Y'all know I'm a HUGE fan and supporter of cats at Limitless Adventures. Andy and Mike aren't just creators I love, they're friends and I consider them a part of my fam. They were kind enough to get me this personalized baseball top featuring Blue, one of the mascots for the baseball team in their supers setting, Carbide City. 

If you haven't already, please check out my post discussing their 5th Evolution line.

You may have noticed that I like superheroes. You may also have noticed I like Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. But did you notice that I like when the two are combined? If you are a regular reader, than of course you do. 

Today I wanted to review 5th Evolution: Carbide City #2.  You can read my review of the first issue. To utilize this book properly, you need a copy of it, because not all of the genre rules are repeated. 

The artwork is phenomenal. Clash and her Demo Demonettes (featured in Issue #1) take on the new heroic archetypes. This, like every 5Evo book, is followed by a short comic that sets up the adventure contained within. There's a nice throwback to issue one in the second panel as it features the the villains the heroes faced in the last issue. It also has a cereal box with the unnamed hero that graces its cover. 

The adventure centers around a feral evo, Poe, has been framed. Poe is an ally of the characters and they must clear his name. This brings them into conflict with other evos. If I remember correctly, Poe, is the a character played by author, Andrew Hand.

The following section contains 16 different locales in Carbide City for your players to visit. These range from parks, sports stadiums, to city hall. The locations are given history and game play information, as well as three adventure hooks. In addition, each location has other relevant gaming content. If there's an important npc or henchman/mooks associated with it, they'll be given stats. Some locations also have resources, such as tech and magic items to use. If you backed the first Kickstarter, a lot of this content appeared in one of the stretch goal for Carbide City.

Setting info is followed by new rules. We're give more resource information (as classic 5e money rules aren't used in Carbide City). Advanced Equipment rules are also presented. This section discusses how to make supertech by adding some different tweaks to existing 5e magic items. This is a quick and dirty system, but it absolutely works. 

As mentioned in Carbide City #1, pc's in Carbide City are created using archetypes. These archetypes are classified as Tier 6 in the setting, which are the equivalent of 12th level characters (CR 5). The new archetypes presented are:

• Aerial - flying warrior, examples: Hawkman, Angel
• Changeling - shapechanging hero (though limited to humanoid forms), examples: Mystique, Copycot
• Elementalist - evo with a body made of or potentially coated in powerful energy, example: Static, Ice Man, Human Torch
• Force Field Fabricator - hero that can create protective invisible wards, example: Invisible Woman
• Verdent Hero - hero primarily made of plant matter, examples: Swamp Thing and Groot
• Power Suit Pilot - warrior piloting a suit of power armor, examples: War Machine, Hardware

If you can't tell, I love this one. The book hasn't been fully released yet. Kickstarter backers have it in pdf form and are still waiting on physical copies. After all backers pledges have been filled, they'll put copies up on their site. Until then, you should pick up the other books in the 5Evo line.

Y'all, Carbide City #2 is in it's last week and still needs around 1500 to reach its funding goal. You can find the project here. This expands the first volume, which was an excellent combination of my favorite genre (supers) and my favorite system (5e). The $65 print and pdf 5Evo bundle is a great deal if you need to catch up on the series and want to expand your 5e games to multiple genres. You can read my reviews of all the books in the bundle by checking out the links below. 

I'm a big fan of Limitless Adventures. I have all of their 5evo books and can't wait for the next one to come out. Last month I received my Kickstarter copy of Limitless Encounters Volume 3. The book is jam packed with content, though it is light on art. Outside of the gorgeous cover the only art are the ten different pieces of black and white terrain encounter artwork borders. While I love artwork, this book is very functional and works as is.

Each encounter has flavor text, combat stats and/or challenge, treasure and three open ended "Further Adventure" ideas. If the encounter calls for combat, related monster stats can be found with the encounter. 

