The Evil Genius store carries our flagship product - Everyday Heroes TTRPG - based on d20 Modern, built on 5e. It also pre-sells our first 8 Cinematic Adventures - Pacific Rim, Kong: Skull Island, Highlander, Escape from New York, Total Recall, Rambo, Universal Soldier, and The Crow. We currently don't have shipping prices entered for physical rewards in BackerKit. We plan to wait until closer to fulfillment to enter & charge you for the physical items on your survey to get the most accurate/fair fulfillment prices. We will update backers after entering those shipping prices before we charge you in BackerKit.
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Oops, my designers told me I pulled the wrong stats for the Comet. Here are the right ones. (PS - Yes this is totally a superhero landing).
Bulk. 12 (max 6 + all pilots’ proficiency bonuses)
Neural Load. 3
Chassis. Heavy Jaeger
Energy Core. Energy Cell
Speed. 3 spaces
Defense. 16
Armor. AV 4
Weapons.
Gear.
Awkward. A heavy jaeger has disadvantage on Dexterity ability checks and Dexterity saving throws.
Bulky. A heavy jaeger cannot dive for cover.
Catalyst Enhancements. During Rainbow Serpent turn, the pilots of a Catalyst-enhanced jaeger can choose to activate a Catalyst benefit, gaining one of the following benefits:
Momentum. When a heavy jaeger takes the Dash action, it must move in a straight line.
Hello Backers,
This is a big and exciting update so I hope you read all the way through to the end.
In an earlier post, we showed you a few pictures related to our Pacific Rim project. A few of you really wanted to see what a Jaeger stat block looked like. So here is one:
Bulk. 6 (max 4 + all pilots’ proficiency bonuses)
Neural Load. 2
Chassis. Medium Jaeger
Energy Core. Energy Cell
Speed. 4 spaces
Defense. 14
Armor. AV 3
Weapons.
Gear. None
Catalyst Enhancements. During the Hyperion Comet’s turn, the pilots of a Catalyst-enhanced jaeger can choose to activate a Catalyst benefit, gaining one of the following benefits:
Momentum. When a medium jaeger takes the Dash action, it must move in a straight line.
Topple. A medium jaeger can move only up to 1 space when it dives for cover.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, we're launching our new store on Tuesday, December 13th. There, we will begin to sell our Core Rulebook as well as two Cinematic Adventures - Escape From New York and The Crow.
What does that mean for you?
Well, it would be unfair if we didn't give these to our own backers first. So we're sending them to our backers who purchased these adventures in the next few days! We had planned to send it in January, but rules were made to be broken. Consider it an early Holiday gift.
Hello Evil Backers,
As we're actively building out mechanics for Pacific Rim and Kong: Skull Island, we had to introduce new rules that govern giant monsters and mechs. Enter Titanic Scale, a new mechanic that allows these massive creatures to have their own set of playable rules:
Jaegers and Kaiju tower over the world around them, standing as tall as skyscrapers. They exist on a scale well beyond the normal size categories, and normal hand-held weapons have almost no chance of harming them. Monsters and machines of this size are called Titanic Scale and use the following altered mechanics. Otherwise, though, they work just like any other combatants.
Titanic Damage and Penetration
Titanic combatants deal and take damage on a scale well beyond normal weapons. Damage dealt by titanic scale combatants is called Titanic Damage and is multiplied by 100 when dealt to a normal scale combatant or object. Similarly, normal scale damage dealt to a titanic scale combatant is divided by 100, rounded down.
Titan scale uses the same AR and PV scale, but in comparison, titanic scale values are equivalent to normal scale +5. So Armor Value 1 at the titan scale is equal to Armor Value 6 on the normal scale. And Penetration Value 6 on normal scale is Penetration Value 1 on Titanic Scale. This means that most of the time, titan scale attacks always penetrate normal scale armor and normal weapons never penetrate titanic scale armor, but there could be exceptions for very powerful normal scale arms and armor with values greater than 5.
Titanic Conditions
Generally speaking, conditions inflicted by normal-scale combatants don’t affect anything at Titanic Scale. For instance, a regular net cannot restrain a kaiju or a jaeger, nor can a molotov cocktail set one on fire. At the GM’s discretion, some abilities or equipment may still function, but by and large, even very skilled people can’t affect enemies that are titanic scale.
Conditions inflicted by titanic scale combatants on normal scale ones generally work as normal, though at the GM’s discretion they may have other effects. For instance, a kaiju that spits restraining glue at a hero on foot might simply restrain them, but the impact could also cause damage, and the massive amount of glue could become suffocating.
Last week we sent out an update to the core rulebook. Please check your inbox for the update email from DriveThru RPG. We want to thank all of you who submitted over 400 bug bash entries. We will be issuing store credit as soon as our new e-commerce site is live.
Backers have been asking for these items. We are in the process of putting these up on DriveThru for free. They should be up within the next week.
On December 13th, we will be launching our new e-commerce site allowing customers to purchase the digital version of the core rulebook, preorder future products, and buy other cool stuff including this cool shirt.
Are we doing a good job? We want to hear from you. Let us know how you feel about the CRB, are we communicating too much or too little about our game process? Post a comment and let us know what's on your mind!
Hello Evil Backers,
We have a big update for you this week. Lots of accomplishments that we're eager to share with you.
We're happy to report that our first wave of products is with our printer in China. This includes:
This means that we're ahead of schedule and could be putting these products into your hot little hands even sooner than promised.
Now that those products are in production, we are setting our sights on the next phase of work. See below:
The Core Rulebook
We're currently working on the next revision of our Core Rulebook PDF. So far you've logged almost 246 responses and we're slowly sifting through them. You've also made some great requests, including:
We promise to take all of these requests into account when we publish v1.1. Our goal is to get this out sometime before the end of the year.
Cinematic Adventures
Even though The Crow and Escape From New York are finished, we won't be sending the PDFs until January 2023. You'll just have to wait a few months longer. Now we're setting our sights on Kaiju.
Here is an early look at one of the new playable Jaegers - Hyperion Comet:
Foundry & Roll20
We're about to begin doing the conversions with our VTT partners. They now have the design files in hand and should be starting the process soon. Expect these in April as promised.
We had an amazing Q&A with the original designers of d20 Modern. You all asked some amazing questions about the original game that inspired ours. You also asked a lot of questions about Everyday Heroes too! So please find both sessions on this YouTube recording. Oh and we apologize that the first few minutes of the recording have been cut off. It happens :shrug: