I’m very pleased to announce the launch of Due Vigilance: Black Chapter! The latest in our series of building-block books for your superhero setting!

Black Chapter introduces the organization “The Library” in great detail, with history, devices, and perks for membership (should your players decide to join)! Also included are 14 fully-statted characters, full-color artwork, cut-and-fold Standees, and adventure hooks for ready-set-go adventure ideas! The titular team “Black Chapter” can be uneasy allies for your players, or challenge them if the Library and the players ever find themselves at cross-purposes. Black Chapter are dark, dangerous mystic agents of the Library, and will let nothing stand between them and their goals!

Written by Jack Norris, Author of Due Vigilance: The Oktobermen, Black Chapter takes up some of the mysterious plot threads left dangling by that earlier product and weaves them into a larger narrative. Artwork by the amazing Alex Williamson highlights the cover and interior illustrations, as well as art by Denise Jones, Jesse Justice, and James Dawsey!

31 pages, full color, jam-packed with mystery, madness, and magic!

Dare you open… the Black Chapter?

Now available through Drive-Thru RPG and Rpgnow! 

Tonight’s podcast is an actual play session of Mutants and Masterminds recorded at AetherCon, an online convention using Roll20.net’s virtual tabletop. The GM is Tolly (“Timeslip” from our Beacon City games), and James Dawsey plays “Bounce.” Join our special guest gamers as we showcase characters from The Challengers as they face off with some dangerous members of Six-Gun! ”

Six-Gun is coming soon, but you can find The Challengers as a free download right now from our RPG store! 

Enjoy the show! Let us know how you like this one compared to the usual approach to our games, I’m curious to see what the difference is between this session and our non-mapped sessions. Thanks again to Tolly for running!

This weekend, join James Dawsey from Vigilance Press and Tolly Gipson (“Timeslip” from our Beacon City Podcasts) for demo games and Q&A sessions at AetherCon! We’ll be promoting the upcoming books Black Chapter and Six Gun!

It’s my first virtual con, I’m really excited! See you guys there!

Check out the virtual tabletop (browser based) at roll20.net and look for info on the con and a program guide at AetherCon’s website!

**Updated** Our Sunday hours have been cancelled (We’re having technical difficulties), and we apologize. Anyone who wants to come see us, please do so by midnight tonight!

…and the booth is open! Join us by clicking this link!

Here’s a link to our Hours and the “Sorry you missed us” Image. Demo Schedule in this image as well!

Well, slowly but surely this project is nearing completion! We have two colorists working on the project now, and the line art for Issue One is all in!

Once we get the last of the characters in, we’ll just be assembling the layout and getting the PDF together. For those of you who haven’t been waiting for your characters since this project began, we gathered user submissions for publication and are adding professional artwork for each character. The PDF will go live (those who submitted characters will get the first few issues free) and when we have enough pages assembled it’ll go into a compilation of some kind. I’m looking at print on demand in the long run! Anyway, check out the Gallery Page by clicking on the picture to the left, or by clicking here!

We hope to have the first issue ready for PDF publication and a price to announce for it by early 2013!

Tonight’s Actual Play for Mutants and Masterminds 3E contains the 5th episode in our Beacon City Campaign! Will Timeslip escape the clutches of the Oktobermen? Will the other heroes find their friend? What surprise villain from Green Ronin’s Threat Report will make a cameo appearance? Find the answers in this episode! 

New Links for external assets:

Tolly’s Marvel Heroic Podcast site!

Michael Rees’s Marvel Blog!

Also stay tuned for more updates about our demo schedule for Aethercon! 

Extra! Extra!

Check out the latest edition of the Vigilance Press Podcast here!

Mutants and Masterminds line developer Jon Leitheusser stops by to talk about their new Kickstarter project, as well as tell us how upcoming M&M projects are doing. All in just under an hour!

* Slight update on the info presented in the podcast. Jon and I spoke briefly about the “Character Promotion” reward listed on the kickstarter. Correcting our information, the characters will *not* have illustrations, they will simply be promoted on the M&M website. I do believe they will accept your own art if you want to submit art with the character, however!

Vigilance Press artist Dan Houser will join me at Anime Weekend Atlanta’s Artist Alley this weekend! Come down, say hello, and check out our books. Dan and I will be drawing for you, and doing digital commissions as well. We hope to see you at the con!

Expect some MAJOR announcements from Vigilance Press in the next few weeks. Black Chapter is almost ready to go, so hopefully we can have that available for PDF by mid-October. We also have a Kickstarter we plan to announce soon (Elements of Ruin!), and some more books lined up after Black Chapter! So much awesome, only Kid Awesome-Tastic (pictured) can handle the fun!

See you at AWA this weekend!

James

This weekend is Baltimore Comic Con, and you can find yours truly at table A59. I’ll have some Vigilance Press books, and Jesse Justice(Artist for “The Forgotten Five” and designer of many of our logos) will be joining me to show off sketches and maybe do some art for you!  Come on by, say hello, and tell us what you think of Vigilance Press!

See you Saturday and Sunday at Baltimore Comic Con!

In tonight’s episode, Lucien Soulban, author of several Mutants and Masterminds supplements and many other wonderful things, is giving away three of his Mutants and Masterminds books to the first person who can answer his riddle! The prizes include: Hero High, Lockdown, and Freedom’s Most Wanted. To sweeten the pot, the first two runner-ups who post the correct answer to his riddle will also get prizes. The second person to answer the riddle correctly gets a PDF copy of Vigilance Press’s “The Oktobermen: Special Edition” and the third person to answer gets “Smoke and Mirrors.” We will contact your email (entered when you respond to the blog post) for contact information to send prizes to the winners. Please respond to THIS POST on THIS WEBSITE to be eligible!

Riddle Clues start about 15 minutes in! (that’s also where we talk about the rules of the contest)

Jason Tondro co-hosts tonight, and we discuss all sorts of great things. Lucien Soulban talks about his career in RPGs and video games, and we talk about our favorite horror comics and how to run a horror game using superheroic protagonists! Tune in, and let us know what you think by replying below! Thanks for listening, and as always, Stay Vigilant!!

Click here for the podcast blog! Remember, post your contest entries HERE, on the www.vigilancepress.com site, by replying to THIS POST! Happy guessing! 

UPDATE: The prizes have all been won! Thanks to everyone who played the game and guessed at the riddle. Enjoy the answers below, and tune in to the podcast to hear the riddle itself! 🙂

-James

I’ll be lurking around Dragon Con and trying to set up a few pick-up games in the open gaming area this weekend. If you’re looking for a game of Mutants and Masterminds, let me know here and I’ll try and hook up with you! 🙂

-James