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MUTANTS & MASTERMINDS

BEGINNER’S GUIDE

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so, you Want to Be a heRo…

W elcome to the Mutants & Masterminds Beginner’s Guide! This is your

disasters, and would-be conquerors. You can play virtually any sort of hero

you want, limited only by your imagination and the type of story your group

wants to tell.

M&M is based on the world’s most popular roleplaying game system, so

it’s likely to be familiar to experienced gamers. However, you should read

the material in this book carefully, since there are some differences unique

to Mutants & Masterminds. If you’re entirely new to roleplaying games, you

can learn how to play from the material in this Beginner’s Guide .

dice

Mutants & Masterminds uses a twenty-sided die—available at game and

hobby stores—to resolve actions during the game. References to “a die” or

“the die” refer to a twenty-sided die unless stated otherwise. The die is often

abbreviated “d20” (for twenty-sided die) or “1d20” (for one twenty-sided die).

So a rule asking you to “roll d20” means, “roll a twenty-sided die.”

modifieRs

Sometimes modifiers to the die roll are specified like this: “d20+2,” meaning

“roll the twenty-sided die and add two to the number rolled.” An abbrevia-

tion of “d20–4” means, “roll the die and subtract four from the result.”

What you need to play

Here’s what you need to start playing the Mutants & Masterminds Superhero

Roleplaying Game:

introduction to the exciting world of super-powered roleplaying using

the World’s Greatest Superhero Roleplaying Game. The Beginner’s

Guide is intended for readers who may have played other roleplaying games

and are interested in learning how to play Mutants & Masterminds™ (or

M&M for short) . It is also suitable for readers who have never played a role-

playing game before, but are interested in learning how.

In this book, you’ll find a step-by-step guide to roleplaying, an introduc-

tion to Mutants & Masterminds , and a guide to how to play the game, both

on your own and with friends.

What is a

Roleplaying game?

A roleplaying game (or RPG for short) is a game of the imagination, where

you and some friends get together and create fictional characters, then

play out their adventures around a tabletop. One player takes the role of

Gamemaster (or GM ) and describes the setting and the challenges your

characters encounter. The Gamemaster plays the supporting characters and

villains in the story. The GM also acts as referee to adjudicate the rules of

the game and make sure everything’s handled as fairly as possible.

Your imagination is the only thing limiting the sorts of adventures you

can have, since you and your friends create the world, the characters, and

the adventures. It’s like writing your own comic book, with your characters

as the heroes! All of the action takes place in your imagination, and the

story can go on for as long as you want, with one exciting adventure after

another. You can pick up and play the game whenever you want, and stop

at any point, like reading the chapters of a book or saving and putting a

video game on hold.

Mutants & Masterminds is what is known as a tabletop RPG, in that it is

usually played sitting around a table (although it can just as easily be sit-

ting around your living room or rec-room, if you like). You might already be

familiar with computer roleplaying games, either console games (played

solo on as part of an online network) or massive multiplayer online role-

playing games (or MMORGs, as they’re known). These games actually

developed out of tabletop roleplaying games, shifting a lot of what took

place only in the players’ imaginations onto a video display. While table-

top RPGs lack the “special effects” of their computerized counterparts,

they provide you with a greater ability to create exactly the kinds of sto-

ries and characters you want, and what effects are better than your own

imagination?

Although it’s a tabletop RPG, M&M (like many RPGs) is often played

online these days, either via e-mail (“play by e-mail” or PbeM) or in online

forums (“play by post” or PbP). Some even play RPGs via live online chat.

What is mutants &

• This book, which contains the rules on how to play the game.

• A pencil and some scratch paper for making notes.

• At least one twenty-sided die (d20). You may want to have one die for

each player, or you can share dice.

hoW to use this Book

The Mutants & Masterminds Beginner’s Guide is intended as an introduc-

tion to the M&M RPG, to provide new players with an easy guide to how to

play the game. It’s useful for Gamemasters looking to introduce players to

the world of roleplaying games in general or to M&M in particular.

The Beginner’s Guide is divided up into sections, framed by the story

of Nathan Collins, a new student at the Claremont Academy, a school for

super-powered youngsters in Freedom City. As you follow Nathan’s story of

learning about his powers and abilities through these pages, you also learn

how to play your own hero in Mutants & Masterminds.

The next section, The Basics , tells you about the essentials of the M&M

game system, as well as taking a look at a hero’s game information and

what it means. Into the Doom Room is a short solo adventure to give you

a taste of the game and how it’s played using the novice hero Firepower.

Meet the Next-Gen takes a look at Firepower’s new classmates at the

Claremont Academy, the young heroes called the Next-Gen, and shows you

some of the variety you’ll find in M&M . Finally, Super-School Slugfest

gives you and some friends a chance to play out a fight as the Next-Gen

students practice in the Doom Room.

The Beginner’s Guide concludes with a glossary of important game terms

and an appendix entitled What’s Next? that details how you can learn

more about the World’s Greatest Superhero Roleplaying Game.

masteRminds?

In the Mutants & Masterminds roleplaying game, you take on the role of

a costumed superhero safeguarding the world from threats ranging from

marauding super-criminals to alien invasions, hulking monsters, natural

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