High Tech Enemies?

[GradonSilverton]

I was looking through the collection of new/planned releases and was wondering if there are any plan to do a new version of High Tech Enemies?

Always love the book...lots O bad guys with Lots O equiptment!

[Steve Long]

No plans whatsoever.

[Balok]

My view on this, for whatever it's worth, is that I prefer to see books like CKC -- that is, with a mixture of different kinds of villains. Since my campaigns have never pitted heroes against villains of only a particular sort (i.e. only mutants, or only technological terrors), books containing characters of only a particular sort are less useful, because I have to either intersperse the character appearances with home-rolled characters of other kinds, or I have to modify the characters to change their basic nature.

[GestaltBennie]

If this book were to be redone; I'd suggest doing it as a more general Corporate/Supertech campaign book: a guide for superhero role-playing in the high-tech industrial world, which would cover heroes like Iron Man (of course), and (to a lesser extent) folks like Blue Beetle, Machine Man, and the pre-Alpha Flight James Hudson/Guardian.

That said, I liked the original work. Sean took something of a bad rap on the power level, but I don't expect anything called "Hi-Tech Enemies" to be low-powered pikers. And, although I had to retool them a bit, I especially had fun with the Destruction Company.

Scott Bennie

[GradonSilverton]

Originally posted by GestaltBennie
I especially had fun with the Destruction Company.

Scott Bennie

I'm assuming you are saying that as a "GM"?!

Cause if you are saying that as a player...you sire are demented!

[GestaltBennie]

Originally posted by GradonSilverton
I'm assuming you are saying that as a "GM"?!

Cause if you are saying that as a player...you sire are demented!

Well, as both actually. Running them as a GM, and fighting them with my old PC Thundrax in a campaign Sean ran.

As for being demented, well, I prefer the word 'sick'. :-)

Scott Bennie

[GradonSilverton]

Originally posted by GestaltBennie
Well, as both actually. Running them as a GM, and fighting them with my old PC Thundrax in a campaign Sean ran.

As for being demented, well, I prefer the word 'sick'. :-)

Scott Bennie

Sick.... thats a good word....

But I'm sticking to Demented.

:)

[BobGreenwade]

Originally posted by Steve Long
No plans whatsoever. I find this somewhat disappointing. Unlike Balok, I sometimes do like to run "Unified Theme" Champions games (see pages 46-47), and in fact high-tech is my favorite theme. Also, such a book, properly done, would be a very nice complement to next year's The Mystic World, even in non-unified campaigns.

[GradonSilverton]

Originally posted by BobGreenwade
I find this somewhat disappointing. Unlike Balok, I sometimes do like to run "Unified Theme" Champions games (see pages 46-47). Also, such a book, properly done, would be a very nice complement to next year's The Mystic World, even in non-unified campaigns.

I agree, but do the the nature of Steve's response, I didn't think I should follow up. It was kind of a "set in stone" response from the others of this nature I've seen. No real explination just the 3 word answer...who knows, maybe if there is enough desire...

[Steve Long]

Sorry, didn't mean to be terse; just very busy and trying to save time. :)

We have no plans to re-work HTE for several reasons:

1. We don't want to flood the market with a lot of Enemies books when there are better things to devote our limited publishing resources to.

2. When we do an Enemies book, we generally prefer it to cover a variety of subjects, like CKC; that maximizes the book's value for the most people. Generally I'm not wild about "theme" Enemies books unless there's some other reason to address the theme. I wouldn't do Mystic Enemies, but I'm willing to do The Mystic World because we can cover a lot of stuff besides just enemies, making it a half-setting book, half-Enemies book.

Similarly, if we re-did something like Watchers Of The Dragon, it would probably be a half-scenario book, half-Enemies book, not just a big collection of martial arts-oriented baddies.

3. To the extent we do want to do "theme" Enemies books, I don't think "high tech" is a sufficiently unified theme to use as the basis for a book. Since you can explain nearly anything in a comic book setting as using or the product of high technology, the "distinction" is meaningless.

[GradonSilverton]

My appologies Steve, I didn't mean to imply I thought you gave a rough answer.... just a set in stone one. But thank you for the clarification on the reasoning.

Would Hero consider putting the book out as a 1/2 enemies book & 1/2 campaign book as a PDF for download? Save the printing money and have the Goodness available? I not even focusing on HTE with this though, in general, would Hero Games be interested (or are considering) doing some supplements as PDF download only?

I for one would be greatly interested on having access to some reworks of books or even new ones at a smaller price for the PDF.

[Steve Long]

I don't have the time right now to prepare a PDF of something like that. If I did have the time, I can think of so many things ahead of it in the queue that I still wouldn't do it. ;)

[Grymlynn]

Dood, I think having a large fan base writting core would be good for both the sytem and company. Put the book together yourself (or a proposal of some type that contains some sort of draft), and see if you can generate some interest in Steve/Darren. The less work they have to do in getting a bunch of PDF support for HERO, the better, of course. Heck, all they can do is say NO! again...

Ya never know though, you may be the next Hartfelt Productions...