Green Ronin And Valiant Team-Up For A New TTRPG!
by Anton Kromoff
Welcome to the table,
When I was a kid, I had a bunch of Valiant trading cards. While I never read the comics back then because they were not stocked on the spinner racks at the grocery store, there was a VHS rental store that sold Magic The Gathering cards and various other collectible and trading cards and among them, there were Valiant trading cards that were always deeply discounted price. At half the price of the other trading cards, I could afford a pack every week or so and for me, it was all about trying to collect a set of something and look at the cool art.
Years later, I actually built an entire homebrew species for one of my D&D games off one of the cards that had a tattooed person on the front and some story about a soul-drinking blade on the back. If anyone knows who had the spiked knuckle glove and a weird ponytail with tons of brightly colored geometric tattoos, let me know.
While I wait for those memories to come filtering in though, let’s talk about this new Green Ronin and Valiant team-up!
Green Ronin Publishing announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with DMG Entertainment and Valiant Entertainment and will be publishing the Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game in 2024. You read that correctly. Green Ronin, the people who make the Mutants & Masterminds RPG are putting out a Valiant TTRPG!
“We have designed RPG material that’s appeared in Valiant comics before, so making a full roleplaying game is the natural next step,” said Green Ronin President Chris Pramas. “We’re excited to bring the characters and settings of the Valiant Universe into the Mutants & Masterminds family.”
“We’re thrilled with the opportunity to team up with Green Ronin and bring our unique and exciting characters to life in the Valiant Adventures Roleplaying Game using their versatile Mutants & Masterminds RPG format. Valiant fans are some of the most engaged fanbase around the world and to give them the chance to inhabit the Valiant Universe as never before is a wonderful opportunity” said Russ Brown, President of Consumer Products, Promotions and Ad Sales at Valiant Entertainment.
“This project kicks off with Valiant Adventures Hero’s Handbook and the Worlds of Valiant campaign setting,” said the game’s developer Alexander Thomas. “Our mission is to bring the pages of Valiant comics to life in a roleplaying game. The Mutants & Masterminds rules engine, renowned for its adaptability, ensures a game world infused with Valiant’s signature gritty realism.
“The adaptations we made to our M&M Quickstart Character Generator cover Valiant staples like Deadsiders, psiots, or nanite-infused heroes. The Worlds of Valiant campaign setting features game stats for over 80 heroes and villains, and iconic locations like Britannia, The Deadside, Earth, The Faraway, New Japan, Space, The Stalinverse, and The Unknown.”
What’s super cool to me is that the Valiant Adventures is a stand-alone RPG so anyone can jump right in and start enjoying some time at the table. It is also fully compatible with Mutants & Masterminds so rules material can be shared freely between the two games.
You can check back on the Green Ronin website for more info in the coming months as it becomes available.
Until next time, collect the stuff that makes you happy!
