Supers

Supers. Beings with incredible, supernatural powers and awesome demigod-like abilities. Humanity has been telling the tales of Supers for millennia: stories of supernatural heroes and villains, their epic battles and achievements, and their search for power, meaning, and eternal glory. Within the last century, mankind’s most popular portrayal of Supers has been through the art of comics. Panel by panel: serial comic books, graphic novels, and now interactive e-books all captivate their audience by harmonizing the writer’s pen with the painter’s brush to produce incredible stories about such incredible beings. While each panel in-and-of-itself is a beautiful piece of art—infinitely captivating at every glance—the real magic of the comic book is how the panels progressively run together to tell the stories of our favorite Supers in a perfectly paced-out balance between suspense and revelation. Fundamentally, Supers is a player vs. player tabletop miniatures game about Supers fighting in epic battles against other Supers. It is a free ruleset that is intentionally unbound to any particular universe and franchise. Supers is truly multiversal. That means hobbyists and gamers are free to utilize Supers to model, play, and create incredible crossovers with any of their favorite Super characters (or even new Supers of their own creation!) in a very accessible, and yet well balanced, arena of play. But Supers is not just about playing a game with superhero models. Supers is equally about creating epic stories and wonderful memories with friends through the art of panels. My hope is that Supers is—finally—the tabletop superhero game that actually plays like a comic book reads. With a unique Panel Die system and fluid, intuitive game mechanics, I do hope that we are closer to this goal than ever before. No franchise restricted boundaries. No product-driven rules-bloating. No one-dimensional approaches to outfitting a Super and their team. And no frustratingly complex, nor overly predicable, gameplay. Panel by Panel. Let the Supers amaze us again. —description from the designer