![]() He is the director of a 100-hour sound therapy training certificate program at the Institute of Traditional Medicine on Queen St. I wanted to give sound therapy the best shot I could and all signs pointed to Philip Jacobs. It has indeed, and I found plenty of practitioners. So back home, I started poking around online to see whether sound therapy had made its way to Toronto yet. With age - I’m over 30 - I’m becoming less skeptical about alternative treatments and the idea that synchronicity can exist between Western medicine and traditional practices. The idea of a treatment that could help them both appealed to me. I only have two ongoing health issues: asthma and anxiety. It was littered with promises saying the treatment would “reduce stress and anxiety” and provide “freedom from chronic pain and breathing issues.” Feeling less than serene as we got closer to missing our connecting flight (we made it), I read the text. In a one-room airport in Puerto Jimenez while waiting for a very late, very tiny plane back to the capital city, San Jose, I saw an ad in a magazine featuring a serene-looking woman lying with bowls and tuning forks superimposed around her. I first heard of the alternative medicine practice on a trip to Costa Rica, with my at the time very new partner. The intense vibrations spread through my body, and there’s a small part of me that worries I might actually shake apart, just disperse like bubbles on the wind. Behind me, a man chants and makes hypnotic sounds with giant crystal bowls. Rogue Genius Games: Another major third-party publisher of Icons material.I’m lying on the floor under a sheet, in a huge empty room in North Toronto.Fainting Goat Games: A significant third-party publisher of Icons compatible adventures and source material.McMullen’s blog is a regular resource for Icons ideas and discussion. Icons Wiki:A user-driven repository of resources, including variants, characters, options, and adventures.Icons Patreon: Patron-driven monthly support for Icons, including previews, behind-the-scenes, and votes on upcoming content.Icons Oracle: Regularly updated frequently-asked-questions file for Icons.Icons Facebook Group: For general discussion, announcements, and players looking to connect with other players and groups.You can also view just Ad Infinitum Adventures content on the site. Icons on DriveThruRPG: This site (and its sister site RPGNow) are the primary distributors of Icons material, including from a number of third-party publishers using the Icons Compatibility License.Icons Compatibility License: Icons is published under the Open Gaming License, and information about third-party publishing can be found on this page.Icons Character Creation: A two-part “Steve is Board” video walking through the hero creation process.Icons Crash Course:The “Babies With Knives” podcast offers a 12-minute video crash-course on how to play Icons.Example of Play: Ambushed by Evil! Another Assembled Edition PDF excerpt showing game-play in action.Example of Play: Grudge Match! A PDF excerpt from the Assembled Edition showing how the game plays.See the blog’s tag cloud for additional ways to search. Blog Archive: I’ve posted a lot of Icons news and a few articles on this blog you can search and read through.Assembled Edition – What’s Different?A summary of changes found in the Assembled Edition of the game for those only familiar with the first printing of Icons.Ad Infinitum Adventures Facebook Page:For Icons related news and announcements (also appearing on this site’s blog).If you’re aware of a good one I haven’t mentioned here, drop me a line and let me know! Icons has a number of resources located around the internet. Since then, Ad Infinitum has released a couple more sourcebooks ( Icons A to Z and Icons Adversaries) and a number of adventures, including collecting artist and author Dan Houser’s Rise of the Phalanx into a “Giant Size Icons” book. I later parted ways with Adamant, kickstarted the Great Power sourcebook I’d been thinking about, and later published the Assembled Edition of the game under my own Ad Infinitum Adventures banner, printed and distributed by my friends at Green Ronin Publishing. Icons was first published by Adamant Entertainment. ![]() ![]() Later design incorporated concepts from Fate (more famous offspring of Fudge) and my experience designing for the d20-based Mutants & Masterminds. I designed Icons as a side-project some years ago, tinkering with the scale and mechanics of Fudge and similarities to the scale and named ability levels of Marvel Super-Heroes, although with some notions about randomly-generated superheroes as a springboard for players’ imaginations. Icons Superpowered Roleplaying is a tabletop game of superhero adventure, creating exciting stories of the imagination with friends, based around the heroes you create.
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