Dino Brawl
Artwork by Zachary Sterling
In the crumbling borough of Midtown, after-school programs are cut and the restless teens take to something strange: organized combat! The mysterious Vile Vise starts taking over gyms across the city, and ordinary citizens who emerge the victor from fights hosted there begin gaining startling new alien powers. However, ancient powers laid to rest in the dinosaurs await victors who can turn this tide of combat. One group of youths turn down the promise of glory and instead gain supernatural abilities from their newly-won title belts to take on Vise’s league of combatants—by transforming into the masked Dino Brawlers!
Designer Notes:
At face value, Dino Brawl is influenced by the best and worst of 1990s Saturday morning cartoons. Masked anthropomorphic fighters scouring the city for justice, gyms that evoke both Wrestlemania and Pokémon, and even a pizza place! But beyond that, the Module aimed to challenge this concept—if the greatest power bestowed to heroes is combat prowess, and the Big Bad’s plan is to organize ultimate combat, can the path to justice be paved with more fighting? What costs are acceptable in this battlefield, and is there another way to foil the most powerful fighter? Hopefully these questions come up, and if not, these dino warriors