Old School Hero Newsletters

[JohnTaber]

Before Adventurers Club and Digital Hero there were Hero Newsletters! Never heard of them?!? Well you can download them from my website! Go to the File Downloads page. Here is a link to John's Hero HQ (http://www.usandacat.com/herohq/).

There are four newsletters, an old letter from the original Steve at Hero (aka Steve Peterson), and an old mailer. They are all worth a chuckle or two. The prices on the mailer are great!

FYI. I asked Steve and Darren...they said it was ok for me to post these. ;)

Enjoy! :D

[Fitz]

Hur! Yay old-school!

[John Desmarais]

Before Adventurers Club and Digital Hero there were Hero Newsletters! Never heard of them?!? Well you can download them from my website! Go to the File Downloads page. Here is a link to John's Hero HQ (http://www.usandacat.com/herohq/).

There are four newsletters, an old letter from the original Steve at Hero (aka Steve Peterson), and an old mailer. They are all worth a chuckle or two. The prices on the mailer are great!

FYI. I asked Steve and Darren...they said it was ok for me to post these. ;)

Enjoy! :D

A surreal stroll down memory lane.

[Tech]

Before Adventurers Club and Digital Hero there were Hero Newsletters! Never heard of them?!? Well you can download them from my website! Go to the File Downloads page. Here is a link to John's Hero HQ (http://www.usandacat.com/herohq/).

There are four newsletters, an old letter from the original Steve at Hero (aka Steve Peterson), and an old mailer. They are all worth a chuckle or two. The prices on the mailer are great!

FYI. I asked Steve and Darren...they said it was ok for me to post these. ;)

Enjoy! :D

Cool! I'm one of the proud to still have the original newsletters. :winkgrin:

[Labrat]

Good God, you rock! You know what is the most bizarre part of this nostalgic piece? The type font used in the newsletter looks exactly the the type font used for Champions 1 ed. Props, props and more props. Thou hast been duly rep't.

...seeing Dove's name again. Oy. That reminds me, what the heck is an 'Airacobra' anyway? Was he a flying martial artist?

[Hugh Neilson]

Cool! I'm one of the proud to still have the original newsletters. :winkgrin:

I had Vol 1 #2, and Vol 2, #1-2 (maybe a third? I'd have to check my books). Anyone know how many were published in aggregate?

[SleepyDrug]

Awesome,

While you are archiving,....i'm wondering if you have copies of the pre-1999 Digital Hero stuff that was hosted here.

[Steve Long]

what the heck is an 'Airacobra' anyway

IIRC it's the name of a World War II-era airplane. A quick stroll through Google or Wikipedia would probably turn up more info.

I don't know what the character's powers were, though.

[aylwin13]

Steve is exactly right. This (http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/air_power/ap1.htm) is an Airacobra.

I got nothin' on the character, though. :straight:

[JohnTaber]

While you are archiving,....i'm wondering if you have copies of the pre-1999 Digital Hero stuff that was hosted here.

Can you give me more detail? Do you mean the stuff Dave M did in a previous life? :D That stuff was not hosted here. It was on his site...and I think it is still there. :)

FYI. I ran the Checkered Demon BBS for a few years. (A Hero focused BBS that was pre-web explosion.) This gave me a good chance to collect a lot of material (official and not) from the old Hero stalwarts. If folks think this stuff is fun I can dig through my records and pull out more material. I will clear everything that I post with Steve, Darren, and the author...if I can find him/her. I know I have some great stuff from Scott Bennie's old campaign. I also have just about everything that was on the old Red October BBS. ;)

Are folks interested?

[Teflon Billy]

Of course we're interested. D'uh, who are we to pass up more retro-Hero stuff.

If it isn't too much trouble for you, that is.

TB

[zornwil]

Excelent, thanks!

[mattingly]

Can you give me more detail? Do you mean the stuff Dave M did in a previous life?No, before I started the online magazine here at Hero, Bruce Harlick used to occasionally post fan articles in HTML, under the website section known as Digital Hero. And, no, I'm afraid I don't have archives of that, either.

[digital_lorax]

As far as Airacobra and his lack of powers, there was a contest to design his powers at one point, if I recall correctly.

[Killer Shrike]

The 1984 setting mentioned in the 1st newsletter sounds like an adventure I sent Dave Mattingly for Digital HERO based around a dimension where the dystopian Hegemony of Vinland rules supreme.

Anyone have more information on it?

[JohnTaber]

Airacobra is Mike Gray's character. (Mike did layouts for the first Viper book along with some other older D&D stuff as I recall.) I'll get in touch with Bruce or Ray to see if I can gather more info on Airacobra.

Re: Older Digital Hero stuff. I'll also hit up Bruce on this stuff as well. He might have it archived or something. ;)

[John Desmarais]

Awesome,

While you are archiving,....i'm wondering if you have copies of the pre-1999 Digital Hero stuff that was hosted here.

Pre-1999? I assume you mean the "weekly" freebie articles that ran on the Hero Games website from Jan 1999 until Jan 2001. I have all but six of these (accidents happen) - what are you looking for?

