Victorian Hero (Sorta)

[TheQuestionMan]

Good day Herphiles, I was checking some of my notes and thinking about my wish list for future Hero Products and have decided that I want Victorian Hero.

Here is why;
- Regency
- Victorian
- Exploration
- Steampunk
- Castle Falkenstein-ish
- Call of Cthulhu-ish
- The Great Game - Espionage
- Western-ish. The Weird Wild West
- Forgotten Futures
- Space 1889
- The Meji Restoration
- The Dark Continent (The Boar War)
- Europeon Imperialism (Africa, India, the Middle East)
- The Great Train Robbery
- Around the World in 80 days
- ClockworkPunk
- China's Boxer Rebellion
- Shamballa
- The South American Lost Cities of Gold (the Roman Colony)
- Jewel's Vern-isms
- Tesla Cannons
- The Ether of Space.
- Planetary Colonialism and non human races
- Psychics, Mediums, Cultists
- Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty, Fu Man Chu
- War of the Worlds
- Time Travel
- Descent to the Center of the Earth
- Lord Darcy
- Bram Stoaker's Dracular
- Monster Hunters
- The Hellfire Clubs
- The Industrial, National, and Cultural Revolutions

More Later

QM

[stu2000]

Those are good reasons.

[Lord Liaden]

Hmm... I could have sworn that you already "compiled" the HERO By Gaslight (http://wanderingthoughts.net/campaigns/Victorian/Herogaslight.html) website, but I couldn't find it on any of your Victorian source lists. So, here it is. :)

In case you missed it from my main RPG Conversions list, there are also a couple of websites providing character conversions and chargen guidelines for Space 1889, here (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Tom_Carman/S1889/mygame.htm) and here (http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/6532/victor.html). The first one also includes logs from the website author's campaign.

[yamamura]

Ahh my website and I know I need to get back to it;) But great reasons as always TheQuestionMan....

[TheRavenIs]

Lord Liaden, I didn't know you were back. Good to see your name again on the boards. Ok the reason for this post. Thanks for HERO by Gaslight link.

Repped

[The Monster]

Count me in - I knew Pulp Hero was on my "I WILL buy this" list, and it met and exceeded all my expectations!
Victorian Hero is moving quickly from my "I want this" list to "I WILL buy," especially since two of my regular group have expressed real interest in the period, after I brought up the coming of VH.

[mraley]

Victorian HERO? Yes, please! I tried running Castle Falkenstein. Loved the setting; hated the system.

[Steve Long]

Well, we definitely want to do a VH genre book, have no fear of that. It's just a question of fitting it into the schedule at the proper time. A historical genre book takes a lot of time to write, and often has the added expense of research materials, so we can't just toss 'em out onto the game store shelves as if they were Hero Plus Adventures. ;)

[Steve]

Well, we definitely want to do a VH genre book, have no fear of that. It's just a question of fitting it into the schedule at the proper time. A historical genre book takes a lot of time to write, and often has the added expense of research materials, so we can't just toss 'em out onto the game store shelves as if they were Hero Plus Adventures. ;)

What? With the writing speed you've demonstrated in the past, I find that hard to believe. You must be getting slower in your old age. :p

[BNakagawa]

What? With the writing speed you've demonstrated in the past, I find that hard to believe. You must be getting slower in your old age. :p

The problem is that he's limiting himself to using a manual typewriter and transmitting drafts via telegraph.

[Captain Obvious]

I guess that is more "period".

I hear when he did Turakian Age he did all his rough drafts by hand on scrolls and did all his correspondence by horse courier.

[tkdguy]

This is actually Edwardian rather than Victorian, but here's a picture book of San Francisco before the 1906 Earthquake:

http://americahurrah.com/SanFrancisco/1905/1905-Cover.html

[Robyn]

Well, we definitely want to do a VH genre book, have no fear of that. It's just a question of fitting it into the schedule at the proper time.

In the next year or so? I hope it'll be out by the time I can get ahold of 5ER and finish conversions, so I can move straight onto stealing the new setting data (already nicely statted out in HERO).

[ChaosDrgn]

you forgot Girl Genius.

[Yansuf]

Not to quibble, but Lord Darcy was a 2LT in that timeline's version of WWII, the rest of his (published) adventures are after 1960.
Good possibility for gaming, though.

[TheQuestionMan]

Very true, but the setting was more remenicent of Victorian than Pulp. IMOHO.

Respectfully

QM