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| Friday, July 18th, 2008 | 3:00 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Foxbat Could someone please tell me why this picture scares me? ( Read more... ) | | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | 11:33 pm
[sonof2ravens]
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Noisy limitation
I can't seem to find it on the page it reference say it is on FH.
How has it changed from earlier versions of FH? | | Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 | 11:04 pm
[sonof2ravens]
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Fantasy Hero questions
Which enchantment scheme do you use and why?
IE real points + indepedent limitation
OR the create effect?
Also do you see druids as akin to clerics or more like naturalistic mages?
How do you feel about long term endurance in general and being used by mages in particular? | | Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | 10:31 pm
[sonof2ravens]
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Any one tried converting this?
Godsend Agenda. I've got the 1st edition not the new d6 version.
Sounds like a interesting back story.
Since there is M&M fans out there got any good conversion tips?
I might want to pick up the M&M Wildcards supplement and convert to hero. | 10:28 pm
[sonof2ravens]
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since someone mentioned super agents . . .
Where are the 5 man fire team write ups for 5th edition? | | Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | 1:34 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Super Agents anyone? Just meant as an insperation piece. Anyone remember 3rd Editions Super-Agets? The Swordfish, J.A. Quest, fun all around?  | | Friday, March 14th, 2008 | 10:57 am
[thebitterguy]
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Traveller Hero So, while looking through RPGnow for stuff, I found the pge for Comstar games, who has produced a Hero translation for classic Traveller. I am, to say the least, intrigued. Anyone tried it? The core books are a pair of @ 160 page PDFs. Book one has
- information about Traveller and the Hero System
- Several different types of campaigns to choose from with Traveller Hero including military, espionage, mercantile trading and many more!
- Information about a multitude of Traveller races, including how to create and play characters of virtually every race within Traveller!
- Lots and lots of professional templates for use with Traveller Hero (or any other Star Hero campaign)!
- Skills, perks, talents and disadvantages for your character!
- Psionics!
- A multitude of weapons and armors
- And much more!
Book two has
Both simplified and advanced starship design and building, complete with lots of starship technologies (good for any Star Hero campaign)!!
- History of the Traveller universe
- World Generation
- Travel and communications
- Trade
- Religion and philosophies of many of the Traveller races
- The criminal underworld
- Technology levels and important information regarding technology in the Traveller universe
- Computers, sensors and a multitude of other technologies and equipment for Traveller (or any Star Hero campaign)
- Robotics!
- Vehicles and Starships
- Sample starships
- Cybernetics
- And much more!
| | Saturday, March 8th, 2008 | 11:41 am
[drgnmaster]
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Hero Designer
For those of you who don't know Herodesigner.com has been folded into Hero's website. Log-in using your name/password and then click the hero designer menu item. Word of warning though, the "notify me of updates" function is broken so you won't get e-mails about when the program is updated. Last update was the 4th of this month.
And if you haven't done it pick up Stronghold. It's a good read. | | Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | 1:23 pm
[drgnmaster]
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| | Sunday, February 24th, 2008 | 10:26 pm
[drgnmaster]
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| | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | 7:22 pm
[drgnmaster]
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OH $HIT This is straight from Hero Game's website...that bad feeling I just had? Just got worse The basics of the deal are this. Cryptic has bought the Champions and Dark Champions intellectual property from us — the characters, places, events, and so on — and licensed back to us the right to produce Champions RPG books. | | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | 12:13 pm
[drgnmaster]
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2008 Book List
Yet again, swiped from Hero's forums.
THE 2008 RELEASE SCHEDULE
These blurbs cover only books not already in the printing process (so Stronghold and The PS238 Roleplaying Game aren’t listed here, since one’s already out and one’s about to go to the printer).
The Atlantean Age: It is the time of the Dominion of Atlantis, an island whose people dominate the world and perhaps challenge even the gods themselves for power. Using the wondrous mineral orichalcum found only on their island, the Atlanteans have created a techno-magic that has made their sorcerers and wizards the mightiest in the world, equipped their armies with flying ships and enchanted crossbows, and in some cases transformed the world itself with magic. But their enemies, possessed of a foul, dark sorcery, are just as powerful, and without bold heroes to protect it Atlantis itself may fall. The Atlantean Age details this wondrous High Fantasy setting for your Fantasy Hero games!
