Big Bang Comics RPG
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Big Bang Comics is a superhero
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 tabletop role-playing game, written by Chris Carter and published by Pisces All Media in 2006
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. The game uses a modified version of the d20 System
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Characters in the game exist in either of the two worlds of Big Bang Comics (the Silver Age Earth-A or Golden Age Earth-B). Players may create new heroes or take the part of existing heroes from Big Bang Comics
Big Bang Comics
Big Bang Comics first appeared in 1994, with five issue mini-series , published by Caliber Comics. Their second series was published by Image Comics. Currently their titles are self-published.-Publication history:...

. Characters are created with two character class
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es: a power origin Entry Class, and a "civilian identity" representing their out-of-costume occupation. The power origin classes include choices such as Mutant, Elite (super-trained normal), Sorcerer, and Mechanical.

The game rules use standard d20 skills with a large range of original "Feats", which in Big Bang include super powers and other abilities. The game is also notable for using the then-unique concept pioneered by Pisces All Media in its gamebooks, "Negative Feats" which functioned as disadvantages for a character, allowing more "Feats" to be chosen as a balance to defects. Although common in other roleplaying systems, this was unheard of in the d20 system
D20 System
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 and its derivations at that time.

Pisces announced free download-only ebook expansions to its system but to date none have been released.

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