Gotham & Beyond Podcast - Hero Points: More Than Just Numbers

 

Let’s get this out of the way.

Hero Points are not XP. They’re not tokens. They’re not some reward you toss at players when they say something funny or roll a natural 10.

Happy Fourth of July – From the Gotham Database!

 

Today’s not about fireworks. Not really.

It’s not about sales or hot dogs or Instagrammed beach trips. It’s about the backbone. The grit. The people who still believe this place means something more than politics or trends. The ones who stand up when others kneel. Who work with their hands, speak their minds, and carry responsibility quietly.

Gotham & Beyond Podcast Season 2, Episode 1 — Why DC Heroes Still Matters: A Superhero RPG Worth Remembering

 

Season 2. Here we go.

This episode shifts Gotham & Beyond into new territory. Or maybe it's older territory we left behind for too long. We're stepping back into the world of the DC Heroes Roleplaying Game, focusing on the third edition from Mayfair. The one with the charts. The scale. The one that quietly understood what it meant to be a superhero at the table.

Smallville Reborn in the Style of James Gunn’s Superman

 

This trailer caught me off guard. A fan took Smallville, the WB series with all the teen drama trappings, and cut a new trailer in the tone of James Gunn’s Superman. The result? Smallville suddenly looks like the epic we never got but always wanted.

The Rogues Gallery Expanded: Dr. Double X

DR. DOUBLE X

Split Mind, Double Trouble

Real Name: Dr. Simon Ecks
DEX: 3 STR: 3 BODY: 3
INT: 8 WILL: 5 MIND: 5
INFL: 4 AURA: 5 SPIRIT: 4

INITIATIVE: 15  HERO POINTS: 35

The Gotham & Beyond Podcast — Hugo Strange: The Forgotten Files Begin

 

In the premiere episode of The Forgotten Files of Hugo Strange, we turn the lens inward. Not on a rogue. Not on a masked vigilante. But on the man behind the mirror—Doctor Hugo Strange himself. Long forgotten yet quietly foundational, Strange isn’t just another villain in Gotham’s orbit. He’s the one taking notes. Watching. Obsessing.

Podcast: The Hidden City Beneath Gotham

 

Gotham isn’t built on stone. It’s built on secrets.

That’s the idea we chase in this week’s episode of The Gotham and Beyond Podcast. No punchline. No villain of the week. Just a question: what’s underneath? Not under the GCPD. Not under the subways. Beneath all of it.