Ad Infinitum is pleased to announce that 2015’s Icons A to Z series has been collected into a single volume, available in PDF ($10) and as a softcover print-on-demand book. The print edition is available in both standard ($20) and premium ($30) formats.

If you subscribed to the A to Z series last year, and did not receive an email with a coupon for the new book, please email me with your subscription email account (this is why you want to let publishers email you updates!)

You can find the compiled Icons A to Z on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow, and the individual chapters of the book remain available for $1.00 each (along with “A” is for “Aliens” available as a pay-what-you-want “taster” download). Check it out along with the other fine adventures and supplements for Icons Superpowered Roleplaying!

Super-School Days

Y is for Youth, for the Icons A to Z series, is now available for sale on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow and available to subscribers for download.

Y is for Youth is all about teen heroes and their particular challenges and abilities, and includes things like:

• Special origins like Legacy, Sidekick, and Wayward, added on to the regular Icons origins
• Teen Qualities & Troubles
• Super-School settings and teen-only series
• How to include teen heroes and themes in a regular Icons series

Check it out now, or you can subscribe to the whole Icons A to Z series and get all of the entries as they are released, including all of the previous entries to-date!

Let Fate Decide

X is for X-Factors for the Icons A to Z series, is now available for sale on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow and available to subscribers for download.

X is for X-Factors takes the concept of randomness in Icons and provides a series of tables for random events, including:

• Crime
• Disasters
• Personal Issues
• Alien and Supernatural
• Super-Science and Technology
• Plus some random options for quick background characters and super-names.

Check it out now, or you can subscribe to the whole Icons A to Z series and get all of the entries as they are released, including all of the previous entries to-date!

Make Your Heroes Resourceful

W is for Wealth, for the Icons A to Z series, is now available for sale on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow and available to subscribers for download.

W is for Wealth looks at handling financial and physical resources in Icons, including:

• Resource Qualities and how to activate different qualities from “Billionaire Industrialist” to “Down on His Luck” for advantages and trouble related to resources in game play.
• A Resources ability to quantify a character’s resources like other abilities in the game, complete with Resources Benchmark Table, Resources tests, and Resources pyramid tests in play, either on their own or in conjunction with Resource-related qualities.

Check it out now, or you can subscribe to the whole Icons A to Z series and get all of the entries as they are released, including all of the previous entries to-date!

Do Things Differently

V is for Variants, for the Icons A to Z series, is now available for sale on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow and available to subscribers for download.

V is for Variants looks at different ways to rework or change the basic Icons rules, including:

• Ability Variants, particular removing one or more abilities to simply the options available.
• Stamina Variants for combat, including different formulae, increased or fix-valued Stamina, and innate Damage Resistance for characters.
• Dice Variants including d6 dice pools and using Fudge Dice with Icons.
• Freeform Qualities to allow players and GMs more freedom of choice when working with qualities in game play.

Check it out now, or you can subscribe to the whole Icons A to Z series and get all of the entries as they are released, including all of the previous entries to-date!

It’s Your World!

U is for Universe for the Icons A to Z series, is now available for sale on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow and available to subscribers for download.

U is for Universe expands on the Universe Creation guidelines from the Assembled Edition of Icons, including:

• Looking at a setting’s overall theme.
• Themes as Qualities (and why you might not want that).
• Setting scale, from neighborhood to multi-dimensional.
• “Sliding” quantitative scale based on setting scale.
• Creating signature places for the setting.

Check it out now, or you can subscribe to the whole Icons A to Z series and get all of the entries as they are released, including all of the previous entries to-date!

“Icons…Assemble!”

T is for Teams, for the Icons A to Z series, is now on sale on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow and available to subscribers for download.

T is for Teams looks at the mainstay of the comic book genre, the hero team, and team dynamics in Icons game terms including:

• Spelling out the benefits of being on a team.
• Team qualities and how to choose them.
• Using team qualities and shared activations as a part of teamwork.
• Using trouble caused by hero qualities as trouble for the whole team.
• Villain teams and teamwork.

Check it out now, or you can subscribe to the whole Icons A to Z series and get all of the entries as they are released, including all of the previous entries to-date!

Even Heroes Need Help

S is for Support, for the Icons A to Z series, is now available for sale on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow and available to subscribers for download.

S is for Support looks at the supporting cast characters for superhero adventures and how they can play different roles in your Icons games, including:

• Help around the heroes’ headquarters from the Faithful Butler to the Reservist Heroes
• Specialists from Costumers to Medical and Technical aides
• Support within the law from the Police and Super-Agencies to Street Informants
• The media, from Press Agents to Publishers and Reporters
• Support for villains, from the Crime Doctor to the Toy Maker

Check it out now, or you can subscribe to the whole Icons A to Z series and get all of the entries as they are released, including all of the previous entries to-date!