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WONDER WOMAN

Table of Contents

Introduction

Wonder Woman

History of the Gods

The Olympian Gods

Realms of the Gods

The Amazons

Themyscira

Amazon Non-Player Characters

Friends

Villains

How to Use This Book

Strangers in Paradise

Published by Mayfair Games Inc.

Author: Dan Greenberg in collaboration with George Perez

Editor: Thomas Cook

Cover Art:

Pencils and Inks: George Perez

Colors: Eric Shanower

Interior Art: George Perez

Maps: Bill, son of Dr. Larry

Aella, Aeolus, Agostus Deneiros, Ahmad ibn Umran Tiryan, Amazon, Anti-Life Equation, Antiope, Aphrodite, Apokolips, Apollo, Areopagus, Ares, Ares Affair, Ariadne, Artemis, Athena, Barbara Minerva, Barry Locatelli, Batman, Benjamin

Buchman, Bestiamorph, Boreas, Cavern of Souls, Cerebus, Challenge of the Gods, Chaos, Charon, Cheetah, Chidia, Chimera, Chuma, Circe, Cisseus, Coeus, Cottos, Crisb on Infinite Earths, Crius, Cronus, Darkseid, David Kapatelis, Decay, Deimos,

Demeter, Diana Prince, DianaTrevor, Dionysus, Doom's Doorway, Echidna, Erebus, Eos, Epiopne, Eris, Eros, Etta Candy, Euboea, Furies, Fujara, General Kohler, Girdle of Gaea, Hades, Halirrhothius, Harmonia, Harpies, HCA Labs, Heart of the

Medusa, Hebe, Hecate, Hecatonchires, Helen, Hellene, Helm of Serpents, Hemera, Henry Cobb (H. C.) Armbruster, Hephaestus, Hera, Heracles, Hestia, Hydra, Hyperion, Hypnos, lapetus, Island of Healing, Island of Themyscira, Isrnene, Jamal

Zayyali, Jules Guisan, Julia Deneiros, JuliaKapatelis, Kabul, KwaKhin, Lasso of Truth, Leto, Lyera,Manhunter, Man's World, Maria Deneiros, Maurice Diawara, Maxine Sterenbuch, Menalippe, Metis, Mindi Mayer, Mnemosyne, Morpheus, Mount

Olympus, Mymosyne, Nereids, Nessie, New Genesis, New Gods, New Olympus, Noria, Nyx, Oceanus, Olympus, Pan, Pandora's Box, Paradise Island, Paris, Peleus, Perimele, Persephone, Philippus, Phobos, Phoebe, Phoebus Apollo, Poseidon,

Princess Diana, Purple Ray, Rafai al-Sabad, Rhea, Risilis, Royal Palace, Sandles of Hermes, Senate Chamber, Silver Swan, Skeeter La Rue, Sphinx, Solomon Buchman, Statue of Artemis, Steve Trevor, Superman, Tartarus, Temple of Hades, Temple

of the Oracle, Tethys, Themis, Theseus, Thetis, Thia, Titans, Trial of Flashing Thunder, Ulysses Steven Trevor, Uranus, Valerie Beaudry, Vanessa Kapatelis, Well of Rebirth, Women's Auxilliary Ferrying (WAF) Squadron, Wonder Woman, Zeus (and

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However, some of the ambassadors come from nations

whose people espouse little respect for women. This,

coupled with the fact that many Amazons

are suspicious of outsiders, creates a tense

situation; tempers flare as strange events

occur, the two cultures quickly falling at

odds.

Questions arise: Are the Amazons simply

not intended to mix with outsiders? Or is someone trying

to sabotage the expedition? If so, who? And most

importantly, can Wonder Woman discover who is

responsible for the strife before the situation explodes?

The conclusion to this taut and enigmatic first Wonder

Woman adventure introduces a new, striking Character

to the Wonder Woman pantheon.

The New Wonder Woman

With the advent of the Crisis On Infinite Earths, the

DC Universe was shaken to the core, its history ultimately

destroyed. From the ashes of the first world of heroes

came a revitalized and streamlined universe. DC Comics'

anchor Characters, Superman and Batman, were

designed compelling new origins and often remolded into

creative variations on their traditional themes.

Now the third member of the DC Triumvirate of Justice

has joined the fold. Having undergone her own powerful

transformation, Princess Diana of Themyscira (Wonder

Woman) now stands as one of the most vibrant and

exiting "new" Characters of the DC Universe.

The talent and commitment of her creators have

brought a sweeping scale and a tight continuity to the

cosmic series. Each issue builds upon an ever-richening,

unfolding saga rather than simply presenting new

episodic adventures. Consequently, the first year+ of the

book read as a single epic story: an origin in fourteen

parts.

The new Wonder Woman saga weaves an elegant

tapestry of legend drawn both from Princess Diana's

colorful history and from the Greek Mythology which has

always been a part of her background. Infused with the

creative dynamism that has become the hallmark of DC

Comics, Wonder Woman is once again as exciting and

mature a Character as ever graced the DC Universe.

In her previous incarnation, Wonder Woman was an

Amazon crime-fighter who lived a secret life as Air Force

Officer Diana Prince. The "new" Wonder Woman is an

ambassador of peace from the island of the Amazons to

Man's World. She has no secret identity and is known to all

as Princess Diana.

Paradise Island is still the home of the Amazons but it

no longer has technological artifacts like the Purple Ray.