Here's what I have:


19990107 Arcane Avenues - Jaster's Dust and Powder Emporium (Rob Bose).htm
19990121 Arimite Knife-Fighting (Rolans Volz).htm
19990121 College of Air Magic (Robert J. Hall).htm
19990121 It's Not The Fall That Kills You (Kevin Wiley).htm
19990128 College of Animal Powers (Robert J. Hall).htm
19990128 Translational Fantasy Not Just Another Fantasy Campaign (Curtis Gibson).htm
19990218 Crimson Skies A Game of Aerial Combat (Molotov).htm
19990218 Fencing Unbound (John Cunningham).htm
19990310 Converting Spell Colleges to Multipowers (Robert J. Hall).htm
19990319 Unknown Eagles Fuzion and Crimson Skies (Brian Isikoff).htm
19990401 College of Animation (Robert J. Hall).htm
19990401 I'll Stop The World (John R. Jacobs).htm
19990415 Digest of Magical Armor (Robert J. Hall).htm
19990427 Arcane Avenues - Jurzon's Jars (Robert Bose).htm
19990427 Conjuration Multipower Framework (Robert J. Hall).htm
19990511 College of Illusionists (Bobert J. Hall).htm
19990511 McQuark's Corner - Going On a Trip (Patrick E. Bradley).htm
19990813 Gestalt (Scott Bennie).htm
19990817 Computers and Netrunning (Brian King, Robert Kown, Steve Deutsch Jr., Gary Townsend, and Chris Lincon).htm
19990824 Shou Zhan Chaun Temple (Bryan Salois).htm
19991107 Shou Zhan Knight Training (Bryan Salois).htm
19991127 Force Fields Enhanced (W. Jason Allen).htm
19991210 Setting Our Sights On Aiming (Dwayne L. Leonard).htm
20000129 Weapons Training in the Martial Arts (Bryan Salois).htm
20000226 Scenario Design for Champions (John Stevens).htm
20000325 Stun Multiples Refigured (W. Jason Allen).htm
20000401 Absorption Modified (Dallas Earl).htm
20000415 Elemental Damage Reduction (W. Jason Allen).htm
20000430 On Killing Attacks and STUN Multiples (Michael Kirkley).htm
20000508 Power Versatility in the Hero System and Fuzion (Don).htm
20000521 Arcane Avenues - The Point and Shaft (Bob Rose).htm
20000604 A Power Pool-Based Magic System for Fantasy Hero 1 (Keith Curtis & Paul Clark).htm
20000611 A Power Pool-Based Magic System for Fantasy Hero 2 (Keith Curtis & Paul Clark).htm
20000618 A Power Pool-Based Magic System for Fantasy Hero 3 (Keith Curtis & Paul Clark).htm
20000625 Arcane Avenues - Zifern's Fine Furnishing (Bob Rose).htm
20000806 The Flavor of the Game (John Stevens).htm
20001023 Broken Kingdoms Map (Jason Tondro).bmp
20010102 Presence The New Multipower Slot Every Mentalist Needs.htm
Here's what I'm missing:

04/15/99: Dr. McQuark: Out of the Vault (Patrick Bradley)
03/10/99: Arcane Avenues: The Red Gryphon (Rob Bose)
01/17/99: Creation Workshop/Creator Help Files
01/17/99: Magical Rings (Bob Hall)
01/07/99: Kanquan (Roland Volz)
01/07/99:College of Dueling Wizards (Bob Hall)
With appropriate permission (from the Hero folks) I'd post these up on web site. Alternatively, if the Hero folks would post them themselves I'd gladly forward copies to Ben.

[JohnTaber]

Re: Old Hero Stuff From The Site. AH...that stuff! I remember that stuff now. :) Re: Airacobra. He was played by Mike Gray. Sadly Mike passed away several years ago. :( Here is information from Bruce on Airacobra...
Aircobra was the Guardian's maintance man. As I recall, he had stolen some cool high tech suit from the air force or army or something like that. He could fly, make big fog banks (darkness) and might have even had an attack. He was an occasional player in the Guardians game. Re: Old Hero Crud. I talked with Ray and I might be able to get some stuff that was never released or was pulled from an older product. If I can get some of this stuff I'll get copies then see if it is ok to post. Hang in there gents...

[zornwil]

Seriously, rep isn't enough, this is an excellent effort, regardless of what may occur.

[SleepyDrug]

Pre-1999? I assume you mean the "weekly" freebie articles that ran on the Hero Games website from Jan 1999 until Jan 2001. I have all but six of these (accidents happen) - what are you looking for?



It would be cool to post all that, but i was thinking of the weekly freebie stuff from prior to the redesign of the website in '99

[BNakagawa]

I remember a game that Mike Gray ran called BARFH, which stood for Bay ARea Fantasy Hero. He took a map of the bay area and ran a fantasy hero game set here. There were two competing schools of magic, one set in Palo Alto and one set in Berkeley. It was pretty strange.