Thanks Steve Long and DOJ!

[Steve Trustrum]

Steve has granted us a license to add HERO rules to our World Not Known setting book. Considering some of my favorite campaigns have been Champions games, I can't fully express how happy I am that DOJ granted us a license.

Two thumbs WAY up for Steve and DOJ.

[Monolith]

Glad to finally hear it! Looking forward to buying them when the are available!! Congrats!!!

[Lord Liaden]

Congratulations! Knowing how careful DoJ is about the quality of the work they license, I'm sure this is going to be tres cool!

So don't leave us hanging - what the heck is "World Not Known" about? What's it for, what does it do? Details man, we need details!!

[Monolith]

There hasn't been much info released about it yet. You can find out a little more on their website and message boards:

www.misfit-studios.com

[Steve Long]

You're quite welcome, Steve. We're looking forward to seeing the final product!

[Steve Trustrum]

Originally posted by Lord Liaden
So don't leave us hanging - what the heck is "World Not Known" about? What's it for, what does it do? Details man, we need details!!

It's a superhero setting with a history containing superbeings for the entire stretch of human evolution. We're taking history and turning it on its head. Essentially, picture it as a "What If?" comic book, the story of which spans millions of years.

[bobrunnicles]

Sounds good - can't wait to see it, especially now it will contain Hero stats and stuff :}

[Lord Liaden]

Now that sounds truly intriguing. I once participated in a lengthy discussion on the old boards on how the presence of superbeings might have affected the history of the world, and I'd love to see your take on it.

With Omlevex and hopefully Gestalt in the works as well, Champions players may have yet more worlds to explore.

[Derek Hiemforth]

Excellent! Looking forward to it!

[Steve Trustrum]

I certainly hope everyone will like it. The research I'm putting into it is taking more time than the actual writing!


And all my ol' university buddies told me I'd never find a way of combining my English and sociology degrees ...

[Steve Trustrum]

Oh, one other thing I'll say at this point. Let's talk about the art. I did some recruiting and am bringing some indy comic artists on board for this project. It's turning out to be really fun so far because they know next to nothing about rpgs or the industry at large, so the rest of the Misfit team is enjoying giving them a crash course on the games and on how the industry operates. If their enjoyment of the process thus far is indicative of the passion they'll put into their work, TWNK will be a great looking book.

Aside from these guys, we also have on board a number of veteran artists, some of which should be very familiar to you HERO junkies. I haven't finalized details with them yet, so I don't want to drop names, but HERO fans will be glad to see that an artist familiar name has been approached to do the cover.

Ah, I'm like a kid in a candystore!

On another front, Bill Coffin has come back to the rpg industry as a Misfit. Before anyone familiar with his work with Palladium Books blows a gasket, he's not going to be writing but rather taking on the role of lead editor. He and I have talked about him writing something down the road (well, mainly it involves me begging and whining like a school girl), but nothing is set at this point. Still, Bill has been extremely helpful and is one of the people who was pushing me to stop dragging my feet and get things moving with Misfit, so we'll all have to forgive him his reluctance ... for now.

With the team we've assembled to work on this project, and now with the HERO system stirred into the mix, things are looking good.