Villains and Vigilantes scenario:This Empress Earth!
Adventurer Magazine
Adventurer Magazine was a short lived (11 issues) British rpg magazine published by Mersey Leisure Publishing. Published between April 1986 and June/July 1987, it featured articles and scenarios based on various popular tabletop rpgs of the day, including Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer (Elric), MERP (Middle Earth Role-Playing), and, importantly for this superhero-themed site, Villains and Vigilantes. It also featured the comic strips Once Bitten (#1-11), about a group of fantasy adventurers based out of the titular tavern; Bomber (#3, 5-6, 8-9, 11), starring a West country minotaur and his friends; D3 (#1, 3-10), a short (4 panel usually) humour strip); Whiplash (#3-6, 10-11), a 1920s horror strip initially written and drawn by future comics greats Warren Ellis and Staz Johnson (the last two parts were written by Paul Hayes instead of Ellis); and Return to Arkham by Brian Lumley (#7-8).
Villains and Vigilantes scenario:
This Empress Earth!
In which our heroes (the player characters) are asked to come to the aid of a Canadian team from Manitoba, the Crimson Guard, after they find themselves outmatched by the forces of subterranean Empress Terra Tyrannia while investigating the mass kidnapping of miners in a small mining town.
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First Posted: Circa 13/10/2019
Last updated: 14/05/2023
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