The Amazons live in a world essentially unchanged from

Greece of 1200 BC. They keep ancient customs, use simple

tools, and worship the gods of old.

The Greek gods of myth now assume an Important role

in the series, providing assistance and insight (and often

new problems) for Diana. These gods created the race of

the Amazons; the fates of Wonder Woman and the women

of Paradise Island are directly and inexorably linked to

the fates of the gods.

The Wonder Woman Sourcebook is a complete reference

work on the new Wonder Woman and contains detailed

information on the fabled Amazon Princess, her history,

friends, foes, and the realms she inhabits, from Paradise

Island to Boston to Mount Olympus. The first section of

the Sourcebook (Wonder Woman) details the Character

of Wonder Woman. It includes her game statistics, back-

ground, personality, and tips on role-playing the Amazon

Princess.

The Sourcebook sections entitled History of the Gods

and The Olympian Gods chronicle the history of the

Olympian Gods who created both Wonder Woman and

the Amazons; the gods play an extremely important part

in the life of the new Wonder Woman. Included in this

section is information relating to Zeus, Ares, Artemis,

Athena, and other gods as well as notes on incorporating

the gods into a DC Heroes campaign.

The Sourcebook sections entitled The Amazons,

Themyscira, and Amazon Non-Player Characters deal

directly with the Amazons, describing the people, places,

and history of Paradise Island, including complete details

on the Island of Healing, the Temple of Hades, and Doom's

Doorway.

The Friends and Villains sections describe Wonder

Woman's allies and foes. Complete statistics are provided

for friends like Steve Trevor and Julia Kapatelis and for

such enemies as the Cheetah and Eris.

The new Wonder Woman possesses an important

destiny and occupies a special place in the DC Universe.

This reference work explains what makes her unique and

how a GM and his/her Players can get the most from any

Wonder Woman adventure.

Strangers in Paradise

Strangers in Paradise is a solitaire adventure which

accompanies The Wonder Woman Sourcebook. It is the

story of the first official delegation from "Man's World" to

visit Paradise Island.

Diana's Tiara is a razor-sharp

throwing weapon. She only uses it

when she is certain she wants to kill

her foe.

BACKGROUND

Princess Diana is the reanimated

spirit of a human child who died in

her mother's womb in 30,000 BC and

whose soul was intercepted by Gaea,

the Earth Goddess. Nearly thirty-two

thousand years later, five Greek gods

placed the infant soul in a clay statue

of a baby, causing the statue to spring

to life as a real child ... a child who

grew up to be Wonder Woman — an

Amazon blessed by the gods and

charged with a sacred and timeless

destiny.

Diana's story begins in the early

days of the human race, when people

banded together into tribes and

struggled to live lives superior to

those of the animals. Diana's mother

was a Cro-Magnon woman who was

murdered by her husband, an angry

and frightened man who had been

exiled from his tribe for losing his

hand.

The nimble and manipulatable

digits of the human hand proved very

important to the emerging race of

Man, as tool-making and tool use

were all that gave weak and awkward

primitive Man an edge over the faster,

stronger animals.

The loss of a hand meant loss of

status as a member of the tribe; an

outcast human had little chance of

surviving on his own. This primitive

man, filled with terror and self-

loathing, turned his anger against the

only person who still stood by him: his

pregnant wife.

Sensing her husband's pain, the

woman tried to comfort and soothe

him but the man felt only degradation

at her touch; yet, his inner need for

her sympathy intensified his feelings

of shame and emasculation. In a

moment of blind rage, the one-

handed caveman lashed out and

savagely clubbed his wife to death, his

unborn daughter dying in the brutal

attack as well.

EQUIPMENT:

POWERS:

Force Shield: 5

Diana's bracelets were created from

Zeus' aegis, an impenetrable shield

from the primordial goat-goddess

Amaltheia. It was this goddess who

wet-nursed Zeus and provided the

binding energy which created Mount

Olympus.

POWERS:

Directional Hearing: 4, Empathy:

5, Flight: 15, Hypnotism: 10,

Superspeed: 13, Swimming: 6,

Telepathy: 12, Telescopic Vision: 3

SKILLS:

Acrobatics: 12, Animal Handling: 8,

Charisma (Persuasion): 13,

Detective: 6, Martial Artist: 23,

Medicine: 7, Military Sicence

(Tracking): 10, Scholar (Ancient

History): 4, Scholar (Linguistics,

Ancient Greek, Themysciran): 5,

Weaponry: 16

POWERS:

Animal Control: 20, Control: 20

LIMITATIONS:

Animal Control works only to ward

off beasts, Control operable to

force lassoed victim to tell the

truth.

Diana's Lasso of Truth was forged by

the god Hephaestus from the Girdle

of Gaea. It is considered unbreakable

by man or god.

LIMITATIONS:

Naive of the world outside Paradise

Island, Hypnotism operable only to

place lassoed victim to sleep,

Telepathy between Gods of

Olympus only.

CONNECTIONS:

Superman (High), Themyscira

(High), Olympus (Low), United

Nations (Low)

MOTIVATION:

Upholding the Good

WEALTH:

Comfortable

JOB:

Ambassador of Themyscira

RACE:

Human (Amazon)

POWERS:

Teleportation: 23

LIMITATIONS:

Sandals teleport wearer between

Paradise Island and Man's World

only

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