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Early 2008
Champions Beyond: Evil and injustice don’t exist only on Earth; you can find them in space and on other planets as well. Champions Beyond looks at the current state of the Galaxy as known to Champions Universe Earth in the early twenty-first century — what alien species are known to exist, which ones have superhumans, and what connection (if any) those superhumans have to Earth and its people. Champions Beyond also has detailed information on Malva and its decadent inhabitants, who pit super-powered gladiators against one another in the arena for their own amusement.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Early 2008
The Book Of The Destroyer: Since the earliest days of Champions, one supercriminal has stood first and foremost among the ranks of villainy: Dr. Destroyer. But not until now have gamers known all there is to know about this world-threatening master villain. The Book Of The Destroyer provides compete information about the infamous Doctor: his hidden headquarters around the world, his different suits of armor, his vehicles, his weapons, his followers, and his many schemes to conquer Earth. If you want to use Dr. Destroyer in your campaign, or you want to know how to fight him, The Book Of The Destroyer has all the information you need.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Mid-2008
Scourges Of The Galaxy: The Galaxy is a rough place, filled with scum and villainy — in other words, just the sort of bad guys your heroes love to fight! Scourges Of The Galaxy, an enemies book for Star Hero, details these villains. Ranging from ruthless con-men on backwater worlds, to Imperial nobles hungry for ever-greater power, to alien spies, to murderous mercenaries, it’s full of characters any GM will want to use.
Authors: Jason Walters
Tentative Release Date: Mid-2008
Shades Of Black: The evil Black Paladin has devised a cunning plan to return his long-dead love to life... and if he succeeds, the two of them may become powerful enough to conquer the world! This adventure for Champions pits your heroes against the Knight of the Crow in a battle to defeat ultimate evil. The scenario includes new villains, complete floorplans for an elegant mansion, and detailed descriptions of numerous encounters.
Author: Allen Thomas
Tentative Release Date: Late 2008
Lucha Libre Hero: Hero roustabouts Darren Watts and Jason Walters put on their magical wrestling masks, get cranked on tequila, and create for you the ultimate gaming guide to monster-hunting, gangster-fighting Mexican wrestlers in Lucha Libre Hero! Dive right into the weird, fight-filled world of Mexican wrestling adventure movies as you and your masked cohorts save the villagers from werewolves, help the police round up vicious criminals, and then head out for a night on the town with beautiful women!
Author: Darren Watts, Jason Walters
Tentative Release Date: Late 2008
Urban Fantasy Hero: There’s more to Fantasy than alternate worlds filled with sword-swinging barbarians, armored knights, and fireball-casting wizards. One of the most popular Fantasy subgenres today is “Urban Fantasy,” which combines the mysticism and wondrous creatures of Fantasy with modern-day settings, technology, and people. Urban Fantasy Hero is your complete guide to this subgenre for gaming, with detailed information about genre elements and themes, character creation, and gamemastering. It also includes an extensive resources section featuring settings, spells, and other material you can use right away. So step away from your everyday life... and into the magical world of Urban Fantasy Hero!
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Late 2008 | | Monday, February 18th, 2008 | 2:22 pm
[drgnmaster]
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2009 Release List
Swiped from Hero Forums
The Ultimate Base: Home is where your hero hangs his cape, sword, or blaster pistol, and The Ultimate Base shows you how to build it! This Ultimate series book provides expanded and detailed rules for creating Bases of any type — from the simplest hovels, to mighty castles, to superteam headquarters, to space stations, and more — and for using them in your campaign. Beyond that, The Ultimate Base provides rules for creating cities, kingdoms, nations, and planets as characters you can play, adding never-before-explored political and social dimensions to your campaign.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Early 2009
The Book Of The Machine: Since the dawn of the Champions Universe, the fiendish robot Mechanon has been trying to exterminate all organic life on Earth — and only the might and valor of the world’s heroes has stopped him. The Book Of The Machine is a detailed look at Mechanon, covering everything from his alternate forms to his hidden lairs, his robotic minions, and his many schemes to rid the Earth of organic infestations.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Early 2009
The Book Of Dragons: Nothing quite puts a scare into Fantasy Hero adventurers like a dragon. The Book Of Dragons provides dozens of new types of dragons to confront your Fantasy heroes with, including special rules and templates for quickly creating more. But then it goes beyond that to cover other types of large, powerful, intelligent monsters that will make it harder than ever for your heroes to get their hands on all that treasure.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Mid-2009
Profit And Purity: This organizations book for Champions details two groups: the villainous technocratic profiteers of ARGENT, who arm the underworld with the latest gadgetry and try to subvert corporations and governments worldwide; and the Institute for Human Advancement, an anti-superhuman lobbying organization whose secret activities are far more violent and criminal than most members could ever imagine.
