May 2025, Issue 12.05
What’s Going on with Misfit Studios
April saw us release six stock art pieces of various sizes and topics, plus a new creature for the Icons RPG, a new archetype and some CORE adventure ideas for the Mutants & Masterminds RPG, and a new creature and mini-adventure for the Castles & Crusades RPG.
Misfit Blogs
We didn’t post any new blog content last month.
Misfit Studios’ New Releases
Here is what Misfit Studios released in April of 2025.
Jennifer S Lange Presents: Ancient Tree God
This stock art image by Jennifer S Lange depicts a stream of pilgrims visiting a slumbering an Ancient Tree God deep in the woods.
This color purchase includes one JPG and a TIFF version, both at 300 dpi. Dimensions are 16.25 x 11 inches.
Big enough for a wrapping cover, front and back!
All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.
Earl Geier Presents: Boy in Shell
This stock art piece from Earl Geier presents a Boy in Shell for some reason. Is it some form of improvised armor? Is he a superhero of some sort?
The image is 8.5 x 11″ in dimension.
This purchase includes a JPG and a TIFF version at 300 dpi, along with an EPS vector version.
All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.
Eric Lofgren Presents: Alien Warrior 3
This stock art image by Eric Lofgren depicts an Alien Warrior 3, the third offering of science fiction or superhero alien races. This purple, clawed alien wears a suit of protective armor while wielding a deadly-looking energy weapon.
This color purchase includes one JPG and a TIFF version, both at 300 dpi. Dimensions are 5 x 7 inches.
All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.
Castles & Crusades Side Quests: Goblin Outpost
Need a quick encounter for your Castles & Crusades fantasy game? Side Quests is the answer you are looking for. Each presents a quick adventure to be played in one or two sessions.
In Side Quests: Goblin Outpost, the heroes find their way to a subterranean compound located on a cliff face. Goblin raiders have been sallying forth from this site to wreak destruction on the surrounding countryside. Why? And what will the heroes do about it?
Contained within are a number of suggestions on why the goblins are there and how the heroes can get involved. Play this adventure as a brief sidestep away from your normal campaign’s pace, or use the optional Gateways to Peril within as a starting point for a new story.
Both a color and print-friendly version of the product are included.
This work is compatible with the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook. Castles and Crusades® is a product of Troll Lord Games©
Misfits & Menaces: CORE Capers
This Misfits & Menaces release presents CORE Capers, an expansion of the Better Mousetrap 3e material covering the supervillain organization, CORE. Various new adventure ideas are provided, including the global conquest framework provided by your Your World No Longer series. This material will help Gamemasters make better use of CORE in their games.
(CORE game stats are provided in Better Mousetrap 3e)
Both a color and print-friendly version of the product are included.
Super-Powered by M&M and its associated logo are Trademarks of Green Ronin Publishing and are used under the provisions of the Super-Powered by M&M Trademark .
Requires the Mutants & Mastermind’s Hero’s Handbook by Green Ronin Publishing for Use.
The Manual of Mutants & Monsters: Dread Ichor for Icons
The Manual of Mutants & Monsters: Dread Ichor for ICONS provides game stats for an incomprehensible ooze that seems to be the manifest essence of evil itself. Able to possess living hosts to get about, slowly rotting them from within, this foul entity is difficult to understand, stop, or contain. Some believe it may even be the source of all evil, or the blood or other remnants of a dead god!
Both a color and print-friendly version of the product are included.
ICONS and associated marks and logos are trademarks of Steve Kenson and Ad Infinitum Adventures, and are used under license
Castles & Crusades Crawthorne’s Catalog of Creatures: Abakar Blossom
Each release for Crawthorne’s Catalog of Creatures for Castles & Crusades delivers a single, new creature presented by the famous and retired monster hunter and adventurer, Lord Crawthorne. Each release presents game stats for the new creature, plus three adventure seeds for your game.
Within, you’ll find Abakar Blossom, a deadly plant that can spit acid and move around to hunt prey, which entraps with its vines to draw prey to its bite to be digested.
Both a color and print-friendly version of the product are included.
This work is compatible with the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook from Troll Lord Games©.
Enhanced Archetypes: Athlete
This Super-Powered by M&M RPG release brings you Athlete Enhanced Archetype. This ready-to-go character build provides a foundation for you to develop a superhero who is exceptionally athletic. They use their physical superiority compared to an average person to stand toe-to-toe with superpowered opponents. Gamemasters can also use the archetype as the basis for quickly building NPC heroes or villains off-the-cuff.
Each Enhanced Archetype presents the basic build, plus ideas for some typical roles the character may fill, along with variations you may want to explore.
This product uses content found in Better Mousetrap 3e and Metahuman Martial Arts 3e, also from Misfit Studios.
Super-Powered by M&M and its associated logo are Trademarks of Green Ronin Publishing and are used under the provisions of the Super-Powered by M&M Trademark License (see www.mutantsandmasterminds.com/licensing for details).
Requires the Mutants & Mastermind’s Hero’s Handbook by Green Ronin Publishing for Use.
Both a color and print-friendly version of the product are included.
Jennifer S Lange Presents: Quetzalcoatl Feathered Serpent
This stock art image by Jennifer S Lange depicts the Quetzalcoatl Feathered Serpent sunning itself atop a South American mountain range.
This color purchase includes one JPG and a TIFF version, both at 300 dpi. Dimensions are 20 x 11.25 inches.
Big enough for a full-wrap cover, front and back!
All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.
Earl Geier Presents: Long-Armed Monster
This stock art piece from Earl Geier depicts a Long-Armed Monster with a wide, fanged and tusked mouth on the hunt for food.
The image is 6.5 x 6.5″ in dimension.
This purchase includes a JPG and a TIFF version at 300 dpi, along with an EPS vector version.
All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.
Eric Lofgren Presents: Young Boy Warrior
This stock art image by Eric Lofgren depicts a brave Young Boy Warrior with sword drawn as he waits for trouble to appear.
This color purchase includes one JPG and a TIFF version, both at 300 dpi. Dimensions are 5.5 x 7 inches.
All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.
Add some martial arts superheroic mayhem with the Metahuman Martial Arts 3e PDF for the Mutants and Masterminds 3e RPG for roughly 20% off.
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Steven Trustrum
Steven Trustrum has been writing in the RPG industry since the end of the '90s and publishing via Misfit Studios since 2003. Aside from writing and publishing role-playing game content, he ... dabbles ... in content and social media marketing.