Hero System Universal Genres

Hero System

Hero Games' Hero System was the first universal roleplaying system, predating GURPS by several years. Characters are designed with points spent on characteristics, skills, and powers, and gotten from disadvantages. Powers are generic and effect-based -- combinations of advantages and limitations are meant to produce any conceivable playable effect. The Hero System began with its most popular member, the super-hero game Champions, but also includes Danger International, Espionage, Fantasy Hero, Justice Inc., Robot Warriors, Star Hero, and Western Hero.

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• - Christopher Taylor: Hero house rules (inc 0 cost MA, skill learning); Fantasy Hero Haran campaign background zip files (Grimoire, Intro, Weapons, Equipment, Armor, Herbs, Elf Archers, Dwarves, Paladins); beautiful art sketches.
  
• - The Hero System archive at ftp.cs.pdx.edu used to be the main Internet Hero repository before the Web, rivalling Red October. Still have many Champions characters, FH beasties and spell colleges, house rules, spreadsheets, and other files. Most GZip form
  
• - Generate beautiful HTML table writeups for your Hero System characters. (Requires a Frames- and JavaScript-capable browser). Calculates characteristic costs, tracks character point totals, allows pasting in already generated pages for further editing. Sou
  
• - Ghost Archer and the Wild Hunt: superhero campaign in the San Francisco Bay area. Tribute to the Uncanny X-Men. Hundreds of character write ups, picture galleries. Tark's Fantasy Hero pages including large general store of item costs and weights. Hero Sys
  
• - Points of Clarity (or FAQ) for the Champions/Hero System mailing list. Well written and authoritative, with quotes from the Hero authors.
  
• - The first Champions Web page, Theala Sildorian's page is still worth looking at for the Hero Gossip column and Chris Avelone's Stick Figure Theater among others. It is rarely updated, though.
  
• - Official home of Hero Games, publisher of the Hero System, Champions, and co-publisher of Fuzion/Champions: The New Millennium.
  
• - Home of: the Gamemaster's SuperPowered Companion - a DOS based program to run Hero System combat; QuickRoll Die Table Generator - will print random charts of 5d6 to 20d6 rolls that are cross indexed to a single % roll; alternative PostScript character she
  
• - Details of characters, campaign backgrounds, and other information for Fantasy, Pulp, Traveller, and Western Hero, with emphasis on a Fantasy Hero campaign set in 16th century Japan.
  
• - Power Point is Dave Mattingly's column that appears in the Champions APAzine, "Haymaker!". Online articles as well as descriptions of print-only articles.
  
• - House rules for Present-day Superheroes; Star Force (Future Agents); Galactic Guardians (Future Superheroes); and Future Rebels. Ranma Hero: a Champions campaign based on the Ranma 1/2 Manga, including 14 writeups.
  
• - Online bimonthly magazine for the HERO System, covering multiple genres with characters, plots, props, and gaming advice. PDF format archives and excerpts from current issue.
  
• - Tries to more consistently follow the laws of physics, without becoming overly complex.
  
• - Sengoku Campaign - 16th century Japan, with character sheets, maps, adventure threads, background information and fiction. Gothick Empires campaign - Fantasy Hero, magic and technology in a renaissance-era setting. Characters and character art from othe
  
• - Home of the Champions Mailing List (4 week archive). "Justice League of Alabama" campaign site: writeups and annals. Comprehensive Hero and Superhero Amazon on-line book store. 20 package deals, 2 Fantasy Hero magic systems, 50 items, jousting
  
• - Web-based bulletin board that the Hero authors read and respond to regularly. Separate discussions include Champions, Fantasy Hero, Fuzion, System, and of course General.
  
• - Haymaker! is an amateur press association magazine (APAzine, or fanzine) about Champions and the rest of the Hero System founded in 1992. It is a collaborative effort of many of Hero System's best authors, and is a proving ground for many story ideas, ch
  
• - Information on several campaigns (Fantasy, Space Opera, Pulp) as well as some useful charts and graphics for tabletop miniatures.
  
• - A web ring linking sites that are of particular interest to Hero System players.
  
• - Red October was the semi-official Hero BBS for many years. The Mactyres now host this archive of Articles, Campaign Backgrounds, Characters, Rules, and Supplemental Material. The real treasures are in the File area, but only in Zipped text, unfortunately
  
  

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