 Here's a breakdown of crunchy content

• 101 pages of content
• 10 arctic encounters
• 10 dungeon encounters
• 10 festival encounters
• 10 haunted location encounters
• 10 highway encounters
• 10 mountain encounters
• 10 sea encounters
• 10 swamp encounters
• 10 urban encounters
• 10 genre bending encounters
• 145 monster/npc stat blocks (some are repeats and some can be found in other sources)
• 26 challenges/traps
• 13 magic items/special items
• 1 disease

 Today's heroine comes us from Carbide City.

5th Evolution: Carbide City is a supplement that allows you to take D&D 5th edition rules and enter the realm of comic book heroics.

The book contains 43 pages of content. This is an adventure and rules supplement for 5th edition. You need the core books, basic pdf, or the srd to use it.

It starts with a  full color comic book that sets up the game. It discusses the history or supers, Carbide City (the setting), and the events that lead into the scenario. The scenario has four encounters and a nice little variety of opponents. This is followed by two pages of genre rules and equipment, several pages of npc's (a few generics and several named villains with art and adventure hooks).

The artwork for these characters is fantastic and each character feels like a real comic book character. I could easily see any of them being a part of DC or Marvel. A few of them are definitely homages to pre-existing characters in those companies.

Because characters in comic books don't tend to really change power-wise often, Carbide City characters don't have levels. You pick an archetype that you can customize. These are the equivalent of level 12 characters from traditional 5e games. The archetypes are:

• Blaster
• Brick
• Feral
• Gadgeteer
• Ghost
• Martial Artist
• Marksmen
• Speedster
• Telepath
• Teleporter

If you want a taste of what the book is like you can go to the 5the Evolution website and download the preview adventure, No Going Back. If you have the full pdf, this still provides you with an adventure and a few new npc's for your game.

Currently only backers of the Kickstarter (like me) have print copies, but you can pick the pdf here. The end of the book mentions more villains and archetypes to come in the next issue, though thus far there's only one out. If you like the 5th edition rules of Dungeons and Dragons and love supers, you should definitely pick up 5th Evolution: Carbide City.

I recently discussed and shared my excitement for the 5th Evolution Kickstarter. Want to test out their supers? If so, you're in luck. No Going Back is a free short adventure. The pdf use the same style as the eventual genre book. We get a one-page comic, background info for players (in this case the two pre-made pc's), and a short adventure (which also includes follow up material). The adventure is short and sweet, but seems pretty fun. I might try to run it this weekend for some pals.

You can see another sample super here.

If the idea of superheroes with 5th edition rules appeals to you, please check out the project.

5th Evolution is a new, ambitious Kickstarter project for 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons. Follow this link to read a nifty comic that gives the gist of the project. There are three books for this Kickstarter, though judging from the website, other genre books are in the works

. This time around we have World War 2, Super Heroes, and 80's Horror.


Each book in the project will be a graphic novel-sized soft cover. They will all have the same style and be broken down as follows:

• The Comic - Each book opens with a comic that you can share digitally to prep your characters for the upcoming game. It will introduce the genre and setting, and is a hook to get characters invested.
• The Adventure - The comic is followed by a one shot adventure, with pre-gens, that picks up where the comic left off.
• The Source Guide - This section gives the GM the monsters, obstacles, and other genre rules. Basically it gives you the tool kit to make your own genre adventures. It also gives the players new equipment, archetypes, backgrounds, and such.

• WWII
• Setting: North Africa in 1942, players are a part of a tank crew (can include supernatural elements if you like)
• 4 American WWII soldier archetypes
• Period specific vehicles and equipment,
• Customizable foes
• Super Heroes



• Setting: Present day Cobalt City
• 13 of the city's worst super villains
• Customizable non-super enemies
• Future tech equipment
• 10 character archetypes
• 80's Horror
• Setting: The small town of Woodhaven in 1985
• 10 horror movie monsters from the 80's
• Customizable non-monster threats
• 6 teen hero archetypes and six variants
• Variant rules for younger characters