still find it a little disappointing that these conversions didn't showcase the flexibility of M&M more.
One other niggle; while most of the art is B&W line art, some pictures were originally in full colour. In the print version they were greyscaled (it's a fairly common practice in print publishing to use full colour artwork in this way) but in this PDF they've been reduced even further to straight B&W line art. This is a real shame, as judging by the two colour character portraits on the back cover of the print version. The only reason I can think of for not including the original colour artwork is filesize, but I personally would have preferred to spend a bit longer downloading to get the full-colour artwork.
Summary - The San Angelo setting is certainly on a par with Freedom City and Millenium City, but represents a different approach to the superhero citybook. It's a city first, and a setting for superbattles second. If you're an M&M referee starting a campaign (especially a lower-powered one), or if you want your Freedom City heroes to visit the West Coast, then San Angelo would make an excellent setting. If you use another system and don't mind creating or converting NPC stats, then this book is still worth a look for the in depth background.
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