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What is Deus Ex Historica
At its core, Deus ex Historica is a book of potential
allies and opponents created for use with the 3rd
edition of the Mutants and Masterminds Roleplaying
Game by Green Ronin under the Super-Powered
by Mutants and Masterminds licences. Within its
almost 400 pages you will find over 100 characters
developed for the Golden, Silver, Bronze, Iron, and
Silicon Ages of comics. Each character exists not
only as a hero or villain, but also possesses sugges-
tions for alternate versions of the characters as they
could exist in alternate realities or timestreams.
Deus ex Historica is about relationships. More than
isolated characters, the heroes and villains presented
in Deus ex Historica have families, legacies, and en-
emies that carry over from one comic age to another.
The sidekicks of the Golden Age stand on their own
as adults in the Silver Age, or Villains in the Silicon
Age have found old tech and forgotten lore from
ages past. Even though there is an implicit setting
within Deus ex Historica, the events and characters
in one comic age impact future generations.
Finally, Deus ex Historica is an opportunity to
adventure. Thoughout the book there are numerous
adventure seeds to fuel your superhero campaign.
Whether, your game is confined to a single age or if
you have joined up with Danni Cipher to discover
the villain that is treatening to disrupt reality across
all time, there are endless possibilites for gamemas-
ters and heroes to explore.
We hope you enjoy it.
- Mark Gedak, Perry Fehr
PG: 5
About the Authors
Don Walsh was introduced to RPGs through a
cobbled-together, misunderstood version of D&D.
He’s since played as many systems as he could, with
a large number of groups. He discovered LARPing
with the New England Role-Playing Organization,
writing up history and adventures, and helping to
run their first few national events.
He’s an eager outdoorsman; amateur historian
with a fondness for the weird; an ex-baker who still
loves cooking; and an avid reader, especially of hor-
ror, adventure and comic books. He shared this with
the love of his life, Sarah, and their cats, in his New
England hometown.
James Stubbs has been writing roleplaying games
for over fifteen years with such companies as Deep7
and Heyoka Studios when he is not busy writing
fiction or reading comics. When not rolling oddly-
shaped dice, he is a digital services librarian in a
mid-sized library system in South Carolina by day
and a ninja by night, dreaming of the day when he
can raise a horde of bloodthirsty pirates and acquire
an airship of his own.
About the Publisher
Deus ex Historica was original conceived by 4 Winds
Fantasy Gaming and was partially funded through
patrons (see backer list on page 4), using the kick-
starter system. In January of 2013, 4 Winds Fantasy
Gaming was acquired by Purple Duck Games, who
gained the assests and the responsibility to complete
the product you see before you. This book is the
largest project Purple Duck Games has ever worked
on and there have been many opportunities for
mistakes and learning along the way. Purple Duck
Games would like to thank our backers for support-
ing us through this growth process.