Author: Steven S. Long, Jason Walters
Tentative Release Date: Mid-2009
The HERO System, 6th Edition: The best just got better! At GenCon 2009 Hero Games will release the Sixth Edition of the award-winning HERO System, in two books: Characters and Combat And Adventuring. Come by the 6E Discussion message forum on the Hero Games Discussion Boards to learn more and offer your opinions and suggestions about how to make the best RPG ever created even better!
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Mid-2009
Champions: Also at GenCon 2009 Hero Games will release a new version of Champions, the world’s greatest superhero roleplaying game! Champions for 6E will be the ultimate guide to creating heroes and having superheroic adventures, and creating and planning superhero campaigns. Soar through the skies, fight villains, and save humanity from all kinds of fiendish menaces!
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Mid-2009
The HERO System Basic Rulebook: For gamers who don’t need the full Sixth Edition rulebooks all the time, Hero Games presents the Basic Rulebook — the 6E rules boiled down to a 128-page guide. The BR strips out all the options, variants, and expanded rules discussions to present you with the absolute core of the HERO System so you can easily learn the game or find the rule you want.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Late 2009
HERO System Martial Arts: The HERO System has long been praised for its martial arts and hand-to-hand combat rules, and this book will be your ultimate guide to the world of flashing fists of fury, ch’i powers, and weird martial arts stunts for the HERO System! In addition to expanded rules for creating and using Martial Arts maneuvers it includes dozens of sample powers for martial artists, a guide to planning and running different types of martial arts campaigns, and sample characters.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Late 2009
Champions Universe: Learn all about the world of Champions with Champions Universe, a complete guide to everything from Millennium City, to the hidden caverns of the Lemurians, to the Moon and beyond! It’s a complete superhero setting suitable for adventures featuring any sorts of superheroes at any power level.
Author: Steven S. Long
Tentative Release Date: Late 2009 | 2:20 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Hero 6 pt 2
Swiped from the hero forums
The meat of the announcement is that Cryptic is indeed going to be coming out with a Champions MMORPG called Champions Online, probably due out in 2009, though that is a WAG on my part. In an interesting twist, rather than Cryptic licensing the Champions Universe from DoJ, they are buying the Champions and Dark Champions IP (except Harbinger of Justice ), and as part of the deal are licensing the rights to print RPG books for those IP back to DoJ in perpetuity (and DoJ doesn't have to pay for it).
DoJ and Cryptic will be working closely together to help insure that any changes to the CU for Champions Online get reflected in the CU books that DoJ will be publishing. Both content-wise and appearance-wise.
Important Note: Cryptic is NOT buying the Hero System IP, just the Champions and Dark Champions IP.
Another Important Note: Champions Online will not be a Hero System MMORPG. My understanding is that Hero is planning on releasing a guide to allow players of Champions Online to recreate their characters in the Hero System at some point after CO comes out, but that it will NOT be using the Hero System itself.
Cryptic has also licensed the Hero System from DoJ so that they can use HERO terminology to describe things. Cryptic has also said that their plan is that CO will have an unprecidented level of customizability in character creation. There is the chance that if Cryptic and DoJ agree that the level of customizability is up to the standards of the HERO System the game may also get hung with the title of HERO Online. Though DoJ retains the right to say "no" on that.
One of the design features that Darren mentioned that Cryptic is looking at implementing that would allow you during character creation to create your own nemesis.
There is also every chance that there will be DoJ produced books that have bits and peices that will be useful for the CO players. Behind the scenes type things.
Oh, and Important Thing: DoJ will be getting access to Cryptic Studios art for publishing in their books.
Important Note from Steve: HERO 6th will in no way be "dumbed down" to make it more appealing to MMO players. I'll note he says this as an MMO player himself.
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That it is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can provide evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts and in my opinion, is all that is essential to agnosticism. ["Agnosticism and Christianity", 1889, Thomas Huxley] | | Sunday, February 17th, 2008 | 8:30 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Hero 6th Edition
So Hero has pretty much announced that Hero System 6th Edition is coming in 2009.
Anyone who has comments, complaints, whatever go ahead and post them here. Positive and negative. All I ask is that you don't bash anyone for their opinion about it. Discuss, yes, bash no.
While I can see a 6th Ed, to me the time is wrong and this is a bad idea. Hero Revised is barely a year old, we have the Character Creation Handbook and the Combat Guide. After this is all done we'll (yes i'm assuming here) get the same hash of books we got before after an edition change. Also there is the issue of 5th Ed books that come out between now and then. While all Hero books (1st on up to now) are built along the same princples and easy to update, it's more money that's being spent for something that's "obsolete" in the next 12-18 months.
And yes I'm aware that eventually we'll have to get another edition of Hero. Sixth was coming some day I know. This just seems too soon to me. | | Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 | 8:25 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Cross-overs and Events Skipping over some of the event books that have been done the past few years, I'm curious what cover-overs and events have you tossed into your personal compains? Or even recoomend people to read. I'm not talking the big ones or very current (Civil War, House of M, Infinite Crisis) or the ones that really never went away (Watchmen, Crisis on Infinte Earths). Some of the ones I enjoyed are these: - Tangent Comics - Same name, different character. I loved these just for the joy of seeing how characters might be changed based on a name. I used to love playing with some of the 4th Ed. Champion's characters and see how I might re-design them based on their name alone (Dr. Destroyer becoming a crazed geneticist, Defender becoming a street hero ala Guardian Angels).
- Age of Apocalypse - Super-heroes after "the fall of civilization" (or at least the brink). I've taken some of the stuff from New Millennium and taken it over to this idea. Ok, not very original but oh well. And yeah I know it's Fuzion. Why throw away ideas though? Bay City being the last bastion of civilization, tracts of areas where things are ran by "mad max" style super-vilians. And little Genocide controled survival camps where maybe, just maybe, they really are the good guys.
- Sins of Youth - "Young gets old, old gets young..." Todd Nauck did some famoulous artwork for the series back when DC did 5th Weeks. How would your characters behave if they were suddenly back in their teens.
After flipping around tonight I "remembered" these: - Deathmate - Image meets Valiant. Done as prestige one-shots. When Solar and Void meet their universes merge becoming an amalgam of both worlds. This along with Amalgam/DC vs Marvel is great if you want to play with the ideas of crossing GM ran campaigns, and a little more out there (and more work granted) than the normal Earth-1 & Earth-2 style crossovers.
- DC 1,000,000 - DC's look at the future and probably one of the worst 5th Weeks to come out. Ok, some very good ideas came out it, I honestly wouldn't try doing this one. That's just me.
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[drgnmaster]
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PS238 cover For those that don't go by Hero's site very often, here's the cover to PS238 RPG that they're doing. ( Read more... ) | | Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 | 9:43 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Heath Ledger dies
While it's probably spread, Heath Ledger, the Joker for the upcoming Batman movie died today (Tuesday).
RIP Heath | | Monday, January 21st, 2008 | 8:59 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Teen Heroes
I'm hoping this won't sound too bad here.
I have a chance to run a teen campain starting next weekend. I have Heroes and M&M's teen books. For those who have run teen games what do you use out of the books and what have you tossed in yourself? | | Friday, January 18th, 2008 | 8:00 pm
[drgnmaster]
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Checking Hero...
OK, not really Hero related or maybe it is. I'm just curious about this though after talking to a few people today.
How often do you check Hero's site, and has your viewing habits changed recentely.
For me, I used to go on there and check every day after the new regime took over, now I'll go once or twice a week. Normally I check on Friday or Saturday after they have the news blurb for the week. |
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